Scientific athletics training: flexible sensors and wearable devices forkineses monitoring applications

Athletics is the critical factor to evaluate the national sport competence. Current athletics is pursuing the higher performance, and is imperiously calling the scientific and personalized coaching programs. The achievements on flexible electronics, multi-integrated devices and artificial intelligence are promoting the significant improvement on intellectualization, diversified, microminiaturize, portable or wearable. The comprehensive, multi-perspective and hierarchical monitoring for athlete vital signs and big-data analyzing, can guide the scientific coaching schemes and body recovery procedures, which can avoid the risk of athletic injury and promote the kineses performance. In this review, focused on the requirements of vital signs and physiological signals monitoring, we summarized the progresses of developing flexible electronics, photo-electro response and their integrated devices for vital signs or physiological signals monitoring applications. Various sensing mechanisms, including electrophysiological monitoring, biochemical detection, photoplethysmogram and tissue dynamics analysis, were illustrated. The novel wearable intelligent devices and facile quantitative vital signs monitoring will help the evolution and promotion of athletics coaching and exercising with new sport scientific theory. We endeavor to contribute the most comprehensive, systematic and frontier technical reserve for all of the professional athletes and sport industry, to promote China “national sport prosperousness”.