Suunto T1 Heart Rate Monitor

Note: In the list below BPM stands for Beats per Minute and % of Max HR stands for Percentage of Maximum Heart Rate.

The main features of the Suunto T1 heart rate monitor are:

• Continuous heart rate monitoring
• You can set heart rate training limits
• You can also set up 3 heart rate training zones. The default is zone 1 (60 to 70% Max HR), zone 2 (70 to 80% Max HR) and zone 3 (80 to 90% Max HR).
• You can set a tone to beep when you train above/below your limits or when you cross the boundary of your training zones
• Heart rate can be set and displayed as BPM or % of Max HR
• Your heart rate is shown numerically and also in a speedometer-like display on the rim of the watch
• You can view real time calories burnt
• You can view real time average heart rate
• Stop watch to start and stop exercise session
• You can take up to 99 laps, of which the first 30 is stored in memory
• Post-exercise summary: Duration, calories burnt, average heart rate, maximum heart rate, time spent in and out of zones and limits, summary of each stored lap
• You can examine total values for this week, last week, this month and last month: calories burnt, training time and time spent within and outside of each zone
• Basic time keeping: Time (2 time zones), date, alarm
• Backlight
• Both chest strap and wrist watch batteries are user replaceable
• Water resistant up to 30m
• Analogue wireless transmission with chest strap. The T1 is available both in a non-coded and coded (new) version.
• Choice of colors

Summary

The Suunto T1 heart rate monitor is well equipped and well priced for an entry level monitor. You can check your various heart rate stats (current, average, maximum), plus calorie consumption. And for runners, you can take laps.

Useful Information

ADD TO YOUR SOCIAL BOOKMARKS: Blink Del.icio.us Digg
Furl Google Simpy Spurl Technorati Y! MyWeb