Summary:
Tour de France’s UAE Team Emirates has extended its partnership with Ultrahuman, utilizing the Ultrahuman Ring AIR sleep-tracking wearable to optimize training, recovery, and performance. This sleep tracking wearable provides biomarker insights, including sleep phases, stress levels, and cardiovascular metrics, to help the team’s coaches make data-driven decisions. The integration of this technology helps tailor the cyclists’ training and recovery programs.
Key Takeaways:
- Partnership Renewal: UAE Team Emirates has extended its collaboration with Ultrahuman to incorporate advanced biomarker tracking for optimal performance and recovery.
- Sleep Tracking Focus: The Ultrahuman Ring AIR monitors essential metrics like sleep phases, stress, and VO2 max, providing insights to tailor recovery protocols for cyclists, including three-time Tour de France winner Tadej Pogačar.
- Data-Driven Decisions: Coaches use the Ultrahuman dashboard to access real-time biomarker data, enabling precise adjustments to training and competition strategies.
Ultrahuman has extended its partnership with the UCI WorldTour cycling team, UAE Team Emirates XRG—which includes three-time Tour de France winner Tadej Pogačar—to further enhance the team’s training, recovery, and performance, leveraging Ultrahuman’s technology.
At the heart of this partnership is the Ultrahuman Ring, a sleep tracking wearable. Designed for performance and recovery tracking, the Ring AIR provides insights into fueling, recovery, and endurance metrics through multisensor data streams. This data is leveraged by the UAE Team Emirates XRG coaches via a coaching dashboard to access bio-insights. The coaches remotely access rider biomarkers and use the insights to make informed decisions about the cyclists’ training and competition.
These insights include granular analysis of essential sleep phases—awake, REM and NREM, stress rhythm, and cardio-tone for the cyclists which are critical to tailor precise recovery protocols.
“We are excited to extend our partnership with one of the world’s most successful pro-cycling teams, UAE Team Emirates,” says Mohit Kumar, founder and CEO of Ultrahuman, in a release. “The Ultrahuman Ring’s advanced biomarker insights will continue to empower the team, helping them understand each rider’s unique training, sleep and recovery needs, and optimise them based on evidence-backed insights.”
The Ultrahuman Ring AIR integrates with the team’s dashboard, giving access to crucial biomarkers, such as heart rate, heart rate variability, stress, temperature, VO2 max, and oxygen saturation. In simple terms, heart rate and heart rate variability give an insight into athlete recovery; stress and temperature provide a window into the athlete’s ability to cope with the training demands, and VO2 max coupled with O2 saturation reflects endurance.
“We are very pleased to renew our partnership together with Ultrahuman. Professional cycling is becoming more and more data-driven, and insights which Ultrahuman technology provides are invaluable when it comes to tailoring training programmes for our athletes,” says Mauro Gianetti, team principal and CEO at UAE Team Emirates XRG, in a release. “Not only is the Ultrahuman Ring a key tool for performance but also, crucially, to monitor the overall health of our athletes.”
Photo caption: UAE Team Emirates XRG team members Jhonatan Narvaez (left) and Sebas Molano (right) with the Ultrahuman Ring Air
Photo credit: Ultrahuman
