BSX Insight

By | February 24, 2015

BSX_Insight-1024x682

Everyday there are new pieces of wearable technology coming out aimed at giving runners the most information they can get. Most of these work in roughly the same way, they sit on your wrist like a watch and give you information on your pulse, heart rate, and calories burned. There’s a new product hitting the shelves at the end of this year called the BSX Insight that aims to change that.

The Insight is a wearable that provides athletes with information about their levels of lactic acid, pace, and cadence as well as all the metrics listed before. These pieces of information are a lot more useful to the serious runner than the standards because they give the runner a perspective on how to improve their training. Knowing when the lactic acid build up hits the upper threshold allows runners to know when they’re about to top out and how to set new goals for training. It used to be a very expensive and time consuming test to find out where that lactate threshold was, requiring a trip to a lab to run a treadmill test while simultaneously being poked and prodded. The Insight simply sits against the calf inside of a sock in order to collect data as close to the source as possible and sends it to the app on your phone. In addition to all of the immediate information it delivers, the Insight will offer a cloud based training service based on that collected data for users as well.