Myzone – the brand behind one of the most accurate heart rate trackers on the market – has launched the world’s first interchangeable PPG and ECG heart rate monitor that can be used on the chest, arm, or wrist.
At a time when physical activity and mental wellbeing have never been more important, MZ-Switch ensures that all users are motivated to move and that every move counts. Never has a healthy lifestyle been more accessible, inclusive, or convenient. Combining Myzone’s ethos of rewarding effort over physical fitness, MZ-Switch is the only fitness monitor offering holistic health benefits, however, you choose to move, including in water. With the functionality of incredible battery life, class-leading accuracy, and real-time feedback, MZ-Switch offers everything users need to enjoy exercise.
Patent-pending technology
MZ-Switch is the first device in the world that has a dual purpose of both PPG (photoplethysmography) and ECG (electrocardiography) readings, providing a complete pathway for accurate monitoring and ensuring there are no blind spots in a user’s physical activity measurement.
The wrist-based monitor provides 95% PPG accuracy for any non-gripping activity with repeatable movements, including swimming, running, HIIT, and so on. The tracking technology uses an optical blood flow sensor that shines an LED light into the skin to measure the movement of blood in the arm. Blood flow is matched to the heartbeat pumping blood around the body to determine the user’s heart-rate. As MZ-Switch is 100% waterproof and can successfully track heart-rate underwater, wrist tracking is perfect for swimming.
Clear and accessible data
Myzone has always been about providing complicated data in a simple format for fun, fair fitness. MZ-Switch offers that easy transition for people wanting to start recording their accurate physical activity with an unintimidating and less invasive wrist or forearm strap that records the heart’s activity through the pulse. This is ideal for people who walk or cycle and then can transition to physical activity tracking for higher intensity exercise without purchasing a different product as the MZ-Switch doubles up as an ECG monitor. The small size of the module similarly makes tracking your activity easier than ever – offering the same phenomenal battery life of 3-6 months and data as its predecessor but with a larger memory and advanced technology.
Connectivity
With Ant+, Bluetooth, and a built-in memory of 36 hours, MZ-Switch streams live statistics to your smartphone, third-party apps, and devices, such as Apple Watch, Samsung Watches, Android wear, Strava, Garmin, MapMyRun, and Apple Health, while storing the data for future upload to the Myzone in-club display or the Myzone app. You can also join in at-home workouts from your gym using MZ-Remote.
MZ-Switch boasts a battery life of 3-6 months on a single charge. If used on the chest only (using ECG technology), users will receive 140 hours of battery life on a single charge. If used four times a week, this equates to 6-8 months. If used solely on the wrist or forearm (using PPG technology), users will receive 35 hours. If used four times a week, this equates to 2-3 months.
Availability
MZ-Switch will be available to buy from www.buy.myzone.org on 24th March 2021 for £139.99 (USD $159.99 / AUD $209.99 / CAN $199.99 / EUR €159.99). The chest belt, the wrist, and forearm straps are all provided in red with a handy pouch to store them in. Aqua, Grey, Purple, and Midnight Black watch straps are available from the Myzone shop website. Additional colors will follow.