Weight Training Analysis of Sportsmen with Kinect Bioinformatics for Form Improvement

Abstract: Sports franchises invest a lot in training their athletes. use of latest technology for this purpose is also very common. We propose a system of capturing motion of athletes during weight training and analyzing that data to find out any shortcomings and imperfections. Our system uses Kinect depth image to compute different parameters of athlete's selected joints. These parameters are passed through certain algorithms to process them and formulate results on their basis. Some parameters like range of motion, speed and balance can be analyzed in real time. But for comparison to be performed between motions, data is first recorded and stored and then processed for accurate results. Our results depict that this system can be easily deployed and implemented to provide a very valuable insight to dynamics of a work out and help an athlete in improving his form.