April’s update on Kickstarter for BSX’s LVL Hydration monitor shows that BSX are pretty much on schedule…always good news. The original schedule I believe was for a product in June 2017. That’s soon and they are on Alpha devices now. I was aware sometime ago that some studies had been completed that showed LVL met…
Triathlon gear to make us better, faster, stronger and prettier (well the first 3) in 2017
BSX’s Kickstarter campaign for the LVL hydration monitor is over 12.5x ahead of their initial funding goal of $50,000 This will be an activity tracker that also has optical HR and hydration level measurement. The solution will be brought together by a smartphone app and I have seen some of the research papers that purport…
The clever little optical sensor in TomTom’s highly successful Runner2/SPARK was developed by South African company LIFEQ – seen here on the right. Whilst we have all figured out by now that optical HR on the wrist has its limitations, TomTom’s implementation was good. Indeed, LIFEQ’s measurement solution is validated (here). All well and good. Presumably…
Ladies, of course, merely glow rather than sweat. Yet this old adage reflects a lot of truth about our mutual sweatiness. We are all quite different in the amounts of the stuff we produce whilst exercising. Whilst dehydration caused by a 30 minute jog or gym session is very unlikely to impair performance; once we start…
Looks like Sunday could be pretty warm. Above 16 or so degrees your performance will start to suffer. If you become dehydrated then your performance will suffer EVEN more. I just did a quick FREE online sweat test with Precision Hydration and may well put some of it into action for Sunday. We’ll see. One interesting…
If you are serious about getting a superb IronMan time then you will have some form of hydration system that is integrated into your bike frame to both improve aeroness and lower the centre of gravity (hmmm!). 99% of us are faced with the less aero choice of standard frame/seat mounted bottles/cages or an aerobar…