Have you seen these pants? The hubs showed them to me yesterday and I am definitely getting pair. The Myontec Mbody workout pants are like a body/HRM that you are able to wear on your body. The pants come in either a shorts or leggings option if they raise enough and measure your heart rate, muscle fatigue, muscle balance between legs, lactate levels, exercise reviews and comparisons, calories burned, speed, pace, and the route you chose. One of my favorite features is that they also measure the load you are putting on your quads vs. hamstrings.
It sounds hilarious, but these pants are both iPhone and Android compatible with audio cues from when to end your warm-up and begin the workout to changing your posture to ensure proper muscle load. Everything is sent from the pants using electomyography, most commonly known as EMG, through a device worn on the front of the pants, and to your phone for audio and visual instruction.
Personally, I love the idea of being able to wear these during yoga to improve balance and coordination along with knowing how to best use my cardio time to increase athletic performance and results. These pants are considered highly accurate for the larger muscle groups of the upper leg, mainly the hamstrings and quadriceps- pretty great considering that those muscles are the most commonly injured during physical activity.
To get more info, watch the quick video below. The video starts out a bit bumpy with the guy with the robot voice, but gets better after the 1-minute mark if you hold out long enough.
Poor guy at the beginning, we watched some old podcast footage of me yesterday and decided I should never do a talk show-like series ever again because I looked and sounded just. like. him. But hey, not sounding like a robot or looking like a deer in the headlights can be harder than it sounds for sure! I will stick to writing and voice over things for now instead and you will probably fall in love with this product once you reach the end of the video.
If you are super interested but not down for the reading, you can find about a billion videos about these pants here.