This week’s Quantified Self roundup features a new tracker to help you analyze your strenuous workouts, an app that interprets your Quantified Self data, and a new initiative to better analyze your fitness data to improve your health.

Atlas

There are many fitness trackers already available in the market, but most of them only count how many steps you’ve taken, flights of stairs climbed, hours slept. They can’t really tell what type of workout you are actually performing.  Things will soon change with the arrival of Atlas, a fitness tracker that knows the specific workout you are performing.

Atlas uses inertial sensors that allows it to map your movements in a 3D trajectory to identify specific motion fingerprint of each exercise performed.  It gives the user insight as to how rest affects each exercise, how quickly your heart recovers, the quality of your form and measures your explosiveness. Atlas also helps you find your max thrust, improve your workouts, and a lot more.

It builds a community of data that allows the user to learn the benefits of each exercise, so you’ll know which to focus on if you want to target a specific set of muscles or areas to tone.  With the data it collects, Atlas tells you what muscles you have previously worked on and recommends what other areas you can improve upon.

Physically, Atlas may stick out like a sore thumb because of its extended screen, but it just makes it easier for the user to keep track of steps and and progress.  It’s also a learning tracker, which means you can teach it to keep track of new routines.  At the moment, Atlas is an Indiegogo project and it has already surpassed its funding goal of $125,000 with still 10 days left in its campaign.

OptimizeMe

This app is a lifelogging and Quantified Self improvement app.  What this means is that not only does it track all your daily activities, people you encounter, places visited, health and fitness, it also allows the user to log current mood, stress level, health status, quality of sleep, weight and other parameters that would help a person get to know himself better.

image source: OptimizeMe

OptimizeMe integrates Running, Cycling, Steps, Calories and Location data from the activity tracker Moves.  It also allows users to tag people, add photos, and comments to a daily timeline, get personal insights from correlation analysis of data gathered; set personal daily goals and reach them with the help of personal life coach Ari; view progress through charts; and customize the parameters you want to tract.

“Today’s Quantified Self space is characterized by exponentially growing personal Big Data while its interpretation is largely left to the users,” said company founder and CEO Bogdan Gerya when the app launched recently. “OptimizeMe provides the analytical capabilities to uncover what this data actually means.”

Gero Lab

This company takes the Quantified Self revolution to a different level by collecting various data from different trackers and allowing participants to access their stress metrics and potential health conditions risks.  The purpose of this initiative is to significantly increase awareness of their health factors for the prevention of health problems and promote healthy lifestyle changes.

To participate in Gero Lab’s study, you need to have supported activity trackers such as Jawbone, FitBit and BodyMedia. Then  download the Gero Lab app, which is available for Android and iOS, and because it will be accessing data from you and your trackers, you need to agree to its privacy policy.

image source: Gero Labs

feature image source: Atlas Labs