Gear Break: CORE Physique temperature sensor, keep heat with Primal outerwear and free delivery, meet CHAPTER 2 ‘Koura’: your ticket to a golden journey with TOA! The Breakaway revolutionizes well being monitoring with integration of Apple Watch information, Lazer introduces re-invented and light-weight Z1 KinetiCore and VELOGIC FIT launches Velogic Studio 4.
CORE Physique Temperature Sensor – $284.95
The CORE sensor is the primary and solely wearable that provides you steady, correct core physique temperature monitoring so you may prepare and carry out at your greatest.
- Steady, correct core physique temperature monitoring
- Accuracy backed by scientific, lab, and discipline assessments
- Mechanically sends information to wearables + coaching apps
- ANT+ and Bluetooth suitable for simple pairing
Your core physique temperature rises throughout intense train, and when it crosses a sure threshold, your energy and tempo decline. By the point you discover you’re sizzling, it’s already too late. That’s why the very best coaches and athletes use core physique temperature monitoring and coaching to outperform the competitors. Warmth coaching improves efficiency and retains you safer by adapting your physique to inside and exterior warmth.
Chuck Peña PEZ sez: I’m certain practically ever PEZ reader has had a type of “sizzling enjoyable within the summertime … not” rides the place they’ve gone over the restrict with regard to their core physique temperature. On days like that, we’ve beforehand needed to depend on “really feel” to gauge our using and never undergo warmth exhaustion (or worse … warmth stroke, which is a severe medical emergency that happens when your physique is unable to manage its inside temperature — elevated physique temperature above 104F or 40C). The CORE Physique Temperature Sensor presents a solution to measure/monitor core physique temperature that will help you keep away from the damage locker.
What’s within the field (left to proper): clips to safe CORE sensor to a coronary heart fee monitor strap, magnetically connected USB charging cable, CORE physique temperature sensor, medical grade adhesive packages
Organising and utilizing the CORE Physique Temperature Sensor is fairly simple and simple. First, cost the sensor (a full cost takes 2 hours). Earlier than you should utilize the sensor, that you must obtain the CORE app and (both iOS or Android), pair and arrange the sensor, and pair the sensor along with your coronary heart fee monitor. I’ll let photos do a lot of the speaking.
Seek for “core physique temperature” within the app retailer
Create and arrange your account. NOTE: In the event you’re not “skilled” stage of health, you’ll should determine for your self how far to the appropriate to maneuver the slider (CORE doesn’t present any tips/recommendation) — I set mine about 3/4ths of the way in which.
Join the CORE to your telephone
Pair along with your coronary heart fee monitor
Though CORE sells an arm strap, they are saying: “when CORE is worn on the arm, the accuracy of the core physique temperature measurements is decrease because the thermoregulation of the arm can completely different from the torso/chest.” In order that they advocate carrying it on a chest strap for essentially the most correct physique core temperature measurements. If in case you have a chest strap coronary heart fee monitor, you should utilize that (CORE additionally sells chest strap that’s not a coronary heart fee monitor chest strap).
Slide the CORE sensor onto the strap after which use the clip to maintain it held securely in place
The CORE sensor must be positioned on the aspect of your torso under your armpit
To make use of the CORE sensor, shake it to wake it. Put your chest strap on. Use the CORE app to test that the CORE sensor and your coronary heart fee monitor are related and transmitting. Then do your exercise. You may monitor your core temperature by way of quite a lot of means:
- The CORE app
- You may join the CORE app to your Apple Watch, obtain the CORE app in your Apple Watch, and use the app in your watch to show core temperature (I’ve achieved that)
- You may join the CORE app to a suitable system, e.g., Garmin, Wahoo, Hammerhead. I haven’t achieved this but nevertheless it’s identical to pairing some other app (bear in mind the CORE is each ANT+ and Bluetooth). And don’t neglect to arrange a knowledge discipline in your bike laptop (or watch).
Actual-time on the app
Core temp on my Apple Watch
After your exercise, you may view core temperature and different information on the CORE app
There’s much more (together with the entire science of warmth coaching and what to do with all the info) than I can cowl right here, however hopefully I’ve supplied some thought of what the CORE Physique Temperature Sensor can do and its potential utility. I’ll be significantly to make use of the CORE Physique Temperature Sensor in the course of the canine days of summer time when it’s sweltering sizzling and humid (each in Babylon on the Potomac and down within the Lowcountry).
A closing NOTE: My PEZ compatriot Dr. Stephen Cheung beforehand reviewed (March 2022) the CORE Physique Temperature for validity and reliability. He raised points about validity as a result of (at the moment) unbiased assessments confirmed that “with reasonable temperatures on the left, CORE overestimated physique temperature in comparison with rectal temperature [the gold standard].” However at “a lot increased temperatures of 38.5-39°C, the place warmth sickness can turn out to be a severe situation, CORE information flipped 180° and UNDERestimated physique temperature.”
