 Arnold is a graduate of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London and Gillam studied Maths with Physics at Southampton University, and both sets of skills have been applied in developing Gymfu. ‘The main thing is interpreting acceleration data,’ says Arnold. ‘Interpreting it and using that data to work out human movement, human motion.’ The idea began back in 2007 when they were trying to get fit for Gillam’s wedding, and the time required to go to the gym meant it was easy to let it slip. So they developed this application that can monitor your exercise progress, and you can do it wherever you are. Developing it required a lot of multi-disciplinary skills, explains Arnold. ‘It required my Mechanical Engineering because I understand 3D Force Vectors, and it requires knowledge of signal processing - which I did on Mechanical Engineering. It also requires a sense of skill you don’t realise you are getting at University, because they don’t stress it, which is the ability to do physical calculations, but in real time.’ It’s this real-time physical analysis which Arnold says is at the core of the application and it’s why it is challenging for anyone else to copy.
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