Strain Monitoring

Monitoring Strain Matters

Strain refers to how much the heart muscle stretches or contracts as it pumps blood. It's a measure of how the heart's shape changes when it goes from a relaxed state to a contracted one. The Frontier X2 is a chest-based heart monitor that helps you track strain by providing real-time data on heart function during exercise and daily activities. This helps you assess how efficiently your heart is working or if it's under stress, enabling better health decisions.

Why Strain monitoring is important

Early Detection of Heart Problems

Strain monitoring helps you identify early signs of heart dysfunction before symptoms appear.

Tracks Heart Muscle Function

It assesses how well your heart muscle contracts and stretches, crucial for evaluating heart performance.

Tracks Recovery after Heart Surgery

It helps you monitor the heart’s recovery and healing after surgeries, ensuring the treatment is effective.

Helps Prevent Overtraining

Monitoring strain prevents you from overexertion and reduces the risk of injury during intense workouts.

Non-Invasive Monitoring

Strain monitoring is a non-invasive way to continuously assess your heart function without the need for complex tests.

Tracks Effect of Lifestyle Changes

It helps you measure the impact of lifestyle changes like diet or exercise on your heart health.

Enhances Cardiac Rehab

Patients recovering from heart conditions can use strain monitoring to safely progress through cardiac rehabilitation.

Personalized Health Insights

Strain monitoring gives you personalized insights into your heart health, empowering you to take control of your overall health.

Goal Setting

Provides data to set realistic and achievable fitness goals based on individual strain capacity.

Discover why Strain monitoring
with Frontier X2 is ideal for you

Discover why Strain monitoring with Frontier X2 is ideal for you

The Frontier X2 uses advanced ECG technology to measure strain, capturing precise insights into your heart's workload during exercise. Strain monitoring captured during high-intensity or dynamic movements allows you to gauge strain more effectively, empowering you to adjust your workouts in real time and optimize recovery.

Strain score

The Frontier X2 helps you understand your Strain Score, which is a function of the  cardiovascular stress during each workout or daily activity on your body.

Better understanding of cardiac load

Evaluate your cardiac load over time, letting you see how hard your heart is working, which is crucial for optimizing training and avoiding overexertion.

Preventive health tool

By closely monitoring strain and other metrics, you can identify and respond to signs of overexertion, potentially preventing injuries and improving long-term heart health.

Accurate insights

Tracks accurate Strain with continuous ECG during any activity to help you get detailed post-activity insights

AI-generated recommendations

Push yourself safely with personalized workout insights and AI-generated recommendations for future workouts.

Seamless Integration

Syncs effortlessly with fitness apps and devices for a complete view of your health metrics.

User-friendly App Integration

Easily track and visualize calorie data through the Frontier X2 app, making it simple to stay on top of your progress.

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Go Beyond Heart Rate Monitors & Smartwatches

The Frontier X2 uses revolutionary ECG technology to track every aspect of your heart.

Frontier X2

Heart Rate Monitors

Smart Watches

High Quality ECG

Continuous ECG up to 24 hours

The world's first and only consumer wearable that allows you to record high-quality ECG in real-time for up to 24hrs during any activity.

Real time, live ECG streaming

Share your Live ECG in real-time with experts, family, or friends, whenever you want, wherever you want, even while exercising!

Detailed ECG graphs

The Frontier X2’s patented ECG technology gives you the unique ability to record up to 24 hours of highly detailed, accurate data through any activity of your choice!

Route maps with ECG

Correlate your ECG data with your GPS data to gain unprecedented insights into your ECG response to pace, elevation, intensity and distance.

Heart Health Metrics

Accurate Chest-Based Heart Rate

Track accurate chest-based Heart Rate through sleep, rest or exercise and get detailed post-activity insights.

Heart Rate Variability (HRV)

Get insights into how your body manages stress and recovery and by measuing your HRV before and after workouts.

Stay Safe with Strain monitoring

‘Strain’ measures the amount of oxygen deprivation experienced by your heart. Manage training intensity to avoid high strain on your heart for prolonged periods.

Rhythm Chart

Get a rhythm chart identifying deviations from the norm, with data explaining the duration, frequency, and occasions when these rhythms occurred.

Heart Health Insights

Activity Tagging & Health Entries

Frontier X2 allows you to capture key events, feelings, or choices in your day to help better understand the response of your heart health to those aspects.

Heart Rate Zone Training

Training in different Heart Rate Zones achieves different goals. Frontier X2 ensures you stay within your chosen zone so your goals are achieved most efficiently.

Monitor progress over time

Analyse the daily, weekly, and monthly progression of all key heart metrics including Heart Rate, Breathing Rate, Strain, and HRV.

Detailed physiological graphs

Use our dynamic web dashboard to view detailed graphic representations of all the physiological metrics measured by the Frontier X2.

Heart Rate Zone Insights

Use our dynamic web dashboard to view detailed graphic representations of all the physiological metrics measured by the Frontier X2.

AI-generated recommendations

Push yourself safely with personalized workout insights and AI-generated recommendations for future workouts.

Exercise and Training

Monitor 20 types of activities

Track and analyse 20 different types of activities, including running, cycling, meditation, sleep, rest, swimming, trekking etc

Effortless zone based training

Set real-time vibration alerts for a range of metrics so you stay within the right workout zone without needing to look at your phone or smartwatch.

Train without distraction

Use the Frontier X2 without connecting it to the mobile app. Review all your physiological metrics without repeated glances at your phone or smartwatch.

