Suunto 7 with Wear OS–Maps, Music, Payments: Everything you ever wanted to know
www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/01/suunto-payments-everything.htmlBack in the sport settings, you’ll see the heart rate sensor status as well as GPS lock. … These include a lap page, a map page, heart rate/distance/pace-speed/time, and heart rate zones.
Garmin Vivosmart HR In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2016/01/garmin-vivosmarthr-review.htmlThe metrics you can select per data page are: Time, Distance, Calories, Heart Rate (bpm), and Heart Rate Zone. … Re-broadcasting is when your Vivosmart HR acts like a heart rate strap.
Garmin Vivoactive 3 Music: Everything you ever wanted to know
www.dcrainmaker.com/2018/06/garmin-vivoactive-everything.htmlThat piece includes identification of sleep stages by leveraging heart rate variability (HRV) data from the optical HR sensor. … That includes the ability to transfer music like MP3 files and podcasts, as well as cache streaming services including iHeartRadio and Deezer.
Garmin Instinct Solar Review: What’s New & Different
www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/07/garmin-instinct-different.htmlIt allows you to compare power meters/trainers, heart rate, cadence, speed/pace, GPS tracks and plenty more. … Next up we’ve got heart rate accuracy, as the Instinct Solar includes the newer optical HR sensor found in Garmin’s Fenix 6 series, Forerunner 245/945, and other watches.
CES Roundup Part 2: Garmin, ANT+, 4iiii, BKOOL, Withings, O-Synce, Outside Interactive, LG, Pebble, Casio, Opryx, Glucovation
www.dcrainmaker.com/2014/01/roundup-withings-interactive.htmlToday, the market is highly fragmented (though, getting better), but this will make it just as easy to connect a given app to a trainer, as it is today to connect a device to a heart rate strap. … In addition, they can connect to ANT+ heart rate straps too, which you can see above in the user interface screen.
Wahoo ELEMNT MINI In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2017/08/wahoo-elemnt-review.htmlBoth modes though allow the pairing of sensors (for which I need an entire section below to attempt to explain), including heart rate, speed, and cadence. … Further, you’re going to get full sensor data recorded as well (including heart rate, speed, and cadence).
How I configure my watches (and bike computers)
www.dcrainmaker.com/2016/03/configure-watches-datafields.htmlWhen it comes to running my workouts fall into one of two camps: Driven by heart rate (HR), or driven by pace. … Page 1 (Lap Focused): Lap Time, Lap Distance, Lap Pace, Heart Rate (current)
Polar Announces A300 Activity Tracker Watch, also MyFitnessPal automatic sync support
www.dcrainmaker.com/2015/01/announces-myfitnesspal-automatic.htmlOn the workout side of things, the unit is heavily focused on heart rate based workouts. … As noted above it connects to Bluetooth Smart capable heart rate straps, like Polar’s H7 and H6 straps, to display your heart rate within activities.
Polar Announces Deep Platform Integration With New Sennheiser Earbuds
www.dcrainmaker.com/2024/01/announces-integration-sennheiser.htmlSennheiser is announcing their new MOMENTUM Sport earbuds, which are Bluetooth audio earbuds that both play music (or any other audio thing), as well as have heart rate tracking and body temperature sensors internally. … The most notable thing in the list from a sports tech standpoint is that it broadcasts over the standard Bluetooth Smart heart rate device profile, so identical to that of a chest strap.
Garmin Edge 840 Cycling GPS In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2023/04/garmin-edge840-cycling.htmlI haven’t had any problems with any sensors during my usage, which has included multiple power meters (Stages LR, Garmin Rally, Garmin Vector 3), multiple heart rate sensors (Polar H10, Garmin HRM-PRO Plus), a few trainers/smart bikes (Wahoo KICKR Bike and Wahoo KIKR V6), and two different radar units (Garmin RVR-315 & Magene L508). … Also, she’ll see how much suffering I’m doing with sensor data like heart rate/cadence/power.
Apple’s New WatchOS 11: Training Load, Turn-by-Turn Trail Routes, and More!
www.dcrainmaker.com/2024/06/apples-new-watchos-11-trainining-load-turn-by-turn-trail-routes-and-more.htmlThis is based on heart rate, pace, elevation, age, height and weight. … This is quite different than the rest of the industry, where training load is heavily influenced by time in heart rate zones (typically), along with duration.
