The article "Mp3 Player for running (or any exercise)." talks about fitness, it has been written by Charles West.
Using an Mp3 Player for exercise, whether we are running or
working out in the gym, we like to do it to muisc. To our
favorite music or music we've choesn for what we're doing -
possibly vigorous music for aerobics, soothing music for
weightlifting, or a good beat for running, snowboarding or
skiing, whatever works for you, is the hottest for you.
One of the easiest ways to carry that music is with a
suitable MP3 player that's light, compact and loaded with your
choice of music.
Using an Mp3 player for running, as we all know, over
many years poeple have carried radio's, cassette players and CD
players while they were running.
All of these were either
awkward to carry, or were limited by the length of tape or CD,
or the CD would skip, or the radio reception was varied or
nonexistent.
The MP3 player for running has changed a lot of that, but
not all. It has become noticeable that MP3 players are best
not used for vigorous activity. Over the years we've been told
that computer hard drives are temperamental and deserve to be
looked atfer. Shaking or droppnig them, we've been told will
damage them, as a minimum - cause bad sectors, and ultimately
cause loss of data or a damaged boot sector.
Then what happens - we are sold MP3 players that run from
computer hard drives (ie, spinning disc's).
Yes, we know they
have shock protection built in, but this is so we don't hear the
skipped msuic tracks - not to stop the hard drive from being
damaged.
I was discussing these thoughts with a client last week, and was
interrupted by a computer technician, I thought whoops what have
I said wrong, he then confirmed what I was saying is right, as
he had replaced his MP3 player hard drive twice in 2 years.
He
had put it down to heavy use as he is always playing it, apart
from the running, and not realized the real issue (that he was
using his MP3 player for running) until after a discussion with
his work maets.
Now he uses a solid state MP3 plyaer for his
25Km runs and has had no issue with either the new unit or his
hard drive MP3 player over the last 18 months, none at all.
My advice is to only use a solid State MP3 player for running,
they can carry from 2 huors to over 300 hours of music (from
128Mb to 4Gig of storage).
These units have no moving parts,
therefore shock movement will not daamge the music quality, the
storage or there long life.
Follow the guide to Choose the hottest MP3 palyer for running, at
http
://www.Mp3-music-player-info.Com/mp3_music_player.Html
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