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Overview
Developed by industry experts and scientifically proven to produce fast results, SMARTfit combines brain and physical health, with functional fitness and sports performance training technology. SMARTfit adds to the power of dual task (cognitive-motor) training by delivering all activities using gamification which increases both engagement and enjoyment, and in turn produces quick results. Combining exercise with cognitive tasks, as the SMARTfit products do, may provide neural protection across a person's lifetime. Researchers believe that such novel interventions designed to stimulate key cognitive domains during exercise may be especially beneficial to brain health over the adult lifespan. (Source)
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The Problem
Today's Fitness Training neglects the Brain-Body connection, thus limiting transference to real life. Anthropologists and neuroscientists are working together to understand how humans' unique evolutionary history explains modern human physiological variation and how an evolutionary context can be used to improve health and well-being. (Source) Using an evolutionary-neuroscience approach to develop the Adaptive Capacity Model (ACM), they have detailed how and why physical activity improves brain function and the benefits of combining exercise and cognitive challenge to enhance neuroplasticity. (Source) They believe this perspective plays a major role in preventing and managing diseases that occur late in life. (Source)
As humans have become increasingly inactive, especially since the Industrial Revolution over 200 years ago, there has been a major decline in both physical and neurological health. (Source) (Source) (Source) In addition to rising obesity and increased inactivity, we face ever increasing rates of neurological conditions such as dementia (Source), Alzheimer’s Disease (Source), Parkinson’s Disease (Source), and autism (Source). Creating and connecting new neurons and neural pathways across the various domains of the brain is the first step to improving functional performance in all of life’s pursuits.
SMARTfit’s cloud-based, data-driven technology and video-supported programming does just that, both delivering and continually improving the world’s most advanced solutions for measuring, assessing, and training physical, cognitive, and dual-task performance. Designed by top clinicians, trainers, and engineers, SMARTfit’s highly engaging gamified solutions offer unmatched, industry-leading value to our customers and end users. Personalized and customizable for all ages, abilities, and levels, these solutions now include programming and data tracking for personal and group training along with multi-site organizational management capability.
SMARTfit brings the entire neurological system into cooperation with the mind’s intent.
“All the best games are easy to learn and difficult to master.”
- Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese
Traditional uni-planer exercise ignores the importance of the brain’s lead role as the “conductor of the orchestra.” Breaking down training programs into separate activities can result in joint injuries especially in older adults.
The Market
SMARTfit’s current focus is on the rehab and active aging/medical wellness exercise equipment markets. Going forward, SMARTfit also sees its product playing a significant role in the global commercial fitness equipment market.
According to Global Market Insights 2019 report, the total addressable global rehab equipment market surpassed $18.6 billion in 2019 and is poised to grow at over 7.8% CAGR to reach $31.2 billion in 2026. (Source)
In addition, according to ICAA (International Council of Active Aging), the total US addressable active aging/medical wellness equipment market is valued at $207 billion, including US senior centers, assisted living facilities, retirement communities, health clubs, and continuing care facilities. (Source)
Additionally, Research and Markets reports that the entire global sporting goods & equipment market size was an estimated $49.35 billion in 2020, and is expected to reach $53.74 billion in 2021, and at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 9.26% to reach $91.77 billion by 2027. (Source)
Additionally, Grand View Research states that the entire global sports equipment market size was $66 billion in 2016, with an anticipated CAGR of 3.5% by 2025. (Source)
The home fitness equipment market has morphed significantly since the arrival of Peloton, Mirror and other interactive online streaming fitness programs.
According to Allied Market Research, the global at-home fitness equipment market size was valued at $5.5 billion in 2019 and is projected to reach $11.5 billion by 2027. (Source)
SMARTfit is positioned to enter this market.
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The Solution
At SMARTfit, we developed our user-friendly neuro-cognitive fitness technology to address a broad range of markets in a single customizable app. SMARTfit systems provide rapid results with proven sustainability and adherence, and make training fun.
