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Your running form is now of a factor than the shoes you wear. Personally I've had broken ankles and my preferred shoes have no cushion and minimal heel/ toe drop

I'm pretty sure the Charge can't measure HR in the water. The opical sensor doesn't work.

Running multiple apps is part of the source of error. They're competing with one another for processing capacity. Personally I use Garmin devices and use the Connect app for analysis

Personally I'd just leave it on auto for a while until you have an appreciation of what your normal is. I have a Garmin, but I've been using step tracking for about six years.

Given that Peloton appear to be losing money, doesn't sound like a compelling business model.

My scepticism is based on the Wahoo form for first generation issues. Looks great, but let someone else do beta testing.

A 10K plan will help you improve your pace for 5K fairly easily. Personally I moved from there to HM, then marathon, then ultras.

Wouldn't touch a Peloton bike. For that kind of money you could buy a proper bike and trainer, or a Wattbike. Wouldn't yet recommend a Kicker yet, but it's got a lot of prospect to be good.

Walking calories are really simple; 0.3* bodyweight in lbs per mile. So c196lbs gives about 65 calories per mile. So about 230 Cal's for a 3.5 mile walk. Running is double that at 0.6*....

In that case, it's your body. The water in your body will be attenuating the Bluetooth signal, and as FitBit radio tech is pretty low end that's what's causing the issue.

I wouldn't suggest tracking them on a sports watch. HR doesn't tell you anything of value in that kind of session, so all you're really recording is the time that you took.

Two observations. Specific figures are only useful if you understand your personal metrics. 220-age is meaningless in real terms. If I used that I'd tell you that I'll run a 10Km race at a higher heart rate than my maximum HR. You need to think about why HR is varying. In CV work it's about increasing oxygen flowing around…

Different modes of exercise have different effects, so you need to consider why you're feeling various effects. If you're using resistance training as CV work, you're doing neither efficiently. Three different types of CV work have different effects. Long duration aerobic work improved stamina, threshold work improved your…

There are two issues here, the relationship between running pace and energy consumption, and the relationship between running pace and your aerobic capacity. Whilst there is a distinct difference between energy consumption when running cf walking, once you're running there isn't really much in it at different paces. Energy…

There's a charity here in the UK that matches PTSD survivors with rescue dogs, recognising that is a symbiotic relationship between the two. That's much more in the emotional support space than assistance dog as you describe.

HR as a proxy for calorie expenditure only applies for a limited asset of circumstances. If you're walking briefly, your HR shouldn't be in the range where it's a meaningful indicator. What takes estimate place length and count steps, so they'll estimate distance walked and extrapolate from that.

All dogs are therapy dogs, some are just freelancing :)

Fwiw as you describe it you were being a bit precious about it, unless the space was extremely small. There's already a huge amount of stigma around disability, particularly when that's not obvious. You'd probably have had less impact of you'd been honest about the allergy.

From a practical perspective, as someone who does some work on accessibility, there's a wide range of potential use cases, and the materiality of the activity plays a part. Is near impossible to mandate. In the Domino's case, the process of ordering is a large part of the customer journey. You've got three branches of the…

Hmm, I appreciate that you're struggling to understand what the key elements that should be replicated in these examples. It's fairly common when abled people use examples, having no clue about the lived experience.

Sometimes it's not as easy as making an app usable by blind or visually impaired users. A principle I quite like is the seamless choice, as different accessibility needs can be catered for in different ways. But the key is understanding what it is that we're trying to repliate. Going back to the example upthread about…

If you're only running once per week you're best bet is to run more often, and run for longer distances. That needs some build up

So the example you used would be to take an online transaction and convert it to voice. When adjustments to an online experience for blind of visually impaired users are fairly straightforward it's not "reasonable" to suggest that voice is an alternative. It's a very different ordering experience. Those adjustments ould…

No. It doesn't replicate the abled experience. Would you rather that disabled people be excluded from participation in society?

Different disabilities have different needs. It's about inappropriate for a statutory mechanism to dictate solutions, but it is reasonable to mandate how the challenge is approached. I have a feeling in this case that people are focusing on the complainant being blind, but some of the mitigations for blindness would also…

Time of day doesn't really make any difference to calorie expenditure. The main issue is how your training fits around life.

If that's all you want them the Garmin VivoSmart 3 will do what you want at a decent level of accuracy. They're heavily discounted on Amazon at the moment.

And it doesn't really matter how accurate a measure is, if you're using it to extrapolate something that's not really related to heart rate. For the activities talked about, a 5% error rate on the HR measured is dwarfed by the errors in extrapolation. Broadly, the originator will get no value from an HRM.

The type of activities being described really arent going to get HR into the range that it would need to be to deliver the VO2Max improvements that true HIIT would deliver. They're really pretty mild from an HR perspective.

fwiw I can run a 10K in about 49 minutes, and there's no way I'm talking for most of that. It's high intensity, but it's steady state. A HIIT running session for me would be a 15 minute warm up, sprint intervals for 50 metres each with probably 200 metre rest intervals followed by another 10 minutes cool down. IT would…