Garmin Epix Pro In-Depth Review: Now In Three Sizes!
www.dcrainmaker.com/2023/05/garmin-epix-pro-in-depth-review-now-in-three-sizes.htmlOn Garmin devices this monitors your HRV values for the entire night constantly, and then simply averages them. … All three editions now gain a flashlight feature on the front of the watch, a new optical heart rate sensor package, new Hill Score and Endurance Score stats, and a number of other changes including even better battery life, and multiband-GNSS now being standard.
CES 2013: A look at what’s coming to me next week
www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/01/ces-2013-a-look-at-whats-coming-to-me-next-week.htmlIt optically monitors heart rate, as well as skin temperature, perspiration, sleep, and activity (motion). … The Basis is a bit different than your average heart rate monitor in that it’s really targeted more towards holistic health monitoring than athletic heart rate monitoring.
Polar Loop In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/12/polar-depth-review.htmlBut does it provide that perfect nirvana of the two types of monitors? Over the past few months, I set out to find out. … The Polar Loop is the very first daily activity tracker on the market that not only counts steps, but also connects to a separate heart rate strap – providing you with heart-rate based calorie information for activities.
Fitbit Charge and Charge HR In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2015/02/fitbit-charge-review.htmlThis feature monitors and records your heart rate continuously, allowing you to see the impact of various activities throughout the day. … For this post though, we’ll be looking at the Charge variants, both with and without the heart rate option.
The Pinnacle of Fitness Failure: Samsung’s Gear Fit Activity Tracker
www.dcrainmaker.com/2014/04/pinnacle-samsungs-activity.htmlThis is the company's first direct attempt at competing with activity monitors from the likes of traditional players like Nike and FitBit, as well as newer entrants such as Garmin and Polar. … I don’t much care about the pure phone aspects of the S5, but rather things like the optical heart rate sensor on it, as well as the Gear 2 and Gear Fit.
Fitbit Ionic GPS Smartwatch In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2017/09/fitbit-ionic-smartwatch-in-depth-review.htmlAt this point you’ve got the date/time, as well as progress towards your goals for steps and calories, and an icon for your current heart rate. … This includes steps, distance, calories, floors (stairs), active minutes, all alongside your resting heart rate.
Garmin Vivosmart 3 Activity Tracker In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2017/04/garmin-vivosmart-3-activity-tracker-in-depth-review.htmlThen they layered in a bunch of new heart rate variability metrics to measure stress and VO2Max. … And you’ve got an optical heart rate (HR) sensor in there that works during both workouts and 24x7 monitoring.
Fitbit Inspire HR Activity Tracker In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2019/03/fitbit-inspire-hr-review-in-depth.htmlIt monitors at 1-second intervals, and the data is consolidated up to Fitbit where it graphs it at a bit less frequency, but more than enough to see what’s going on. … Next, what do you get if you spend $30 more and go for the $99 Inspire? Well, aside from the optical heart rate sensor added to the back, there’s actually a number of other features that come with it.
Withings Pulse In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/11/withings-depth-review.htmlFlipping it over you can see the pulse sensor, which you place up against your finger to get a resting heart rate reading. … Whereas some of the more advanced (which, may be a stretch of that term) upper-arm based units measure sweat and/or heart rate in the drive to get more detailed information about calorie burn.
Garmin Instinct Crossover Series In-Depth Review: It’s Got Hands!
www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/11/garmin-instinct-crossover-in-depth-review.htmlIn non-workout scenarios it uses less power, but still monitors and records data every second. … On the heart rate zone page? The hands become a dial on the gauge.
Apple Watch Series 9 In-Depth Review: A Sports Focus
www.dcrainmaker.com/2023/09/apple-watch-series-9-in-depth-review-a-sports-focus.htmlThat metric monitors your wrist temperature, or more specifically, your skin temperature. … Will estimate cycling power FTP: When using a power meter sensor and heart rate from the watch.
Spending time with the team behind the Basis watch
www.dcrainmaker.com/2011/11/walking-down-street-where-blue-dot-on.htmlFive core sensor types are contained within the watch: Optical Blood Flow Sensor: This sensor detects heart rate, through pulse or blood flow, and constantly monitors heart rate. … In one way, it’s part heart rate monitor, part sleep tracker, and part a slew of other things that aren’t in the market today.
Behind the Scenes at Polar’s Headquarters
www.dcrainmaker.com/2014/09/behind-scenes-polar.htmlThis is the segment that makes products like GPS watches and multicolored heart rate monitors and straps. … Activity monitors fit into this category as well, such as the Polar Loop.
