 Hello, welcome to Film My Run. My name is Stephen Cozzens. Today we've got a product review. We're looking at a brand new foot pod called the MIMO. The MIMO foot pod. A little bit different to a normal foot pod. This foot pod is not to measure your speed or cadence when running. This is for gate analysis. So if you've ever been to a shop and had your gate analyzed, this foot pod will allow you to do it in the comfort of your own home. So the MIMO foot pod comes in this little red bag here with the word MIMO written on the tag. Inside you get the foot pod inside a little pouch in an ankle strap. So this strap here fits around your ankle. It's got the word MIMO written on the back there. And the foot pod itself is this little red unit. And that unit sits in a little pouch on the front of the strap. And then you simply pop the strap over your ankle. So normally when you get your gate analyzed, the idea is you go to a running shop. Generally it is a running store that's going to sell you some running shoes. You go into the shop. They have a treadmill in the shop. You get on the treadmill. You put on a pair of neutral running shoes and they film you from behind and they analyze how much your foot pronates in or out when you land on the treadmill belt. And that way they can work out what kind of shoes are best for you. There are some problems with this. One is that often when you go into a running shop, basically they want to sell you a pair of shoes. So you're not going to leave that shop without them saying to you, you need this pair of shoes. Buy this pair of shoes now and it doesn't matter to them whether you pronate or don't pronate. They're going to try and sell you some shoes. So often the advice that you're given is not necessarily objective advice. Next, the person carrying out the test, they're not going to be a physician. They're not going to be medically trained. They're not going to be trained in biometrics. They're not necessarily going to be trained in physiology. They're just retail workers trying to sell you some shoes. That's not always the case. Sometimes you will have very well trained staff looking after you in a shop like that and they will do their best to get you the right shoes. However, the MIMO foot pod aims to eliminate all that uncertainty by giving you a unit that you can put on your foot in your own home and it gives you unbiased results in an app that you can use to then go and choose the shoes that are right for you. So how does it work? So the MIMO is designed for you to run bare foot. Normally, like I said, in a running shop you would put some neutral shoes on but the MIMO is specifically designed to analyse your gait whilst running bare foot. So you need to bear that in mind when you're choosing the surface that you run on. You slip the sock over your foot and place the little MIMO pod inside the pouch and then you set up the app. The MIMO app you can download on iOS or Android and it is very simple. It will guide you through the whole process of analysing your gait. It will show you how to put the sock on your foot. It will tell you what to do. It will tell you to stand still for a little while. Then it will tell you to start running. It will then count down for how long you need to run for and then it will tell you to stop. Then it will tell you to change to the next foot and then run on that foot again for a number of seconds until it's finished and then it will spend some time analysing your gait and giving you a result. The results will show you whether you are an over or under pronator or whether you just have a normal gait. It will also show you whether you are a heel striker or a midfoot striker or a forefoot striker. So you can see here in my results I've got a mild over pronation so a mild inward turn of my ankle but not enough that I need a stability shoe. You can also see here that I am generally a forefoot runner. I have argued I'm a midfoot runner but the results here say that I'm a forefoot runner. I did carry out some more tests with the MIMO app and I did the test trying very hard to be a heel striker and yes indeed when I'd finished the results came up that I was a heel striker so I'm fairly confident the MIMO app was getting it right. Once you've got your results you're then directed to have a look at products that the app is recommending you purchase. So if you are an over pronator it will recommend structured shoes or if you have standard gait it will recommend standard shoes for you to purchase. Now I don't know whether there are any tie-in deals here. As far as I understand it and I've talked to the developer there are no deals where they will recommend say that you must buy Nike shoes or Adidas shoes. The results given are a broad range of different models, different makes with no bias towards any particular brand. Now that may change in future. I don't know whether MIMO are looking at brand tie-ins. That remains to be seen but as far as I can see at the moment there is a fairly broad range of different products that it recommends you can buy and then you can go off and purchase the shoes that you think are right for you. That doesn't necessarily mean that they will be right for you. Shoes are a very individual thing. You may try a pair of shoes that MIMO recommends and they don't work for you. You may go and try a different pair but it just gives you an idea of what kind of shoes are recommended for you based on your gait analysis. But there is more to the MIMO app ecosystem. You can pay a £3.95 subscription. This is UK pricing £3.95 for a subscription to MIMO which will offer you injury prevention advice, coaching and training advice, physio advice. You can literally go to the app, press a button, ask a question and get a reply and help from trained physios, trained coaches who will guide you through helping you prevent injury or giving you advice on exercises to do to improve your performance, to improve your gait, to improve your general fitness. Not only that, there are videos, plenty of videos, instructional videos on how to use the MIMO app and also exercises to improve your core strength, exercises to minimise injury and to give you more flexibility. All that from a £3.95 per month subscription. That sounds like an absolute bug and how much do you pay a month for a coach? It remains to be seen of course if the MIMO app does take off and they get a really big influx of users whether they can cope with that and still offer the same level of training advice and coaching that they're intending to at the moment. So at the moment the MIMO foot pod just has one job. It's one job is to analyse your gait and recommend the right shoes for you. That's its USP. However, inside this little foot pod are the same accelerometers, the same gyroscope, the same sensors that you would get in any other Bluetooth foot pod and there's no reason why the developers perhaps couldn't develop this so that you could use it for measuring cadence, for measuring distance, for measuring speed when you're out running. So in future you might have firmware updates which make this a kind of fully functioning foot pod not only for gait analysis but also for your general everyday running much like the old Garmin foot pod or the Stride foot pod that we have or if you run on Zwift, the Zwift pod. Now there are other foot pods as well like the RunScribe foot pod that do do a lot more in terms of gait analysis of your running and what I think they could do in the future what would be awesome is if from right within the app they recommend that you buy a certain brand of shoe, a certain model of shoe and you can click right in there to say buy now and it'll take you to the cheapest place to buy those shoes that would be an awesome little software upgrade for the app. So that's one or two ways in which I think that the MIMO app and the MIMO foot pod might be improved or might be developed in the future. In terms of pricing it's very competitively priced I think there's a sale on as I speak as I make this video you can buy the MIMO for £39.95 I think there's post and packing as well but around 40 UK pounds for the MIMO again an amazing deal if you think how much the RunScribe foot pods cost and any normal foot pods that you use for running will cost more than £40. Yes at the moment you can only use it for gait analysis but again with that 395 monthly subscription for all the extra stuff you're getting I really think it's a great deal in terms of financial layout you're not spending an awful lot of money for what you potentially might get and if there are firmware updates and things like that which allow you to use this MIMO app as a general foot pod for running for speed and cadence and distance then you are quids in. Even if you just use the MIMO once a year to measure your gait for your next pair of shoes that £40 initial outlay is worth it I think rather than going to a retail outlet where potentially you get a biased and untrained unqualified point of view just simply to sell you a pair of shoes and that's it for my review of the MIMO foot pod the brand new MIMO foot pod for measuring your gait go and check them out at MIMO.co.uk thanks very much for watching we'll see you for another product review here on filmmyrun next time take care bye bye