Jabra Sport Coach - sports a wireless headset with a personal trainer

Most sports training is based either on quantity or on time performance. Or are you doing strictly specified number of repetitions, or trying to post as much as possible within a certain amount of time. In both cases refers to the intervals of rest between sets, as well as clearly defined training program. All this is necessary to keep in mind and to consider himself or to buy a personal instructor who will take over control of your workout. Coach is costly and is unlikely to agree to sing your favorite songs, and so the ability to replace its headphones, for which you need to pay only once, seems to be more than attractive.

Design, comfort and sound

Form Factor Jabra Sport Coach - in-ear monitor with a double locking system.

Four variants of removable plugs of different sizes and three types of replaceable shells, two of which are provided with resilient clamps.

Latch gently rests on the ear and eliminates the possibility that the earpiece falls out.

In fact this is the first model of gags, even combined, in which I proved convenient and comfortable. They brought me into the world and made vnutrikanalok again believe in this form factor.

Soft connecting wire located behind, freely rests on the neck and contractible special "widget" as necessary (complete two). Right on the wire is a control panel, which also is a microphone.

Deficiency in design Jabra Sport Coach one - vacuum insulating effect is peculiar in general to all in-ear monitor. A little lost touch with the outside world, you stop to hear what is happening around. On the one hand, it helps to focus on training, and on the other - makes you wonder about the feasibility of sports where there are cars.

As compensation, your ears get the same great sound, precisely and accurately transmit the full range of audible frequencies. Bass elegant. Turn on some dynamic heavy music, and you just breaks from drive. This does not take away from vnutrikanalok, well, peculiar Jabra quality only reinforces the advantage of this form factor.

My little coach

instructor function Jabra Sport Coach, of course, is not a fully functional replacement for a living person. This is not a harsh army-style-overseer, who will yell at you and call-willed, lazy piece of shit, and not a good coach in the trendy fitness club, slapping you on the back just for an appearance on occupation. In this case, the instructor - a combination of the application Jabra Sport Life with preset and user training programs amounts to + earphones through which you receive instructions for action and the outcome. The principle of operation is explained in the video is available.

With exercises all the time is pretty obvious. The question is how the headphones and the app will keep track of repetitions, if I do it in quantitative terms.

In fact, they do not keep track of repetition. The left ear is a button.

After the signal the beginning I was doing approach, make the desired number of repetitions and the touch of a button to announce the completion of the application. Further, in the ear receives information about how much I can relax, and then announcing the next stage of training and the signal to start.

The application contains several dozen predefined exercises and training programs, but allows you to create your own program entirely for themselves. Combine temporal and quantitative types of exercise is also possible. By the way, the coach will work with Jabra Sport PulseThat are sure to please current and future owners of the headphone models with heart rate monitor.

According to such a straightforward scheme effectively turns engage without any distractions on your smartphone or smartwatch, which we used to Tapa and something to make them. One button on the headset does everything. In this story about the built-in coach, you can complete and move to testing.

test the water

Classification system apparatus enclosure degrees of protection against the ingress of solid foreign objects and water (Ingress Protection Rating, or simply IP) headphones with class IP55, ie:

1. A certain amount of dust can penetrate inside, but it does not affect the operation of the device. Complete protection against contact.
2. Protection against water jets from any direction.

In theory, such a level of protection is sufficient to use the device in the US Army. Cool? Yes, absolutely do not care, that's marketing! More importantly, the Jabra Sport Coach in practice have successfully gone through a gentlemen's set of tests. To begin with, as expected, the headphones were abundantly watered with water.

Fifth level of protection against moisture and water resistance before and assumes jets, i.e. water falls on pressure device, but go with headphones in the shower, as well as deliberately wait for heavy rain, such as ridiculous. In general, when water tests had no fear, and the result is quite expected - the headphones are alive and well.

Running and gym

After water Jabra Sport Coach procedures run off with Nastya Pivovarova.

Impressions after training received mixed but generally positive:

Headset, as was intended, very tight to the ear. Controversial results. On the one hand, the headset is well kept. On the other hand - a complete vacuum in the head. With this sense of "dive" in themselves and running, completely fenced off from the outside world. Master headset and the application can be in a jiffy. Very simple interface, in which it is impossible to get lost. In this type of training very much. You can also set the goals: how many kilometers, how many calories, how long are you running, and so on. This feature is especially pleased because I, for example, the load is increased gradually and did not want to take it as I ran there. I want to run away and not think. A separate application can be connected to music. Headset to communicate well, recorded voice is nice and speaks clearly.

Then I took the headphones to the gym, and then in all its glory himself showed soft wire - there is no interference when exercising lying on a bench. My program is based on progressive training principles with an emphasis on power. Not too many sets and reps, strictly planned weight rather long breaks. Previously, all of this was recorded in a notebook, but hastily compiled in Jabra Sport Life coaching first time was successful.

Sometimes you wake up in a conservative, and to abandon proven over the years progress fixation techniques can be very difficult, but in this case is simply no choice. Why do I need to watch the clock? Why pick up a pen? Press one button and on what not distracted. No need to poke into the smartphone. You can leave it in a safe place, away from the ruthless fragile technique to dumbbells.

Personal digital instructor leads me on drawing up training me. This is a great, a very unusual experience. If you have not previously had to deal with artificial assistant, be sure to try. Return to less efficient classics you do not want.

About Battery Life

Five hours in active mode: When listening to music uninterrupted with parallel operation of a coach. It seems little, but everything is explained by weight and compact headphones. Jabra Sport Coach weigh only 16 grams. Sixteen! Obviously, in such a structure will not fit large capacious battery, but who trains five full hours? Yes you and the music so do not listen, right? The battery will last for training and simple periodic listening to music during the day.

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Spitting against marketers

It is not the first time I encounter a strange strategy for me too narrow product positioning. The last time I tested Plantronics BackBeat FITAnd the producer called them "sport." Nothing like this! That was the universal headset on any day, it is not necessary to wear it only during exercise. In the case of the Jabra Sport Coach is still worse, because, according to the manufacturer, it is not just a sport, and headphones oriented CrossFit. Oh really? I do not do CrossFit and other fashion pieces, but to me these headphones are perfect come! I enjoyed a few days in trenazhorke, transport, walking, sometimes even at home, and was very pleased. The price tag of $ 149 by itself may be stopping factor, so why deliberately limit the audience? It is not krossfitnye and versatile sports headphones with an assistant instructor for the training of any format. Like this.

Layfhaker would like to thank the store iCover for providing the test device.

Jabra Sport Coach