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REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 18, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The hottest advancement in wearable health and fitness technology – the Sensoria Fitness bio-tracking line of smart clothing from Heapsylon – is coming to the Medica Medicine and Sports international conference in Düsseldorf, Germany, Nov 21st as part of its wearable technology show.

The Sensoria Fitness line of bio-tracking clothing includes a sport bra, t-shirt and socks that allow athletes and fitness enthusiasts to track indicators such as heart rate, cadence, foot landing technique, biometric data and distance ran. The data is sent to a smartphone where the wearer can track the information and get actionable information about performance.

The Medica Medicine and Sports international conference in Germany brings together more than 30 world-class speakers and 120 international exhibitors in the largest healthcare and fitness industry tradeshow in the world. The conference opens on November 21.

Heapsylon Chief Executive Officer Davide Vigano is a featured speaker at the show, participating in two panel discussions: "Generating new cross-over solutions and innovative sports medicine ecosystem" hosted by Alberto Sanna of Ospedale San Raffaele in Milano; and "Body-sensing solutions that improve people's lives".

"We will be looking for the right partners at the largest health tradeshow in the industry. This is the ideal venue to showcase the next generation in bio-tracking wearable technology that will enable developers and medical device companies to shape the future of this industry for many years to come," said Heapsylon Cofounder and Chief Executive Officer Davide Vigano.

The Sensoria Developer Kit is now available. More information about Sensoria and the Medica Medicine and Sports show is available online at www.heapsylon.com.

About Heapsylon

The Garment is the Computer™. Heapsylon is focused on delivering a family of body-sensing solutions for health and fitness. Their wearable textile sensors capture, monitor and communicate data such as activity type, level and in-footwear pressure to the user. The data is presented and analyzed by an easy-to-use dashboard. Heapsylon products make it more fun and safer to exercise. They may also contribute to prevent certain injuries, and in case of injury or disease they track patient adherence and offloading data. Intrigued? For more information please visit www.heapsylon.com.

August 1, 2012: Today is the day. It has been circled on my calendar for quite a while. I have been living a double life for almost two years now. For the most part it has been a fun challenge balancing my two worlds but it has also been tough. To those who know me personally, I am the straight A student, bookworm-girl who graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management and worked very hard in the hotel industry for the past ten years to climb the corporate ladder. And I have reached a certain level of success; One would say I have a ‘cushy’ day job. And I can’t complain…but I also can’t settle for 9 to 5 for the rest of my life…

I have walked a very tight rope this past 18 months and rarely do the worlds collide (save for a few employees googling me then subsequently walking into my office shocked- which is always a hysterical and awkward moment).That was me every time I went to the gym. I used to exercise to look better, hopefully gain some confidence and then maybe buy some sexier clothes when I felt I looked good enough to wear them. But no matter how sweaty I got at the gym, I never felt ‘hot’ and I blame the Turkey Trot 5K shirt and soccer shorts.

If that sounds familiar, I urge you..no I beg you to invest in yourself and buy some stylish fitness apparel that is functional, flattering, and heck if you love wearing it so much maybe you will even work out more. Obviously ‘fitness fashion’ has come a long way and since becoming a fitness model and personal trainer I have had the opportunity to try almost everything!

Like Lorna Jane. I heard about this new fitness clothing store that was opening in Santa Monica -my new home- and was super excited when I googled them and saw fashionable workout wear with the high end fabric I come to expect but even more style and flair then I could imagine! (And with 70-100 new items a month you can avoid being twinsies with every girl at the gym :p )

The lovely powers at be got me an outfit to try out and I think I’m in love! And I even got to meet the creater, Lorna Jane herself, at the IDEA World Fitness Conference.

She is so inspirational and the message behind LJ is as good as the clothing:Most people know me as a bikini competitor or fitness model or just another picture to press ‘like’ with on Facebook. But that is just the exterior, the most superficial part of who I am. In fact a year ago, I would have laughed if you said I could model and I would tell you to ‘stop it’ if you tried to compliment my looks. Because in reality, I was an incredibly insecure, ‘skinny fat’, young woman who isn’t an inch over 5’4?- definitely not model material.

I grew up with my mom in Southern California. It was just me and her and it wasn’t always easy. As a kid, it’s hard to understand, but looking back I recognize that even some of the toughest moments had a part in making me the person I am today. My mom had to be the caretaker and the breadwinner, and as a single mom for my whole life, she showed me what sacrifice and hard work looked like. I always had what I needed, and I worked for what I wanted.

