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Just purchased the Frontier X as I have family history of heart disease and as my brother who was an avid cyclist not struggling with 70 to 100 miles in one go, suffered a heart attack while cycling and died. So being there is a history and I cycle as well I want to know what is the best settings to use or is it best to use a combination of.
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Hi Chris,
Welcome to the community! The Frontier X allows you to set lower and upper limits on a combination of Heart Rate, Breathing Rate, Cardiac Strain to tailor your workouts to achieve personal training goals and better heart health. For a focus on safety, it’s best to use upper limit alerts on Cardiac Strain at 0.18mV and Heart rate at 80%…Read More
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Diane M Wilden posted in the group Smart Heart Seminar
Hi all please can some one advise me how I can view the “fit files” produced on Windows Please, Many thanks 🙂
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Diane M Wilden posted in the group Smart Heart Seminar
Hello I received my Frontier X this week, My Cardiologist had asked me to get something that could record my ECG at home as I am having interesting heart behaviour when I’m on our Recumbent spin bike the issues is intermittent and each time I borrow a machine to do a 72hr heart monitor my heart behaves beautifully and we don’t get to capture the…Read More
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Hi Diane,
Since you’re looking to hit a target heart rate, perhaps you can set alerts on heart rate instead of breathing rate to achieve your goal. 60 breaths a minute would be a high-intensity effort! Keeping in mind your medical issues it would be best to get clearance from an expert to make sure you’re not pushing yourself too hard.
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Given that blood pressure medications affect maximum heart rate through various mechanisms, how should I interpret my ECG data? Is perceived effort and zone-based training accurate or meaningful in this context?
Should I adjust my goals whilst taking medication?
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Hi Chris,
Perceived effort and breathing rate is a great tool to understand how to set your training zones, while on blood pressure medications. Once you have a good idea of how your heart zones have changed with the medication, you can move to using heart rate zones as well. Interpreting the ECG is not very different, other than of course…Read More
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Hi John,
Breathing rate is a great tool to measure the intensity of your exercise. You can choose to set only an upper limit alert if you’d like the vibration alerts to remind you to stay under a sustainable effort, such as on a long easy run. Or if you’re trying to stay within an effort zone of a particular intensity, you could set both upper…Read More