This approach appeals to the kid in all of us, resulting in strong appeal to a wide range of users.
Furthermore, SMARTfit’s hardware solutions come in four configurable models and the pricing is highly competitive.
SMARTfit Mini - Low Impact and High Impact Models
The SMARTfit Mini comes in two versions: Low Impact and High Impact Mini. Both versions are available as a wall-mount or a portable system and include nine computerized targets in a square training station.
The SMARTfit Mini is the ideal training solution for workouts that focus on concentrated cognitive and motor training.
SMARTfit believes that the SMARTfit Low Impact Mini’s smaller footprint makes it ideal for tight spaces and its portability makes it a perfect option for delivering dual-task training room-to-room in retirement communities and classrooms.
Programs suited to the Mini include:
Neuro and Orthopedic Rehab
Sports performance training for non-ball sports
Early childhood education
Active aging
Geriatric rehab
Boxing and martial arts.
The combination of cognitive and motor skills training is known to significantly speed up neuromotor skills and improvements in cognition.
SMARTfit Single
The SMARTfit Single can be wall-mounted, floor-mounted or portable, and can be optionally configured to interact with up to five portable Strike Pods to create a 360 degree training environment.
The Company considers the SMARTfit Single to be the ideal trainer for ball sports as it offers a larger playing area to catch rebounds.
Applications include turnkey personal training and small group training programs for sports performance, youth sports, return-to-play sports rehab and for wellness.
SMARTfit Strike Pods
The SMARTfit Strike Pods are portable and can be set up in nearly any configuration, allowing the creation of endless workout environment combinations, each with unique ergonomic, physical and cognitive challenges.
The Strike Pods can both operate independently or can be connected as additional touch points with the SMARTfit Single and SMARTfit Mini systems.
SMARTfit ProTrainer/MultiTrainer Models
The SMARTfit ProTrainer can be configured in two, three, or four connected sections to form an integrated electronic backboard, or to form competing stations aligned side-by-side. Each section hosts its own scoreboard and 9 strike/touch-sensitive targets individually registering the location of each strike.
When operating as an electronic backboard, the sections register a single score. When operating as stations, each station will register its own competing score. This versatility offers the benefits of both large group/team training as well as training for ball sports where the system doubles as a responding opponent. The ProTrainer adjustable sensing system can withstand impact from hands, feet, boxing gloves, and any air-filled medicine or sports ball.
SMARTfit considers the SMARTfit® MultiTrainer to be the perfect training solution for large groups. It links up to four separate stations with each station accommodating up to 12 team members in round robin games. Programming is available for fitness and team-building programs for all ages especially youth and seniors.
These large group SMARTfit models will soon join the previously mentioned SMARTfit models on the Cloud, offering multi-site management of programming, scheduling, individual baseline tests and progress tracking and reporting. This will deliver a powerful assessment tool to organizations that provide fitness programming for large groups.
SMARTfit’s technology puts the brain in charge of exercise. The company has gamified its system so that it appeals to the general population, well beyond the 19.3% of people who already exercise every day, according to the CDC’s 2020 report.(Source)
SMARTfit provides multi-site organizations with the ability to deploy programming and monitor every individual site, trainer, and client to ensure quality of care. This meets the needs of large multi-site customers including retirement communities, fitness franchises, and hospitals.
According to SMARTfit’s research, we are one of the only rehab equipment companies that provides both cognitive motor testing and training on the same piece of equipment, eliminating the need to invest in two separate technologies.
SMARTfit works with individual, small group, and large group training. The systems are space efficient as they attach to the walls providing ease of use in any multi-purpose room.
A study at Keck Medicine of USC demonstrated that SMARTfit improved outcomes of patients with Parkinson’s when compared with traditional Physical Therapy. (Source)
After nine years of technology development, SMARTfit’s product lines including its proprietary operating system are defined, field-tested, and shipping, thereby paving the way to accelerated growth post-pandemic.
