MotionBased Technologies has announced the addition of heart rate data to its flagship web service, MotionBased. By adding this fitness metric to its GPS-enabled training application, MotionBased adds a new dimension to performance analysis.
For the first time, users can synchronize heart rate with geographic location and view their performance on interactive maps and reports.
As a partner with Garmin International MotionBased has exclusive communication with the recently introduced Forerunner 301, the latest addition to the company’s line of GPS-enabled fitness products.
The Forerunner 301 takes the popular form and function of the Forerunner 201 and adds a digitally coded heart rate monitor and several innovative features that provides the athlete with accurate speed, distance, pace and heart rate data.
“We chose to work with MotionBased because of their absolute determination to push the limits of GPS and heart rate data collected by the Forerunner 301,” said Dan Bartel, Garmin’s Director of Sales. “MotionBased is one of the finest web applications on the market and reveals the power of GPS-enabled training.”
By uploading GPS and heart rate data from the Forerunner 301, MotionBased customers get a new perspective of their workouts. Because heart rate output is linked to effort, customers better understand their intensity and performance at specific locations along a route.
Following a workout tracked with a GPS unit, customers connect their device to a computer and upload the data to MotionBased.
The data is automatically retrieved and sent to Motionbased.com where they personalize and categorize each activity. MotionBased then crunches the numbers to calculate time, distance, speed, elevation, and heart rate.
To make sense of this vast data, MotionBased displays this information through charts, illustrations, reports, and maps.
Customers choose from a variety of maps including street, photo, topographic, and elevation maps to visualize their activity and route make-up. Users replay their workout using media controls as they watch themselves move along the mapped route coupled with an elevation profile.
Each activity stored in a personal online digest is also added to the TrailNetwork – a growing database of routes created by the MotionBased community.
Members use the TrailNetwork to seek out new activities in their region, to find popular routes while traveling, or to engage in “virtual races” with other MotionBased users.
