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GPS Sports Watches: Key Features

If you’re new to fitness tracking with GPS sports watches, you may be wondering how to get the most out of your new device. That’s what this series of articles is all about. If you haven’t checked out...

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How to Start Zone-Based Training

The topic of training with “zones” comes up quite frequently in fitness, however, finding a clear explanation of what exactly it is can be elusive. It’s also unclear how you can start using zones, and...

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Introducing #SportTracksScenes

We want to see you — the SportTracks community — in action! Starting next month we’re swapping out the background photos on the SportTracks login page with pictures submitted by our community. If you...

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Swim Heart Rate Analysis

Today we announce full support for the Garmin HRM-TRI and HRM-SWIM heart rate monitors, along with features to display and analyze heart rate during swim workouts. Suunto users – we haven't forgot you....

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Using SportTracks with EasyTrails

We're proud to announce yet another iPhone app integration: You can now export sessions from EasyTrails directly to SportTracks! We love providing a variety of ways to track activities, and EasyTrails...

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How to Use Pace Zones

We recently wrote about the basics of zone-based training, which introduces the concept of training with zones to complete beginners — so they can fully understand it. That post covers the fundamentals...

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Contest Winners Announced!

We just finished choosing the winning photograph for the #SportTracksScenes contest. This task proved to be exceedingly difficult! We were delighted by the large number of engaging images that were...

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Tips on Buying a Bike

Picking the exact bike for your needs is complicated — whether the goal is to train for a triathlon, a road race, or to simply to get fit while enjoying fresh air and scenery. There are many factors to...

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Health Page Customization

A few weeks ago we announced a major redesign of the Analysis page featuring customizable page layouts. Today we’re happy to announce this same customization is now available on the Health page!You can...

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#SportTracksScenes is Back!

We recently announced the winners of the original #SportTracksScenes contest, and we surprised everyone by giving a free year of SportTracks not just to one participant — but to six! Their photos were...

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Tracking HRV with Garmin Watches

We recently announced the ability to manually input Heart Rate Variability (HRV) and Resting Heart Rate (RHR) data into the newly-customizable SportTracks Health page. In addition, HRV data can...

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Track HRV with an iPhone or iPad

What’s the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning? Some people spend a few minutes measuring their HRV with the HRV4Training app (I explain why later in this post). If you're one of these...

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Connect with Ride Journal

There are plenty of apps that can transform iPhones and Android devices into powerful bike computers, but what about Windows Phone? If you want to turn one of Microsoft’s handsets into the brain of...

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How to Train with HRV

Training with a GPS watch or a bike computer can be extremely beneficial, however, there is another kind of tracking that’s worth your time and attention: It’s called HRV, and it helps you determine...

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How to Fix Garmin Auto-Sync

Auto-sync is the fastest way to get your workout data into SportTracks if you use a Garmin device. But, as you may know, technology can be a little finicky. Little problems can arise that break the...

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Swim Tracking with Garmin

If you’ve ever been near the starting line of a running race and experienced the hive-like buzzing and beeping of sports watches, you understand how widely embraced technology is in running. The use of...

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Connecting with TomTom

If you workout with a TomTom GPS watch, we have some great news: Today we're announcing direct auto-sync with TomTom MySports!When you enable auto-sync, you no longer need to manually upload workouts....

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Find your community

Working out alone is often therapeutic and thought-clensing, however, everything isn't better in isolation. Communicating with friends and regularly seeing familiar faces is what makes us human. That's...

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Introducing Coach Search

We recently introduced several location-based features that enable SportTracks users to easily find and connect with one another — with the goal of not just making friends, but also of finding new...

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Heartrate Zone Goal Monitoring

HOT NEWS: The SportTracks analysis page just got another big update... You can now create charts showing cumulative weekly/monthly time in heart rate zones! This has been a popular entry on our feature...

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