I’m actually not going to take situation with or contradict Stephen who I respect significantly and defer to on scientific issues since he’s, in any case, a scientist (a thermophysiologist no much less!) However FWIW right here’s what the CORE web site says now (nearly 2 years after Stephen’s assessment) about their very own testing:
As of now, our accuracy is a Imply Absolute Deviation of 0.21 °C when in comparison with the e-pill. Nevertheless, our strategy is to maintain enhancing our know-how so it can stay an ongoing strategy of gathering extra information into the pool to get even higher measurements. So to reply to the query we’re requested essentially the most, “Is it actually that correct? Sure, it’s very correct!
CORE additionally supplies a hyperlink to exterior research and initiatives that use their know-how. A examine achieved in 2023 concluded: “The Core programs is simple to make use of, however tends to overestimate physique core temperatures.”
Must you get the CORE Physique Temperature Sensor as a coaching help? Stephen highlighted “the necessity to look earlier than you leap into this courageous new world.” That’s nonetheless good recommendation. In that regard, it’s value noting that following World Tour groups have taken the leap and are utilizing CORE know-how: Soudal Fast Step, Ineos Grenadiers, Lidl Trek, Astana Qazakstan, Movistar, and Bora Hansgrohe, in addition to the Canyon SRAM, FDJ Suez, AG Insurance coverage, and Israel Premier Tech Roland girls’s groups.
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CHAPTER2: Meet ‘Koura’: Your Ticket to a Golden Journey with TOA!
INTRODUCING
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The Breakaway Revolutionizes Well being Monitoring with Integration of Apple Watch Knowledge
A brand new seamless integration empowers customers ofThe Breakaway to effortlessly monitor and handle their full well being state as they chart their progress in the direction of their biking objectives.
The Breakaway, the chief in simplified AI teaching for cyclists, introduced at this time the launch of its integration with Apple Well being. This integration marks a big leap ahead in permitting customers to seamlessly sync their biking actions recorded with their Apple Watch and examine it in opposition to their using and coaching information for better context, multi functional platform.
The Breakaway’s integration with Apple Well being permits customers to effortlessly sync their well being and health information from varied sources. Particularly, this primary integration leans into the Apple Watch biking information and FTP estimations. Extra critically, this places the give attention to the Apple Watch as a significant health software for the thousands and thousands of people that use this {hardware} to trace their coaching information.
With this integration, Apple Watch customers can now have all the information whereas they journey, utilizing Apple’s biking app after which have that information analyzed by The Breakaway immediately, serving to them turn out to be the very best bicycle owner they are often. Moreover, Apple Watch customers (by way of Apple Well being) will be capable of leverage Purposeful Threshold Energy estimations from The Breakaway app or Apple.
“The ecosystem of {hardware} and information continues to evolve. With Apple Watch and The Breakaway, now you can have entry to the info and evaluation beforehand solely out there to the very best skilled cyclists on the planet.” says Jordan Kobert, Co-founder and CEO at The Breakaway. “This enables customers to extra commonly use an Apple Watch as an alternative of a head unit on their bikes, specializing in the highway forward as an alternative of the info on their bars.”
The Breakaway’s integration with Apple Well being presents customers a spread of advantages, together with:
- Turning the Apple Watch right into a True Biking Laptop: With Apple Watch OS10, Apple watch customers can hook up with energy meters and thereby change the necessity for a devoted head unit.
- Improved Coaching and Well being Insights: Customers can get their weight and any Apple estimated FTP information, enabling them to trace progress and make knowledgeable selections about their health objectives.
- Automated Updates to Biking Metrics: A broader image of well being and coaching load will enable The Breakaway to extra precisely and extra usually talk will increase to endurance capability and practical threshold energy.
The Breakaway stays dedicated to its origins as a biking app; this integration is about making a extra holistic image of what contributes to our consumer’s objectives to allow them to use our personal native AI Coach mannequin to pivot, adapt, and develop.
The mixing with Apple Well being is now out there to all customers and could be accessed by way of the most recent replace of The Breakaway app on the App Retailer.
- For extra details about The Breakaway, its integration with Apple Well being, and obtain hyperlinks, please go to breakaway.app.
Lazer introduces re-invented and light-weight Z1 KinetiCore
Its weight of 220g (Dimension M) makes the Z1 the lightest helmet together with rotational affect safety available on the market.
Z1 KinetiCore is the one for these on the lookout for a featherweight, with out skimping on safety. The brand new mannequin has been engineered to be each light-weight and permit glorious air flow, whereas assembly important security requirements and going past by integrating rotational affect safety.
Taking the long-lasting Z1 as a place to begin, worn by notorious athletes corresponding to Andre Greipel on the Champs Elysees, holding every thing that it was doing proper and making it higher by integrating the Lazer patented KinetiCore safety know-how. This ends in a 5-STAR Virginia Tech safety rated lid with rotational affect safety built-in weighing in at solely 220g (Dimension M).
