FLA Jill wrote:
Tri78910 wrote:
So I got to try the kicker run today so happy to answer any questions. Overall I was pretty impressed with how fluid it felt. Although I did find the pickup on it a little slow at points. As in if you were doing intervals you can 100% accelerate from a jog to a run before the treadmill picks up pace.So at this point, they’re governing it to around what you get when you run an auto-adjusting iFit/Nordictrack workout. Which, for me, is typically a pretty useful pace when the workout is programmed to do 30 second surges and such though it’s not quite what Kicker seems to be promising.
I’ll note that I hope they have their IP ducks in a row already because iFit/Nordictrack is pretty aggressive about going after what they see as patent infringement for the auto-adjust along with a pre-programmed workout and Peloton apparently had to pay them a decent settlement over that.
I think its 100% different technology - ifit can auto adjust based on performance and training within a workout. Wahoo is actually using sensors to adjust speed on exactly what you are doing at the time so if you are doing a workout and just decided you want to walk in the middle of an interval it would auto slow down... there is nothing out there like this. I do hope they got their own IP in a row because im sure the big players will be trying to duplicate this