I’ve used Firstbeat’s ATHLETE product for quite a while. It was officially unsupported nearly a year ago. The COACH function of it was great for giving a suggestion for the desired training effect from today’s exercise based on recent performances. It still worked perfectly well enough, even though it was unsupported. However with recent changes to…
Looking at Suunto’s new HEATMAP: Here is where we all do triathlons in the UK. Well those of us who have Suunto watches at any rate. Seems to nicely match a few well-known race locations!
I started off a couple of years ago with the intention to record ‘every heartbeat’ that I do in exercise. Not because I like collecting things but rather to get a more holistic view of the Training Load (TL) of my triathlon efforts. With a better view of my training load I could, for example,…
Edit: This is now fixed. ——————————– Polar Flow is still ‘down’ in the sense that it can’t communicate with other apps…well Strava. Manual export also does not work. Has anyone tried syncmytracks? That always used to work before the new STRAVA link was announced a couple of months ago. Maybe the hack syncmytracks use still works??? Also…
Just to be clear (below). Garmin are saying that there have NOT been any data breaches. That’s because their apps are secure. They’ve never mentioned security to us before. But they’re only mentioning security now because they are improving it. But NOT because there has been a breach. The fact that there has NOT been a…
I’ve re-blogged, below, a description from trainingpeaks.com of the differences between their products (WKO4 and TRAINING PEAKS). I’ve used similar power-related features to those in WKO4 in the free Golden Cheetah. The features are awesome and I’m sure will be awesome in WKO4 as well. The best, for a sometimes-slacker like me, is the mFTP…modelled FTP…a CP30 without having to…
Virtually everyone I know has had an occasional problem with a ‘broken’ fit file or some extra requirement such as the need to split/combine FIT files or even to exclude ‘obviously’ incorrect data. Relatively recent needs are for us to move all our historic data from one platform to another when we switch from one…
If you have a power meter and an upcoming race then read on. If you’re in good form and want to nail a PB on your favourite local course (and have a power meter) then read on. I’ve not looked in detail at bestbikesplit.com but the headlines look impressive. I had a little play last…
Golden Cheetah is a highly detailed (and free) piece of software to analyse your data to the Nth level of detail. Actually, that’s not true. Like all good cycling rules it will analyse it to the N+1th degree – where N is a very large number. ie a lot of analysis (Did I say it…
In the interests of fairness, this time Polar have leaked some info. I’ve not spotted any previous leaks from Polar, unlike the sieve that has been Garmin. Anyway, it’s nothing THAT major (in terms of new products) with ‘only’ some updates to the V800 and M400. Finally you will be able to do away with that footpod and…
It’s rare that a firmware update is intriguing. Welcome; perhaps. Tardy; perhaps. Feature-full; perhaps. But ‘intriguing’, c’mon! Polar’s M450 is ‘preparing for upcoming software releases’ (below). I’m not sure why the firmware couldn’t be released at the same time as the ‘upcoming software releases’. Presumably this upcoming stuff will be on Flow? It could be on…
A week in: Triathlon, Tri Gadgets & Related Tech, is some of the more interesting bits that flash up on my screen during the week. It could be: some interesting article on triathlon training; a new activity tracker; a new swim watch; a race; or a reminder on a new bit of software or firmware…
I came across this software after being unable to automatically get data out of Polar Flow and was recommended it by a friend. It’s useful for that purpose as well as providing an alternative to the well-known tapiriik/fitnesssyncer.com – between them they are likely to cover the sports data sites you use. After you set…
Suunto have announced welcomed functionality to the SMART SENSOR via Android, catching up with what is already there on iOS. Essentially you no longer need an AMBIT to go swimming. You can now initiate a swimming session with the MOVESCOUNT Android app and go off out of range for a swim. When you return to…
I was asked to review the KIQPLAN app “Your first 5k”. KIQPLAN make several apps that all pretty much ‘do what they say on the tin’ with names like ‘Goodbye Baby Bump’, ‘Beer Belly Blaster’ and other such titles. At about GBP20.00 they are considerably cheaper than a personal trainer, cheaper too than a bespoke…
The movescount app for android is now released and working. Well at least it is working in beta. Here is more info: ** Update Your AMBIT’s firmware first otherwise it won’t work. There was a firmware release a couple of weeks back http://www.suunto.com/Support/Products/Suunto-Movescount-Open-BETA-for-Android-May-2015/ http://movescountandroidbeta.com/
Quite a few of you are coming to this site as you are having problems with Suunto’s workout feature. Here are some of their detailed instructions. ——————————————————————– The most obvious use for planned workouts is interval workouts: set a warm-up, intervals with recovery times and a cool-down. But you can be more creative than that…
