June is upon us and the focus on physical fitness in on. With trips planned, family get togethers arranged, and other social events on the calendar, people reach a peak focus on getting themselves fit! We all want to look good and feel good for these occasions. However, while it is important to “look good”,…
Happy May Heart Zones, Inc fans! This month we are looking to share with you more about wearable fitness technology and help you improve your workouts by finding the right formula for you.  With so many different wearable devices out there today, we are excited to help you better understand what is important & what isn’t.…
Interested in learning more about Heart Rate Training? Want to learn some of the basics of how to use heart rate monitors effectively for training and feedback? Check out this Ch.1 excerpt from Sally Edwards’ upcoming book Smart PE – Using Heart Rate Sensors and Activity Trackers for Physical Education! Read more…. Chapter One –…
Using Foot Pods for Training A foot pod is a smart* and wearable device that senses the movement of your foot.The foot pod is a class of âactivity or fitness trackersâ that sends data from an accelerometer to a receiver. The foot pod replaces the pedometer because it provides more powerful data and has the…
Find YOUR Wearable Device The answer to this question – Which Fits You? – is that it depends. Heart rate monitors measure and monitor the quality of your activity. Activity trackers measure and monitor the quantity of your activity. The two are quite different. Heart rate monitors are measuring the load or the stress on…
Top Fitness Trend for 2014 High-intensity interval training (HIIT) was just crowned the top fitness trend for 2014. This is the first time that HIITÂ took the number one spot according to the American College of Sports Medicine survey. Also called burst training, the activity involves short period of high heart rate intensity followed by…
We do better when we do activities together. If you are tired of starting and then quitting a workout program? Ready for a change? There are a lot of different ways to make fitness training a daily habit but I recommend one of the best … camaraderie. That is because we do better whether it…
Tony Gaspar | Marathon Fit Prior to listening to you, Sally Edwards, keynote the California International Marathon Expo event in 2011, I had been working on the concept of becoming what I coin as âMarathon Fitâ — in such running shape that I could run a marathon anytime with no additional training. Â Then during your…
Moving out of the labs and into the streets, wearable technologies have the buzz as they begin to hit gyms and fitness enthusiasts attention. Itâs called disruptive technologies and Google Glass is leading the buzzwaves. Moving from âswipesâ to voice commands or head gestures or simple tap controls – the new head-up displays can capture…
Times have changed. In the old days, circa 1984 when I bought the first commercially available device, all heart rate watches would communicate with each other. Those days are gone. Thatâs because the transmission, how the transmitter (chest belt) and receiver (watch) connect or communicate has changed. Today, to be an aficionado of mobile training…