r-r intervals - Polar RS800 - Suunto T6C
A useful question asked today by a customer regarding Polar RS800 and Suunto T6C and their use of, and analysis of R-R heart rate data - with regard to heart rate variability.
I have been looking at Suunto T series because of the R-R facility. (1) How does this compare to Polar’s R-R facility.
(2) How does the software differ between T6 and T3 (not really interested in T4 Coach system).
Thanks for the mail regarding R-R analysis.
1) The big difference is that the RS800 Pro Trainer software gives you ACCESS to the R-R data - so you can extract the RAW R-R information
The Suunto Training Manager does NOT
HOWEVER….
Suunto analyses the R-R data it has stored and outputs TRAINING EFFECT and EPOC data to give the user a very clear understanding of the WORK LOAD.
That means you have TRAINING EFFECT data for EACH and EVERY session you perform, so it is clear to see when you are over training
The Polar has the OWN OPTIMISER test. This is performed voluntarily and, upon completion, gives the user an idea of their current wellbeing - over trained, under trained, balanced training state etc.
Both are GOOOD.
For the average user, TRAINING EFFECT is useful and gives immediate review of progress and workload
The Polar RS800 is possibly better suited to the purist, the user that wants access to the RAW DATA.
2) Please review the SCREEN GRABS on these pages:
Suunto TRAINING MANAGER software with TRAINING EFFECT and TIME versus HEART RATE curves
Suunto TRAINING MANAGER LITE software - does NOT give time versus heart rate curves
The T3/4 does NOT give a TIME versus HEART RATE curve.. the T6 does
www.heartratemonitor.co.uk
Hope we can help
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18/06/2008 at 06:56 am
Love the idea of being able to get the raw data. It’d be really cool to design a web application around this, where people can easily upload raw data from their workouts (sort of like Nike+, but with much more comprehensive data, and from all kinds of different workouts!)
That could become an online platform to build applications on that slice and dice the data different ways, make recommendations on how to train, visualize improvement over time, etc.
19/07/2008 at 05:07 pm
The raw rr data for Sunnto t6/t6c is available if you export a session as XML (STE file). It contains both the original rr data, and corrected values - those that were used in the training effect calculations.
10/12/2008 at 02:59 am
atg1972 can you please help me out, I need the raw R-R data but cannot access any session info as an XML - the ste wont uncompress in dreamweaver.
Your assistance would be greatly appreciated.