Increase the quality of your training

Recently I bought a pulse-watch and I have to say that I think I will be very satisfied with my investment.
A Pulse-watch has the function to measure your pulse, but it can do other things as well. For example before every training, you can calibrate the watch and thereby it can predict which interval your pulse should be within, during the time you exercise.
In that way you will not risk to overload your body and you are more prepared for the next time you exercise.
After every training pass the watch will store different values such as heart rate, time, distance, calories, altitude, etc.
I know that it sounds a little bit to serious, but I think it´s quite fun and meantime it´s a kind of medical checkup as well.
You can then send those values to a software in the computer that will analyze your exercise. After many exercises you will see changes in the values on your watch and on the software and thereby you can follow your progress. So in the future when I´m standing at the starting line in competition i will exactly now which shape I´m in. But probably I will run like hell anyway!

Blog assignment 1

Which economy will be the biggest in the future?
As we all know today it is USA, followed by Japan and then China.
I read an interesting article recently where the writer said: “What happens today is even bigger then the industrial revolution”. The industrial revolution only concerned one third of the world population, this revolution concerns the entire world.
That is interesting!
In the nearest five years I still think that USA will hold its position as the biggest economy in the world, but China will come closer and closer. This will not continue without problems. I mean China today faces pressure from other countries to do something with their large current account surplus, which cause global imbalances.
USA could also use protectionism as a weapon against China, but USA is also dependent on China. USA has a big budget deficit, which is financed by obligations, where China is a big buyer to keep the yen fixed to the US-dollar. In the future China realizes the problem and cut down on US obligations and let the yen increase in value, more then they already done. What happens with USA then? Will other big countries or China still buy US-obligations or do they require higher interest rates? Well they have to do something about the problem and try to cut down the budget deficit. This could affect consumptions, investments and other things in the US economy.
This will affect other parts of the world. The main question is how severe these problems will be and could another economy like China act like a new leader?

Will the american dream survive?