RaceByHearts
The Worlds First Collective
Heart Rate Monitor
For Smartphones
RaceByHearts is the first and only app on the App Store that lets you easily monitor your heart rate and the intensity of your effort, and compare yourself to your teammates during a workout in real time! This enables you to see who is putting in the most effort and who is taking it easy, and encourages you to give a little extra.
RaceByHearts connects wirelessly between iPhones and iPods and lets you and your teammates keep an close eye on each others heart rates and workout intensities in real time during the workout. This gives a clear image of who is pushing hard and who is slacking off.
RaceByHearts adds a new dimension of competition to activities such as Spinning®, BodyBike, Running, Rowing and other intensive workouts types, which gives an extra boost to your motivation during exercise and lets you and your teammates help each other get the most out of your workouts.
Support
Questions and Answers
- What does the user interface show me?
RaceByHearts continously displays your and your teammates current heart rate, intensity level from 0 to 100 percent and the corresponding heart rate zone:
- How does RaceByHearts connect to my heart rate monitor?
RaceByHearts uses Wahoo Fitness technology to connect a heart rate monitor to your iPhone. This requires either a Ant+ dongle (wahoo, fisica or digikey) and an Ant+ compatible heart rate monitor. Or you can use the Wahoo BlueHR heart rate monitor in combination with a iPhone 4S or never.
Please consult www.wahoo.com/support for further information and troubleshooting.
- Does my [HeartRateMonitorBrandName] hr belt work with RaceByHearts?
If your heart rate monitor conforms to the Ant+ standard for wireless communication and you are using a compatible Ant+ dongle, it should work. Or if you have a iPhone 4S or never, you can use a Bluetooth LE heart rate strap.
- Why does RaceByHearts not connect to my teammate?
Is Bluetooth or enabled on the iPhone? RaceByHearts connects wirelessly to nearby iPhones and requires Bluetooth do so.
- How is the intensity calculated?
Please see "What are heart rate zones?"
- My teammate has a higher max heart rate than me, can our intensities still be compared?
Yes, RaceByHearts calculates intensities from the individuals effective heart rate range, which evens out physiological differences. Just remember to input your resting and maximum heart rate in the settings tab.
- What is the formula for maximum heart rate?
Maximum heart rates varies a lot from person to person and so does the formulas that tries to calculate them. To get the most precise value we recommend that your measure your maximum heart rate during a very hard exercise session.
- Is RaceByHearts only intended for spinning classes and shouldn’t I just follow my instructor's directions?
RaceByHearts can by used wherever you want to compare your own physical exercise to that of your nearby friends.
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What are heart rate zones?
Heart rate zones are indexations of your intensity into levels of effort.
In RaceByHearts intensity is calculated from the “Karvonen formula”, which factors in resting heart rate and maximum heart rate and calculates the current intensity by the current heart rate:
Intensity (in percent) = ((heartrate-hrRest)/(hrMax-hrRest))*100
The level of intensity indicates the current heart rate zone:
- Zone 5: 90-100% of maximum effort.
- Zone 4: 80-90%
- Zone 3: 70-80%
- Zone 2: 60-70%
- Zone 1: 50-60%
