Therabody JetBoots Prime

Pumps live inside the boots — no hose, no console. That's the meaningful engineering difference from hose-and-box systems: they fold like a pair of pants and fit in a backpack.

Four overlapping chambers grade pressure to leg size across four levels — fewer zones than Normatec's five, in exchange for the wireless form factor.

A flat, non-porous lining with no pockets or flaps — wipes clean in one pass, which matters more than it sounds for something you sweat into after workouts.

Around three hours per charge and usable while plugged in, so a dead battery never blocks a session.