[Sportsandrec] talking heart rate monitors

[Steven chica]

It's nice to see other rowers! I'm currently a college rower and visually impaired. In terms of heart rate monitors I use a Polar ft4 which is pretty basic but they do sell Bluetooth heart rate because our ergs and bikes all have Bluetooth capabilities which some of my teammates take advantage of. Hope to hear back and talk some rowing!

Steven Chica

> On Sep 27, 2015, at 10:04 PM, Audrey T. Farnum via Sportsandrec <sportsandrec at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I don't know specifically about heart rate monitors, but I'm a rower and I think this might work. I just started using an app called Crew Nerd. I am using it primarily because I wanted to get stroke rate and 500m splits in the boat, but it does have the ability to give heart rate info from a bluetooth chest strap. I haven't tried it yet so I don't know how accurate it is. I can tell you that the app works well with VoiceOver and the speech settings are very customizable. You can have it announce as much or as little as you want, you can control the speech rate and you can select the frequency of announcements. It stores all your data and you can download it later. I haven't tried that yet either. I have used a couple of water resistant bluetooth headsets in the boat for listening to the app. I have an LG Tone HBS 300 and a Soul Republic Shadow. The LG is mor comfortable and stays in place better. It's also only about $45 versus $100 for the Shadow, so if I do flip a boat and kill a headset, it's cheaper to replace. The 300 is an older model of the tone. I have a 320 that never worked right with Voiceover. I haven't used the most current model of the LG Tone, so I can't say how well it works. I got a waterproof bag for my phone. It has a velcro arm strap that I use to secure my phone to the rigger. Several of my sighted teammates use this app as well and I have seen phones in waterproof bags survive boat flips and other incidents that caused their iPhones to go for a swim. One of the guys on my team forgot to secure his phone to the rigger and just had his phone down in the boat by his foot stretchers. At some point, the phone fell out of the boat. It was found hours later floating along the shore. The phone was fine. Anyway, it's not specifically a talking heart rate monitor, but it is a possible solution that has the added benefit of giving you an accessible stroke coach as well. Here is a link to the app:
> 
> link
> CrewNerd by Performance Phones, LLC
> https://appsto.re/us/FFRws.i
> 
> And here is the developer website. They have a lot of info on the site about heart rate monitors and waterproof cases that they recommend.
> 
> http://performancephones.com/crewnerd/
> 
> And here is the waterproof case I am using:
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01070KLCO?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00
> 
> HTH.
> 
> Audrey T. Farnum
> 
>> On 9/27/2015 3:45 PM, Doug Gottschlich via Sportsandrec wrote:
>> Does anyone have a suggestion for an accessible heart rate monitor? And
>> preferably water-proof for on-water rowing?
>> 
>> Thanks
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