Headphones Enhancing Athletes Training Routines
Designed by Halo Neuroscience, The Halo Sport is a wearable device that looks like a pair of headphones and is one of the latest product offerings in the health and fitness category that allow elite athletes to get the most out of their training session.
Earlier this year, Halo Neuroscience turned to Michael Johnson Performance to help test Halo Sport with elite athletes (video above).
The Halo Sport uses a brain stimulation technique that uses a small level of electric current sent to the user’s brain via two Primers – electrodes – that sit inside the headband of the headphones.
The idea is that the stimulation is able to tap into a region of the brain that relates to sports and fitness. Halo Neuroscience is calling it neuropriming, using pulses of energy to prime the signal of the motor cortex part of the brain to see improvements in strength, explosiveness and dexterity.
It’s largely aimed at the kind of training sessions that involve a high volume of quality repetitions, and could be a good fit for football, basketball and baseball players.
The 20 minute neuropriming sessions are initiated from the Halo Sport, which is iPhone only for now with Android support in the works. There are plans to add additional features via in-app purchases as well.
