Garmin Vivoactive 3 In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2017/10/garmin-vivoactive-review.htmlBut you can tap that and look at aspects like resting heart rate (RHR). … The heart rate sensor on the Vivoactive 3 follows that of the Fenix 5 and other 2017 watches, which records your heart rate at 1-second intervals constantly.
Garmin Forerunner 45/45S GPS Watch In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2019/04/garmin-forerunner-watch-review.htmlThe FR45 captures all the normal activity tracking metrics you’d expect, including steps (as well as distance), sleep, and heart rate. … This is used to track your heart rate 24x7, as well as during workouts.
Garmin Forerunner 945 Multisport Watch In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2019/04/garmin-forerunner-multisport-review.htmlSo you’ve got steps, stairs, sleep, and heart rate (plus Pulse Ox, but more on that in a moment). … The FR945 includes a new optical heart rate sensor package, previously rolled out on the Garmin MARQ watches last month.
The New Polar Vantage Series: Everything you ever wanted to know
www.dcrainmaker.com/2018/09/vantage-series-everything.htmlThe company has changed GPS chipset vendors, alongside creating the mother of all optical heart rate sensors with 9 LED’s in it. … One for activity, another for training load, past workouts, and heart rate.
Apple’s Beddit 3.5 Sleep Tracker In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2019/01/apples-beddit-tracker.htmlAnd finally, the bottom portion shows your heart rate. … Further, it’ll show you a tiny little non-zoomable chart of your heart rate throughout the night.
Whoop Exporting to Apple Health: Here’s how it actually works
www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/04/exporting-health-actually.html- Heart Rate: This is your heart rate (obviously), but, as I’ll explain in a sec, this is not done well. … - Heart Rate: This is a weird one.
Fitbit Blaze In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2016/03/fitbit-blaze-review.htmlThe Fitbit Blaze follows in the footsteps of both the Fitbit Surge and Fitbit Charge HR, in terms of doing 24x7 monitoring of your heart rate. … It uses the optical HR sensor on the rear of the unit, which uses a green LED light to illuminate the capillaries below your skin, while the optical sensor reads that to determine your heart rate.
My Winter 2014-2015 Sports Gadget Recommendations
www.dcrainmaker.com/2014/11/winter-gadget-recommendations.htmlIt lacks heart rate or activity tracking found in the FR15. … It’s a bit cheaper than the Edge 200, and gives you a bit more flexibility because the apps allow you to easily pair sensors like heart rate and cadence sensors.
How-To: Using Zwift and TrainerRoad Concurrently
www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/02/trainerroad-zwift-same.htmlAlso, ensure that your heart rate strap/sensor is paired via ANT+ as well, unless you have a dual-capable strap (see next section on that). … The same is true for the heart rate strap, but in this case I was using the Polar H10 – so it’s dual-channel.
Garmin Fenix 5/5S/5X Plus In-Depth Review (with Maps, Music, Payments)
www.dcrainmaker.com/2018/06/garmin-fenix5-review.htmlBy default, this will show your current altitude, current heart rate, and date/time, along with your steps. … From an activity tracking standpoint, the unit will track your steps, sleep, stairs, and heart rate.
Garmin Edge 1000 In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2014/06/garmin-1000-depth-review.htmlWhereas the bundle comes with the base unit, then the speed sensor, cadence sensor, and heart rate strap. … Along the top row is the Edge 1000, the out-front mount (+tool/adapters), and the heart rate strap/pod.
Review of Garmin Forerunner 305
www.dcrainmaker.com/2007/11/review-of-garmin-forerunner-305.htmlI typically run with pace, heart rate (HR), distance and lap time. … This is a software feature on the watch that shows you how far ahead/behind you are compared to the little man (like racing a real person) Though I don’t use it much (as I train mostly based on heart rate), it is a neat way to motivate yourself if you’re training solo.
Quick Tidbit: Garmin Adds Dual ANT+/Bluetooth Smart HR Broadcasting to Fenix 6
www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/06/tidbit-bluetooth-broadcasting.htmlSlipped into yesterday’s most recent Garmin Fenix 6 series public beta is a new feature that slightly revamps heart rate re-broadcasting. … This is where you can broadcast the heart rate from your optical HR sensor, on the back of your watch, to 3rd party apps.
