Suunto T (Training) Watches – Heart Rate Monitor Fitness Trainer Watches | t1 | t3 | t4 | t6 | t1c | t3c | t4c | t6c
The Suunto t4c – Training Series Watch
The Suunto Training Series watches are a collection of digital sport watch for users seeking to achieve personalized fitness and performance goals.
The Suunto watches can be worn, both as men’s sports watches and ladies sports watches. Some models in this line provide self-diagnostic features, managing and adapting a program, based on your workout feedback for optimum fitness improvement.
Put another way the watch tells you exactly how hard you should be pushing, making the training series watches an extremely valuable training tool for, beginners, fitness enthusiasts, professional athletes and coaches alike.
There are four different heart rate monitors in the series, originally named: t1, t3, t4 and t6, but later changed to t1c, t3c, t4c and t6c after Suunto upgraded all four models with a more comfortable heart rate monitor chest strap.
The post-session abilities of these watches is one of the stand-out benefits of these watches, all except for the t1c watch are compatible with the bundled Suunto PC Software which can import your training data for a complete analysis.
These watches also have the ability to display calories burned and are the only sports watches on the market that calculate and display real time achieved Training Effect (not supported in the Suunto t1c), a measure of the real effect of a workout on your physical fitness that has been proven to be a better indicator of fitness gain than heart rate measurements alone.
Recording and adapting to a user’s changing physiology, the t4c and t6c serve as training advisers and can recommend when to work out, at what intensity, and for how long.
How the Suunto Training Series Watches Differ
Suunto t1/t1c Watches
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The Suunto t1c watch is the entry level Trainer Series watch. It is ideal for joggers, walkers, bike riders and can be handy in the gym. The t1c can display basic heart rate information, calories, heart rate zone training and personalized fitness profiles. This watch will help keep you on track over a range of goals such as conditioning, weight loss and endurance training.
How The t1 Differs From the t1c
The Suunto t1 watch is sold with the Suunto Heart Rate Belt, while the Suunto t1c is sold with the newer Sunnto Comfort Belt. Both use analog coding, (the t3c, t4c and t6c watches are digitally coded). Both the t1 and t1c support both types of heart rate belt.
Suunto t3c Watches
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The Suunto t3c is perfect for athletes who are training for endurance events. This watch is suitable for runners, cyclists and triathletes. The watch logs progress over multiple workouts and displays the real-time Training Effect of a workout on a scale of 1-5. The t3c is also capable of measuring speed and distance and is compatible with a range of add-on devices like the Suunto bike pod, foot pod and GPS pod.
Suunto t4/t4c Watches
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The Suunto t4c is for competitive athletes in endurance sports. This watch features an Adaptive Recovery Adviser that monitors progress and offers workout suggestions in terms of intensity, frequency and duration. An athlete can choose to accept the watch’s recommendations or ignore them. The watch will continue to monitor and adapt an up-to-date program which can be used at any time.
Suunto t6/t6c Watches
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Designed for athletes and coaches that want the highest level of functionality and analysis, the Suunto t6c watch helps the user achieve their maximum Training Effect by providing a comprehensive analysis of seven different body parameters including: heart rate, respiratory rate, ventilation, oxygen consumption, energy consumption, EPOC (Excess Post-exercise oxygen consumption) and Training Effect.
Like the t4c, the t6c creates and continuously updates an ideal training program. This advanced watch also includes an altimeter, thermometer and barometer and unlike the other watches in this series, can measure barometric altitude. Barometric altitude is a more accurate measure than GPS altitude.
The t6c can also display real-time measured heart rate, intervals between heart beats, and fluctuation between intervals.
The Suunto heart rate monitor watches all include:
- 12/24 hour clock
- Calendar clock
- At least 1 log file
- HR limits
- Average HR shown in real time
- Low battery warning
- User replaceable battery
- Dot-matrix display
- Menu-based user interface
- Water resistance: 30m/100ft
The heart rate monitor uses digital communication that eliminates interference and cross-talk from nearby transmitters and power lines for error-free information also when running or riding in a group.
Suunto Training Series – Comparison chart
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