Connecting a bike or heart rate sensor

Connect your bike or heart-rate sensor to the CycleMasters app for more insight during and after your workout. You’ll then see your current performance and you can train in zones that match your level.

Can I connect my Bluetooth bike?

You can generally connect a bike with Bluetooth. The data it measures and transmits varies by model. A Bluetooth connection does not mean that all metrics are available. We do not have a list of tested bikes.

You can also follow classes without connecting your bike or a sensor.

Which sensors can you connect?

You can connect the following Bluetooth devices:

• A bike
• A bike sensor, for example for cadence
• A heart-rate monitor or heart-rate strap

Do you use an Apple Watch? You connect it separately in the iPhone app, with permission through Apple Health. This is not supported in the iPad app. Read how to connect your Apple Watch.

What can you do with a connected sensor?

After connecting, you’ll see extra data on screen during the workout. Which data is available depends on your sensor:

• Heart-rate monitor: your current heart rate, the percentage of your maximum heart rate and your personal heart-rate zone.
• Bike with power measurement: among other things speed, cadence, distance and power (watts), including the percentage of your FTP and your zone.
• Cadence sensor: your number of revolutions per minute (RPM), next to the target of the workout.

The app uses data from your heart-rate monitor or bike to make the track zones personal. That way, you can better see whether you’re training at the right intensity during a track. You choose which metrics you see. Read more about the metrics during a workout.

After your workout, you can also find your results back on the overview page for that workout. The available data depends on what your connected bike or sensor measures and transmits. Calories remain an estimate; heart rate or power data makes the calculation more personal. With a connected sensor, graphs for power, heart rate, and the corresponding zones can also be shown.

How to connect a sensor

1. Turn on Bluetooth on the device where you use the CycleMasters app.
2. Make sure your bike or sensor is switched on and active.
3. In the app, open Connections.
4. Wait while the app searches for available heart-rate monitors and bikes.
5. Select your device from the list and tap Connect.
6. Follow any instructions in the app to complete the connection.

To set your heart rate zones, the app estimates your maximum heart rate from your birth year. Do you know your maximum heart rate? Choose I know my maximum heart rate and enter it yourself.

Do you connect a bike with power measurement? Then enter your weight and cycling level to estimate your FTP and your power zones. If you know your FTP, choose I know my FTP and enter it.

Where can you connect a sensor?

You can open Connections at three points:

• On the home screen, via the Bluetooth icon in the top bar.
• On the workout details page, via the Connections button.
• During a workout, via the Sensors button at the top.

So you don’t have to leave a workout if you want to connect your sensor after all. As soon as the connection is made, the available data will appear in the workout.

Connecting on your TV

In the CycleMasters app on your TV, open Settings and then Sensors, or choose Sensors during a workout. Choose Find a sensor, select your bike or heart rate monitor and choose Connect. Your TV needs Bluetooth for this. Apple Watch cannot be connected to the CycleMasters app on your TV.