Garmin Forerunner 735XT In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2016/06/garmin-forerunner-735xt-review.htmlAll while also adding in optical heart rate sensor and other new software features. … Garmin continues to improve their optical heart rate sensor (called ‘Garmin Elevate’), which they introduced last fall.
Garmin Forerunner 945 LTE In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2021/06/garmin-forerunner-945-depth-review.htmlMeanwhile, on the underside of the watch is the new optical heart rate sensor – in this case the Garmin Elevate V4, the same sensor found on the also-new Venu 2. … Or I can dive into the day-by-day metrics of these stats too – looking at how my heart rate ebbed and flowed throughout the day.
Peloton Bike+ (Plus) In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2021/02/peloton-bike-depth-review.htmlThis would be any heart rate straps (which are remembered between sessions), as well as any Bluetooth audio devices (like headphones), which are also remembered. … Now, the main benefit to natively connecting an Apple Watch is the integration of your Apple Watch’s heart rate sensor.
Kinetic inRide Bluetooth Smart Power Meter Accessory In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2012/12/kinetic-inride-bluetooth-smart-power-meter-accessory-in-depth-review.htmlIf you crack open the clamshell plastic inside, you’ll see the inRide Bluetooth Smart accessory in the middle, and the Bluetooth Smart Heart Rate strap on the right. … The included Bluetooth Smart heart rate strap is actually pretty good – even if the feedback I hear is that almost nobody seems to want it (read: you want to pay less and use your existing straps).
Suunto Vertical GPS Watch In-Depth Review: Solar, Mapping, WiFi, and More!
www.dcrainmaker.com/2023/05/suunto-vertical-review.htmlOn the backside of the unit you’ll find the optical heart rate sensor and charging port, which magnetically aligns to the charging cable. … The optical heart rate sensor is still the same as the Suunto 9 Peak Pro, which was a new sensor last fall from LifeQ.
Garmin Venu SQ In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/09/garmin-venu-sq-depth-review.htmlThese include heart rate, stress level, body battery, and respiration (breathing) rate. … If we keep swiping down we’ll find a dedicated page to heart rate, which includes the last 4 hours of heart rate data, but when we tap it we get the resting HR values for the last 7 days.
First look at Polar’s new V800 GPS triathlon watch
www.dcrainmaker.com/2014/01/polar-v800-triathlon.htmlFinally, there’s the Polar H7 Heart Rate Strap. … The second frequency is used if you want to receive heart rate (HR) data while underwater.
Suunto 9 Baro Multisport GPS In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2018/07/suunto-multisport-review.htmlAside from the addition of the optical heart rate sensor (which Suunto had placed in other units anyway), the only three other major changes at present are related to battery life, new super-cool GPS tracking modes, and a new GPS chipset provider (Sony). … While we’ve got the unit turned over, you’ll notice that optical heart rate (HR) sensor on there.
Fitbit Announces Fitbit Sense Smartwatch: Dives far deeper towards health metrics
www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/08/announces-smartwatch-towards.htmlThe most visible change from the outside is the new optical heart rate sensor, called PurePulse 2.0 – which Fitbit says is their most accurate to date. … It’ll take the readings, and then determine if there’s any concerning heart rate rhythms and advise you of the results.
Garmin Instinct 2 vs Fenix 7: A Very Detailed Comparison
www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/02/instinct-detailed-comparison.htmlFenix 7: Club Sensors, Headphones, Heart Rate, Speed/Cadence, Foot Pod, Tempe, Lights, Radar, Power, VIRB, Shimano Di2, Shifting (e.g. … And a lot of that data comes from external sensors (more on the heart-rate sensor data below).
TomTom Bandit Action Camera In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2015/04/tomtom-bandit-review.htmlAdditionally, within these menu settings you can enable support for connecting to a Bluetooth Smart heart rate sensor, as well as the TomTom remote control. … Today this is just the Bluetooth Smart heart rate strap – but down the road it might expand.
Apple Releases New Secondary Lower-Power Apple Watch Ultra Workout Mode
www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/10/apple-watch-ultra-lower.htmlMeaning, heart rate and GPS sampling rates remained the same at 1-second update rates (the industry standard). … However, at announcement they also promised a secondary lower-power workout mode “later this Fall” that would reduce the GPS readings to once every 2 minutes, and heart rate readings to once every 1 minute.
