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Parkour for Beginners

By Albert Sun
Nikkie Zanevsky performing a cowboy vault over a fence. Ashley Gilbertson for The New York Times

Learning parkour, an instructor says, is all about challenging yourself by continually finding creative ways to make things just a bit more difficult.Read more…

Ask Well

Ask Well: How Do You Use a Heart Rate Monitor?

By Albert Sun
The Mio Alpha heart rate monitor is worn on the wrist and measures the flow of blood through the skin. Photo courtesy of Mio

Heart rate monitors can be a useful tool during exercise for new and experienced runners and other athletes.Read more…

Wired Well
Otto Steininger

The Monitored Man

By Albert Sun

After six months of heavy use of activity-monitoring gadgets — sometimes wearing four at a time — the author reports back.Read more…

Wired Well

A Concussion Monitor to Measure Hard Knocks

By Albert Sun

Check Your Head

A high-tech tool to combat concussion damage, the Reebok Checklight is a sensor worn under the helmet that lights up upon significant impact.

By Kassie Bracken and David Frank on March 10, 2014. Photo by Bryan Thomas for The New York Times.

New impact sensors in helmets promise to warn coaches and parents when a young athlete has sustained a blow that might have caused a concussion.Read more…