Gadgetory

as I age I'm increasingly aware that I have no idea how well my muscles are working or why sometimes pull my back so bad it takes a week to recover so I headed to the Mandel School in Upper Manhattan to meet with athos a start-up building high-tech workout gear that looks inside your muscles and analyzes the way your workout is going in real time to help me test them was Jermaine O'Neal six-time NBA all-star and investor in athletes being involved with Atos really it's something I really believe in because it puts your health and your entity in your own hands you understand the body better you understand and you know when you're doing the exercise and things are not working as well it basically tells you we make workout apparel much like other companies and that was always the goal was how do we make normal shorts and let's reverse engineer the technology into them so it uses a science called electromyography or EMG for short basically what that means is that we record the little electrical signals your muscles produce and we can tell how much of each muscle you're using so we're able to translate in a way where you can pick up your phone so they've got it and go back to what you need to do naturally I proposed a quick game of one-on-one I wore the Atlas gear for our basketball game and a quick weightlifting session I was very impressed with how detailed the data was and how easy it was to interpret on the squats for example I could see that I was using one leg way more than the other and also notice how changing my for impacted which muscles were being activated allowing me to better balance the stress on my joints and if you're in the gym take the squad example again and you can look like you have the best form in the world going down perfectly straight but when in fact you're using the right side more than the left or using all quads and the glutes you're not get the benefit we take a summary of what just happened and show you that key map of the body and then show you muscle by muscle by the specific number how much you actually work these muscles this would this enables you do is have a virtual personal trainer on your phone that can instruct your every step of the way I thought the core values of what this brand represented and something and I went through a lot as poor athlete had a lot of struggles late living in my we're with trying to figure out how my body was starting to break down being able to understand the body understand the changing reaction how to body ties in you know to itself you take a you know a brand like pathos it tells you that versus having to go and see different people to try to figure that out so it's definitely something I really believe in not only as a professional athlete but as a parent as well for now athos seems best suited to professional athletes for performing sets of weightlifting or weight-bearing exercises and want to perfect their form and avoid injury in the future I could see them being integrated into everyday clothes and helping me to measure how well my muscles were working as I climb the stairs to work or head out for a quick bicycle ride to the grocery store it would definitely improve my performance and maybe help me avoid injury they aren't going to transform me into a professional caliber athlete but hey a guy can dream right