Assault Fitness Workouts 4+

I just purchased the assault fitness runner (absolutely love it- it’s amazing) and was excited to see they had an app. However, it has a ways to go to be developed. I don’t understand why there is a Bluetooth option as I can’t get the information from the runner to sync with my phone. Other than saying it’s connected to the runner via Bluetooth, there is no data getting fed to the app. Also, the written Workouts aren’t exactly user friendly. It’s a timer with some text telling you what exercise to do, when and for how long/distance. While the phone can rest on the touch pad, you no longer can see the data on the touchscreen. Example: a program tells you to sprint for a certain distance, but because you may have placed your phone on the screen and the program isn’t feeding data to the phone, you have to then move the phone to see where your stats are at. It’s just a written exercise with a timer. Not ideal if you just want to get up and go and follow along. It’s great programming but obnoxious to navigate when trying to keep your HR up.

This app consistently crashes. You lose all the stats you’ve earned. All workouts you completed will disappear. Any friends will go away along with your profile information. You have to start over. It’s very frustrating. The only reason I gave 2 stars is that has good workouts and fun to compete with my wife.

I use an Assault Elite bike with a Bluetooth button at my local gym.

I have a Polar H10 heart monitor, an iPhone, a Garmin Edge 530, and a Garmin HR Dual heart monitor.

I have this Assault Fitness iOs app.

I cannot figure out how to get the bike or the app to read my Heart Rate data. I’ve gone through support and so far have been advised to use “Polar’s HR5k or HR122k” - which as far as I can tell don’t exist.

How is this done? I can go into the app settings/Bluetooth and connect to the bike, but neither read my heart rate. The bike has ‘Heart Rate’ programs, so I can tell it’s supposed to work, but appears to be completely useless.

Mechanically, the bike is cool, but to actually use it with useful data, I guess I’ll record with Polar Beat and just ignore the bike’s console and delete this app. Maybe the console will give me Watts sometimes. Glad I didn’t buy this for my home.

I’ll update this review if I receive useful connectivity info. I hope I do.