This happens because the app must remain open during your entire workout. If you minimize or close the app (for example, to change music or answer a call), the connection to the bike’s Bluetooth signal is idle. While the app keeps counting time, it cannot receive workout data from the bike in the background. As a result, your training history may show missing or incorrect values for distance, watts, calories, etc.
The intensity percentage displayed during your workout is a preliminary calculation. This value is recalculated and refined once the complete workout data is processed and stored in your workout history. This recalculation may result in a slightly different percentage being displayed in your history. Therefore, the 100% you see initially is not the final value.
If you exit the BODY BIKE app, for example, to change music or reply to a message while cycling, the app will lose connection to the bike. During this time, power and cadence data are not received from the bike, which is used to calculate speed and distance, although time continues to be recorded. This loss of data can be a reason why the intensity may not show 100% at the end of the workout.
When constructing indoor cycling programs and sections with a focus on heart rate, you have to consider the reaction time of the heart rate between the different intensity levels. This is not necessary if you ride according to watt. The watt can be increased or decreased in a matter of a few pedal strokes making it possible to do shorter intervals and make ‘explosions’ of which you can see the immediate effect. Use the watt value when planning the programs by targeting them to focus either FTP (Functional threshold power) improvement, sprint, endurance or strength. All users can take a watt level test and from this determine relative VO2 max and calculate FTP. This will make it possible to obtain exactly the preferred training in a highly efficient way.
Download, print and pin-up the ‘Training sections with watt’ below in your fitness centre:
Download ‘Training sections with watt ’
On BODY BIKE Connect you are able to take a watt level test. This will result in your watt level and your relative VO2 max. To evaluate your result you can use the ranges for VO2 max which is divided into categories from ‘very poor’ to ‘superior’ depending on age and gender. If you have not taken a watt level test on BODY BIKE Connect, you can estimate your relative VO2 max in the table and enter this in the console together with your weight.
Download, print and pin-up the ‘Ranges for VO2 Max’ below in your fitness centre:
Download ‘Ranges for VO2 Max’
BODY BIKE Connect transfers watt and cadence data from the control box inside the cycle to the console on the handlebar. The transfer is wireless and handled by a protocol called ANT+. If you have an ANT+ device, you can receive this data. At this moment there are several options to receive and process the data and more are arising every day. Some are targeting data storage and others are choosing to use the data to create games or the like. One of the options is ‘MapMyFitness’. Please note that BODY BIKE International A/S is not responsible for or able to provide support for any hardware or software used together with the BODY BIKE Connect indoor cycle.
Download, print and pin-up the ‘Record data from BODY BIKE Connect’ below in your fitness centre:
Download ‘Record data from BODY BIKE Connect’
The guidance below will provide you with a quick overview of the keys on the console.
Download, print and pin-up the ‘Key overview’ below in your fitness centre:
Download: ‘Key overview for BODY BIKE Connect Indoor Cycle’
Download: ‘Key overview for BODY BIKE Performance console’
The BODY BIKE Performance console and the BODY BIKE Connect console can be used without entering any data. Just get on the bike and start pedalling. However, in order to provide you with the optimal cycling experience it is possible to connect a heart rate transmitter and to enter individual settings. This will enable the console to provide you with training data related to your physical state.
Download, print and pin-up the ‘Connect heart rate transmitter and enter individual settings’ below in your fitness centre:
Download ‘Connect heart rate transmitter and enter individual settings for BODY BIKE Connect Indoor Cycle’
Download ‘Connect heart rate transmitter and enter individual settings for BODY BIKE Performance console’
The scales below can be useful when explaining the intensity level of your current workout. If you are training without any measuring devices like power meter or heart rate monitor, a great tool is the DGI zones which describe the different levels of exhaustion experienced during a workout. In the scales below, the DGI zones are combined with heart rate zones or watt training zones.
Download, print and pin-up the ‘intensity scales’ below in your fitness centre:
Download “Watt intensity scale”
Download “Heart rate intensity scale“
It is important that the cycle can be adjusted to fit the individual users. Therefore all BODY BIKE models for professional use can be adjusted both horizontally and vertically. It is individual how the user prefers the precise adjustment of the cycle. Therefore, the procedure on the poster “Cycle adjustment” should only be regarded as guidelines.
Download, print and pin-up the “Cycle adjustment”-guide below in your fitness centre:
Download “Cycle adjustment”
It is important to have energetic instructors that are able to guide and motivate their class. The poster “Ten easy steps to a safe cycling experience” is made to support the instructor in this and also guide the users towards getting the best and safest work-out.
Download, print and pin-up the “Ten easy steps to a safe cycling experience”-guide below in your fitness centre:
Download “Ten easy steps to a safe cycling experience” for adults