SMARTfit won the Innovation Award when launched at the Physical Therapy Conference in Paris in October of 2018.
SMARTfit applications for rehab, active aging/medical wellness, and both tactical and personal training/fitness are complete and available within the SMARTfit app on both iOS and Android platforms. SMARTfit’s continually growing program libraries feature over 2000 video-supported activities.
Currently, SMARTfit is working with and supporting an estimated 600 sites in 14 countries where early adopters have tested various aspects of the technology creating approximately $6 million in revenue since 2016.
Moving forward, the company is working on designing applications for sports training and youth development. In the new year SMARTfit plans to commence the building of its subscription model and live streamed gamification for sports, fitness, and home markets.
The company’s software improvements are able to continue indefinitely in response to customer feedback.
Over the past six months, the company has been signing major distributors and dealers who are positioned to distribute the products in the rehab, fitness, and sports markets.
SMARTfit has already acquired its first two major accounts – one to supply systems to 160 memory care facilities and the other to provide the anchor technology for an age 55+ fitness chain. Dozens more are in the pipeline.
In addition to system sales, SMARTfit plans to also generate revenue through the app via online subscriptions from B2B customers as well as B2C customers. Additionally, the Company has the ability to sell statistical data in the future while still protecting the privacy of all users.
Why Invest
SMARTfit is a multi-faceted operating system built for applications across a variety of customers, from hospitals to rehab to athlete training and soon for home use.
As the company grows, it plans to lead the Interactive Fitness market as well as provide the medical industry with much needed data relating to improving neurological health in humans.
Human health is in a crisis. Join us at SMARTfit as we deliver a solution.
SMARTfit Training for Parkinson's Disease Conducted By USC's Neurorestoration Center in Collaboration with the Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy
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Company | : | SMARTfit Inc. |
Corporate Address | : | 20 N. Aviador St Unit C, Camarillo, CA 93010 |
Offering Minimum | : | $9,999.36 |
Offering Maximum | : | $1,069,999.84 |
Minimum Investment Amount(per investor) | : | $280.00 |
Offering Type | : | Equity |
Security Name | : | Class B Nonvoting Common Stock |
Minimum Number of Shares Offered | : | 8,928 |
Maximum Number of Shares Offered | : | 955,357 |
Price per Share | : | $1.12 |
Pre-Money Valuation | : | $49,143,293.90 |
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SMARTfit Inc. will offer 10% additional bonus shares for all investments that are committed by investors that are eligible for the StartEngine Crowdfunding Inc. OWNer's bonus.
This means eligible StartEngine shareholders will receive a 10% bonus for any shares they purchase in this offering. For example, if you buy 100 shares of Class B Nonvoting Common Stock at $1.12 / share, you will receive 110 shares of Class B Nonvoting Common Stock, meaning you'll own 110 shares for $112. Fractional shares will not be distributed and share bonuses will be determined by rounding down to the nearest whole share.
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CAMARILLO, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, June 14, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- What can pro basketball star Stephen Curry’s training program teach us about fall prevention, military tactical performance, stroke or concussion rehab, and slowing or preventing the progression of Parkinson’s disease or dementia? Or for that matter, any other daily activity that requires the brain and body to work efficiently together to achieve optimal performance?
Dr. Mike Studer, DPT and world-renowned expert on dual-task (aka cognitive-physical or brain and body) training, believes Curry’s program tells us much about how we can all train to live healthier, happier, and more productive lives. Dr. Studer has been using SMARTfit in his practice for almost four years and developed the company’s exclusive Dual Task Cost Test, which measures and suggests programming to improve performance.
“Curry starts every warmup by dribbling two basketballs simultaneously,” observes Dr. Studer. “What he’s doing is known as dual tasking. When he’s in the game and only having to dribble one basketball, he’s trained himself to be so automatized, what’s known as procedural memory, that he doesn’t require any of his cognitive resources to handle one basketball. He practices repeatedly by dribbling two basketballs so that his proficiency with one basketball and cognitive attention to the rest of his game is highly elevated.”
