Sports Science Lab on your wrist

By Edmond Menzies Ranked #92 - Heart Rate Monitors November 1, 2009

I've used other sports watches with hr monitors before, but the t6c is simply a notch above the rest. I have used mine everyday for about 1.5 years now and have logged every training session and race - from monitoring and analysing your breathing, VO2 max, calories, hr, altitude, speed, distance, etc, to programming or adjusting the display on the move to see stats & readings - it simply blows your mind! One the most useful bits of info provided is the 1-5 scale on the right hand side of the display - this will tell you how hard you are exercising relative to your level of fitness - simply put it is another tool other than your heart rate to judge & montitor how hard you should be pushing it - because often with endurance events if you go out to hard or fast you will blow later! This PC on wrist helps you understand your body, when your bodies immune system is down, this will pick it up and you will notice it in the readings that your body is reacting differently to normal - it helps to nail flu & the like at the onset. Only draw-back is that it records a limited amount info (I think around 12 hours of data capturing) before you need to download and free-up memory space - this isn't normally a problem as it isn't often that I am away from my pc for longer than 12 hours of training. When participating in multi-stage endurance events then this becomes a issue - simple way around it is to record the data manually before clearing up memory space. I've used this on trekks, surfski & mtb races and it has never failed me.

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