Fitness - Troy Angrignon

Adventure

Endeavor 2019!

As always, a great adventure race with friends!

Adventure

Endeavor Training Day

Great day training up near Bear Valley. c

Fitness

Mountain Tactical Advanced Programming Certification May 2017

I was fortunate to be able to spend a few days in Jackson Hole, Wyoming with Rob Shaul over at the Mtn Tactical Institute. Fantastic lessons and training.

Fitness

SEALFit Kokoro 37 June 2015

The best 60 hours without sleep that you can possibly have.

Fitness

Comparing FitBit SurgeHR and Garmin 920XT

Today I’m comparing the new FitBit Surge HR fitness watch with the Garmin 920 XT sport watch. I ran them through two very different tests so that I could compare the data quality and the user interface presented from both of them. FitBit SurgeHR and Garmin 920XT

Fitness

The best smartwatch or fitness band in Q1 2015

Here is a grid that will help you choose the best smartwatch or fitness band no matter what kind of athlete you are. I’ve included only the best and left the rest off. There are a lot of tools not worth using. These are some, if not all,

Product Review

The Best Heart Rate Strap : Comparing Scosche Rhythm+, Mio Link, 4iiiii Viiiiiva, Wahoo KickrX

I do a ton of sports tech testing. Some days it feels like I’m on a never-ending search to find the best heart rate strap. I’ve tested them all. However, straps are boring to video record so this will just be a text-based blog post. In short, here

Sleep

Comparing Sleep Trackers: Jawbone Up24, Basis Peak, S+ by ResMed, Sleeprate, Garmin 920XT, Fitbit

In this video (at the bottom of this post), I compare sleep trackers to see which ones function best. THE CANDIDATES (and their sensors)Jawbone Up24 (3d accelerometer)Basis Peak (continuous heart rate, skin temperature, perspiration, 3d accelerometer)S+ by ResMed (movement as read by the echo-location of low-power signals

Fitness

A weekend with Dan John and Chip Conrad at Mental Meat Heads 7

What a great weekend. I just returned from two days up in Sacramento at Agoge Ftness System’s “Mental Meat Heads 7” event. I had the opportunity to learn from two of my favorite people in the fitness industry: Dan John, and Chip Conrad. I knew that the weekend would

Market Map

Market Map: Health and Sports Apps and Devices

A first attempt to provide a simplified look at the devices and apps market by looking at the wireless protocols across the X (time) axis and depth / complexity of feature set on the Y axis. Let me know if you think this works…or doesn’t. I’m not convinced

Fitness

Building a map of sensors, devices, apps, displays, protocols, agents, and end-points. (phew!)

As many of you know, I’ve been looking a lot lately at the sport tech wearables space. It’s amazing how complicated it is. I was experimenting with a way of modeling it out so that people can see what I mean. Not sure this is the right way

Technology

The traditional GPS sport watch ecosystem is too slow-moving and will be disrupted by the apps market

I’ve been testing old world vs. new world lately in GPS watches vs. applications. It’s interesting to see the generation gaps. In short, the iPhone (mostly the iPhone and not Android because it was further ahead and simpler to code for when using Bluetooth LE – a derivative subset

Technology

A Tale of Five Garmins (310XT, 910XT, FR610, FR620, and Tactix)

Garmin Running Watches/Sports & Fitness Trackers I’m always looking to see what’s happening in the Wearable Technology space at the same time as I’m looking for what I will use day to day for my own training across a number of different sports. I’m hard

Technology

The Density and Complexity of the Quantified Tools Ecosystem is Increasing Rapidly

Here is a first pass at capturing some of the major integration points (and directions) between the various sensors, mobile phone apps, watches, bands, scales, hardware vendor sites, and aggregator sites. This is only a small part of what’s really there. Interesting to see how quickly this is getting

Technology

Fitness Device Comparison: Nike Fuel, Jawbone, Fitbit Flex, Basis B1, Fitbit Force, Misfit Shine, Polar Loop

There are hundreds of reviews out there on the current and upcoming fitness bands. I’ve destroyed and/or lost many of them and have a high bar for what they need to do to be useful. My plan is to keep this table up to date as I test

Adventure

Quantified Self: How I'm using QS tools and techniques to aid my training for civilian military style events

On Mar 20 2013, I was invited to give a talk at Quantified Self Silicon Valley on how I was using Quantified Self tools and techniques to train for civilian military style events. This is a summary of that talk with some text notes and links to appropriate resources in

Fitness

Great ride today. I LOVE the new highway for road-cycling.

I think that the Sea to Sky Highway is going to become known as one of the most amazing road-bike rides in the world. The Whistler Granfondo is going to be a blast. Great training ride day today. 16k warmup and then 3 16k sprints.

Fitness

I just signed up for the Canadian Death Race on Aug 1. My body wants to nervously puke and poop all at the same time.

Luckily I’m training with my friends who’ve done it before. They’ve assured me that it will be a complete suffer-fest. I think their words of reassurance were something like: “you think you hurt now – just wait until hour 10 when everything from the neck down is just