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beach volleyball players Jake give and Casey Patterson aren't losing sleep over the Rio Olympics instead they're tracking it with tech we're using it to to get the best performance we can in Rio with a wearable called whoop the Olympians enter activities and training for the day and then see what it takes to recover gives me the opportunity to know my maximum amount of sleep needed to perform at my peak the next day's kind of breaks down your sleep and how much light sleep you're getting how much deep sleep you're getting how much RAM you know you can see with you if you're recovering at night members of the US Olympic swim team including Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps used whoomp leading up to the games Phelps as longtime trainer tracks sleep latency which is how fast you fall asleep we started to put in some of the training correlations so volume intensity their subjective rate of perceived exertion and we achieved great ideal success before a lot of these devices came out I would say like the way that it's changed it just gives us a little bit deeper look into the athlete in the athlete's body and how they respond to it the US Olympic women's volleyball team hopes to get the jump on the competition with a device called vert which tracks the number and height of jumps for the US track cycling team the focus has been on smart eyewear called solos which look like Google glass a small heads up display puts training metrics in real-time in the writers field of view they also get audio coaching cues all of the sensors that are currently being used to track these metrics like speed power and cadence are being sent to the smart phone that aggregates all of this information and then sends it to the eyewear in a way that is customizable by the user soon they hope they'll be wearing gold medals in San Francisco Lexus Avedis cnet.com for CBS News