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Diving with the Apple Watch Ultra & Oceanic+ App: Everything You Need to Know

Meaning, the Apple Watch Ultra is recording and putting this data in Apple Health in the same manner as heart rate readings. … That makes some sense, as the bottom was actually a grate, and then below that about another meter or so was the real bottom, I suppose the actual 33m in depth that Nemo33 has its namesake from.

Garmin iPhone ANT+ Adapter and Garmin Fit app Review

This in turn allows you to use the Garmin Fit iPhone application, which can track your fitness activities with ANT+ data like heart rate or speed/cadence. … Additionally, in here you can configure ANT+ sensors – including a heart rate sensor, bike sensor (Speed/Cadence) and running footpod.

Hands-on: Wattbike introduces new Atom stationary bike (with ANT+/BLE and more!)

Heart Rate Data: Compatibility and pass-through of ANT+, Bluetooth Smart, and Polar analog straps. … Last but not least is the interesting re-transmission of both Polar legacy analog heart rate transmission as well as ANT+ HR transmission over to Bluetooth Smart.

5 Random Things I Did This Weekend

Tuesday Training, Trainers, and Trimming

Meaning, by doing some (and not a ton) of training work, I can ensure that should I need to, I can easily spin much higher without taking a huge hit on my heart rate. … I was actually pacing on a heart rate, but the pace ended up in the slightly sub-6 range.

5 Random Things I Did This Past Weekend

Friday I unboxed SmartBEAM helmet, which is essentially a Lazer helmet that’s been fitted on the inside with a sensor pad that reads your heart rate. … It was scheduled as a 2hr 10min run in a Z2 heart rate zone (relatively easy, typical long run pace).

Hands-On With Wahoo’s New SYSTM Training Platform

One episode I listened to focused on how to ‘train with purpose’, and in particular understanding how to balance the trio of power in cycling (or pace in running), heart rate, and perceived effort in terms of determining if the workout is going as intended. … And the differences that different people could have especially around heart rate and perceived effort.

Bryton Rider S500 Bike GPS First Ride Thoughts

For the ride, I loaded up a route I created on Strava to overlay on the included maps, and then also paired up both a power meter as well as a heart rate strap. … It showed my heart rate too, at least until my heart rate strap’s battery died.

Wahoo KICKR CORE Smart Trainer Price In Half: Incredible Deal at $449

Since the trainer is counted as one connection (including power/cadence/controllable), and your heart rate is another connection – this broadcasting/bridging option was primarily useful to Apple TV users that wanted the Elite Sterzo Smart (or other steering block). … It allowed the heart rate to be funneled in with the rest of the trainer data under a single connection.

Garmin’s New $249 Edge Explore Full Mapping & Navigation Bike GPS: Everything you ever wanted to know

These pages can be customized with up to 10 data fields per page, and all the variants you’d expect (like lap distance, total ascent, heart rate % max, max speed, etc…). … - ANT+/Bluetooth Smart Heart Rate

CES 2012 Health and Fitness Gadget Roundup: Part I

The photo below (SF600) is actually of the non-BLE version (classic Bluetooth), without the heart rate sensor. … We did briefly talk about their upcoming Polar H7 Bluetooth Low Energy Heart Rate strap – and their plans to ultimately offer Bluetooth Low Energy that as the standard platform across the board for all Polar accessories (including eventually the power meter as well), replacing their W.I.N.D platform.

Week in Review: June 9th, 2014

Every January when I go to CES I often have a photo or two of different heart rate strap suppliers that have a variety of colors of straps. … You can now rock the vibrant pink strap or the blue H7 heart rate straps (select color dropdown), which transmit Bluetooth Smart as well as treadmill friendly analog signals.

Suunto 9 Series Gets New Sleep & Fitness Metrics from FirstBeat

This sleep quality level is based on heart rate variability primarily, which is leveraging the optical HR sensor on the back of the unit. … And, like everyone else, it’s been a super-slow roll to get these Sony GPS chipsets producing accurate tracks.

A look at Suunto’s new Ambit2 R GPS

Or, telling you to exert less effort (heart rate based). … And an orthostatic test app they’re releasing will allow you gauge your recovery state using heart rate variability.

