The Kelly Rule

New Suunto Team Monitor users: If you are having trouble viewing the charts and summary data of seemingly successful Monitored sessions try the following.

When you want to Monitor a workout using the Team POD first open Team Manager, and if Team Monitor opens with Team Manager that is perfect. If not then simply open Team Monitor by going to ACTIONS menu (in Team Manager) then select START SUUNTO MONITOR.

This will run Monitor through Manager and allow for the successful linking of belt IDs to your active Player Profile list in Team Manager and result in the automatic transfer of all data logs to player profiles when you SAVE session in Monitor. (Remember the last step before viewing the analyzed data in Team Manager is go to ACTIONS menu and select LOG ANALYZE, all data logs will be analyzed at once).

-- The Kelly mistake happens when you open Monitor as a stand alone program, it is not linked to the Manager profiles thus no transfer of the recorded session occurs.

Update to Suunto Monitor 1.1.1 - All The Pretty Colors!

Suunto Team:

If you haven't already done so please update to Suunto Monitor 1.1.1. This Monitor update came out 2-3 weeks ago and is embedded in the Team Manager 2.1.2 update, so run that again even if you already have Team Manager 2.1.2.

If you are running Suunto Monitor 1.1.1 (check blue bar at top of Suunto Monitor software) please read on for the key features in Suunto Monitor 1.1.1 but no need to run any updates.

To Run update go to: www.suunto.com then:
-- click Customer Service tab
-- Click Download Center, scroll down to SOFTWARE heading
-- 4th item from top is Team Manager 2.1.2 -- click Download beside red check mark to the right, RUN.

Now you will have Suunto Monitor 1.1.1 and this gives you the option by simply left clicking on color-box to change/ select the colors for the Heart Rate Zones in both Live Monitor (EDIT menu, HR Zones) and Team Manager Athlete Profiles (select athlete icon at left, click EDIT in middle of screen, Heart Rate Zones).

HINT: If you training is monitored according to fewer zones than we provide, simply put heart rate levels or % levels that are extremely low (i.e. 10 bpm, or 5%) thereby taking the first one or two zones that are available to you out of the live monitoring view and the summary data.

Be Well Prepared!

John

ANT Belt Battery Life and Replacing (Made Easy)

All:

Please keep a schedule on paper for replacing all the batteries in your Suunto ANT Belts every 5 months. Use quarter (don't strip the casing) to pop off battery back, and 3 Volt CR2032 purchased at any Drug Store or order from Me.

-- I suggest for moderate-heavy use (10 hrs. per week) replacing the batteries every 5 months. In ideal conditions they last for 300 hours. 5 months at 10 hours per week is 200 hours of use.

-- Going into new training camps and new seasons is always a good time to get a new set of batteries (drug store: 3 Volt CR2032) and replace them.

What we don't want is loss of transmission or significantly diminishing heart rate #s which are signs of batteries dying.

Train Hard and Smart With Team Suunto!

Labeling your data logs

-- It's critical to label your heart rate data logs for future reference and meaningful comparisons.

Several ways to do this:

Add Activity Description: Right click on time/ date stamp of training log and select EDIT. Then in new window select an activity from your list or pre-programed ACTIVITIES (this will now appear beside Activity in Details 1 tab). Then in the box under this type in notes regarding the session (notes will now appear in details 2 tab).

{If you don't have any choices yet in the Activity drop-down window you can add them by closing out and Selecting coaches NAME ICON (top of list of athletes) and selecting SETTINGS tab (middle screen), click EDIT and in new window click ADD button and type in New Activities.}

-- Another way to label the data logs: right click on data log and select RENAME, and "tag" the time and date stamp with something relevant, "Game", "Practice", "Stadium Stairs" etc.

-- Still another way to add useful descriptive information to a log. Go to MARKS tab and select EDIT MARK and add a name to a data point in marks, such as Start Drills, Warm-up, Game Intensity etc.

Team POD Antenna Use, Abuse and Replacement

-- It is important to store the Team POD in the case with the antenna connected.

-- By taking the antenna off and putting it on repeatedly, over time it is possible to break down the good, clean connection and diminish the strength of the Team POD.

-- I do have a limited number of replacement antennas if there is a need but please take care and only remove the antenna when you must and then be careful when screwing it on again.

Team Manager 2.1.2

A couple things to remember in Team Manager 2.1.2

1) You will lose all belt assignments when you update to 2.1.2 because Team Monitor has changed to version 1.1.0

Solution: GO INTO ATHLETES/ EDIT (YOUR RE-CREATION OF YOUR MASTER LIST), SELECT AN ATHLETE, HIT EDIT AND INPUT THE ANT NUMBERS FOR YOUR ATHLETES. YOU MAY HAVE TO CLICK SMALL RED TRIANGLE AT FAR RIGHT TO OPEN THE VIEW (MANAGER ATHLETES)

2) You can now drag and drop athlete tiles in the Live Monitor view to arrange according to offense/ defense or any configuration you want

Know Your Athletes ~ Belt 'em up

...with Suunto Digital ANT (area network tiny) Technology (more than 65,000 unique frequencies)

No Cross Talk

No Interference Anywhere

= Meaningful Data and Analysis

Specifications of Suunto Team Monitor, for the uninitiated...

With Team Monitor You Have Reliable Heart Rate Data, No Boundaries:

➢ Live Hear Rate Data: % view or beats per minute, 6 programmable, color-coded training levels allows for meaningful monitoring of up to 42 Athletes, 100 Meter Range
➢ Post-analysis gives Lab-accurate data on 7 Physiological Parameters:
o Heart Rate
o EPOC (Excess Post-exercise Oxygen Consumption, ml/kg)
o EPOC based Training Effect (1-5 scale describing the aerobic load of the training session)
o Respiration Rate (breaths per minute)
o Respiration Volume (liters/minute)
o Oxygen Consumption (VO2, ml/kg/min.)
o Energy Expenditure (kcal)
➢ Calculations based on beat-to-beat analysis and Heart Rate Variability
➢ Currently utilized by teams in the NBA, MLB, NHL, NCAA and National Teams
➢ Physiological analysis specific to your athletes personal profile
➢ Flexible software and analysis tools, programmable training levels (beats per minute or % of maximum heart rate)
➢ PC Requirements: IBM Compatible PC (or new Pentium MAC), Min. 500 MHz Processor, 64 MB memory, 160MB free hard drive capacity, Windows 2000 – Windows XP

Welcome to Suunto Team Blog - Learn, Teach, Share on Heart Rate

It is my hope that this forum will be successful in disseminating useful information like updates, issues, analyses of data, interesting findings and generally meaningful dialogue between the more than 50 Suunto Team Monitor users representing elite professional and college teams throughout the U.S. More than that I want to be able to aid your implementation of our supreme supreme heart rate monitoring systems and Team Manger software easily and effectively.