Kickstarter Myontec Workout Pants to Love

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. 

Increase Your Reading

There are a few times of the year that I seem to naturally increase my reading intake. For some reason, these times last a few months and start in May and October. Since this last May has been super crazy intense, reading actual books has been happening less, but reading blogs have been increasing more. Of course, I will always read and love Emily Henderson's blog and Joanna Goddard's. They are two of my absolute favorite lifestyle blogs, but I do have a few in the fitness realm that cannot go unread as well...

Pumps and Iron

Of course. There have been at least 50 blog posts on P+K that have links to or talk about in the past two years. For real, Nicole over at Pumps and Iron is one of my favorite bloggers. Maybe it is because she openly admits to drinking carb laden beer, or, maybe it is her incredible recipes. What I think it just might be, even more than all those things, is that she does completely different workouts that my usual. I love mixing it up and I absolutely love trying Nicole's high cardio interval workouts. 

According to Elle

NutritionElla has recently become According to Elle, also known as ATE. Really, how could I not love a blog that has the acronym "ATE" in it's title? I do not know.

Elle is one of those girls you could see yourself sipping mimosas and chatting about shoes and yoga over brunch at a super chic outdoor cafe. She is also the type that you will feel totally natural doing this with. If that is not a sales pitch enough, Elle is a knowledgable dietitian who keeps health simple and makes some ridiculously yummy noms. She also does really great giveaways and has fantastic style. 

Peanut Butter Fingers

I started reading PB Fingers almost a year before starting this here little blog. You could even say that Julie was one of the big inspirations for me to jump into the health and fitness world. Julie does multiple blogs a day and they are all related to her life, workouts, eats, and puppy Sadie. Her cataloging all these things is a wonderful inspiration to me when working out sounds like the worst. thing. ever. Yes, I have those days. 

Thankfully, Julie can help encourage me out of any possible workout rut and keep me happy with super adorable pictures of her pooch. 

Side note: Do you like the pic? It was taken on our trip to California last summer while driving through Malibu. It was so pretty I made the hubs stop the car, pull over, and take selfies of us next to a canyon. True tourist here. That is also not a pose, I was just FREEZING. Canyons are windy and cold!