In high school I wasn’t one of the ‘cool girls’ and I didn’t date any of the football players. I played two instruments in the band, took school seriously and just made it through. I played soccer. I ran in high school. I liked being outdoors. But I ate junk, thought weight training would make me bulky and never really educated myself about healthy living. I didn’t realize what it really took to get the physique I’d seen in the magazines, and I REALLY wanted to look like that.

Fast forward a few years and I graduated with a degree in Business Management and I was well on my way up the corporate ladder at one of the big hotel chains. Before I started in fitness I was an 8 to 5'er with a desk job. Sure I am good at what I Though McLish had left the competitors spotlight, she was still much sought after by the public. She was a regular on the training seminar circuit and served as a spokesperson for many fitness organizations. In 1984 Warner Books published her acclaimed strength training book Flex Appeal. She followed it with 1987's Perfect Parts which focused on "spot changing" different areas of your body through weightlifting. Both books worked on the premise that physical fitness was attainable by any woman. "Not everyone can have expensive furs, precious jewels, silk dresses or designer suits to put on," she explained the Los Angeles Times. "But everybody can have a body that anything will look good on." Both books were well-received by the public and are still selling nearly 20 years after publication.

In 1990 McLish partnered with K-Mart to release a line of workout clothing. Having learned to sew as a child from her seamstress mother, McLish was closely involved with the design of the clothes. The line "Rachel McLish for The Body Company" appeared in 2,200 K-Mart stores in January of 1990. The following year, sales of her line accounted for over a quarter percent of all sportswear sales in the country.

Unfortunately her budding acting career did not fare as well. In her acting debut she played a bodybuilder in the critically trashed 1984 made-for-TV movie Getting Physical. In 1992 she had her feature film debut opposite Academy-Award winner Lou Gossett, Jr. in the action film Aces: Iron Eagle III. That was followed by a starring role in 1996's Ravenhawk in which McLish played a wronged Native American woman out for revenge. It was notable only in that she performed all of her own stunts. Both films were produced by her husband Ron Samuels whom she had married in 1990. She found more success when she returned to fitness and in 1995 released a very popular workout video, In Shape with Rachel McLish.

By 2001 McLish and husband Samuels were enjoying a comfortable life in Palm Springs, California. Though she had long since given up professional bodybuilding, she still maintained a very active lifestyle, including a return to her old love—ballet. She was also planning to release a line of aloe-based skin products and a new line of fitness wear. Meanwhile she and her husband had begun pursuing a new hobby—buying, refurbishing, and selling homes. "We really enjoy design," she told Muscle & Fitness. "We put our heart and soul into it and we're passionate about it." The parallels to her years of weight training did not escape her. "A sense of aesthetics comes naturally to me, but you have to work on that ability, just like in bodybuilding," she continued. "You might have the potential, but if you don't work at it, and read up and be aware of what's out there, you won't fulfil that potential."

My career as a clothing designer started at the age of 15 in Philadelphia, Pa. My dad was a major league designer to most of the Motown stars in the 60’s and 70's. Mom was a fashion illustrator. His untimely death-(with my mother soon to follow) left my brother Cornelios, 5 years my elder, to tend to things at dad’s factory. I was still in high school, he was in his last year of college,and on his way to a lucrative pro soccer career. He quit school to keep the factory going, and I worked part time at a concert theatre. Dad had one of the largest costume shops in the country, and the factory employed all European designers and tailors. I learned from the old school! We needed to make money fast, and with the people I encountered in the entertainment circuit, we could make clothes in mass production.

We started with the Hard Rock cafe account the word spread, and all the rock-n-rollers started to follow. We made all the promo clothes that they sold on the tour. During the concerts, I worked back stage security, so I got to speak with a lot of stars. During college days, I had a full ride to school for gymnastics, but a critical fall off the uneven parallel bars at Olympic camp left me partially disabled. My major was Phys Ed, but changed to Fashion Illustration. I could not do the physical activities to keep my major or my scholarship. My old gymnastics coach was the Olympic mens coach for the USA, and with his recommendations, in my senior year, I landed a job at the Playboy club in Atlantic City as assistant health club manager. Hugh Hefner fired the manager a few weeks later, and as a result, I became the new health club manager. At the age of 22, I had a staff of 39, and was the youngest in hotel management of the casino city. (What the hell was Hef thinking??!! to this day- I still thank him for giving me the chance..)I was still doing designs for my brother, and went home on the weekends to attend concerts for networking. I started making custom clothing for the rock stars who came to town. On the personal side I had designed and made clothes for Stevie Nicks, Elton John, Patti Benatar,Phil Collins and Genesis to name a few.

