A dedicated live coach
Let ZoneCue continuously watch the target and cue you while you stay focused on moving.
ZoneCue Cardio Garmin · Free Android beta
Turn your Garmin into live cardio guidance.
Compatible Garmin watches and heart-rate straps can make live heart rate available over Bluetooth. ZoneCue Cardio listens to that signal and gives you timely coaching while there is still time to adjust the workout.
Requires Android and a compatible Garmin device actively broadcasting heart rate over Bluetooth.
LIVE WORKOUT
18:42132BPM
ZONE 2Dialed In
TIME IN ZONE14:08
ZONE DISCIPLINE92%
GOAL30 min
COACHING CUEDialed In
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GARMINBroadcasts your live heart rate
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ZONECUEMonitors your target and goal
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YOUHear when to push or ease up
Connect Garmin
From live heart rate to live guidance.
Requires Android and a compatible Garmin device actively broadcasting heart rate over Bluetooth.
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Start Broadcast Heart Rate on a compatible Garmin watch, or activate your Bluetooth heart-rate strap.
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Keep broadcast mode running and select the device inside ZoneCue Cardio.
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Choose your workout structure, target zones and goal, then start training.
What ZoneCue adds to Garmin
Keep the sensor you trust. Add coaching built for the workout.
Garmin devices can collect and display rich training data. ZoneCue provides a streamlined, phone-based experience built specifically around proactive zone guidance and goal execution.
Consistent across devices
Use the same ZoneCue workflow when you change compatible Garmin hardware—or move to another sensor brand.
Workout goals in view
Train toward time, distance, time in zone or exertion with progress tied to the active session.
Custom zones without clutter
Choose maximum-heart-rate, heart-rate-reserve or custom ranges in a focused cardio interface.
One community. Many sensors.
Help build cardio coaching that works across devices.
ZoneCue brings users with different sensors into one beta community. Together, testers can share what works, identify connection differences and shape features around real workouts—not one hardware ecosystem.
Join with Garmin →Learn across devices
Compare zone strategies and workout structures with people using different sensors.
Improve compatibility
Report real connection behavior so support can become broader and more reliable.
Shape the roadmap
Help prioritize the coaching, goals and insights that matter during actual training.
Learn your zones
Why Zone 2 matters
Your body uses a mix of fat and carbohydrate for energy during cardio. As intensity rises, that balance gradually changes—it is not an on/off switch.
EffortThe gas pedal
Heart rateThe dashboard gauge
Fat + carbohydrateThe fuel sources
MitochondriaAerobic engines inside your muscle cells
ZoneFat contributionCardio stimulusWhat it means
Easy and sustainable. Useful for recovery and adding activity volume.
Substantial fat contribution, meaningful aerobic conditioning and sustainable for longer sessions.
A stronger tempo effort as carbohydrate demand begins to rise.
Hard threshold work with greater reliance on glycogen and faster fatigue.
Near-maximal, carbohydrate-dominant work that is difficult to sustain.
The useful middle ground
The Zone 2 sweet spot
Zone 2 is hard enough to provide a meaningful aerobic stimulus, moderate enough to maintain substantial fat oxidation and easy enough to sustain. With consistent aerobic training, your mitochondria (aerobic engines inside your muscle cells) can become more numerous and efficient, helping you produce more energy aerobically and do more work at the same heart rate.
Zone 2 is not the only valuable training zone. It is simply one of the most practical places to build your aerobic foundation.
Keep the distinction clear
Fat burning is not the same as fat loss
A workout can emphasize fat oxidation without guaranteeing a loss of body fat. Long-term changes in body fat also depend on overall energy intake and expenditure over time.
Heart-rate zones are estimates and vary by person, method and device. This lesson is general fitness education, not medical advice.
Further reading: fat oxidation and exercise intensity · exercise and mitochondrial adaptation
Join the tester community
Two workouts. Fourteen days. Honest feedback.
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Join the closed Google Play test using the Google Account email in your application.
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Complete at least two cardio workouts and test the Garmin connection and coaching cues.
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Tell us what happened—including bugs, confusing moments and features that helped.
Limited beta
Ready to put your heart-rate data to work?
We’re looking for a mix of Android phones, heart-rate sensors and cardio routines. The beta is free, and every current feature is included.
You’re a good fit if you:
- ✓ Use an Android phone
- ✓ Have a compatible broadcasting sensor
- ✓ Train with heart-rate zones
- ✓ Can test during two or more workouts
Prefer to wait?
Get notified when ZoneCue Cardio launches.
Interested, but not ready to beta test? Join the launch list and we’ll let you know when the Android app becomes publicly available.
Please read before applying
Beta and exercise disclaimer
ZoneCue Cardio is beta software intended for general fitness and informational purposes only. It is not a medical device and does not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Heart-rate readings, alerts and workout guidance may be delayed, interrupted or inaccurate. Consult a qualified healthcare professional before beginning or changing an exercise program, and stop exercising if you experience pain, dizziness, unusual shortness of breath or other concerning symptoms. Participation is voluntary and use of the beta is at your own risk.
ZoneCue Cardio is an independent app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by WHOOP, Polar, Garmin, Wahoo or Orangetheory Fitness.