Using the Application

Application Overview:

• iMobileIntervals is for iPhone OS version 3.1.3 and higher and works with both iPhone and iPod Touch.
• Quick Start will begin an open-ended workout.
• Pair your ANT+ sensors in Settings.
• Speed and distance will be calculated using GPS for iPhone users if no ANT+ stride or speed sensor is found
• iMi will run without a network connection
• Connect to the network to use telemetry, the iMi web workout libraries or your TrainingPeaks workouts
• When the device is locked the app will continue to work normally (except for telemetry: when sending telemetry you should let the proximity sensor turn off the display).

Settings:

• As of version 2.10.0 the settings are under the Settings tab and not in the iPhone Settings app .
• Some noteworthy settings:
  1. Music Selections: choose default and per-intensity-zone music collections.
  2. ANT+ Sensors: Pair or switch your HRM, stride sensor, speed/cadence or power meter.
  3. Use ANT+: Turn on or off al ANT+ sensor features
  4. Display NP/IF: Changes Avg Watts to Normalized Watts and Intensity Factor for the current interval. Requires a power meter and your threshold watts (functional threshold power) set in your user profile on this website.
  5. Display TSS: If a power meter is used this will display Training Stress Score instead of speed. Also requires our threshold watts (functional threshold power) set in your user profile on this website.
  6. Auto-log Workouts: If this is off you will be prompted to log your workouts to this site or to TrainingPeaks.
  7. Use Location: If off iMi will not include location data in Telemetry or logged data. This does not override the device-wide location setting in the Settings app.
  8. Default Activity: iMi will set the workout activity in workout logging based on the kind of sensor (e.g. stride meter, power meter). However if sensors are not used this setting can tell iMi what your activity is, as well as differentiate between similar sensor-using activities (e.g. walk vs run, mtn bike vs bike).
  9. Live Telemetry; Enables sending data over the network to the iMi telemetry widget. Proximity for telemetry enables the iPhone telemetry sensor turning off the display.
  10. Wheel circumference: Measured distance the wheel travels over the ground in one turn, in millimeters.
  11. Use progress cues: e.g. "5 minutes remaining", "halfway", etc.
  12. Use tones: transition with 5 second countdown beeps rather than spoken counting, and if you are using progress cues precede each verbal cue with a beep
  13. Autostart music: if Yes the music will begin to play when you press play to start the workout. Don't forget to set a default music collection the first time you use IMI, or no music will play.
  14. Login: enter your user/pwd for this site in order to access your personal workouts.
  15. Training Peaks Login: enter your user/pwd for Training Peaks to have your completed workouts, including intervals, sent to your Training Peaks calendar.
  16. Facebook: Facebook can post to your wall when telemetry is beginning and also when your workout is complete. Use the Auto-status update setting to manage whether it asks permission to do so. Requires installing the iMobileIntervals Facebook App first (http://apps.facebook.com/imobileintervals).

Workouts Library:

• The Browse Lib tab is for accessing your online workouts.
• Public workouts are listed in several modes of browsing:
  1. Alphabetic
  2. By category
  3. By Author
• Personal workouts are available once you have configured the Settings to let the app authenticate to this site.
• "My Planned Workouts" displays a list of today's workouts as scheduled in an iMi training plan.
• "My TrainingPeaks Workouts" displays a list of today's workouts as scheduled in TrainingPeaks.
• "My Group Workouts" displays a list of workouts exclusive to the iMi group membership of the user.

Workout Detail:

• Selecting a workout from the list displays the following:
  1. Workout title
  2. Author, duration, category and creation date info
  3. Load and begin buttons
  4. Description
  5. List of intervals
• If you have already loaded the workout to the device the Load button will be disabled and the Load+Go button will say Begin.
• In the Intervals detail each interval will display the following.
  • Interval duration and descriptor in bold
  • Cadence, watts zone and hr zone (if specified)
• If an interval is specified to be a "Block Header" it will be in yellow and the contained intervals will follow in grey with an indent.
• Block headers will display the sum duration if its child intervals.

Loaded Workouts:

• The Loaded tab shows workouts already loaded to the device
• When a workout is loaded the workout data is downloaded to the device
• The workout detail only differs from the online workouts in that the action buttons are "Delete" and "Begin"
• "Delete" will remove the workout and its audio files from the device, not the website.
• Once loaded workouts can be used with no network availability

Using TrainingPeaks workouts:
TrainingPeaks supplies no interval information about its workouts. Here are some tips to using TP workouts in iMi.

