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 the Wahoo RIVAL in my wrist-based study, so cannot confirm whether Wahoo 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 ELEMNT mobile app, as described in Product Information and Setup on the Wahoo 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 ELEMNT mobile app.
Auto-lap
Auto-lap is enabled or disabled for all workouts, not for each individual workout.
Enabling/disabling Auto-lap is described in Workout profiles on the Wahoo website.
Auto-pause
Auto-pause is enabled or disabled for all workouts, not for each individual workout.
Enabling/disabling Auto-pause is described in Workout profiles on the Wahoo website.
Auto-calibrate
Auto-calibration is not available when using Wrist-based power, as speed and distance are determined using GPS.
Recording Frequency
When running a workout, Wahoo watches record data ‘every second’.
Adjusting what's displayed on your watch
Wahoo watches allow users to customize which metrics are displayed during activities. Each activity type (run, walk) can have different settings.
Because Power is natively available on Wahoo watches, there’s no need to use an additional app – just make sure you move the metrics you want to see to the top of the priority list.
Power Averaging
Power averaging is explained in the Settings for all Watches/Power Meters book chapter.
Wahoo 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, make sure you move Power (3s average), Pace and Heart Rate to the top of the priority list.
Moving to the next lap
To move to the next lap, press the top right button (with the ‘two arrows’ label).
Using structured workouts
You can create structured workouts (with multiple steps, often used for interval workouts) using the Wahoo mobile app, or a 3rd-party platform like TrainingPeaks or Intervals.icu.
Uploading completed workouts
Completed workouts will be uploaded to the Wahoo website (and the ELEMNT mobile app).
If you want completed workouts uploaded to other apps (for reviewing), you should connect your Wahoo ELEMNT account to those apps, either connecting from ELEMNT to the other apps, or connecting the other apps to ELEMNT.
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