Bryton Cardio 60 GPS Multisport Watch In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/08/cardio-multisport-review.htmlWe’ve got the unit itself, a heart rate strap, a bike mount, a USB charging/download cable, and then the biggest ANT+ speed/cadence sensor known to mankind. … Then we’ve got the ANT+ heart rate strap.
Running dynamics finally gets its own standard
www.dcrainmaker.com/2017/04/running-dynamics-standard.htmlExamples of specific ANT+ standards would be the ‘Heart Rate Device Profile’ or ‘Power Meter Device Profile’, and so on. … Whereas the HR-RD profile (Heart Rate-Running Dynamics) would be used for products like Garmin’s HRM-TRI/HRM-RUN heart rate straps that combines heart rate data with running dynamics data (and the same with Stryd’s Gen1 HR strap product).
Garmin Forerunner 630 In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2015/12/garmin-forerunner-630-depth-review.htmlThere are a few different variants you can buy, depending on the color you want, and whether or not you want the heart rate strap (HRM-RUNv2). … These thresholds and alerts can be for pace, heart rate, time, cadence, distance, calories, or walk/run.
Tacx Genius Trainer In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/02/genius-trainer-review.htmlNext, pairing the heart rate. … Of all things, the ANT+ heart rate sensor is the most common and basic element of the entire ANT+ world.
Full details on Garmin’s new FR15 combined GPS watch + activity monitor
www.dcrainmaker.com/2014/05/garmin-fr15-firstlook.htmlNo heart rate support or anything fancy. … Probably the single biggest blocker for most people I heard that were looking at the FR10 was the lack of heart rate support.
Wahoo Fitness KICKR Trainer In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/03/fitness-trainer-review.htmlIt’s here we can pair any number of devices – from the KICKR to heart rate straps, to speed and cadence sensors. … Note that the application supports user profile settings such as setting up heart rate zones, power zones, weight, and audio cues as well.
First look at Garmin’s new Vivosmart activity tracker
www.dcrainmaker.com/2014/09/vivosmart-activity-tracker.htmlWhile the existing Vivofit can connect to any ANT+ heart rate strap, the new Vivosmart can also connect to ANT+ cycling speed sensors. … Previously if you went cycling with the product you just had a heart rate file.
A look at BSX Insight, a bloodless lactate threshold testing device
www.dcrainmaker.com/2014/09/bloodless-lactate-threshold.htmlThey have an optical sensor on the back of them, just like an optical heart rate sensor you’ll find these days. … In addition to heart rate data, their system also records pace.
The Apple Watch: Sport and Fitness In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2016/02/apple-watch-review.htmlFrom there, the optical sensors (photodiodes) then pickup that light and measure the blood flow, and thus your heart rate. … However, some 3rd party apps have stepped in to bridge that gap, one being HeartWatch.
COROS Pace 2 Hands-On: A $199 Multisport watch with Running Power
www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/08/coros-multisport-running.htmlSo go ahead and choose to start a run and wait for satellite and heart rate lock. … In this section I’ll take a look at both the heart rate and GPS accuracy compared to other units on the same workout.
Peloton Bike In-Depth Long Term Review: Three Years Later
www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/11/peloton-depth-review.htmlThis is where you can pair (or validate) your Bluetooth audio connection (such as to headphones), as well as your heart rate connection. … On the heart rate strap side of things, it’ll connect to both ANT+ & Bluetooth heart rate sensors.
Garmin Forerunner 405 in depth review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2008/10/garmin-forerunner-405-in-depth-review.htmlIn addition, if you ordered a version with the heart rate monitor you also get the heart rate monitor strap (see photo down below in the accessories section). … The heart rate monitor strap measures your heart rate (beats per minute).
CycleOps Joule GPS In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2012/11/cycleops-joule-gps-in-depth-review.htmldifferent wheel sets), or simply have different heart rate straps. … Next, you’ll want to set your power and heart rate zones.
Polar Grit X2 Pro Hands-On: Here’s Everything New!
www.dcrainmaker.com/2024/03/polar-grit-x2-pro-details-hands-everything.htmlThe Grit X2 Pro adds those global offline maps, adds dual-frequency GPS, an improved heart rate sensor, and of course - an AMOLED display. … Now Polar made a note of pointing out that they’ve added 20,000 lines of code to the heart rate algorithms since the Polar Vantage V3, in order to improve accuracy (which wasn’t great).
