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#1: Garmin HRM-PRO for $99 ($30 off): A steal for being a brand new unit that just came out, the HRM-PRO is Garmin's most advanced heart rate strap with tons of extra metrics.

Garmin Bounce LTE Kids Activity Tracker In-Depth Review

- No internal optical heart rate sensor… series activity tracker, which integrates into that app in the same way as those watches have for years.

Week in Review–September 16th, 2012

Behind the Scenes: Spending the day at YouTube

Same goes for learning how to service new bike components I’ve never seen before, or how some element of heart rate research works. … Generally speaking there wasn’t some pop-celebrity teen heartthrob there (ok, maybe one).

Kinetic announces new ‘Smart’ trainer lineup, and subscription service

Core (free): This is the free tier and includes a workout creator, some limited training plans, and power and heart…… See, with inRide it properly calibrates it during each ride as it has enough data to do so.

Wattbike Proton Smart Bike In-Depth Review

It allows you to compare power meters/trainers, heart rate, cadence, speed/pace, GPS tracks, and plenty more. … This hails back from the CompuTrainer days (or at least, that’s the first time I ever saw it), and is often shown by companies to demonstrate that they have higher-speed data coming from the pedals/resistance unit.

The Elusive Wahoo Fitness iPhone ANT+ Bike Case Giveaway

But, more importantly – it includes an ANT+ sensor directly in the device, allowing you to integrate straight with everything from ANT+ Power Meters to ANT+ Cadence/Speed Sensors, and heart rate straps.

Amazon Prime Day’s Sports Tech Deals (US and Europe)

Wahoo TICKR dual ANT+/Bluetooth Smart Heart Rate Strap: This is an unknown deal from a price standpoint, but that it starts at 6:25PM US Eastern Time. … Generally speaking I would expect deals on the GoPro Hero 5 lineup rather than the Hero 6 Black…but at the same time GoPro is also pretty desperate to show some good numbers, and during the earnings call last August they noted how massive Amazon Prime day was for them.

Week in Review–February 10th, 2014

Adidas updates Android App: This includes Bluetooth Smart Heart Rate monitor support.

Cool things I’ve seen so far at the ANT+ Symposium

This means that they’re monitoring things like heart rate and blood glucose levels, wirelessly, 24x7. … In their demonstration system they have super-accurate scientific GPS receiver (accurate within a couple centimeters) that monitors your speed via GPS.

New Garmin Instinct 2 Series Beta Program Update Brings Wrist Running Power, Morning Report

Improved the power data screens by showing heart rate in the dial.

Week in Review–April 6th, 2014

Wednesday: TomTom Cardio Runner & Multisport with Optical Heart Rate In-Depth Review…

IQ2 Power Meter Pedals: First Rides Testing & Data Accuracy

It allows you to compare power meters/trainers, heart rate, cadence, speed/pace, GPS tracks and plenty more. … Given that y’all are incredibly eager to hear whether or not they’ve produced an accurate power meter, I figured I’d do a daily-double today and knock out both an indoor ERG workout and an outdoor varied-terrain workout and then look at the power meter accuracy data.

Tacx Flux Trainer In-Depth Review

It allows you to compare power meters/trainers, heart rate, cadence, speed/pace, GPS tracks and plenty more. … For example, when you make a connection via the Bluetooth Smart app to calibrate the unit, it’ll illuminate the Bluetooth Smart light.

Samsung and Fitbit Announce Next Watches To Be Wear OS

In general, they were pretty light on details, except to say that they’ve been working together to get apps working 30% faster than before, and that with new component subsystems, they boasted about being able to run the optical heart rate sensor 24x7 without huge battery hits.

First Look: Tacx introduces Tacx Neo Smart Bike

And unfortunately, with their iOS app (sans-bike), you can’t see data like heart rate, cadence, resistance and more. … Or more accurately stated – Zwift is betting its investors happiness on these companies stirring up interest in the indoor cycling market that translates to increased Zwift memberships.

My Winter 2015-2016 Bike Trainer Recommendations

Virtually all devices use one or both of these low-power technologies to transmit and capture information such as heart rate, power, speed, cadence, and more. … That does though have the disadvantage of being slightly less accurate for power data if you lean forward on your bike (triathlon bike for example), though it’s spot-on when your weight is shifted back.

A precise interval workout in the forest

Depending on the goal of the intervals you might expect more or less increase in effort (heart rate typically) over the course of the ‘evening’.

Week in Review–Nov 5th, 2017

5) The validity and inter-device variability of the Apple Watch for measuring maximal heart rate: I haven’t looked at the full text to see their exact methodology (requires subscription), but they found good correlation.

Week in Review–May 5th, 2013

Along with a few new things, like Training Plan and heart rate graph support.

The Smart Trainer Annual Recommendations Guide–2018 Edition

Virtually all devices use one or both of these low-power technologies to transmit and capture information such as heart rate, power, speed, cadence, and more. … Finally, the accuracy spec is only +/- 10%, which is the least accurate unit of the entire bunch.

ISPO 2016 Sports Tech Roundup: FINIS Optical HR Swim Tracker, Kuai, Evalu, WatTeam and XMetrics

- In-ear heart rate (HR) sensor made by Valencell…

My Arch Nemesis: Indoor Trainer Workout #2

My heart rate is in Z4 territory, and my legs are pushing fairly high wattage (for me anyway – I know you clydes can push that with your pinky, but little ole me at 166lbs…not so much).

A brief teaser of the Joule with CycleOps, plus their power meter seminar session

The Joule is the head unit that’s ANT+ compatible and capable of connecting to any ANT+ compatible power meter (as well as accessories like heart rate monitors).

A Rio de Janeiro Runaround

The workout started off with a 15-minute build and then jumped into 4 x 7.5 Minutes at a relatively hard heart rate.