Hands-on: Polar’s new Android Wear based M600 GPS Sport Watch (with music!)
www.dcrainmaker.com/2016/08/hands-polars-android.htmlSo heart rate is only recorded on a per-activity basis, and not 24x7 like with numerous other competitors. … Polar has benchmarked it at 6 hours for GPS enabled + Music via Bluetooth + optical heart rate enabled.
Cycling Trainer App Guide In-Depth: 2020 Edition
www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/03/cycling-indoor-trainer.htmlYou can pair a power meter or a heart rate strap here, but not other sensor types like a smart trainer or cadence sensor, which is honestly a bit weird since they already have that code based in the other app. … When it comes to sensors, the app supports everything out there that you’re likely to use, from power meters to smart trainers, and heart rate straps too.
Wahoo ELEMNT ROAM V2 (2022) Bike Computer In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/10/elemnt-computer-review.htmlHowever, you can customize these in the app to show your speed, power, or heart rate zones, which are also customizable in the Wahoo ELEMNT app. … In my testing with the ROAM V2 I’ve tested heart rate sensors, power meters, Shimano Di2, and smart trainers.
Stages Dash L50 & M50 GPS Bike Computer In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/03/stages-computer-review.htmlFor heart rate straps, some newer straps from Polar and Garmin support dual-BLE connections, but most don’t. … Also, for lack of anywhere else to put it, I did test/look at where there were any recording differences between a Stages Dash unit and a Garmin or Wahoo one, with respect to power meters or heart rate sensors specifically.
Hands-on: Garmin Vivosmart 4, now with Pulse Ox and Body Battery
www.dcrainmaker.com/2018/08/garmin-vivosmart-battery.htmlFor example, the Vivosmart 3 got Abnormal Heart Rate Alerts this past summer, and the Vivosmart 4 carries those too. … I’ve long talked about the lack of an overarching metric that takes into account things like resting heart rate trends, and sleep, and activity and gives you truly actionable instructions.
Suunto Spartan Ultra In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2016/10/suunto-spartan-ultra-review.htmlFor example, it can only remember one heart rate strap at a time, and while some have said it remembers multiple bike sensors, it doesn’t display that. … It can pair to Bluetooth Smart Speed sensors, Cadence sensors, Power Meters, and Heart Rate sensors.
Polar A360 In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2015/12/polar-a360-depth-review.htmlThis would be their first entrant into the optical HR sensor world, a key milestone for a company that’s effectively built its entire reputation and company on measuring heart rate accurately. … The A360 is basically an activity tracker that’s been combined with a basic heart rate monitor.
Wahoo introduces gym strength workout recognition to TICKR X, announces TICKR X API
www.dcrainmaker.com/2014/12/introduces-recognition-announces.htmlWahoo Fitness has announced their first major addition to the TICKR X heart rate strap, which brings with it a gym workout functionality mode that automatically recognizes a slew of different strength workout routines. … This app begins by having you pair to your TICKR X heart rate strap.
Zwift Hub $499 Smart Trainer Hands-On: A Competition Killer?
www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/09/trainer-competition-killer.htmlZwift has made the firmware their own, so it shows up properly as the Zwift Hub using standard protocols, and integrates with the Zwift Companion App for firmware updates and heart rate sensor pairing. … Further, if you have Apple TV, you can use the heart rate sensor pass-through option.
Garmin Tactix In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/10/garmin-tactix-review.htmlThe Tactix connects to any ANT+ heart rate strap, and will display your HR (in either BPM or %Max), and then record that data. … As well as produce graphs for temperature, speed, elevation, heart rate, and cadence.
Polar Releases Major New Features to Vantage M & V Series
www.dcrainmaker.com/2019/10/releases-features-vantage.htmlThis allows you to specify a heart rate target zone, but also a power or speed zone. … On the bright side, heart rate worked.
Garmin’s new Vivoactive HR & Vivofit 3: Hands-on & First Run
www.dcrainmaker.com/2016/02/garmins-vivoactivehr-vivofit3.htmlYou can easily pair an ANT+ heart rate strap to the unit, or any other ANT+ sensor. … At present it supports the ANT+ Heart Rate straps, ANT+ Cycling Speed/Cadence sensors, ANT+ Running Footpod, and the ANT+ Tempe temperature sensor.
Hammerhead Karoo 2 In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/12/hammerhead-karoo-review.htmlSo if you do structured workouts for example, you can’t customize it to show your heart rate on that data page. … Training Zones: You can specify both heart rate and power zones, as well as auto-calculate them based on FTP and resting/Max HR.
