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Gold-standard data, genius delivery. Lactate threshold. It’s the pinnacle of performance monitoring used by elite athletes, Olympians and professional coaches worldwide. It’s the single number that defines athletic capacity and ideal training zones. And it’s now measurable through a simple, wearable device. Introducing BSXinsight,™ the only device to measure your lactate threshold and automatically determine your personalized training zones as you train. BSXinsight uses the same technology as the experts yet speaks the same language as your coach, so for the first time ever, you’ll know how your body is responding – without lab visits or blood draws. Pair BSXinsight with a compatible sports watch for simple speed up and slow down direction, download your data for analysis and share it with others. Hailed as the first truly novel piece of wearable tech in 2014, BSXinsight is much more than that. It’s the device that’s going to help you crush your personal best.
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Don’t just listen to your body, look inside it. Elegant in its simplicity, BSXinsight sees what’s really happening deep within your muscle as you train, then translates your biosignals into clear training direction. Stop trying to ‘feel’ whether you’re pushing too hard or leaving too much on the trail and stick with the science. Industry experts predict performance increases of up to 25% with BSXinsight, proving that there’s never been a more powerful or personal way to train.
A f Ew s im pL E sTE ps A nd yo u’ rE rE Ady To go SET UP your assessment run or ride at BSXinsight.com
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PAIR to optional ANT+ enabled devices using mobile app remote SECURE into compression sleeve and slip on leg
START recording using mobile remote and begin workout
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FOLLOW training alerts to stay on target ENJOY your workout. Leave the brainwork to BSXinsight
UPLOAD data from your BSXinsight
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REVIEW results of lactate threshold and training zones SYNC with your coaching software and share results with your friends
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Do more than track, transform. We believe in endurance athletes. In their ability to go beyond what’s thought of as possible. And then beyond that. The mental toughness required to live in the present while training for the future isn’t easy. Using BSXinsight to understand and improve your lactate threshold helps you train better every day as you close in on a new personal best. In fact, you’re already at the starting line.
One light device does all the heavy lifting. Setting up your assessment ride or run on BSXinsight.com is simple. Do it once every six to eight weeks and the rest is all about receiving information that works for you. Start by pairing your ANT+ enabled heart rate monitor or power meter to BSXinsight to generate your heart rate, power or speed-based training zones. Once you’re ready, just pull on the compression sleeve and secure BSXinsight into the pocket.
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Tech smarter, train smarter. Your assessment rides or runs are probably the most important 30 minutes you’ll spend on a treadmill or trainer all season, because they’re going to improve all your future miles. Starting off easy, you’ll be prompted by BSXinsight’s mobile app to increase intensity at three minute intervals, continuing until you can’t go any longer. Then simply stop the workout, and dock BSXinsight in its charging station. Your data automatically uploads to the web for analysis.
Connect the dots, connect with others. Beyond measuring lactate threshold and training zones, BSXinsight syncs all your training data to the web so you can store it, track it and see it improve. Plus, you can sync with many online coaching platforms (see the full list at BSXinsight.com), including our own trainBSX.com (more on page 19). This range of platforms allows you to easily incorporate your new knowledge into your training schedule and share it with your coach and teammates.
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Pick your passion. Each edition of BSXinsight measures and relays the lactate threshold and training zones for a single athlete. Depending upon preference or sport, training zones can be based on heart rate, power or pace. BSXinsight also automatically captures and stores all data - including real-time muscle oxygenation - for post-training breakdown and analysis at BSXinsight.com.
CYCLING EDITION Pairs: ANT+ heart rate meter and power meter Measures: Cycling lactate threshold to determine your training zones based on power (ANT+) and heart rate (ANT+)
RUNNING EDITION Pairs: ANT+ heart rate meter Measures: Running lactate threshold to determine your training zones based on pace and heart rate (ANT+)
MULTISPORT EDITION Designed specifically for triathletes. Pairs: ANT+ heart rate meter and power meter Measures: Cycling and running lactate thresholds to determine your training zones based on pace, heart rate (ANT+) and power (ANT+)
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The insight behind lactate training. Lactate threshold refers to the maximum sustained effort your body can maintain for an extended period of time – usually around 45-60 minutes. It’s essentially your body’s redline, and it’s more than 95% accurate at predicting race finish order. Training (or racing) over the redline can only last for so long, due to the anaerobic contribution to your muscles, which increases based upon intensity and duration of your workout. Eventually your body is forced to slow down or bonk altogether. But always training under the redline results in never learning to rev the engine high enough, sacrificing speed and limiting endurance. Ideally, during training and many racing events, you want to spend much of your time right on or even well under the redline to prevent premature fatigue, while saving enough kick for a strong finish or mid-course advancement. So how does lactate work? When your body produces energy, it also produces lactic acid as a by-product. Contrary to past belief, lactate isn’t entirely bad. In fact, it isn’t even the cause of muscle soreness and fatigue. Lactate actually
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serves two important purposes. It’s a secondary source of fuel for working muscles, which, trained properly, allows you to keep going longer and harder. And more importantly, increasing lactate levels are what let you know that fatiguerelated muscle acidity is also increasing. Essentially, it’s the warning marker of excessive redlining and premature shutdown, a measurable substitute for fatigue. Lactate threshold training is the practice of adjusting performance to spend the appropriate amount of time on, above, and even below the redline so you’re always training at purposeful intervals for your planned race. This is accomplished using pace, heart rate, or powerbased training zones that are determined by your lactate threshold. With every threshold-based training session, you’re pushing that redline just a little bit higher so that your overall threshold increases. Which means that not only is every session optimized, but that you’re actually training yourself to feel better, race better and be better. It’s the most effective way to beat your personal best, and keep on doing it.