Real-time vibration alerts

Train with confidence knowing your heart is protected. Set custom alerts to give you real time feedback when you’re overstraining yourself.

Light, sturdy and durable

The Frontier X2 is so light that you’ll barely feel it on you, but also so durable that no activity is off limits!

Waterproof

The Frontier X2 is IP67 rated - waterproof and sweatproof up to 1.5 meters. Perfect for swimming!

Performance Insights

Sustainable Training with Training Load

Get a true estimate of total exertion during any activity. Weekly Training Load goals help ensure you’re improving your performance without over-training.

Prevent injury by monitoring Body Shock

Monitor your Body Shock to analyse the impact of running surfaces, gear, form changes or fatigue, helping prevent injuries during high impact activities.

Step Cadence

Measure the number of steps taken per minute while running to get additional insights into your running, walking or hiking performance.

Compatibility

Bluetooth 5.0 connectivity

Sync with external devices (Apple Watch, Garmin, Peloton, Zwift, Google Fit, Strava, Wahoo , Training Peaks and other HRM devices via Bluetooth Low Energy.

Integrate with your favorite Apps

Connect the Frontier X2 to external apps in your exercise ecosystem, including Apple Health, Google Fit, Garmin, Wahoo and Strava.

Sync your data across apps

Automatically sync your health and workout data from your favorite apps through Apple Health, Google Fit, Garmin, Wahoo and Strava.

Simultaneous multi-device connectivity

Now connect the Frontier X2 to 3 devices at the same time as an HRM.

Share your data

Securely share your data

Instantly share Frontier X2 data using a secure link so your doctor, family, or friends can stay worry free, always!

Unlimited, unrestricted downloads

Download a .FIT file of your activity summary to upload on to other platforms like Strava.

On-device memory of 24 hours

Frontier X2's on-device memory can store ECG recordings for up to 24 continuous hours, making it perfect for constant monitoring.

Unlimited cloud storage

Get unlimited storage in your own free cloud account. Get lifetime access to 1000s of hours of ECG recordings and analysis.

Share PDF reports

Download a .PDF file of your continuous ECG to either analyse yourself, or easily share with an expert.

Onboarding and Support

Get a Free Demo

Get a Free Virtual Demo upon purchasing the Frontier X2 to learn all about the device and its variety of features.

Complimentary consultation

Receive personalised insights on your training and heart health from a heart health coach who will review your Frontier X2 data and provide personalised guidance.

Lifetime 24x7 support

24x7 support available via email (support@fourtfrontier.com), live chat on our website or mobile app, or by dialling in to our toll free number.

Engage with our community

Engage with thousands of our community members, sharing stories, workouts, and recommendations in your journey towards better heart health.

Quick and easy onboarding

Get in-app onboarding and an easy to use knowledge base to get familiar and comfortable with all of the Frontier X2 features.

Quick Start User manual

Download a PDF version of the user manual by clicking here, if the step-by-step online manual isn't for you.

FAQs

What is Strain?

Strain is a measurement based on the ST-segment deviation recorded by the Frontier X from the CCS Lead position. This deviation can indicate various issues, including oxygen deprivation to a part of the heart, electrolyte imbalance, and conduction defects. Understanding strain helps assess how hard your heart is working during physical activity.

How is Strain measured during exercise?

During exercise, the ST-segment deviation is analyzed to determine strain. A deviation of less than 0.1 millivolts is considered insignificant, while a deviation above 0.2 millivolts may suggest over-strain. It’s important to note that an unusual ECG morphology can also lead to a high strain value, which should be evaluated by a trained expert.

What factors can affect Strain readings?

Strain readings can be influenced by several factors, including oxygen deprivation to the heart, electrolyte imbalances, and conduction defects. Additionally, the shape of the ECG waveform can affect readings, making visual analysis by a Cardiologist or trained expert essential for accurate interpretation.

Can Strain indicate a medical issue?

While strain provides valuable insights into cardiac performance, it is not sufficient for making clinical assessments or diagnoses. It should be interpreted in conjunction with other clinical data and evaluated by healthcare professionals.

How does the Frontier X2 monitor Strain?

The Frontier X2 monitors strain by recording ST-segment deviations from the CCS Lead position during physical activity. It analyzes these deviations in real-time, allowing users to track their heart's performance and strain levels effectively. However, it's essential to remember that strain is just one aspect of cardiac function and should not be used as a diagnostic tool.

What is strain monitoring, and why is it important?

Strain monitoring refers to the continuous assessment of strain levels during physical activity. It is important because it provides insights into how well the heart is coping with exercise and can help users understand their cardiac performance and overall fitness.

How can I use Strain data to improve my training?

By monitoring strain, you can tailor your training regimen to avoid over-exertion and optimize performance. Tracking strain levels can help you identify when to push harder or when to scale back your workouts to prevent potential issues.

Is high Strain always a cause for concern?

Not necessarily. High strain values can result from intense physical activity or unusual ECG morphology. However, it’s crucial to consult a healthcare professional for a comprehensive evaluation if you consistently experience high strain readings during exercise.

Can Strain readings vary between individuals?

Yes, strain readings can vary significantly between individuals based on factors such as fitness level, age, and underlying health conditions. Personalized assessments and guidance from healthcare professionals are essential for interpreting strain readings accurately.

How often should I monitor Strain during my workouts?

It is recommended to engage in strain monitoring during each workout, especially during intense or prolonged exercise sessions. Regular strain monitoring helps you understand your body’s response to training and make informed adjustments to your fitness routine.

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