Timex Ironman Race Heart Rate Monitor

Fitness enthusiasts have known for years that a heart rate monitor can make any workout program more successful. Having a heart rate monitor ensures your safety by warning you when you are pushing yourself too hard, and maximizes your body's ability to burn calories and to increase its cardiovascular capacity. However, people who are serious about their athletic training need a little more. Interval training can be what takes your body's performance to the next level, by emphasizing multiple specific areas within the same workout. At lower target zones, you can improve your overall level of fitness and lose weight, while at higher levels, your maximum endurance is raised. The Timex Ironman Race Trainer has all of the popular features from the Ironman series of heart rate monitors, while also being the only fitness watch by Timex that features full interval training.

Aside from interval training, the Ironman Race Trainer is essentially the same product as the Ironman Road Trainer. Once strapped to your chest, the digital heart rate monitor will begin transmitting data to your watch in real time. During training sessions, the Ironman Race Trainer will record the amount of time that you have worked out, the amount of time spent in your target heart rate zone(s), and the number of calories that you have burned. Thanks to the digital transmission of the chest strap, you can be confident that interference with other nearby devices will be minimized.

The Ironman Race Trainer features a number of enhancements that make it useful in a wide variety of training situations. For night workouts, the Race Trainer's night mode allows the entire watch bezel to be lit by Indiglo for several seconds following the press of any button. The Race Trainer is also compatible with much of the equipment that can be found in gyms, and is water resistant up to 100 meters. When your workout ends, the data compiled can be easily sent to your computer using the Timex Data Xchanger, a USB device which is sold separately.

Overall, the Timex Ironman Race Trainer is a highly recommended fitness accessory for anyone who is experienced enough to understand and require the benefits of an interval-based workout session. Because the feature adds an extra $40 to the price as compared to the Ironman Road Trainer, the Road Trainer is a superior choice for newer fitness buffs who simply need a high quality heart rate monitor to help them stay within their target zone.

Timex Ironman Race Trainer:

• Monitors heart rate across multiple target zones, and calories burned during workouts
• Digital heart rate transmission minimizes interference and crosstalk
• Only Timex heart rate monitor to feature an interval training mode

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