After college, and working both jobs, a new event had to be put together at the hotel, the Mr. & Ms. Olympia. First time event for me! Working the health club rehabilatated me for the most part, and I wanted to become a bodybuilder! I started training with weights, and did aerobics for cardio. Through my Playboy connections, I landed my first mag photo – in Playboy! It was an ad for Precor equipment. It ran almost 2 years! I left Playboy after 4 years, the hotel manager had it out for me, and wouldn’t grant me leave when mom died. I quit and went to back to my homeland Greece for an extended visit. A few years later, I designed a line of clothing for Redd Foxx, and the day I was supposed to ship them out for the debut, a special carrier delivered a round trip ticket to L.A. to hand-deliver the clothes. Redd had been a long time friend of my dad’s and watched over me after dad died. The next thing I knew, I was written into the script, and bam! 7 episodes later,and 2 months later, I went back to A.C. I stuck to making clothes, training and doing odd jobs like bartending to keep my hours free to sew. All the buff bodies hung out at this one beach just south of Atlantic City. All the dancers, bodybuilders, aerobics wannabe’s along with the richest people around baked in the sun there.

Everyone from all over the world congregated there- enough for ‘Entertainment Tonight’ to do a special feature. I was the only one who had the balls to wear a thong the day they taped, and my butt got plastered across the country in the feature. To make matters worse, they put me in the opening segment of each show! My dad’s one line of clothing was “Brass Ass”, and had these labels that said exactly that. I had 2000 of them, and started plastering them right in the triangle of the thongs and sold them on the beach. When ET asked me what I called this strip of beach, I blurted out- “Ego Beach’. Thats what my swimsuit line is called. I kept dad’s trademark on ‘Brass Ass’ and made that my stripper’s line(mens & womens) It still holds today under Unique Physique Bodywear Inc. My grandpop, who was 87 at the time, needed full time care and my brother could not accomodate him. The municipal government said there was a 9 month wait for a spot at the nursing home. I took ‘pop’ in for 5 years until his death. He at one time was one of the best tailors my dad employed. That man forgot more than I’ll ever learn! He could make the most beautiful costumes out of scraps! Grandpop died, and soon after I started to date a bodybuilder from my local gym. We ended up living together for 4 years, and learned about dieting for contests and such. I had more of an aerobics body, I caught him having an affair with a bodybuiler. When we broke up…it fueled my fire enough to become totally tunnel visioned into the sport.

I thought to myself-” I want to rule his bodybuilding world”…there won’t be a magazine he opens without me in it-and I’m going to be the best there is. I did 5 shows my first year, placing second in the south Jersey,winning the Golds Classic, winning the New Jersey State & the Jan Tana,placing 7 in the middleweights at the ‘93 Nationals. I won the Jan Tana World Amateur Grand Prix,as a middleweight for 3 years in a row, and in ‘95 took the overall. In ‘94, I placed second in the Masters Nats, and in ‘95 took that too. I recieved my pro card in 95, and retired from competing to concentrate on my clothing. Just before my first competition, I couldn’t find a posing suit to wear that fit me. “Hmmm, I thought, I make swimsuits for the beach- how hard could this be??!!” Voila, and thus, created my niche. Laura Bass was guest posing at the NJ State, and loved my suit. She was the first pro I outfitted. At all the shows that first year, everyone raved how nice my suits looked.

I started handing out my cards and thats how it all started. I stayed in the pro division keeping my status as an official. I moved to Florida ia few years later after hitting “it” in the stock market. I played around with stocks a little bit, and this one stock I purchased went through the roof. I came to Ft. Lauderdale to open up a pro shop where competitors could come and get everything they need to compete. Here I am!!!!!!!!! I have since given up the vitamins and nutrition to concentrate on the fitness competition wear. It’s just like making costumes in dads factory again!!!!! I love it!!!!!!! The one person she gives credit to is her brother Cornelious. “He was my biggest inspiration,” James said. “After my parents died he practically raised me by himself.” So, with all her accomplishments what does she want to be remembered for? “For setting the trend,” she said. “That a female can be a body builder and still be feminine.

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