BLOGS

• Wed, 11/25/2009 - 11:18 | 1 Comments

  Radiactor™ passes winter test

  Thursday, 26 March 2009 20:40

  Michi, official X-Bionic Tester, was somewhat sceptical about our latest functional underwear – the Radiactor™ Shirt und Radiactor™ Pants. At temperatures somewhere around freezing, he completed a run from Pfäffikon to Altendorf, Lake Zurich.
  To get away from the traffic, Michi decided on a tough route over the high plateau away from the roads. For additional protection against the cold and damp conditions, he took only a rain jacket. The Radiactor™ cooling function on the front of the thigh muscles was very noticeable, he commented. “On the long 280m ascent up into the hills the function had the opposite effect and kept my legs warm. On my upper body, the T-shirt produced a pleasant cooling effect – just what I needed.”
  The unique 3D-BionicSphere® System provides excellent heat regulation. SweatTraps absorb excessive perspiration and transfer it the surface where it evaporates, providing...

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• Wed, 11/25/2009 - 10:54 | 1 Comments

  Top result: die X-BIONIC® Spyker!

  Monday, 4 May 2009 14:14

  At last, a decent freebie at the start of a race. And what an honour – to be one of the first athletes to wear the new X-BIONIC Spyker in race conditions! It's always the same procedure at registration: you open the race bag, take out your start number, sort out the useful items and dump the rest. What’s this? A gift voucher for over € 40 – could be interesting... I made my way to the nearby X-BIONIC Shop on the road to Torbole, next to the Pizzeria Villa Aranci (viale Rovereto, 25) and soon had the object of desire in my very own hands. The new X-BIONIC Spyker certainly look cool. You wear them on the calves, where the partial compression system reduces vibration, improving performance. In addition, as with all X-BIONIC products, they turn sweat into energy. Now, I’m really curious.
  The next day, it was still pretty chilly at the start of the race so I was I glad I was wearing the Spyker. In my experience, knee...

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• Wed, 11/25/2009 - 10:32 | Comments

  X-BIONIC successfully completes Chiemgauer 100

  After the ‘marathon des sables’ I had what was probably too long a rest period.
  Still, such experiences have to be properly digested, friends and relatives have to be briefed, the diary for the X-BIONIC blog needs to be finished and everyday life has to start again at some point. Whilst running through the middle of the desert someone persuaded me to enter the Chiemgauer 100… The start date is not that far away and the X-BIONIC Fennec Running Shirt, Running Pants and the Run Evolution X-SOCKS are still all lying (neatly folded) in the clothes drawer…

  

  AMy first test of form was the ‘SportScheck Stadtlauf’ in Munich, where I started alongside 18,000 other runners. Compared to a 100km mountain ultra marathon, a half marathon is a bit of a picnic. But this one really hurt. In spite of the great atmosphere, I finished course...

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• Wed, 11/25/2009 - 10:19 | Comments

  SymFrame Running Jacket – tested in the shower

  Tuesday, 21 July 2009 13:47
  “This jacket is amazing ...I even tested it under the shower and it let nothing in and yet sweat was still able to escape,” explained an impressed Steffen Thier.
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• Wed, 11/25/2009 - 10:15 | Comments

  X-SOCKS Speed Metal Energizer in Ironman challenge

  Wednesday, 22 July 2009 11:44

  Triathlete Florian Mörtl, who successfully completed the 42.19 km run in this year's Kärnten Ironman, reports back on how his revolutionary X-SOCKS® compression socks made of original xitanit™ performed in the rainy, humid conditions.

  

  07:00, 5th July 2009. This is it. The starter's pistol opened the Kärnten Ironman for long-distance athletes. The sky was covered by grey banks of cloud and the humid conditions were oppressive with little chance of consolation as the weather was not set to get any better. A tough test for the unique X-SOCKS®. “Over the whole 42.19 km I had no problems with the heat, although though you might have expected long socks have been uncomfortable in that humidity," reported Florian Karl Mörtl, full of admiration

  The long years of research behind the X-SOCKS® development...

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