Timex Global Trainer gets Mythbusters, footpod & lots of other data fields

Additional data fields are available:  For each lap, live data for Average Cadence, Average Pace, Average Heart Rate, Average Speed, and Average Power can be viewed. … Multisport Mode  The Lap/Split pop-up display has been increased in size and covers the entire screen:  Lap and Split times appear for five seconds, and  For the next five seconds, the displayed lap summary is based on what data was being viewed when the lap/split was recorded Additional data fields are available:  For each lap, live data for Average Cadence, Average Pace, Average Heart Rate, Average Speed, and Average Power can be viewed.

Garmin Fenix 7 vs Epix: A Very Detailed Comparison

They all have music, the same optical heart rate sensor, the same GPS chipset manufacturer, the same contactless payment support, the same WiFi/Bluetooth/ANT+, and all the same sport profiles and related features. … For this first one, a 7hr 15min ride, I’ve got always-on display enabled, multi-band satellites enabled, optical heart rate enabled, course/route following/navigation loaded and enabled, ClimbPro enabled, an ANT+ power meter connected, Bluetooth connectivity to my phone enabled with LiveTrack enabled.

Friday Training and Travelling Tidbits

From there I repeat four interval sets at what is roughly 10K race pace (though, defined by heart rate). … For example, looking at at this week, I was hovering just over 6:00/mile for each loop, here’s the splits: Z2 Build: 7:00/mile Z4A Build: 6:34/mile Interval #1: 6:06/mile Interval #2: 6:11/mile Interval #3: 6:13/mile Interval #4: 6:20/mile Since I’m ‘capped’ by heart rate you see my paces slide as my body becomes more tired.

Garmin (Finally) Releases Vector 3 Bluetooth Smart Firmware

older cadence, speed, heart rate straps, etc…), don’t have the dual ANT+/Bluetooth Smart chipsets required. … Similarly, Garmin’s latest generation HRM-RUN/HRM-TRI heart rate straps are actually pretty comfortable, but I’d be hard-pressed to recommend them unless you really needed the HRM-TRI swim offloading capabilities – because you can’t easily use it with Bluetooth Smart apps.

Hands-on: Fitbit’s new Flex 2 and Charge 2 Activity Trackers, plus Blaze & Alta updates

The unit will guide you through two and five minute sessions that displays real-time HR fluctuations and breathing (essentially heart rate variability) via an animated wave icon, and then gives you vibration cues alongside animations to calm you down. … These sessions are based on your current rate of breathing, rather than being canned.

Thursday Tech Tidbit: Garmin Rolls Out Sleep Cycle Details, including REM Sleep

2nd Stage: Deep Sleep: Your eye and muscle movements stop completely, and your heart rate and breathing slow down. … Garmin says they’re starting to leverage heart rate variability data from the optical HR sensor to assist in this data, alongside the existing accelerometer data they’d been using to date.

Mont Saint-Michel Marathon 2014 Race Report

Within about 2-3 minutes I was back at the exact same heart rate levels and still at the same pace as before. … For reasons somewhat unclear to me in the span of about 100m I went from feeling just fine to watching my heart rate plummet, and then my pace along with it.

Reminder: Garmin GPS Rebate through end of November

Stuff like cadence, heart rate, elevation, pace, etc... … If you're looking for an excuse to spend some money and pick up another tri-gadget - here it is! I heart my Garmin Forerunner GPS.

COROS Firmware Update Adds Running Form Test & Wellness Metrics

This feature is a manually initiated spot-check that records your heart rate, HRV value, stress, breathing rate, and SpO2 values. … However, the biggest downside in the COROS case is simply that you have to do this as a separate ‘test’, rather than it just doing this for every run.

How to guides

Is your heart rate strap showing whacky heart rates? Are you seeing heart rates that are showing 200bpm+ when you’re standing still? No worries, I’m here to help.

Running On Peloton’s New Tread Connected Treadmill

And inside the internals somewhere is the ability for it to connect to your ANT+ & Bluetooth Smart heart rate sensors, allowing you to get your HR up on the screen. … Along the bottom those stats include: Incline, Pace (Speed), Heart Rate, Time, Calories, Distance, Total Elevation, Kilojoules, and Watts.