What! A heart rate of 280bpm, that can’t be right can it? Oh hang on a minute now there’s no reading at all. Most of you have been there with Garmin HR straps. It’s annoying when the readings are wrong especially if you train by heart rate. Luckily you’ve just bought an expensive, optical HR…
Another day, another test on the new Polar M600. Despite a relatively nice day outside I settled down to watch the newish ‘Independence Day: Resurgence’ movie…on the bike, in the shed. It was either that or the ‘Unbearable Lightness of Being’ but I thought I just might understand the former and could pedal a bit…
I was a bit tired today but still managed 8×1 minute @’quite fast’. The Polar M600 managed to keep up quite nicely. This time I was comparing to a HRM-TRI as the STRYD+Garmin Strap I had been using seemed to be throwing out a few spikes early in previous runs. The little blue M600 peak anomaly…
Polar’s M600 is one of the few wrist-based oHR devices that will ‘properly’ support HR when swimming. By that I mean that there is a swimming mode AND the optical HR works in that mode. Other watches, such as the Garmin 235 (optical HR), have optical HR DISabled in swim mode. Of course it’s possible…
This is the test that is the lull before the storm for the M600. A nice easy run. I also ran with a 920XT and a STRYD HRM. So really the test is the M600’s oHR vs. the STRYD’s pod. I’m only using the STRYD as I’ve been playing with STRYD quite a bit recently…
Suunto have registered their optical HR version of the SPARTAN at the FCC. Is the bump back? It is called the SUUNTO SPARTAN TRAINER Thank you TF for this link: https://fccid.io/document.php?id=3178841. And thank you for the comments below (some of you are more observant than me, changes made). Whilst the SPORT and ULTRA share the same…
A bizarrely scientific, yet incomplete, study by the Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic published through the American Medical Association purports to show that the Apple Watch has the best accuracy of wrist-based optical HR. Or at least that is how it is being headlined by various tech publications on the internet. This is the first page:…
