Morpheus M5 Getting Started

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Welcome to Morpheus!

Thank you for investing in the world's first digital recovery coach.

You've taken a serious step toward balancing training and life stress with

recovery. By following Morpheus's guidance and actively pursuing a recovery-

driven lifestyle on a daily basis - as opposed to training as hard as you can as

often as possible - you'll quickly feel the difference and see your fitness

improve faster than ever.

This PDF guide contains everything you need to get started using Morpheus to

train, track, and test your recovery.

Aside from this guide, make sure to advantage of the Morpheus Facebook

community, where you'll find other like-minded coaches, athletes, and fitness

enthusiasts striving to live healthy, balanced lives.

This is a great place to ask questions, share training experiences, gather

feedback, and connect with your fellow "Morphites."

Visit the

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Now it's time for the fun stuff-learning how to train hard and recover harder with Morpheus.

- Joel Jamieson

Morpheus Creator

Getting Started ..................................................................................................................................................................... 2-5

Morpheus M5 Armband Basics ............................................................................................................................................ 5-7

Daily Morpheus Recovery Test ............................................................................................................................................. 7-9

Tracking with Morpheus ................................................................................................................................................... 10-11

Training with Morpheus ................................................................................................................................................... 12-16

Training with M3 Chest Strap While Not Connected to App ............................................................................................ 16-18

Training with M5 Armband Strap ..................................................................................................................................... 19-22

Sleeping with Morpheus........................................................................................................................................................ 23

Using Morpheus to Adjust Daily Training and Recovery Strategies .................................................................................. 23-26

Morpheus Maintenance and Support .............................................................................................................................. 26-28

