Thanks, the more I use it, I think there might be something in it – TBH I havnt done an AET or treadmill steady state to benchmark, just working off Garmins ‘FTP’ for me, which is pretty much at my lactate threshold HR anyway, but some more testing wouldn’t go amiss.
Rob Sterling
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Awesome, just purchased it.. hopefully the team here might be able to mention it on a podcast or do a short article in the blog to promote it for you.. after all, you are supporting and promoting their UA training methodology..
ParticipantRob Sterling on April 18, 2022 at 1:24 am · in reply to: Made an app for AeT (Heart Rate Drift) tests #65678Just seen this, awesome – do you have it for TestFlight you could share?
ParticipantWorth listening to the latest episode of this podcast, its 3 hours long, based on a lot of solid evidence, and they answer this question well in the first part – essentially, recommend that fasted runs still need fuel at about 90 minute point.
https://jasonkoop.com/koopcast
im at the 2 hour point, so much info its unreal!
enjoy
Mike
ParticipantRob Sterling on December 27, 2019 at 3:25 pm · in reply to: How to scale Big Vert plan for shorter races #35069Hi Zac, I’m on the same plan, 4 weeks out from a 15 mile, 5,000ft race. I came into the plan halfway through, although was adhering to the UA principals before committing to the plan.
In the latter stages, you are doing 150-180% of the total, I always go for the top end and round it up a bit too, but when you add in the vert, it is still very taxing.
I have been pretty religious to the plan, and in the last 6 weeks my performance is unrecognisable to previous fitness levels, so I can only suggest you stick with it, as ‘easy’ as it may seem from the outset.
I hope that helps, regards from NZ.
Mike
ParticipantRob Sterling on December 17, 2019 at 5:52 pm · in reply to: Best HR monitors w/ wrist display? #34562@crwenbber
Steves suggestion above is valid, and the TickrX has loads of features that wyou wouldn’t imagine that makes it a very capable device, but top see live metrics, you need to have access to your phone screen, which I, like Steve do not find functional, so we are back to watches!
I’ve used various Garmin and Suunto over the years, and I know there are people who will read this and baulk, but I love the Apple Watch, and believe is as good as any for multi-sport activities, and it’s probably not taken as seriously as it should be. Ive been using it for serious training for a few years now, and with a few initial tweaks, it dovetails into my training perfectly, seamlessly and easily, more so than any other watch I’ve used.
For the doubters, I would highly recommend reading TheAppleWatchTriathalete (https://theapplewatchtriathlete.com) where the author has successfully used an Apple Watch in a couple of Ironman events, and used it exclusively for his training for quite a few years now. He has tested many apps and third party additions, and his findings are very balanced. He has even written an article for Training Peaks about its use in IronMan events, so with that pedigree, I think it can manage a bit of hill running!
My set up is simple in that I use the native Apple Activity App, as I think its metrics are great, it has all the features of a ‘specific’ sports watch (rolling pace, av Pace, pace alerts, splits, transition between activities etc), and I find the screen layout is easy to read
I use Training Peaks as my ‘Hub’ although im also on Strava for the ‘coomunity/social’ stuff.
My main ‘catalyst app’ is a great app called Healthfit (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/healthfit/id1202650514) which automagically syncs with the native Health App (which has picked up the workout from the Activity App), and then onward syncs it to Training Peaks and Strava in my case.
Healthfit also syncs with Strava, Runalyze, Smashrun, Map my Run and loads of cycling apps, as well as Dropbox or iCloud for hard data storage, AND it also picks up other health metrics from other apps I use (MyFitnessPal, Waterminder and Sleep++) which all get added into my Training Peaks Account daily without me doing anything.
All this might sound complicated, but when its all set up (took minutes), it all just works, and I just do my training and everything is there on Training Peaks.
Its also nice to activate the calendar feature in TP, and so in the morning I see on my watch face what my workout is for the day, based on my ATP.
I hope this helps
Cheers, Mike
ParticipantRob Sterling on December 16, 2019 at 8:21 pm · in reply to: Best HR monitors w/ wrist display? #34488Hi Crweber, I have the Apple Watch Series 5, and can’t fault the accuracy of the HRM. I have read some reports from people that the Series 5 is not as accurate as the s4, but that was when it first came out, and software updates have probably improved it.
That said, and this is the big ‘but’, it is an optical wrist, so where the max and mins are all good, it definitely is slower at picking up the changes in HR than a chest strap – when I run or walk hills using the watch, I am out of breath but the watch shows me in AeT still… with a chest strap (TickrX linked to Apple watch), it moves into the higher zone first, and then I’m out of breath…. its the ‘flaw’ with Wrist HRM’s, as is widely discussed on this forum
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