Garmin Edge 800 In Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2010/08/garmin-edge-800-in-depth-first-look.htmlThe Edge 800 will record the GPS information just fine, along with heart rate. … The Edge 800 supports the ability to train indoors on a trainer, assuming you use the Speed/Cadence sensor and/or Heart Rate Strap.
Administrivia: Deal on Garmin FR110, update to Clever Training coupon code, and consolidated support page
www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/04/administrivia-training-consolidated.htmlClever Training has put together a 6-day only deal with the Forerunner 110 with the heart rate strap, for $149, until Sunday –with free US shipping. … So who do I recommend the FR110 to? Well primarily folks looking for heart rate training that don’t plan to use a footpod.
Strava Upload Insights: Ironman World Championships 2017
www.dcrainmaker.com/2017/10/insights-ironman-championships.htmlNext, let’s take a look at the average paces, heart rates, power numbers, and even speeds of athletes. … I thought it was interesting how very close the men's and women's average heart rates were for the run, that’s kinda cool – despite being 26 seconds/kilometer difference in pace.
Garmin VIRB 360 5.7K Action Cam In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2017/05/garmin-action-review.htmlThe camera can connect to a boatload of sensors (literally, it can actually connect to a boat), enabling you to do data overlays with heart rate, power, speed, cadence, automotive, marine and many more. … heart rate spikes, jumps, etc…).
Were the NYC Triathlon swim deaths preventable? A look at our sport.
www.dcrainmaker.com/2011/08/detailed-look-at-nyc-triathlon-swim.htmlAs your body comes in contact with the colder water (especially your face), your heart rate will dramatically spike and take about 60-90 seconds to recover (if just sitting still, let alone swimming). … By increasing an athletes ability to stay within their comfort zone, you dramatically reduce cases where an athlete can get into an uncontrollable panicked state, which in turn reduces the likelihood of either triggering a heart attack or cardiac arrest.
Strava Adds Indoor Workout Recording to App (For all users): Quick How-To Guide
www.dcrainmaker.com/2021/02/strava-workout-recording.htmlWith this change, you’ll also be able to record your heart rate data with a paired Bluetooth Smart heart rate sensor for those indoor workouts as well. … From there, you can tap the heart icon to pair up a heart rate sensor via Bluetooth Smart.
Garmin Edge 1030 Plus In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/06/garmin-edge-1030-depth-review.htmlThis page shows your current position, updated every 30 seconds, and then additional metrics on the side – including Speed, Elevation, Heart Rate, Power, and Cadence (if you have those sensors). … However, in order for it to work it needs both heart rate and power meter data.
Tech Tidbits: New Zwift Features, New Strava CEO, Apple Watch Siri Health Integration
www.dcrainmaker.com/2023/12/tidbits-features-integration.htmlHowever, in particular, I want to zero in on one thing: Apple Watch heart rate support returns. … This feature allowed you to use the optical heart rate sensor in your Apple Watch as a heart rate sensor for Zwift.
Roundup from CES Day 1: Unveiled Event
www.dcrainmaker.com/2017/01/roundup-unveiled-event.htmlRay will come back to the Steel HR soon with a closer look at how Withings is blending a classic timepiece with optical heart rate (and some pretty crazy battery life durations). … The shirt provides a wide range of data including heart rate, speed, and acceleration.
A Stockholm (Sweden) Runaround
www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/01/a-stockholm-sweden-runaround.htmlThis is when I would switch from being a heart rate driven run to a paced run. … For the first portion of the run I was holding a Z2 heart rate (roughly between 146 and 157BPM).
Wahoo Fitness Blue SC Bluetooth Smart Speed/Cadence Sensor In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2012/06/wahoo-fitness-blue-sc-bluetooth-smart.htmlFollowing the Wahoo Blue HR naming scheme for their Bluetooth Heart Rate strap, they’ve named this the Wahoo Blue SC. … You’ll notice how you don’t have to have the ANT+ key (though the option remains available), but now the Heart Rate and Speed & Cadence sensors are available to pair.
Peloton’s New Bike+ (Plus): Everything you ever wanted to know
www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/09/peloton-details-features.htmlSupposedly once paired, the watch will transmit the heart rate measured optically to the Peloton bike, and stay in sync. … And where this gets messy is half-hearted attempts to add in resistance levels on some classes.
