The Timex sports watch is traditionally regarded as an affordable, functional watch with support for the features athletes have asked for. Timex have now added a brand new heart rate watch to their Ironman collection that offers some great new features and fixes a few of the flaws of the legacy Ironman watches.
The Timex Race Trainer Heart Watch adds a new dimension to Timex’s already solid sports watch foundation with the inclusion of ANT+. ANT+ was first adapted in the Garmin Watches and has proven itself in countless wireless applications. Race Trainer interfaces with Timex’s new “Data XChanger”, a device that offers the advantages of ANT. With the Xchanger USB device, users can now upload their data from watch to PC without the need to plug anything in!
But Timex have not stopped there. Perhaps one of the most impressive things to come from the watch company is their online “Timex Trainer” community web portal. The Timex Trainer can import session data from the Race Trainer and other high-end Timex watches. Users can take advantage of online data tracking that allows logging of session history, customizable interfaces and connection to many other fitness-minded users that make up this rapidly growing Timex community on the web.
When you create a Free account at the portal, you immediately gain access to three specialized workout plans created by David Scott, who has won the Hawaiian Ironman Triathlon event and incredible six times!
Further workout plans can be purchase online and accessed immediately. These plans cater to a wide variety of fitness targets for athletes at a vast range of levels.
The watch itself features a combination of the watch features you expect in a Timex Ironman.
The wireless heart rate signals support a digital signal so as to avoid crosstalk and conflicts with other heart monitors and other types of exercise equipment. The new chest strap has been redesigned and is now a lot more comfortable than the straps found in older Ironmans.
With the ability to store 10 training sessions and a variety of data per session, the Race Trainer packs a lot of useful features for fitness enthusiasts and athletes alike. For each session Race Trainer can store up to 50 lap times, average and maximum heart rate, calories burned and supports individual heart rate zones with alarms to inform you if you are in or out of your desired zone.
Many runners do variable lenght interval training, which is fully supported in the Race Trainer watch with 5 interval countdown timers. This watch can also measure heart rate recovery, another useful addition that athletes use to determine when they have recovered enough to do their next repetition.
To sum up. The Race Trainer running watch from Timex is a functional middle-of-the-range heart monitor watch with the power of ANT+, allowing this watch to transfer session data to personal computer and for those who wish to take the plunge… online!
For those looking for a more entry-level watch, Timex have also released a heart rate watch called the “Road Trainer”. While cheaper than the Race Trainer, Road Trainer lacks ANT+ data transfer, interval timers and multi-session storage making it more of a fitness watch than a runner’s watch. Still it features the same heart rate featues as found in the higher-level watch.
For maximum sports features, the Bodylink series watches are still Timex’s “flagship” offerings. Bodylink watch require the Timex Data Recorder for recording and transferring of session data and do not as yet facilitate wireless transfer. The Data Recorder must be purchased seperately and connects directly to PC via a USB port.
But if you want the maximum sport options, you currently have no choice, as Bodylink offers a great range of features, more data storage and provides the ability to track your speed and distance, all in excess of what the Road Trainer offers.
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