What’s your favorite metric to track while your lungs are on fire? We’ve been at this for over twenty years now, so our answer to that question has gone from ‘heartrate when I ride under power lines and the data actually shows up on my CatEye’ through areodynamics and blood glucose.
Cyclry’s neighbors Tymewear are a leading ‘breathing intelligence’ company, which kind of offers a spoiler about the new type of data they’re giving us to obsess over (that’s right: respiratory performance). They’re already trusted by Team Visma | Lease a Bike, which means using their technology guarantees you’ll win five or so stages at the Giro.
This breathing intelligence isn’t just the domain of the Tymewear app and dashboard: as of right now, you can get your real-time respiratory data on your Wahoo head unit. Tymewear’s flagship VitalPro chest strap integrates natively with Wahoo’s Elemnt bike computers, measuring your respiration to identify your ventilatory thresholds (VT1 and VT2) on the fly.
Bringing the Sports Lab to the Road
Tymewear claims the VitalPro sensor tracks your breathing rate with up to 97% accuracy compared to traditional laboratory testing. And now your Wahoo lets you access real-time breathing insights, ventilatory
threshold data and personalized training guidance live on the road.
“With the Tymewear VitalPro on the Wahoo head unit, cyclists can see exactly when they cross their ventilatory thresholds, live on the ride,” says Arnar Larusson, CEO-Founder of Tymewear. “Breathing is a source of truth riders around the world are using to train based on their unique physiology, and we’re excited to put it in the hands of Wahoo’s community.”
Tymewear even shared clinical research demonstrating that this personalized, threshold-based training yields zero percent non-responders and can deliver more than double the fitness gains compared to traditional methods. Feels like maybe we should be giving this one a try, to be honest.
Tymewear VitalPro Pricing
Getting lab-grade physiological insights out on the road isn’t cheap. Although, in the broader sense of the cycling industry, it’s also not prohibitively expensive.
The VitalPro chest strap will set you back $299 (and it’s the same numbers but with a £ or a € in front of them if you live in the UK or Europe). If you want to bundle the hardware with a subscription to their ProTraining analysis app, the price jumps to $399 (one year) or $449 (two years).