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Also, to stay updated on all things Morpheus, like us and follow us on Instagram and Facebook. Now it’s time for the fun stuff—learning how to train hard and recover harder with Morpheus. - Joel Jamieson Morpheus Creator Table of Contents Getting Started ..................................
Page 2: Getting Started
1. Install the app via the Google Play Store (Android) or the App Store (iOS). If you’re using iOS, please note that the Morpheus app is only compatible with the iPhone, not the iPad. 2. Launch the app and select “Create an account.” 3. Select “I have a band.” This is indicating that you do have a M5 Armband device.
Page 3 4. Follow the prompts to enter your basic info and create an account password. 5. Enter your fitness stats. If you know your max heart rate, enter it here. Otherwise, Morpheus will estimate it for you. You will also need to estimate your general fitness level – low, moderate, or high.
Page 4 If you prefer not to track your activity, you can select “none” from the drop-down menu. Please note that tracking is not required to get a recovery score, but the more information Morpheus collects, the more accurately he’ll be able to calculate your recovery and provide guidance for daily training zones.
Page 5: Morpheus M5 Armband Basics
1. If there is no operation for 15 seconds, the display will turn off. This will not take place when heart rate monitoring is taking place (such as during a workout or during HRV test). 2. If there is no operation and no heart rate monitoring for 5 minutes, the M5 unit will power off automatically.
Page 6 B. If you are also wearing the M3 chest strap and have it connected to the M5, then the M3 is the heart rate measuring device while the M5 provides visibility to live heart rate numbers. If doing this, you may opt to wear the M5 in more of a wrist watch position if that allows easier visibility.
Page 7: Daily Morpheus Recovery Test
D. Digital Clock Interface The M5 is not intended to be worn all day as a watch, but it does have a digital watch interface. The time will sync from the time on your mobile phone after your device has been paired to your Morpheus mobile app.
Page 8 . Morpheus will crunch all the numbers and provide you with a recovery score % for the day. 12. Once the Recovery Test has been completed, the M5 screen will show a checkmark symbol which indicates that heart rate zones have been set for that day.
Page 9 What Determines Your Recovery Score? The power of Morpheus is in how smart he is and how much he continues to learn about your data the more you use him. There are several factors that determine your recovery score. Below is an overview.
Page 10: Tracking With Morpheus
Track You can view your sleep, HRV, training, activity, and recovery data all from the screen of the Morpheus app. To view each subset of data over time, simply tap the quadrant you wish to select. Your data summary will appear in the chart at the bottom of the screen.
Page 11 If you scroll back more than 3 months, it may take Morpheus some time to load all your previous data. Note that an internet connection is required to keep the data synched between your phone and the cloud and view data that is older than 3 months.
Page 12: Training With Morpheus
The lower your recovery score, the lower your 3 heart rate zones will be for that day. These zones will be set on your M5 after your recovery test has been completed. You will know that the zones have been set by the screen shown below that will appear on the M5.
Page 13 Strength NOTE: Heart rate zones will not be displayed if is selected, though Morpheus will still track heart rate and volume and intensity via RPE at the end of the session to help monitor recovery. Start 2. Once you’ve chosen your workout type, select 3.
Page 14 Chart 6. After 10 seconds, the app will begin charting your heart rate in the feature at the bottom of the Chart Live screen. You can toggle between the view and the display, which shows your heart rates continuously instead of in 10-second intervals. You can change the time range displayed within the Live and Chart views by tapping anywhere on the graph.
Page 15 Pause 8. To pause or end the workout, select the blue button and follow Finish Resume. the prompt to Finish 9. If you press , a post-workout questionnaire will appear. Answer the questions by moving the slider scale anywhere from 0 to 10. •...
Page 16: Training With M3 Chest Strap While Not Connected To App
) screen to see your recovery score adjust up or down, depending on volume and intensity of the workout. Morpheus analyzes your time in each zone, total time, average heart rate, and RPE in order to calculate post-workout recovery score.
Page 17 When you are ready to transfer your workout data to the Morpheus app, you should be wearing the M3 chest strap with the transmitter fully attached to the strap. Train 1. Open the Morpheus app and touch the icon on the bottom.
Page 18 View Results 11. When the data import has completed you can either press 12. Morpheus will crunch the numbers and will recalculate your recovery score by giving you a plus (+) or minus (-) based on the duration and intensity of your workout.
Page 19: Training With M5 Armband Strap
The first thing you need to do is decide if you are using the M5 directly for heart rate training or if you are connecting an ANT+ chest strap to the M5 instead.
Page 20 . Press the side button to confirm your choice. 6. After you confirm your Workout Type by pressing the side button, the M5 will search for a heart rate signal, either from itself or a device you previously paired in #4 above.
Page 21 The M5 can send ANT+ or Bluetooth (BLE) to any compatible app (such as Morpheus or other heart rate training app) or device (such as certain cardio machines) b. The M5 can receive ANT+ heart rate signal from devices that can send it (such as the M3 chest strap) c.
Page 22 5. The Morpheus app will connect to your M5 via Bluetooth. 6. Now you will use the Morpheus app to transfer the saved workout from M5 to the app. This is a very similar process as transferring saved workouts from the M3 to the Morpheus app as explained earlier in this manual.
Page 23: Sleeping With Morpheus
Sleeping with Morpheus: Although it is not required to get your daily recovery score, it is recommended that you use the Morpheus sleep feature to help track additional metrics, including self-perceived ratings of fatigue, nutrition quality and alcohol consumption. This will help further increase the accuracy of your recovery score and heart rate zones each day. If you are using an Android device, you can also use the Morpheus alarm feature to help estimate your sleep.
Page 24 With Morpheus, making sure not using too much intensity is easier than ever with the personalized heart rate zones. When your recovery is below 80%, it’s best to avoid training in the red (overload) zone.
Page 25 The biggest cause of recovery score dropping a large amount on any given day is a significant jump up or down in HRV (as compared to the rolling 10-day average HRV). The next biggest cause of recovery score dropping a large amount on any given day is a proportionally large amount of time spent in the Overload (red) Zone.
Page 26: Morpheus Maintenance And Support
A. Troubleshooting 1. No Heart Rate Found a. Readjust the M5 on your arm or the M3 on your chest. See section D of this guide for arm placement guidelines. b. Clean the LED sensor on the back of the device with a cloth.
Page 27 Replacement Band for M5 The M5 comes with a 22mm Woven Nylon Sport Loop Strap with Quick Release Spring Pins that is approximately 9.65 inches in total length and fits wrist/forearm sizes 6.1’’-8.3’’(155mm-215mm). If you want to replace the band, you will need to replace it with a 22mm band that is at least as big as the one that the M5 came with in the box.
Page 28 2. Support tickets: For general questions, feature requests, and inquires, you can use the support ticket system found in the main navigation menu. Support Open the navigation menu and hit to bring up a form that you can use to submit a ticket. Make sure to include your name and email and we’ll respond to you as quickly as we can.

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