Systm on a gym bike

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I am going on holiday soon and am in the middle of a training plan

the hotel has standard gym bikes but i will have my HR strap with me.

Is there any way i can still do the training sessions as the ipad i have wont be connected to a power metre or my HR strap [unless of course someone can tell me how to connect my ipad to my hr strap via ant+]

i am happy to follow the session on the ipad and match my hr and cadence and power on the machine to what the session wants - but then it won’t be recorded as done in the training plan

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Just my thought, but treat it like an outdoor ride in the workout and ride with HRM/RPE?

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while your actually training details of HR, power, etc. won’t be recorded, you could do what you have described (follow the session on the iPad with auto-pause off, playing it like a video), and then it should still record as completed once you’ve finished. Or you could mark it as complete manually by clicking the 3 dots on the session in your calendar.
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I use a NPE WYÛR to bridge Ant+ to Bluetooth to use iOS devices when at hotel gyms. This allows me to have the gym bike’s power and cadence in the app. I use a Bluetooth HRM, but the WYÛR will bridge an Ant+ one. Great little device.

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this sounds just what i need - so this will connect to the system x app on ipad and link the gym bikes power and cadence to it and my hr strap on my chest will also connect to it ?

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YES, but the WYÛR can also be used as your cadence sensor to simplify that bit (it doubles as a speed or cadence sensor). I don’t have the WYÛR (and it hasn’t been available for purchase very long) but I got the CÔRD not too long ago and shipping was very prompt (like in my mailbox in 3 days).

The NPE products also help with Apple Watch HR integration AND use of AppleTV. I would recommend that you play with it before your trip to get it all figured out, I haven’t completely figured out the CÔRD yet but I bought it more out of curiosity than need.

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ive not done that before as i only ride on the turbo

will have a look how that works

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Reviving. (?)

I’ve joined a gym and they have two kinds of bikes, and I’d surely like to do my suf workouts in the nice friendly warm well lit gym instead of at home sometimes. Let alone hotels.

Yes, I can go manual and just record HR, manually change the difficulty. The distances would be a bit different but I’d have something, and have a pretty good workout :stuck_out_tongue: which is the important part, not the credit, right … but even better to get full SUF control of the power. Love it.

I thought that some of this gear, notably Peloton, would exist with BlueTooth or ANT+, and my tablet (android) would be able to pick up those protocols, and I’d get power control and speed, after perhaps a bit of pairing malarky.

I had read the home-software Peloton bikes would do this, but I messed around with the ones at the gym and didn’t see anything. I also don’t think the gym guys know enough to answer questions like this (admittedly I could be surprised).

This “bridge” product seems interesting, but it seems to imply the Peloton bike will export ANT+? If that’s so, I could also use my Wahoo watch which will tie to ANT+, or wahoo elemnt, if my phone/tablet doesn’t support it? Then at least I would get a well-recorded workout?

Thanks - I’m sure I’m not the only one - getting a “late 2024 update” from Wahoo systems people on the use of SUF software with gym hardware would be a GREAT blog post!

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I’m not personally familiar with Peloton external connections, but there are other gym bikes that do provide Bluetooth connections to transmit power/cadence data.

Wahoo’s list of compatible stationary bikes and connection guidance is here:

They note that for Peloton specifically, it uses proprietary Bluetooth connections that are not compatible with the SYSTM app, and you can only use it as an unsupported bike:

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@bbulkow Peloton has a closed system - the best you can do is link an HRM or Apple Watch and then if you have a Peloton account you can send the workout data to Strava but it isn’t a .fit file so you can’t upload it to Wahoo or Garmin.

Peloton is basically a spin bike so you adjust the power setting manually and I have found most hotel bikes are not calibrated properly.

Also hotel gyms don’t generally have fans so when I do a workout there I am soaking wet with sweat.

I have used a Watt Bike at a gym. That does broadcast power and maybe cadence which makes it easier to record the workout on a watch that allows sensor connections.

For a hotel bike I generally do either sprint work or long endurance and just listen to music.

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