On Tactical Performance
“What if I translated that idea into the decision-making processes required of our “tactical athletes” in the armed forces, police, and firefighters,” continues Dr. Studer. “If I need to make quick decisions that my life and those around me depend on, I need to be able to run, decision-make, stop, fire, and consider everything in the environment at once. A tactical athlete needs endurance of the body, endurance of the mind, rapid decision making, and the ability to not only dual, but multi-task. So SMARTfit has already created an entire programming platform specifically for them.”
On Dementia, Alzheimer's
“Imagine I was a tenured professor at Harvard. I taught there for 45 years, but I got Alzheimer’s disease that started to become detectible at 82 years old. Because I’d built such a resource, or redundancy, of my intelligence, my Alzheimer’s might have developed and been detected at age 68, but it couldn’t be detected because I had developed a reserve. That’s what we want SMARTfit to be able to do for people of all ages – train their brain and body together to develop cognitive reserve.”
On Other Degenerative Diseases, Stroke, Concussion
“Another important reason for training cognitive reserve is if you’re stricken with a degenerative disease like Parkinson’s or a one-time insult (medical term) such as stroke or concussion, you will have elevated your nervous system capabilities so that the insult takes from a larger pool of resources that would not have been available if you had not pre-habilitated or trained your brain and body over time to work more effectively together.”
On Preventing Falls
“There is clear evidence for the functional significance of DTI (dual task intervention) on gait speed, fall frequency, and independence of gait. Dual task training can simulate attentional demands such as talking, texting, cleaning glasses, and assessing a dynamic environment while walking. Neuroplasticity (learning) comes when sufficient demand during therapy or training pushes the organization of the motor control of gait into the procedural memory centers.”
The Ability to Elevate Your Game is Not Limited by Age or Ability
“People of all ages and abilities can improve their game by engaging, gamifying, and practicing intensively their physical and cognitive attributes together. As my friend and colleague Dr. Rob Winningham will tell you, you don’t have to be young to start and benefit from a cognitive-physical, dual-task training program. The research is clear that neuroplasticity, the ability of the brain to enhance and create new neural connections in the brain to improve human performance, is not limited by age. You can improve physical, cognitive, and dual-task performance throughout later life.”
On SMARTfit
“There continues to be much to learn, but I can tell you this: SMARTfit is the only technology I’ve found that can scale cognitive demand while concurrently executing a wide variety of physical movements and skills. Progressive increments in cognitive demand while concurrently scaling physical demands ensures leveling and prevents overwhelm or boredom. This allows the concept of demand and supply to produce optimum results for neuroplasticity. This applies to new learning, recovery, and preventions.”
About SMARTfit Inc.
SMARTfit develops gamified technology with interactive programming that enhances cognitive function, physical mobility, and overall human performance by training the brain and body to work more effectively together. Applications for all ages and abilities include neuro rehabilitation, physical therapy, active aging, assisted living, functional fitness, tactical training, youth fitness and learning, and sports performance. Additional information about SMARTfit is available at www.smartfitinc.com.
About Mike Studer
Dr. Studer has presented courses and published articles on neurologic and geriatric rehabilitation since 1995 and has authored and coauthored more than 30 articles on topics of neurology and geriatrics, as well as several book chapters on stroke, cognition, Parkinson's disease, and preventive care.
Dr. Rob Winningham, leading neuroscientist and gerontologist, was recently interviewed about the critical role executive functioning plays in maintaining independence and quality of life and extending healthspan as we grow older.
“SMARTfit can improve executive functioning better than physical or cognitive exercise alone. 20 years of research says that generalizes, or transfers, to real-world function – things that have never been trained before like activities of daily living that can maximize independence and quality of life," says Dr. Winningham, Provost and Dean of Academic Affairs at Western Oregon University.
