Setting up wrist-based power
Wrist-based power is built into your watch – there’s no special setup needed, except setting your height and weight, and adding power to your data screens.
NOTE: I was not able to include a Suunto watch in my wrist-based study, so cannot confirm whether Suunto wrist-based power is repeatable and concurrently valid or not.
Height & weight settings
As explained in the Settings for all Watches/Power Meters book chapter, it’s important to ‘set and forget’ your height and weight.
Height and Weight are entered in the Suunto app, as described in How can I change my personal information on the Suunto website.
Auto-lap, Auto-pause, Auto-calibrate, Recording Frequency
These settings are explained in the Settings for all Watches/Power Meters book chapter. They are made on your watch, or via the Suunto app.
Auto-lap
Auto-lap is not available on all Suunto watches. If available, you can enable or disable auto-lap via sport mode customisations, using the Suunto app. A guide to Custom Sport modes is on the Suunto website.
Auto-pause
Auto-pause is enabled or disabled separately for each activity (e.g. Run or Walk). Enabling/Disabling Auto-pause may differ between watch models – consult the user guide for your model on the Suunto website.
Auto-calibrate
Auto-calibration is not available when using Wrist-based power, as speed and distance are determined using GPS.
Recording Frequency
Recording Frequency can be set to 1, 5, 10, 30 or 60 seconds, as described on the Suunto website.
For accurate metrics, record data ‘every second’.
Adjusting what's displayed on your watch
Suunto watches allow users to customize which metrics are displayed during activities. Each activity type (run, walk) can have different settings. A guide to Custom Sport modes is on the Suunto website.
Because Power is natively available on Suunto watches, there’s no need to use an additional app – just choose the layout you want to use, and add the metrics you want to see.
Power Averaging
Power averaging is explained in the Settings for all Watches/Power Meters book chapter.
Suunto watches offer real-time, smoothed and lap power.
Displaying power, pace and heart rate
Some of the activities in the book ask you to display power, pace and HR on your watch so that you can keep track of changes in those metrics as you begin to experience running with power.
To do this, customize a sport mode to show at least three metrics, and include 3s (smoothed) power, pace and heart rate as displayed metrics.
Moving to the next lap
On many Suunto watches, to move to the next lap, press the bottom right button (labelled Lap or Stop).
Some watches may use the middle right button or a touchscreen gesture to move to the next lap.
Using structured workouts
Structured workouts are available with the Suunto 3, Suunto 5 and Suunto 9 (under SuuntoPlus) watches.
To create structured workouts (with multiple steps, often used for interval workouts), you’ll need to use a 3rd-party platform like TrainingPeaks or Intervals.icu.
Uploading completed workouts
Completed workouts will be uploaded to the Suunto website (and the Suunto mobile app).
If you want completed workouts uploaded to other apps (for reviewing), you should connect your Suunto account to those apps, either connecting from Suunto to the other apps, or connecting the other apps to Suunto.
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