Device Testing iSMARTtrain V4

Joe Beer has the first edition of his podcast, SMARTcast, on his site (http://www.jbst.com). This edition covers tips about getting your training in zones at the right proportions, Insider News, Nutrition Tip on Glycaemic Index. The main feature is a ten-minute segment on Seven Tips to Get Faster. There’s also JBST news and a Technology…

I’ve recently got my hands on Polar’s new RS300x model, with an aim to integrating Polar’s new FlowLink interface into iSMARTtrain, starting the with RS300x. The RS300x is functionally pretty much the same as the RS200 – it provides average heart rate & speed for each session and each lap, as well as time in…

As you can see, we’ve moved our blog from Blogger to WordPress. This proved to be a fairly painless operation, even importing our old posts from blogger’s setup. The only thing I haven’t quite figured out yet is how to set categories for the posts. I’ve setup the categories, but there’s no option in the…

We’re off the Club la Santa tomorrow for some warm weather training at Joe Beer’s (http://www.jbst.com) training camp. Hopefully, I’ll get a chance to get some decent biking & running in, while Gill relaxes by the pool. I’ll also get a chance to discuss iSMARTtrain’s development with Joe and Will, and some of our customers….

Some of our users use one of the many on-line training resources, such as Training Peaks (http://www.trainingpeaks.com), or send data to their coaches for analysing of their training. These generally work by sending Polar format .hrm files of their session data. However, one problem faced by many is that the files won’t be imported correctly,…

At Last! We’ve got V2.0.2 released this week. This release now supports Polar’s S410, S510 & S520 SonicLink monitors, as well as including TRIMPs calculations for the entered sessions. Much of the input for this was provided by Joe Beer (http://www.jbst.com). It also includes a number of bug fixes and other enhancements. As always, download…