Strategically positioned vents, inclined bridges and a floating headband enable greatest in school air flow whereas holding aerodynamics in thoughts. A Lazer Aeroshell is suitable with the helmet and could be added to shut the vents for further aerodynamic benefit and supply safety in opposition to the climate parts.
Now together with the upgraded Lazer Superior RollSys, a thumbwheel on the highest of the helmet that controls the match system spanning across the whole circumference of the pinnacle for a snug and safe match with no stress factors. Because the Lazer Superior RollSys sits on high of the helmet, sufficient room for lengthy hair in a ponytail or bun is stored free.
Different options of Z1 KinetiCore embody light-weight stitched straps made out of antibacterial & recycled materials, designed to make sure consolation. The elimination of a plastic strap divider and use of recycled strap materials are small steps in the direction of the extra sustainable future Lazer needs to work in the direction of.
Z1 KinetiCore permits to maintain your eyewear secure with its eyewear docking slots. Elevated visibility is definitely achieved by attaching the Common Lazer LED to the rear of the helmet.
Z1 KinetiCore presents 3% extra air flow cooling than carrying no helmet in any respect.
Z1 KinetiCore’s new aggressive design and refined coloration palette will flip heads whereas pushing your limits.
Specs:
- Obtainable in sizes S/M/L
- Weight 220g (M)
- MSRP $279.99
- Obtainable Colours in North America: White, Matte Black, Cosmic Blue, Harbor Gray, Metallic Purple, Flash Orange
- Extra data at: www.lazersport.com
VELOGIC FIT Launches Velogic Studio 4
Expertise the Way forward for Movement Seize with Velogic Studio 4
Velogic Restricted, a producer of motorcycle match programs based mostly in New Zealand, launched Velogic Studio 4 on January 10, 2024 at CES® in Las Vegas, Nevada. Velogic Studio 4’s new Time of Flight digital camera know-how delivers correct, computerized 3D movement seize and a workflow designed to optimize becoming time. Velogic Studio 4 is the way forward for built-in biking evaluation, providing higher and sooner match experiences for you and your shoppers.
Synchronized twin sided 3D and video movement seize: Velogic Studio 4’s groundbreaking synchronized dual-sided 3D and video know-how employs state-of-the-art time-of-flight Orbbec Femto Mega cameras.
Mechanically generated becoming metrics: The progressive system robotically generates complete metrics – together with energy, cadence, aerodynamics (coming Q2 2024), pedaling dynamics, and extra – for either side of the physique. Business-leading reporting capabilities guarantee lovely and complete reviews to reduce time within the again workplace, enabling you to spend extra high quality time along with your shoppers.
Enhanced buyer and fitter expertise with 3D information overlay: Velogic Studio 4 doesn’t simply ship information; it enhances the shopper and fitter expertise. The 3D information is seamlessly overlaid on video, offering transparency and engagement within the decision-making course of for brand spanking new bike purchases and updating current gear to greatest match the consumer. Elevate your understanding of athletic efficiency with Velogic Studio 4 – the place innovation meets precision.
Bike documentation wand backed by an 18,000 bike database: It’s one factor to suit a consumer to their present bike; it’s one other matter altogether to match the consumer to a brand new bike. Velogic Studio 4’s bike documentation wand permits exact measurements of both a match bike or the consumer’s present bike; these measurements could be entered into our in depth 18,000 bike database to effectively discover the proper becoming options.
“Velogic Studio 4 represents the head of my three a long time devoted to athlete evaluation,” says Velogic CEO Paraic McGlynn. “The seamless integration of synchronized video and cutting-edge 3D know-how marks the Holy Grail within the realm of athlete evaluation. By combining the nuances of human motion captured in video with 3D information, Ant+ information, aerodynamic metrics, and leveraging an intensive 18,000 bike database, Velogic Studio 4 empowers athletes, groups, coaches, and medical professionals with unparalleled insights and outcomes. What continues to astonish me is the outstanding nature of this know-how, even because the chief of the workforce that introduced it to fruition.”
This groundbreaking biking evaluation answer is the results of bringing collectively the experience and a long time of expertise of McGlynn and Velogic Restricted’s Chief Know-how Officer, Darren Bruning. At first of 2023, Cyclologic, a worldwide chief in biking efficiency evaluation, gear, and schooling, took an fairness stake in Velogic Restricted, with Paraic McGlynn becoming a member of as Chief Govt Officer. The transfer mixed Cyclologic’s Movement MetriQ cycling-specific video evaluation packages with Velogic’s portfolio of merchandise and elevated the aptitude and scale of the merged organizations. They construct on their positions as industry-leading suppliers of biking efficiency evaluation services, by providing {hardware}, software program, schooling and coaching, product choice and gross sales and efficiency evaluation options, benefitting commerce shoppers and shoppers.
Pricing:
- Necessities: $1,200/yr* *yr 2+, $3,000 first yr
- Professional: $1,800/yr* *yr 2+, $4,500 first yr
- Uncover the way forward for movement seize at www.velogicfit.com.
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