“Here’s a goal! If we can delay dementia by four years, it’s predicted that we can cut the number of cases in half. If you improve executive function – the ability to pay attention, make a new memory, the ability to remember the stove is on, then the research says it generalizes to everything.
The research is clear that dual tasking improves executive function more than cognitive exercise or physical exercise alone. The right program can also save a facility big dollars! A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that $12,000 per year was saved, on average, in Memory Care facilities that just gave people the option of physical exercise.”
Watch this short or the full version of the Dr. Winningham interview on our blog.
Neuroscientists say the benefits of training the brain and body simultaneously (aka dual tasking) to enhance cognitive function, physical mobility, and overall human performance have been clear for some time. Act!vate, which opens its first location in Cincinnati in June and plans to open more, features SMARTfit’s gamified dual-task assessment and training technology. The following are highlights from a story on WKRC in Cincinnati titled “The Science Behind Brain Aging in Reverse”.
CINCINNATI (WKRC) – If you’ve noticed you’re having trouble remembering what you never used to forget, it might be time to start exercising not just your body, but your brain.
Scientists say the pandemic has been especially hard on our brains. From the isolation to the virus itself, brain fitness experts say if we want to age in reverse when it comes to memory and thinking, we might need to change the way we work out.
Adam Ortman is part of a research team conducting a trial with Miami University of Ohio to find out how exercise impacts memory and thinking skills. “So, the research shows that when your heart rate is elevated, and you challenge the brain, you can improve your focus, your attention time, reaction time and processing speed,” said Ortman, the Chief Exercise Science Officer at Activate Brain and Body.
John Spence, Activate’s CEO, adds “One of the things that we know is that if you start living your lifestyle a certain way that you can actually have some control about how your brain ages. Research shows you improve it by “managing a cognitive task while you’re doing something physical, which is also known as dual-tasking”
Ortman’s team is also specifically exploring its effects on people who report that, after two years of the pandemic, “’I’m more isolated,’ and two, ‘I’m feeling this COVID brain fog,’” said Spence.
Watch the WKRC news coverage and read the full article HERE.
CAMARILLO, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, May 17, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- SMARTfit Incorporated, is pleased to announce that HBO Executive Producer Gregg Fienberg has joined our Board of Directors. Fienberg has provided the creative inspiration, operational efficiency, and financial resources for many HBO and other success stories, including Big Little Lies, Carnivale, Deadwood, Twin Peaks, and the Oscar Award winning film Gods and Monsters.
“SMARTfit delivers a unique solution that can truly change the world and improve the lives of everyone from children to the elderly with its gamified brain-body training,” Mr. Fienberg said. I see it as a company that is sitting on the launchpad, just waiting for its rocket fuel. I’m looking forward to bringing that fuel and guiding its use to carry out SMARTfit’s vision.
The work that has been done up to this point is nothing short of astonishing. The passion of the management team mixed with the human value of the products is what drives me to want to help guide the company through this time of critical growth. SMARTfit is primed to become a huge disruptor in several verticals as awareness grows of its power to improve business performance by motivating and improving client performance.”
“We are excited to have Gregg Fienberg join the SMARTfit Board of Directors,” said SMARTfit's CEO and Board Chair Cathi Lamberti. “I’ve known Gregg for twenty years, as one of our company’s original investors. His extensive experience managing large projects from their inception to completion in the most efficient way possible will help our team to achieve the next phase of SMARTfit’s growth.”
CAMARILLO, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, May 17, 2022 / -- SMARTfit Inc. announced today that Diego Jacobson has resigned from its board of directors, effective May 17, 2022. His resignation was not a result of any disagreement with the Company. Mr. Jacobson will continue to be available to the board in an advisory capacity.
“On behalf of SMARTfit’s board of directors and management team, I thank Diego for his very helpful service and valuable contributions during a critical time in our company’s growth,” said Catherine Lamberti, Chair of SMARTfit’s board of directors and CEO.
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