• If you have a workout in your calendar and iMi does a workout on the same day set with the same activity type (e.g. Bike), it should update the existing workout with your results
• You may choose to import your TrainingPeaks workout or pair it with an existing iMi workout.
• Import will create a workout with a single interval of the TP workout duration, or open-ended if that is not specified.
• Pairing will load a table view of the iMi workouts library, including the loaded workouts. Choose the workout and it will be "tagged" as linking to that TP workout
• Such TP linked workouts will use the TP title, activity, scheduled date and description as it reports to iMi and tries to update the scheduled workout on TrainingPeaks

Ad Hoc Workouts:

• Ad hoc workouts are workouts you can create right in the iMi app, without visiting the website.
• Open-ended workouts are useful if you just want a running clock with lap capability, or just want to collect data or send telemetry.
• The intervals option allows for creating a simple work/rest iteration with warmup and cool-down.

Running Workouts:

• Once you choose "Begin" or "Load+Go" the running workout interface will be presented.
• The controls are hidden and shown by tapping the screen once.
• A double-tap will pause or start the workout (with controls hidden or displayed).
• The lap button is only enabled during open-ended workouts (where the interval is counting up, not down) and resets the interval counter to 0:00:00.
• If at any time you need to shut down the application (i.e. answer a phone call) just press the main button; when you relaunch the application it will ask if you want to resume the saved workout.
• Click the "music" button to access the music settings.
• Scan ANT+ searches for any sensors that are paired but not connected. It does not look for unpaired sensors. To pair sensors visit Settings>>ANT+ Sensors.
• You may step forward or back through the intervals as well as restart the workout.
• It takes a few seconds to decode the audio into memory. Normally this is done for the next interval while the current interval is running. During this time the skipping buttons are disabled.
• An application busy spinner during the live workout means that the app is loading some audio into memory. You will only see this at the beginning of the workout or if you are skipping intervals. it may last for a few seconds.
• The "done" button will close the workout and start the logging process.

Using Telemetry:

• Telemetry allows you to send your data and location in real time to the iMi telemetry widget.
• This widget is embeddable using the script available on this website, as described here: iMi 2.1 Featuring Data/Location Telemetry
• Telemetry is also available with your iMi username in this url: http://imobileintervals/t/imiusername
• The iMi Facebook app can post this url (or a custom url of your choice) on your wall when your telemetry is beginning: http://apps.facebook.com/imobileintervals/
• Even iPod Touch users can use telemetry if they are training indoors or ride with a mifi (though in this case location depends on sensing wifi zones).
• Planned variations for telemetry include groups of riders on one widget/map and a mobile app for viewing telemetry

Music Player Controls:

• Note: You will need to add music to a music collection in order to use music during your workout. Set music collections via the music controls on the running workout controlset, or from the Music tab.
• IMI will access the built-in ipod music player and your music. If a music player session is active when you begin a workout, it will close that instance of the music player and start its own.
• The leftmost symbol is to access the music collections settings. The first time you run a workout you should access this area and at least set a default music collection so the music player will function.
• The workout collection (if set) will override the default collection.
• The auto-start setting is accessed through the device settings app, not from these controls.
• If music auto-starts and you wish to turn it off, pause the music and it will remain off. Likewise if you have not set the app to auto-start music you may start the music manually (with controls toggled to music) before or after starting the workout with the "play" button (with controls toggled to workout).

Progress Cues:
Progress cues are voice indicators of your progress (e.g. "one minute remaining"), are on by default and can be set in the device settings.
In an interval the cue occurs every five minutes above 20 minutes, then every two minutes until there are 6 minutes remaining, then every minute, then finally 30 seconds remaining. Halfway is announced for every interval over 30 seconds in duration.

About adjusting app volume:
You may adjust the master volume with the volume buttons on the case. This sets a maximum for all sounds on the device. It is the same setting as the volume slider in the ipod music player. The volume slider on the IMI controls only adjusts the volume of the spoken voice or tones. If you are using a workout that uses tones you may want to turn them down with this; otherwise you likely should leave the volume turned up.