Timex Heart Rate Monitor
Whether you’re trying to walk off some weight, or you’re training hard to enter a marathon, knowing your heart rate is essential to getting fit. Miss your target heart rate — too much or too little — and you miss the chance to improve your overall health.
Timex, always a competitor with their lines of watches, offers a range of heart rate monitors to make your exercise time efficient. With Timex, you can start with an inexpensive fitness tool, or move right into a high-quality piece with accuracy you can count on, even during a water aerobics session.
The Timex heart rate monitors include a comfortable chest strap sensor (most models fit chests approximately 25-to-53 inches) and Timex Ironman sports watches. After strapping the sensor and watch on, you can view your heart rate and several other functions easily.
Timex engineers designed these monitors for quick mode changes, even while you’re exercising. You don’t have to worry about fumbling with buttons that will undo your settings. Ease-of-use is an often-mentioned feature. Other options include choosing to see your heart rate in beats per minute, or by percentage of your heart rate target. Having the monitor beep is a feature, should you fall below or rise above your chosen rate zone.
Timex includes its Indiglo night-light/back-lit technology into the watch part of the monitors, for exercising at night. Other features include an alarm, stopwatch, timer and of course, clock functions. Some models include the ability to show how many calories you’ve burned, while others offer a countdown timer, useful if you’re doing interval workouts.
Though Timex has always relied on its rugged technology, today’s health monitor watches are stylish, as well, and are available in colors other than basic black. Many users wear the watches as their primary timepiece because of improved design. Every monitor can withstand splashes or accidental dunks in water; some of the higher-range sets can withstand bad weather and water sports workouts.
It’s not quite like having a cardiologist exercise beside you, but Timex heart rate monitors will help track your vital signs — and keep your health on track, whether you’re a weekend golfer, or a rain-or-shine runner.
