Breathing Rate

Optimize Your Breathing

Breathing rate represents the number of breaths you take per minute and plays a crucial role in delivering oxygen to your tissues and removing carbon dioxide. It is a vital indicator of overall health, reflecting how well your body is responding to physical activity, stress, and relaxation. Tracking your breathing rate with the Frontier X2 provides valuable insights into your physical condition and emotional state. For instance, a higher rate at rest may indicate stress, while a slower rate suggests relaxation. By checking your breathing rate, you can make informed decisions to enhance your well-being and optimize your fitness routine.

Why tracking breathing rate is important

Respiratory Health

Tracking breathing rate can help monitor respiratory health conditions alerting you to potential flare-ups.

Preventive Health

Early identification of abnormal breathing rates can prompt further investigation and preventive care.

Oxygen Utilization

Helps assess how efficiently your body utilizes oxygen during physical activity.

Physical Performance

Checking your breathing rate helps you enhance your athletic performance . Research from the National Library of Medicine highlights that measuring respiratory rate has important implications for healthcare, occupational settings, and sport.

Recovery Assessment

A slower breathing rate post-exercise can indicate effective recovery and improved cardiovascular fitness.

Tailored Fitness Programs

Facilitates the creation of personalized fitness programs based on breathing rate data.

Indicator of Stress Levels

Elevated breathing rates can signal stress or anxiety, helping you identify when to employ relaxation techniques.

Fitness Monitoring

Changes in breathing rate during exercise can indicate your fitness level and endurance.

Chronic Illness Management

Tracking your breathing rate is useful for managing chronic illnesses as it provides insights into overall respiratory function.

Discover why tracking Breathing Rate
with Frontier X2 is ideal for you

Discover why tracking Breathing Rate with Frontier X2 is ideal for you

The Frontier X2 is perfect for tracking breathing rate, offering real-time insights and accurate measurements that reveal how your body responds to activity and stress. Its integrated health monitoring features correlate breathing rate with heart rate, providing a comprehensive view of your well-being. By empowering you with actionable data, the Frontier X2 helps you make informed decisions for better overall wellness.

Accurate Measurements

Designed for precision, Frontier X2 ensures accurate tracking of your breathing patterns, helping you monitor your health effectively.

Activity Correlation

Understand how different activities affect your breathing rate, helping you tailor workouts for optimal performance and recovery.

Integrated Health Monitoring

The Frontier X2 tracks multiple health metrics, including heart rate and breathing rate, offering a comprehensive view of your cardiovascular and respiratory health.

All-in-One Activity Companion

Perfect companion to track your breathing rate during walking, running, cycling, training, rowing, and over 20 other activities.

Seamless Integration

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

User-Friendly Interfaces

Frontier X2 comes with a user-friendly app that allows you to easily access your data.

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Go Beyond Heart Rate Monitors & Smartwatches

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

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Heart Rate Monitors

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Go Beyond Heart Rate Monitors & Smartwatches

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

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 the breathing rate, and how is it measured?

Breathing rate is the number of breaths taken per minute. In healthy adults at rest, it typically ranges from 12 to 16 breaths per minute. During exercise, this rate can increase to 40 to 60 breaths per minute. The Frontier X2 measures breathing rate by analyzing changes in ECG morphology in real time, providing accurate data on your respiratory function.

How does exercise affect breathing rate?

During physical exertion, the body's demand for oxygen increases, leading to a higher breathing rate. As you transition from light to intense exercise, your breathing rate will rise correspondingly, helping to meet the oxygen needs of your muscles. Monitoring your breathing rate with the Frontier X2 can provide insights into your training intensity and cardiovascular fitness.

Why is breathing rate important for assessing training load and recovery?

Breathing rate is closely associated with perceived exertion, making it a valuable metric for assessing training load. By tracking changes in your breathing rate during workouts, you can gauge the intensity of your exercises and monitor your recovery. The Frontier X2 provides real-time data, allowing you to optimize your training based on your respiratory response.

What factors can influence breathing rate?

Several factors can affect breathing rate, including age, fitness level, body position, and environmental conditions. Generally, fit individuals may have lower resting breathing rates due to more efficient respiratory systems. The Frontier X2 helps you track your breathing rate over time, allowing you to observe how these factors impact your performance.

How does the Frontier X2 monitor breathing rate?

The Frontier X2 monitors breathing rate by utilizing changes in ECG morphology and onboard algorithms to analyze respiratory patterns. This technology allows for accurate and continuous monitoring of your breathing rate during rest and exercise, providing valuable insights into your overall health and performance.

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