The former football champion Ronaldo, who reached 118 kg after the conclusion of his football career, has participated to a reality show on weight management. The show "Medida Certa" on the Brazilian TV Fantastico showed the different tests that Ronaldo had to face before starting his weight management plan. Among these tests also the body compos…

An article by the Spanish online magazine SportLife.es focuses on the focus given to anthropometrics monitoring by the medical team of legendary Spanish footbal team Real Madrid. Real Madrid has been the first Spanish football team to acquire a Bod Pod and is using it for accurate body composition monitoring to its athletes to assess their fitnes…

Maximum oxygen uptake was measured on all football players of the Italian national team, during the training sessions in preparation for Euro 2012. The athletes underwent some physical tests wearing the COSMED K4b2 metabolic monitor and mask. The tests included functional assessment by measuring anareobic threshold with the Mognoni test. See the…

Gas exchange measurement tests were performed to off-road motorcycle riders at the Motocross Millsaps Training Facility in Cairo, GA (USA). According to Clint from Innovative Performance (the company that managed the tests): "Our main reason for buying the K4 was to have a mobile system that will allow us to test in the lab or 'in the sport'. We…

As a result of the recently completed acquisition of Life Measurement, Inc. (LMI), a leading provider of body composition assessment equipment in infants, children and adults, COSMED USA, Inc. and LMI have merged, with COSMED USA, Inc. as the surviving company. COSMED USA, Inc., and its parent company, COSMED srl, a European company with Headquar…

COSMED USA, Inc. announces the recently completed acquisition of Life Measurement, Inc. (LMI), a leading provider of body composition assessment equipment in infants, children and adults. LMI develops, manufactures, and markets medical devices designed to provide the most accurate body composition based on Air Displacement Plethysmography technol…