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Wearable Fitness Training Gear

Wearable Fitness Training Gear

These days we're seeing more and more wearable gear for fitness training. From all the wrist gadgets, heart rate monitors and eye wear, there are a number of products that will provide data and feedback to assist you in your training efforts. There's one more we can to this list. Athos is a company that makes shirts and shorts that track your workouts giving you feedback about your movements. The apparel is comprised of sensors which send data via Bluetooth during your workouts to your smartphone for you to view and subsequently make adjustments for a better training session. I'll admit this does sound kind of interesting. And if somebody wants to send me a sample to test I'd be happy to comply. But even before trying the product out there are a number of questions going though my head about this product. Here are some of the things I'm wondering about regarding the Athos product. 1. AccuracyThe whole premise of this product is that the feedback provided to your phone during your workout will allow you to train better. OK, I get that. But how accurate is the information being provided? To embed a $99 article of clothing with numerous sensors tells me we're probably not dealing with NASA quality materials here. Look at this way. Have you ever used your heart rate monitor and had workouts where the data was a little off? Maybe after a hard sprint there was a lag phase before the actual heart rate was displayed. Or the number displayed wasn't possible. I've had training sessions where my heart rate monitor showed a max heart rate well over 200. Now it may not be fair to suggest that because a heart rate monitor can provide inaccurate data that this product will as well. But when you...

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