Apple Watch Series 3: Sport & Fitness In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2017/11/apple-watch-series3-cellular-fitness-sport-review.htmlWhen it comes to daily activity tracking, the unit monitors steps and heart rate, as well as your standing time. … In theory, it’s got the same heart rate sensor, as well as the same GPS capabilities.
Garmin Forerunner 15 GPS Watch & Daily Activity Monitor In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2014/06/garmin-forerunner-15-depth-review.htmlBut essentially everything boils down to one thing: With or without the heart rate strap. … So, for the purposes of this unboxing the unit has the heart rate strap.
Suunto Race In-Depth Review: The Best Suunto Yet?
www.dcrainmaker.com/2023/11/suunto-race-amoled-in-depth-review.htmlThis is Suunto’s first watch to start tracking that, and it monitors your HRV values throughout your sleep, and shows you the average. … Take for example wanting to open up your training stress balance (TSB) or heart rate variability (HRV) pages.
My Summer 2014 Sports Gadget Recommendations
www.dcrainmaker.com/2014/06/summer-sports-recommendations.htmlMore importantly though, you can mix and match just about everything I've talked about above, with in-depth comparison tables over at the product comparison calculator, which today supports: Action Cameras, Heart Rate Straps, Watches/Bike Computers, Power Meters, Activity Monitors, and Trainers. … If you’re looking to spend about $200-$260 on a running watch, ask yourself one question: Do you want optical heart rate (so you don’t have to wear a strap).
The Basis Peak In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2014/12/basis-depth-review.htmlWhereas with the Basis Peak all you need to do (at any time) is simply open up an app on your phone (or other device) that can connect to Bluetooth Smart heart rate monitors using the standard profile. … The Basis watch has always been a bit unique in the market in that it has an optical HR sensor on the backside of the watch that monitors and records a slew of body metrics 24x7.
Garmin Vivosport In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2017/09/garmin-vivosport-review.htmlFor example, here’s the heart rate (HR) widget, which shows your current HR and 7 days resting HR below it. … This means the optical HR sensor is measuring your heart rate at 1 second intervals and recording as such.
Strava App Sensor Pairing Is Now Dead: My Last Workout Taking Out The Trash
www.dcrainmaker.com/2019/10/strava-app-sensor-support-is-now-dead-my-last-workout-taking-out-the-trash.htmlWe recently discovered that pairing Bluetooth heart rate monitors and power meters directly with the app is causing Strava to crash for millions of athletes — most of whom don’t even use these kinds of sensors. … “We recently discovered that pairing Bluetooth heart rate monitors and power meters directly with the app is causing Strava to…
Polar Vantage M Multisport GPS Watch In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2019/02/polar-vantage-m-multisport-review.htmlEven if Polar were to add offline sync for chest HR monitors for swimming workouts (as their competition does), that’d still just be matching what Polar’s own watches have had previously. … Once you’ve stopped iterating through the sports, it’ll start searching for your heart rate, and GPS signals.
Polar M430 In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2017/06/polar-m430-in-depth-review.htmlNote, the M430 does NOT track your heart rate 24x7. … Meaning, it does NOT have continual heart rate tracking like the Polar A370, or any of Fitbit’s optical HR sensor enabled watches.
Apple Watch Series 2 and Nike+ Edition: Sport & Fitness In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2017/02/apple-watch-series2-nike-edition-review.htmlOne that I’ve tried previously, and again here, is the 3rd party app called ‘HeartWatch’. … I’ll then separate out the multiple layers of the box, which allows you to find the charging cable and manuals.
My 2013 Sports Gadgets Recommendations
www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/11/sports-gadgets-recommendations.htmlMore importantly though, you can mix and match just about everything I've talked about above, with in-depth comparison tables over at the product comparison calculator, which today supports: Action Cameras, Watches/Bike Computers, Power Meters, Activity Monitors, and Trainers. … It’s got all the basics (how far, how fast, etc…), but lacks connectivity to heart rate straps or a treadmill mode.
Garmin Vivoactive 3 In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2017/10/garmin-vivoactive-3-in-depth-review.htmlBut you can tap that and look at aspects like resting heart rate (RHR). … The heart rate sensor on the Vivoactive 3 follows that of the Fenix 5 and other 2017 watches, which records your heart rate at 1-second intervals constantly.
