Features
This section describes the most important features of the Downhill App Professional in more detail. Here a short summary:
- Session features
- Alert features
- Auto-detection of UP/RUN phases
- Auto-pause recording during UP phases
- Key lock feature
- Workout summary
Session features
This section describes the session features which are in common for all of our Garmin Connect IQ™ applications. The current session status is indicated by a specific sign. Following table provides an overview about all possible states of a workout session.
| Session status | Visualization | Description |
|---|---|---|
| NOT STARTED | Blinking red border | Workout session (recording) was not started so far. This is the state after starting the app. Press the "START" button to start workout. |
| UP PHASE | Blinking orange border | Workout session (recording) is running and UP phase is active (e.g. when going upwards by lift) |
| RUN PHASE | Constant grey header/footer | Workout session (recording) is running and RUN phase is active. |
| AUTO PAUSED | Blinking red pause sign | Workout session (recording) is automatically paused when the UP phase is active. |
| IDLE | Blinking yellow pause sign | Workout session is in idle phase which means that the speed is below the user-defined limit. Activity recording is still enabled. |
| MANUAL PAUSED | Blinking red stop sign | Workout session (recording) was manually paused via menu by selection of "Pause Session". No activity recording is done. It can be resumed at any point in time by entering the menu again and selecting "Resume Session". |
Start a workout session (NOT STARTED)
After starting the app the workout session status is "NOT STARTED" as the session has to be manually started by the user. This can be done by pressing the "START" button. This state is visualized by showing a blinking red boarder every two seconds as illustrates in following picture:
Workout session running (RUNNING)
After pressing the "START" button the first time after app start, the session status changes from "NOT STARTED" to "RUNNING". This is illustrated by a constant grey header/footer as shown in the following picture:
Auto-stop mode (AUTO-STOP)
Whenever the speed goes below the user-specific limit the app automatically enters the "AUTO-STOP" mode. When the speed goes above this limit, the app enters "RUNNING" mode again. This state is visualized by showing a blinking yellow boarder with a pause sign in the middle every two seconds as shown in following picture:
Manually paused session (PAUSED)
The user can manually pause the workout session at any time if the session status is in "RUNNING" or "AUTO-STOP" mode. This can be done by pressing the "START" button. A menu is shown where the user can select among following choices by either pressing the touch screen or by up/down or left/right buttons:
| User selection | Description |
|---|---|
| Resume | Start or resume workout session |
| Pause | Pause workout session. This allows the user to navigate through the data pages. The workout session can be resumed again at any time by pressing "START" button and select "Resume". |
| Save and Exit | Save workout data and close the application. After synchronization with your watch or via Garmin Express Software the workout data will be uploaded to the Garmin cloud and will be visible via Garmin Connect. |
| Discard and Exit | Discard session data and close the application. Please note that all the collected workout data is lost! |
A stopped session is indicated by a blinking red boarder and pause sign in the middle of the screen as shown in following figure:
ALERT features
Already the FREE Version of Downhill App Professional provides you basic ALERT features, e.g. to indicate the start and stop of the session recording.
Following figure illustrates how it looks on a Forerunner® 235:
In the PREMIUM version of the Downhill App Professional following additional ALERT features are provided:
Distance alert feature
In order to use this feature, please configure the proper "ALERT1 mode" and "ALERT2 mode" according to following tables:
| ALERT1 mode | Description |
|---|---|
| Disabled | Feature is disabled. |
| Single distance alert | In this mode a distance ALERT is shown once when the user-defined distance (in km or miles) is reached. |
| Periodic distance alert | In this mode a distance ALERT is shown every time when the user-defined distance (in km or miles) elapsed. |
Following figure illustrates how it looks on a Forerunner® 235:
Heart rate alert feature
| ALERT2 mode | Description |
|---|---|
| Disabled | ALERT2 feature is disabled. |
| Heart rate above limit | In this mode a heart rate ALERT is shown when the user-defined limit (in beats per minute) is exceeded. If such an alert is shown then you have ~30 seconds time for reduce the heart rate below the limit, else a new alert is shown again. |
Following figure illustrates how it looks on a Forerunner® 235:
Phase switch alert feature
In order to use this feature, please configure the proper "ALERT2 Mode" according to following tables:
| ALERT2 mode | Description |
|---|---|
| Disabled | Feature is disabled (no user-defined ALERT support). |
| Enabled | Feature is enabled and triggers an alert upon phase change (UP/RUN phase change) |
Following figure illustrates how it looks on a Forerunner® 235:
Auto-detection of UP/RUN phases
The Downhill App Professional automatically switches between UP and RUN phase if the user-defined altitude delta is exceeded.
The tracking statistics of the Downhill App Professional can be divided into following three main sections and some common data which is useful for all sections:
- UP data fields (e.g. lift-up time for Downhill activity type)
- RUN data fields
- Other data fields
The Downhill App Professional offers a huge amount of data fields which can be freely assigned to any place in the data pages in the PREMIUM version.
Note:
Please note that in the FREE Version not all data fields are available.
COMMON data fields
- Current altitude (ALT)
- Current heart rate (HR)
- Current heart rate zone (HR ZONE)
- Current heart rate in percentage of the maximum heart rate (M HR%)
- Current run average heart rate (CR AHR)
- Current run maximum heart rate (CR MHR)
- Current speed (SPEED)
- Current temperature (TEMP)
- Current time (TIME)
- Current vertical speed (VSPD 10s)
- Maximum altitude (MAX ALT)
- Minimum altitude (MIN ALT)
- Maximum speed of current run (CR MSPD)
- Total burned calories (KCAL)
- Total distance (DIST)
- Total elapsed time (ELAPS)
- Total vertical ascent (UP)
- Total vertical decent (DOWN)
UP data fields
- Total up distance (UP DIST)
- Total up time (UP TIME)
RUN data fields
- Amount of runs (RUNS)
- Average heart rate (R AHR)
- Average speed (R ASPD)
- Average vertical speed (R AVSPD)
- Maximum heart rate (R MHR)
- Maximum speed (R MSPD)
- Maximum vertical speed (R MVSPD)
- Total run distance (R DIST)
- Total run time (R TIME)
Other data fields
- Current UP/RUN phase (PHASE)
- Total idle time (IDLE)
Auto-pause recording during UP phases
The Downhill App Professional supports the innovative feature to disable session recording during UP phases.
Note:
No data is recorded during app phases!Note:
The data fields for UP phase and the IDLE data field have to be ignored in that mode as they make no sense!
Screen lock feature
When the session is started, the screen lock feature can be activated by following sequence:
- Press "START" button.
- Scroll down until "Lock Screen" appears in the menu.
- Select "Lock Screen".
When the screen lock feature is active, only the "START" button will be handled anymore, all other buttons or touch screen inputs are ignored.
To disable the screen lock again, please perform following steps:
- Press "START" button.
- Scroll down until "Unlock Screen" appears in the menu.
- Select "Unlock Screen".
Workout summary
After saving the workout session a workout summary is shown on devices with CIQ2 and later with following information:
- Duration in the format m:ss, mm:ss, h:mm:ss or hh:mm:ss.
- Distance in km or mi.
- Average speed in km/h or mi/h.
- Average pace in min/km or min/mi.
- Average heart rate in bpm.
- Elevation gain in feet or meter (except for swimming activity type).
- Elevation loss in feet or meter (except for swimming activity type).
- Calories consumption in kcal.