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The insight behind BSXinsight. For over half a century, lactate threshold has been the preferred performance metric; it’s both highly accurate and highly trainable. BSXinsight takes these proven benefits many steps further, eliminating all the drawbacks of inconvenience, inconsistency and invasive blood draws. While laboratory results don’t always translate into training habits and routine blood draws aren’t practical, BSXinsight gives you immediate data that yields powerful results. Leading-edge technology and athlete-based innovation means that your daily training just turned into gold-standard lactate threshold training. So how does that work? BSXinsight uses LED lights to “look” into the calf muscle. As the light array passes through your muscle tissue, it’s reshaped by chromatophores (or marker characteristics) of your tissue that are unique to you. This creates a biosignal that’s captured and processed by BSX algorithms to generate your unique profile. Analyzing the signal features in action generates a real-time lactate threshold curve that’s as accurate as previous blood-based methods. Your body speaks its own language, BSXinsight is the translator. Never before has there been a training tool that gives you such a complete picture of your body’s health and endurance.
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BSXinsight LIGHT SOURCE
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The brains (and brawn) behind the brand. Combine two athletes with an MD, a BA in Computational Mathematics and two MBAs. Add adrenaline. Now add a fervent desire to discover the ultimate performance indicator (“Biosignal X”). That’s us. The guys who created BSXinsight. Our mission is to make every athlete a personal record holder, by taking the guesswork out of training and giving athletes the most powerful information available. To do that we had to create a real-time revolution – so we did. Dustin Freckleton received his MD/MBA degree from the University of Texas Medical School at Houston and has an extensive research background in health and human performance. He has served as an instructor at the USATF National Podium Education Project and is a USATF level 1 certified coach. Nithin Rajan graduated from Rice University in 2006 with a BA in Computational and Applied Mathematics, and from The University of Houston in 2010 with an MBA. Previously, he served as COO of Blue Box Health, Inc., has been named as inventor on two patents, and was awarded the American Gastroenterological Association Student Research Fellowship Award.
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More about trainBSX.com Use BSXinsight with trainBSX.com for the ultimate 360° training experience. Our intuitive, web-based software integrates all the knowledge of BSXinsight with a comprehensive suite of training tools and services specifically designed for today’s athletes and coaches. When combined with trainBSX.com, your coach can turn BSXinsight’s data into training directives that are relayed to your compatible sports watch or head unit. You’ll receive custom ‘speed up’ or ‘slow down’ direction as you train.
FOR COACHES
FOR ATHLETES
• Simplify team management with one intuitive platform • Stay organized with integrated billing and accounting • Easily create plans for individuals or entire groups • Assess at a glance with graphs and performance management charts • Get immediate answers with phone and email customer support • Enjoy huge team discounts from leading industry partners
• Choose your ideal coach and join the team • Get automatic data sync from all your devices • Plan and schedule your workouts • Save your favorite workouts for repeat use • Stay connected, share your milestones • Use trainBSX™ discounts on training gear
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“a massive game-changer for both my career and the entire endurance sports community.” - Ken Rakestraw - Professional Athlete
“lactate threshold is the most important determinant of success in endurance-related activities and events.” - Drs. Len Kravitz and Lance Dalleck (2005). Lactate threshold training. Network, The Official Magazine of Australian Fitness Network, Autumn, 27-30
“i used it in austin and finally broke 5 hours, had a run pr and got a world championship spot.” - Alana Kennedy-Nasser
“using bsxinsight to track and monitor my training progress is the ultimate key to success! it’s a huge value add beyond traditional heart rate, power, or pace training alone.” - Liz Baugher - Professional Athlete
“Knowing my lactate threshold helped me pace myself to a personal best in the chicago marathon and then another pr at the cozumel ironman.” - Tony Stone - North Texas Striders
“i can think of nothing more impacting to my coaching and to the performance of my athletes.” - Jack Hazen, Malone University Head Cross Country Coach, Men’s Distance Coach for the USA Track and Field Team, 2012 Olympics.
“bsxinsight has fundamentally changed the way endurance athletes train. it eliminates the risk of over or under training, which allows athletes to train smarter, and recover faster -- ultimately improving performance as a whole.” - Corrie Kristick - Professional Athlete
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