Group Heart Rate Monitor

[Mariko Bloomgren]

PulseMonitor is a system for controlling heart rate of participants in fitness clubs and indoor cycling studios. Fitness club instructor has a preview of the current parameters of each participant in the group. This allows for the proper dosage of a given organism load intensity depending on the individual capacity of the lungs, heart, or the current state of fatigue.

The central point of the system is the Pulse Monitor application that has been run on computer with Windows operating system. The application presents data in real time on a computer monitor, LCD TV or through a projector.

Pulse Monitor allows continuous monitoring up to 42 course participants. Each of the heart rate monitors, put on the participant's chest emits a digital signal that is received by the application using a compatible antenna.

By using the Pulse Monitor trainers gain more perfect knowledge of the physical condition of their clients. They have a real insight into the performance of training participants without the necessity of basing on their feelings. Thanks to they can better plan their training and achieve faster progress.

If you use the Pulse Monitor system in your club or with a personal trainer, you can regularly analyze reports and progress in the training. If you entered your email address when registering for classes, all reports will be automatically sent to your e-mail address.

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Heart rate tracking is a great tool for evaluating workout intensity levels and accumulated load. It helps your members see how hard their body is working during the sessions, in real-time, and it gives them data on the intensity of their session afterward. This instant gratification of effort gives your members a sense of achievement, which boosts motivation, delivers fitness results and drives retention in the long run.

Polar Club is a versatile product and you can use it for an unlimited amount of classes and instructors as well as for multiple class formats for up to 90 participants - everything from indoor cycling to functional training, bootcamps to small group sessions.

For your members to join the class, they need to have Polar Flow accounts and personal devices like sensors or wrist devices - or you can let them use the club's sensors. Polar Club works with all Polar sport and fitness watches and heart rate sensors.

Polar Club tracks and displays your class's effort in real-time through performance data, such as heart rate and calories burned. The way Polar Club measures and displays workout intensity is through the use of color-coded heart rate zones.

The biggest benefit of adopting wearable tech to your club is that you can further improve your odds to retain your members. It's a proven fact that Polar Club users work out on average 3.4 times per week at their gym. That's 80% more than the IHRSA industry average of 1.9 visits. This means that wearables really can keep your members coming back to your facility more often.

A group heart rate monitoring system also boosts member engagement through the sense of achievement and camaraderie when working together towards the group goals in a class as well as through the friendly competition the individual and group rewards enable. Moreover, you can use the system to run fitness challenges at your club to motivate class goers even more. You can also promote the technology-powered classes to existing members as well as use it as a tool for new member acquisition.

When you choose Polar wearable technology for your club, your members get access to the full Polar ecosystem where everything is connected. With heart rate sensors, fitness watches, and online coaching tools we cater to all the needs of fitness professionals and gym members alike.

All our training technology is built on scientific research and validation, so you and your members get data and results they can trust. For example, the Polar heart rate tracking technology has been widely accepted as the gold standard in product comparisons and scientific studies for its 99.6% accuracy compared to ECG.

Polar sports watches and fitness trackers will help your members reach their fitness goals with personalized guidance in training, everyday activity tracking, sleep, and recovery. Moreover, Polar heart rate sensors connect to a great variety of 3rd party gym equipment and leading fitness apps with 5 kHz, Bluetooth, and ANT+ to offer unrivaled versatility.

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Also, your trainers benefit greatly from Polar technology at your club. The free Polar Flow for Coach service offers your trainers a tool to coach and connect with their clients. They can access their client's training data, give instant feedback and create training plans together.

You can get even more out of Polar data at your club through Polar's Open API that enables a direct information sharing link between the Polar ecosystem and your own data system, giving you more insights into your member's workout behavior.

As the wearable market grows, so does the accessibility to heart rate data. Commercial heart rate monitors have been around for decades, but they are still viable options for coaches and athletes wanting to know how training challenges the cardiovascular system. While there have been major technology breakthroughs with hardware and software since the late 1970s, the science is still the same and there have been very few advancements outside of TRIMP and heart rate variability (HRV) measurement.

The interest in mechanical loading from other sensor technology has led to us seeing heart rate measurement take a back seat for now. Even with the rise in popularity of GPS-guided player tracking, the measures of the heart are timeless for supporting coaching decisions and athletic development.

Since the early 2000s, we have observed a slow and slight decline in the heart rate monitoring of practices. At the same time, there has been increased interest both in the autonomic nervous system from HRV data and in player tracking technology from GPS-powered systems. New is not always better, and the inclusion of both heart rate monitoring and player workloads is a perfect match.

External loading options like player tracking systems are an estimate of the total and type of work, while internal response options like heart rate monitoring measure the physiological reaction to the bout of work. Add in the fact that real-time HRV readings can be done now, so many coaches like adding that safety net to overtraining by scanning a team right after warming up for practice. Including a complete monitoring option to practices and training provides a robust checks and balances to the work and recovery of sport preparation.

Currently, there is declining interest in heart rate monitoring, but we expect a rebound for several reasons. The main reason the data is growing in interest is that smart fabrics and newer textiles are improving the user experience of wearing a chest band. There is surging interest in wrist-based products, but the research indicates that data is not as good as a chest strap option.

Heart rate data is more important for endurance sports and open field continuous sports like soccer, but with team practices in power-oriented sports lasting hours, the data is just as relevant as in the past.

Transmitting the signal should be a non-issue today with the advancement of wireless transmissions, but things break down or fail with any technology. On paper, several options like ANT+ and LE Bluetooth sound robust, but the more moving parts, the more likely something will go wrong. Often the problem is not the transmission but a battery issue or something like a strap not placed properly. Also, conductance breaks down because sweat will literally corrode the materials used to collect the data, even if it helps improve a signal. Some products provide boosting components to help outdoor or indoor signal capture, and that is a necessity when looking at real-time data and wanting no transmission loss.

The common frustration with nearly all heart rate monitoring systems is the general pattern of less support for software engineers than for hardware engineers. In the past, some software platforms looked rushed or last minute compared to the hardware, but now web-based software is solving the problem. The other growth area is apps that are agnostic to consumer products and provide a way to visualize, analyze, and store the heart rate data.

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