Heart Rate Guided Training.

[GilesBathgate]

Hi, I am really excited about this app, I have been using a number of propriety running applications and all have failed to implement requested features.

Anyway, I would really love to see heart rate integration into the app at some point in the future. I see that you have already started work on this. I thought the code from googles MyTracks would be helpful in this area, they currently support the Zephyr, and Polar sensors:

http://goo.gl/uLZfk0

[jonasoreland]

Hi Giles,

I have already added HRM,

• Polar WearLink (stable)
• BLE (Bluetooth Smart) (stable)
• Zephyr (experimental = I written code, but never tested as I don't have any).

I also in v1.22 (latest version) added support for handling of heart rate zone, e.g audio cues based on heart rate zones, and target coaching based on heart rate zones.

I.e i think this issue should be closed

/Jonas

[GilesBathgate]

Not just yet, I have additional idea about heart rate guided workouts. Particularly relating to interval training (HIIT) in interval training you typically run flat out for x seconds, and then walk for x seconds. There are various different timing protocols for doing this. What I would like is heart rate guided HIIT, so you run, to push your heart rate up to a particular BPM, then walk until it goes back down to a lower BPM.

[jonasoreland]

Hi Giles, revisiting issues:

do you have any references to your proposal above. It's not super hard to do, but having a "real" name for it, and description on how it should work would be good.

/Jonas

[GilesBathgate]

I would call this "Heart Rate guided training" (I've updated the bug title) What I had in mind was a UI similar to endomundo:

But rather than being driven by time, it would be driven by a heart-rate tigger. I will spend a bit more time thinking about what the UI might look like.

[GilesBathgate]

It looks like your UI is already designed to allow this, just from the dropdowns in the interval training advanced section I want to add an options to the dropdown instead of "active distance" or "rest distance", the options "active until heart rate", "rest until heart rate"

[Yanick7]

Hi,

This is possible with Garmin connect workouts that you can upload to runnerup. You can use pace, distance, time and heart rate for target and do interval. This is a example of a workout from the 10K level 2 with heart rate training plan.

I have uploaded a garmin workout with heart rate but i don't see the target heart rate in runnerup UI. Is it supported?

[nebmo]

This workout works for me. Maybe the problem is that you set it to "Other"?

[Yanick7]

Thanks for your comment.

I found out that it is the "recovery" and "rest" with target heart rate zone that are not supported by in runnerup. In my last post I did not send the actual workout that I try.(I have send that one for example.)

Other step is detected has active in runner up and that is ok.

Here the test garmin workout that i loader in runnerup.