Myzone MZ-3 Physical Activity Chest Strap Heart Rate Monitor

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Originally from Australia, Mr Wright worked as a personal trainer where he met his now wife, Adrienne, before moving to the UK to start a new life together.

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One of the best things about the system is that you don’t lose out on MEPs if you use the belt as an external sensor connected to a running watch or other hardware. Simply connect the MZ-Switch with your phone and each session is automatically uploaded to the app from internal storage, regardless of what else you were using it for before. Myzone was born to help keep people motivated in the gym and to get them to exercise all year round. Even though it does away with numbering conventions, the MZ-Switch is technically a successor to Myzone’s previous heart rate monitor, the Myzone MZ-3. Both of these devices keep the Myzone logo front and centre, whilst also making use of the same colour palette, but otherwise the MZ-Switch is considerably smaller than its predecessor. You’re good to go and ready to enjoy the full benefits that Myzone has to offer! Make sure you allow notifications in the app to receive details of the monthly challenges and to confirm your participation. Last up is the wrist strap, which has a firmer feeling fabric that’s closer to what you’ll get on the chest strap. It uses velcro to secure it on your wrist and we found it stayed put and sits snug without feeling tight, which is the ideal type of fit to get good data from the wrist.

Based in Nottingham, the business has offices in Chicago, Queensland and the Isle of Man, and has sold a reported 2 million devices since it was launched by fitness industry expert Dave Wright in 2011. In short, the app turns what would otherwise be a fairly mundane, albeit highly competent, heart-rate monitor into a comprehensive tool for improving your all-round activity levels and fitness. Until, that is, I attempted to hook it up to a Polar Vantage V2 sports watch. At this point, the MZ-Switch paired fine but only intermittently transmitted heart-rate data. I’ve reached out to MyZone about this and will update the review if this changes at any point but otherwise, obviously, it’s useless for Polar users at the current time. Starting at “no status”, you move to “Iron” if you manage one month at 1,300 MEPs, you go to “Bronze” with three months in a row, “Silver” with six months consecutively and so on up to “Hall of Fame” status with 48 months in a row. Once you get into it, this is quite addictive and a good way to stay motivated on a long-term basis.The app can also be used to connect with fellow exercisers, analyse workouts, and let people “like” or comment on the efforts of others. It would also be nice if it looked a little more attractive but, if you’re concerned with that, you can always hide it under a sleeve on your forearm. We have been impressed by its unique business model, scalability, presence in the marketplace and outstanding senior management team. He said: “We have been in a very fortunate position in that we have grown organically to date, without the need for external capital. Typically available as chest straps, these heart rate monitors don’t see quite the same levels of innovation as the smartwatch space, but this is exactly what Myzone intends to put a stop to by shaking things up with its newest piece of kit. I’ve spent a great deal of time testing the MZ-Switch and I can now say with confidence that the change was worth the wait. Design

BGF acts as a minority, non-controlling equity partner in growing businesses in the UK and Ireland. When you do need to get charging, there’s a proprietary charging cable that clips securely in place to one of the button ports used to clip it into the chest strap. Once it’s in, it stays put, so there’s no worry this one is going to move out of place if you’re charging it overnight. Before we get into our testing, we should talk about what MyZone says about the accuracy of its own tech. When you’re making use of the ECG sensor on the Switch, you can expect 99.4% accuracy for readings. When you’re using its optical sensor to measure heart rate from the arm or wrist, that drops to 95%. So still a good number, not quite the almost 100% accuracy promised by using ECG. It might not be the most comfortable position for all, but that chest strap still does the business. Indoor rowing using MyZone MZ-Switch (left) and Garmin HRM-Pro (right) (Image credit: Michael Sawh)To register for our challenges and join the Anytime Fitness Myzone community, please follow the below steps. The MZ-Switch isn’t only about the hardware, good though that is. You can also use the accompanying app to help motivate yourself to get fitter. Primarily, this is done via the MEP system (MyZone Effort Points), but it’s also possible to book and participate in online classes via the app or choose from a series of structured workouts to add some interest to your gym, home treadmill or exercise bike sessions. Moving things to the arm for a mix of steady and fast paced runs and mixed intensity rowing sessions, and it performed relatively well here too. For runs, it was generally one or two bpms out from a chest strap, and was generally within 4bpm on maximum HR, usually reporting a lower HR max than a chest strap. It was never identical to a chest strap monitor, but it was never wildly off to push you into another heart rate zone. It was a very similar experience to what we experienced with the Polar Verity Sense and other armband heart rate monitors from Wahoo and Scosche.

It is now an ideal solution for a corporate and school environment, and our partnership with BGF and Vin will help drive these new markets in addition to building on our longstanding support of the traditional fitness industry.” If the eyes of your peers just isn’t quite enough motivation for you, then you’ll be glad to know that Myzone also employs a ranking system wherein, the more consistently you exercise, the better your status. Completing workouts will earn you MEPs (Myzone Effort Points) – a system that’s based upon recommended guidelines from the World Health Organisation – 1300 of which will you nab you iron status, then bronze, silver and so on.

He said the tech was now used in some of the biggest health clubs around the world and has also broken into new markets such as elite sports teams, hospitals, schools and universities. parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis The MEPs system lies at the core of this, however, and it’s a fairly simple concept. Based on your maximum heart rate (this is estimated at first, but updated automatically if you go above your maximum heart rate for 40 seconds or more), MyZone assigns you six heart-rate zones. As you exercise within those zones, you earn points (MEPs) towards a monthly goal. The higher the heart rate, the more points you earn and, when you hit a monthly target of 1,300 MEPs, you have the potential to earn yourself a coveted MyZone status upgrade. I’ve always lauded the Fitbit wearables for their excellence in communicating where you are in relation to your fitness goals, but when casting the net out to include heart rate monitors in the conversation, the MZ-Switch makes it easier than ever to understand your performance during each individual workout.