Former NFL star Vernon Davis invests in smart home gym JAXJOX
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June 9, 2022
Former NFL tight end star Vernon Davis has joined at-home connectei.e Gjm starightchristening JAXJOX as an InvestOright ani.e brightani.e partner. The Company’s products include free weights and kettlebells with built-in sensors to track exercise data such as: Reps, sets, average exertion, calories burned, and heart rate.
JAXJOX is complete Interactive studio Smart Gym is about 80 inches tall, including its 43-inch 4K touchscreen for showing metrics and streaming workouts. The product costs $2,499 plus a monthly membership of $39. Daviswho has won two Pro Bowls in 14 NFL seasons, will create workouts for JAXJOX, participate in live Q&A, and share fitness tips with community members.
Since retiring from the NFL in 2019, Davis has starred in Hollywood films such as Gasoline Alley with Bruce Willis and muti with Morgan Freeman. His investment in JAXJOX follows the acquisition of the company Four-time US Olympic gold medalist Michael Duane Johnson joined its advisory board last month.
Home fitness startup pocket also manufactures sensor-integrated free weights. pocket secured funding last month from English soccer star Daniel Sturridge, former NBA player Zaza Pachulia, Golden State Warriors executive Kirk Lacob and Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert.
Techstars’ current accelerator in Indianapolis also includes two smart gym startups set to reinvent weightlifting at the facility. RepOne similarly inserts sensors on the weights themselves, while EvenLift uses AI-enabled cameras to track a user’s exercise, the weight they’re lifting, their number of repetitions, and their form.
“Now [people are] They come back to some kind of dumb big boxing gym, and they expect the same experience that they’ve had at home now,” Indianapolis-based Techstars CEO Jordan Fliegel told SportTechie recently. “…These gyms realize they need to evolve.”
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