Cardio Zones. 4+
Heart rate based training
Theo Scott
Designed for iPad
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- $59.99
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Description
Take your Apple Watch (leave your iPhone at home), bluetooth headphones, go for a run, walk, cycle, spin (Schwinn bikes), gym, swim, row, ....
- Use the voice assistant to regulate and keep your heart rate within target zones during workouts
- View cumulative graphs for time spent in heart rate zones for workouts, even for any workout recorded by other apps and stored in Apple Health
- Rate your fitness level, and recovery heart rate (Superior, Excellent, Good, Fair, Poor)
- Measure your Resting Heart Rate & VO2 Max, plus calculate your Max Heart Rate
- Preloaded Heart rate training zones: Karvonen & Zoladz formulas, British Cycling Coaches, Joe Friel Running & Cycle and more.
- Create your bespoke heart rate zones.
- Find training zones for beginners, intermediates and professionals.
- Voice alarm warning guidance helping you stay in your training zones, with Bluetooth headphone support (listen to the funky comments on your progress during your workout)
- Real-time heart rate, statistical prediction and training zones are shown in a graph and text format.
- Location tracking of your routes with your heart rate data at each point on the map.
- Display heart rate data on maps and/or in a graph format.
- Export heart data to CSV on iCloud and use Excel and Numbers from your Mac or PC to analyse the raw data and build your own optimised training programme
- No login account is required, no external web accounts are needed, and you keep your data (strict privacy).
- No subscriptions are required, no extra payments, and full access immediately.
- Support portrait and landscape display modes.
- Support for Cycling Speed and Cadence Bluetooth service (Apple Watch only)
Your heart rate provides insight into how efficiently you’re training and gives you a way to quantify improvements. With zone training, you can yield different benefits and are appropriate at different times during a training plan, whether that is weight loss or improved cardiovascular performance.
Zone training gives you focus. Measuring your heart rate and keeping within your zones can help you from overtraining. Overtraining can lead to exercise addiction which can lead to negative physiological and psychological effects, constant muscle soreness, elevated resting heart rate, burnout, reduced variability, elevated blood pressure, lack of appetite, and even becoming moody.
To get the best out of the app you need a heart rate sensor that conforms to the Bluetooth 4 Heart Rate Service (HRS) like the Polar H7 Smart, Wahoo TICKR, Bose Soudsport Pulse, etc.
You don’t have a heart sensor:
The following functions are available if you don’t have a bluetooth heart sensor or Apple Watch:
- Calculate your VO2 Max doing a 1½ mile run.
- Calculate your Maximum heart rate.
- Get optimal heart zones depending on your fitness goals (fat burn, cardio, et.c).
- References and reading material on how heart rate zones are used in fitness & sports sciences.
Data Privacy:
- Your data remain private in your iOS Device or iCloud Account. You are in control over who views or uses your data.
- This app works seamlessly with Apple Health
- You do not need any annoying login accounts.
- All data is stored on your iPhone/iPad/Apple Watch, and no data is on any external database on the internet or worldwide web.
Battery:
- Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
- Continued use of the Apple Watch heart rate sensor can dramatically decrease battery life.
- Viewing your heart rate in Graph mode will impact your battery life when the App is automatically (the icon with the wheel at the top) adjusting the XY-Axis. Tap on the wheel/settings icon at the top to switch to manual mode to conserve battery life and reduce the graphics power processing requirements.
Thank you for your time, and for support or new features request, send me an email from within the App: About | Contact or tweet @ZoneTrainingApp
What’s New
Version 4.6.3
Fix crash for runners on Apple Watch
Ratings and Reviews
Works With Bose SoundSport Pulse
I bought this app specifically to work with these headphones that feature an intgrated Bluetooth heart rate monitor. Works great, very customisable and gives you the option of taking a more simplified approach or a more detailed scientific approach.
Doesn’t require annoying subscriptions like other apps.
I’ve downloaded and tried several but this is the best I’ve found. Well worth the money!
Edit: most times it takes a lot of messing around to get it to connect to the headphones. I usually have to open the Bose app, get it tracking my heart rate, close Bose app and open this one. It generally requires me to do this a few times.
Was rated 5 star, but I’m dropping one off for this reason.
Edit 2: developer responded and is working to fix this with next release
Developer Response ,
Thanks for your rating. Regarding the bleutooth issue I experienced it as well, its the way iOS/watchOS decides which app get priority to the bluetooth channel on sound. The next release (v 2.1.4) should handle bluetooth sound better, if not tweet or email me (via the About on the app).
Has potential but wasted $20
Heart rate zone alarm only works as voice prompt, not beeps. I.e it says: “speed up” or “slow down” but takes 20 seconds or more to react to heart rate and then 20 seconds in between prompts. Needs to be MUCH shorter or have option to set prompt interval frequency.
Missing some basic functions. A whole bunch of extraneous features like; animated exercise selection indicators, line drawing of sensor type, and algorithm predicting what heart rate will be 5,15,30 seconds in the future but the app is MISSING numerical display of heart rate zone in BPM. Also does not allow custom setting of heart rate zone in BPM, only in %.
Unfortunately I have only been able to find one other Heart Rate Zone monitoring app in the App Store with one time purchase rather than subscription model. “Heart Graph” which whilst having a richer set of practical features and 100x better sensor pairing, it’s alarm volume is too soft AND it has the SAME SOUND for being over as well as under your set heart rate range.
Looks like a subscription it is =(
Developer Response ,
Thank you for your review. Not all the features in the app will be for everyone, but some of the ones you mentioned were implemented at the request of users.
The animation has a purpose, it indicates the status of the workout, and sensors. For example if a runner stops running, the Apple Watch sensors will detect that and pause the workout automatically, on which the app will pause the animations as a visual way indicating the workout has paused. The native Apple Watch workout app, and others apps, also adopts this approach of informing users on the state of a workout.
The prediction of a heart rate (at 5, 15, 30, 60 seconds) is an early warning system to the user that soon he/she will be soon out of the target heart rate zones. This allows him/her to take corrective action to maintain focus and staying within the goal zone range.
The reason why zones are expressed in terms of % of Max Heart rate, heart reserve or lactate threshold heart rate is based on scientific evidence. A user who has a goal to increase VO2 capacity will use target rates expressed in terms of Max HR, while an endurance or stamina user might use a lactate threshold threshold. Specifying absolute BPM values does not take into account age of user, fitness level and goals, which changes over time. There is a scientific references section in the app explaining this.
As for your 100x better sensor pairing, alarm volume to soft, they really depend on your volume settings, the kind of headphones you using. I’m not sure how 100 times better I can pair a BLE heart sensor, there is bluetooth standard on how sensors are paired. Pairing BLE sensors on Apple Watch is a process that remains in the hands of Apple (via the bluetooth settings on Apple Watch)
Nice
Very good app just I think if we have more filed in exercises time will much better
Thanks and please update for ever
🤗🤗🤗🤗🙏🙏🙏🙏
Developer Response ,
Thank you for your review.
As the developer of the app, I use it almost everyday, especially on my HIIT sprint running, and every now and again, new ideas pop into my head, which then gets coded into the app.
Theo
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Information
- Seller
- Theo Scott
- Size
- 34.5 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Watch
- Requires watchOS 5.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it isn't open, which can decrease battery life.
- Copyright
- © 2013-2023 Theo Scott
- Price
- $59.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.