It is becoming ever more common to see people with smart watches, fitness trackers, and other personal technologies. Specifically, our team was inspired by fitness tracking and improving our individual performance during workouts. We all wear fitness trackers daily (Apple Watch, Fitbit Surge, and Fitbit HR) and we discussed what our pain points were. One clear feature that is constantly boasted about is heart beat tracking, yet we had no idea what these beats per minute meant in relation to most efficiently working out. We conducted some further research and learned that there truly is a science behind improved fitness and target heart rate zones. The science explained how there are four target heart rate zones that allow someone to maximize fat burn, endurance, performance, or muscle build. Further we noticed that no application was available that motivated users based on his or her individual target heart rate zones and what they were trying to do. Our team has since created an apple watch application that tracks heart rate and based on the type of workout you are completing motives you to push harder (to reach your target and ideal heart zone for the exercise) or to slow down if your heart rate is at a dangerous level. FourZone motivates and keeps users heart healthy and safe :)
Now that you know what inspires us, solving real world problems, we can explain what FourZone does. In short, FourZone is a heart rate coach that can educate, motivate, and assist users in best conducting his or her workout by using target heart rate zones. The app name of FourZone steams from the fact that there are four target heart rate zones and the design of the logo was inspired by Haberdasher Puzzles...If you do not know what a Haberdasher Puzzle is...Check out this gif by Brent Clouse:
- Install Xcode
- Download the project zip
- Run the project on your iPhone
- IMPORTANT: FourZone will not work unless you give it permission to your heart rate data! In order to give permissions just open the app and allow FourZone to access the heart rate data from the prompt :)
- Enjoy! We are always looking to improve our projects so if you have any questions or ideas for future features please drop us a line!
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