Last Updated on June 4, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org
- Are there other researchers than Antoine Lutz who have a research grant for meditation reseach?
https://centerhealthyminds.org/about/people/antoine-lutz
- And are reseachers with a research grant for meditation research as Antoine Lutz not a rare species on this planet?
- For the others meditation researchers we need to find a low-cost high-quality treadmill.
- Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org currently owns a newgen medical treadmill which costs new about 400 USD:
https://www.galaxus.ch/en/s3/product/newgen-medicals-treadmill-treadmills-16208635
- But the “medical” in “Newgen medical” does not necessary mean that the treadmill is suitable for clinical applications.
- This is a treadmill which works well for a walking meditation practice of for instance 2 x 30 min each day.
- If performed at a speed of about 3 km / h this gives a total of around 10 000 steps a day.
- For general fitness, most adults should aim for 10,000 steps per day, according to a medical review of Debra Rose Wilson, Ph.D., published in Medical News Today:
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/how-many-steps-should-you-take-a-day
- Older children and teenagers can aim for close to 12,000 steps, while those who are older or unable to walk for long can still benefit from lower step counts
- Around 10 000 steps are also indicated on the Garmin Connect Dasboard to make each day, and can be seen with a graph there.
- But the Newgen Medical Treadmill is only of limited use for scientific studies.
- The mechanics is too poor to be used for scientific purposes.
- The motor does not run stable.
- There are no speed sensors.
- The speed indicated from the board computer correlates with the amount of current which is added to the treadmill motor.
- It says nothing about the actual speed.
- If it runs idle, and then when we step on it, the speed drops because of the body weight.
- But the speed of the speed indicator remains the same.
- We found out about this when we additionally used a Treadtracker speed sensor paired to the a training tracker app as a speed sensor to find out about the actual speed of the treadmill.
- There is no circuit there which would regulate the speed of the Newgen medical treadmill electronically.
- All of this makes the Newgen medical treadmill a treadmill which is only of limited use for scientific studies.
- Treadmills used for scientific studies are very well built, as for instance the Schiller C200:
- If we look at papers which use treadmills:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=de&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=treadmill&btnG=
- they basically start with Woodway Curved Treadmills as the most affordable once:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=de&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=woodway+curve&oq=woodway
- There are clones available of these Woodway treadmills which start around 2 000 USD:
- This one here is a ADVG curved treadmill from U.K.:
- It is sold by ADVG.co.uk
- ADVG.co.uk is number for Gym equipement in the U.K.
- The above curved treadmill is also the No 1 for Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org to import an affordable high-quality curved treadmill to Switzerland.
- For walking meditation we do not urgently need a treadmill motor, the curved treadmill works witout a treadmill motor.
- But we need an accurate treadmill speed sensor which can be read out easily.
- And it should be possible to connect the treadmill speed sensor to the data analysis software of our joice.
- Then we can ajust manually the speed with the speed indicator when we use the treadmill when we walk with it.
- If we do it carefully, we can do without a treadmill motor, and can still use it for scientific studies.
- We can monitor and analyse the speed with a PC which is connected to a treadmill speed sensor.
- For accurate readings for speed and distance we invite you to use this Rasperrry Pi speed sensor:
https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?p=2183857#p2183857
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