Beats per minute

 My generous barn friend let me play with her HyloFit system the other day. I've never used one, but was curious to see Hampton's heart rate (and mine!) during a typical morning of schooling.

It was really easy to hook up. The horse sensor goes on the left side, hooked up around the girth.

And the human sensor is on a band that you can tuck up under your bra.

Download the app, and you are all set!

I'm not sure I had the human monitor on correctly since at first it registered my resting heart rate around 37. I did indeed confirm that I was conscious, and no Code Blue needed.

Hampton checked in at about 68 bpm for his resting heart rate, which is technically high so who knows how accurate I had this thing.

So you select what discipline you are doing for that ride, and then off you go.

We had a very typical 40 minute school. And here was the results:

Keeping in mind I'm not sure how accurate the numbers really are, I do think the 

general up and downs do represent the general trend of his heart rate. I'm not sure why it didn't register my distance or speed?

The colors represent zones:

I like how we stayed in Zone 2 and 3 most of the ride. And it appears he recovers quite well. He is fit, but as as fit as I would like right now since I didn't do much fitness work this spring due to his foot. 

I think I probably need to use this once or twice a week to really get a feel for it. Then you can see trends and take more of an average in numbers.

Anyway, a fun experiment and I can see how useful this would be especially for eventers.

Gratuitous photo of Buckley trying to smush into this scratch pad box