Joe Beer’s second installment of his SMARTcast podcast is now available, covering topics such as intervals, fuel advice and insider news. Download a copy from here, or subscribe to it in the iTunes Music Store.

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…

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,…

Quite often, you’ll find there’s a spike in your downloaded data where your HR jumps to up 220 or down to zero. Usually, this is caused by interference from power lines or from passing cars. The data can be edited in iSMARTtrain by first clicking on the graph so that a vertical line is shown…

Dan Cave, who’s testing the early versions of iSMARTtrain V2.5 for me, has two new blogs: One personal – http://someplacewarm.blogspot.com/, and one about his training and his bikes – http://dhc-training.blogspot.com/

One of the things we’re quite often asked is how to import a group of existing .hrm files into iSMARTtrain. These are often the user’s existing sessions from the Polar PPP windows software or another application, such as PC Coach, that creates files in this format. Using ‘Import’ from the ‘File’ menu only lets you…