NEW YEAR, NEW GEAR

A round-up of the best tech to help you hit your fitness goals in 2025, whether you're training indoors, outdoors, or a bit of both

- Pat Kinsella

INDOOR

1 CRUSHER MATRIX CLIMBING FINGERBOARD

Designed for performance and fitness-focused climbers, the intensively researched Matrix is a beautiful wooden fingerboard for hanging tough at home and building up your finger strength, so you can crush new routes when you hit the crags in spring. Perfect both for beginners and accomplished climbers, the Matrix prepares you for a massive range of moves, including monos, duos, crimps, halfcrimps, pinches, two-finger dinks, wide and narrow pull positions.

£72.95, crusherholds.co.uk

2 ZYGO SOLO Z2

For indoor athletes who enjoy audio-assisted aquatic training, the Zygo Z2 waterproof headphones can be worn over or under a swimming cap and stay securely attached to your head while you're doing laps of the pool. Using bone-conduction technology, the Z2 pairs with your phone via Bluetooth and the transmitter (which doubles as a charging case) allows you to stream music or podcasts while up to 100 metres away from your phone, and even while 1 metre below the surface, should you go that deep.

£218, shopzygo.​com

3 FAVERO ASSIOMA PRO MX POWER METER PEDALS

These made-in-Italy power meter pedals have actually been designed for use on gravel bikes and MTBs, but they're ace when you're pedalling inside too, well away from the mucky stuff. Equipped with an IAV Power System, the Assioma PRO MX-2 measures everything from power and cadence to left/right balance, torque efficiency, rider position and pedal smoothness, serving up comprehensive data readings for enhanced performance analysis. Whether used inside or out, you get 60 hours from one charge.

£720, sigmasports.​com

4 TECHNOGYM CONNECT DUMBBELLS