Pro Resistance Tights for Women,
available on Physiclo, $125
Pro Resistance Tights for Men,
available on Physiclo, $125
If you'd rather do your squats in front of the TV for less time and see faster results, you may be interested in Physiclo's inventive leggings.
Simply put, they're workout leggings with resistance bands built into them — so every movement you make attracts up to ten pounds of extra resistance in any direction.
Co-Founder Frank Yao came up with "resistance clothes" alongside his fellow med students and physicians while working at an NYU rehabilitation center to help patients turn everyday activities — and their limited exercise during a hospital stay — into more efficacious opportunities to build muscle tone and overall fitness. Realizing the implications of "resistance clothes" for even casual gym-goers is what led to Physiclo.
In an independent study by the Human Performance Lab at Cal Poly, researchers found that people wearing Physiclo in a variety of exercises had a 15% increase in oxygen consumption, 15% increase in energy expenditure/calorie burn, 18% increase in average heart rate, and 22% increase in ventilation/breathing rate. Physiclo also touts a 23% bump to muscle engagement and aiding marathon runners to improve their finish times over a 10-week testing period by almost 8 minutes.