You already know and love the Timex Ironman Watch. Timex Ironman Heart Rate Measuring Watches made their first entrance into the heart rate monitor market and immediately set themselves apart from their competitors by utilizing the latest in digital FM technology. All Timex Ironman heart rate monitors include: A digital FM signal has the effect of reducing the amount of interference and crosstalk, meaning it won’t interfere with other heart rate monitors or electrical devices. ECG (EKG) precision shown by independent testing to be accurate to 3 beats-per-minute Propriety “smart sensor” technology that calculates your heart rate before transmitting it to the wrist watch unit A user-changeable sensor battery, a feature not offered by some of the other leading brands. You can rest assured that Timex’s IRONMAN heart rate monitors are of the highest quality at an IRONMAN price.

	T59751/T59761 Midsize 30-Lap Heart Rate Monitor Watch	T5C401/T5C411 Unisex 30-Lap Heart Rate Monitor Watch	T5F001/T5F011 Men’s Bodylink Heart Rate Monitor Watch	T5J985 Men’s Bodylink Trailrunner Heart Rate Monitor Watch	T5G311 Women’s Bodylink Heart Rate Monitor Watch	IRONMAN Road Trainer Unisex Heart Rate Monitor	IRONMAN Race Trainer Unisex Heart Rate Monitor
	$89.99	$89.99	$199.99	$350.00	$274.99	$60.00	$79.95
In Session Features
Target Heart Rate With Zone Alert				2x Simultaneous Zones
Target Zones Based on Max HR	5	5	5	Up to 5 for each group	5	5	5
Custom Target Zones	0	0	3	Up to 5 for each group	3	1	1
Heart Rate in BPM
% of Max Heart Rate
Calories
Post-Session Features
Workout Time in Zones (# zones)	(1)	(1)	(8)	(2)	(8)	(1)	(1)
Recovery Recording
Average Heart Rate
Maximum Heart Rate
Minimum Heart Rate
Average HR per Lap
Calories Burned
Heart Rate Sensor
Digital Sync. FM Transmission
Continuous HR readings
Owner Replaceable battery
Sport Features
Stopwatch	100-hour with Lap and Split	100-hour with Lap and Split	100-hour with Lap and Split	100-hour with Lap and Split	100-hour with Lap and Split	100-hour with Lap and Split	100-hour with Lap and Split
Data Fields	2-line display	2-line display	3-line display	3-line display	3-line display	2-line display	2-line display
Workout Storage (#Laps/Workout)	1 (30)	1 (30)	1 (100)	1 (100)	1 (100)	1 (50)	10 (50)
Countdown Timer	Stop/Repeat or Chrono at End	Stop/Repeat or Chrono at End	Stop/Repeat or Chrono at End	Stop/Repeat or Chrono at End	Stop/Repeat or Chrono at End	Stop/Repeat at End	Stop/Repeat or Chrono at End
Interval Timer			4		4 (Includes Interval Workouts)		5
GPS				Includes Navigation Features
Data Recorder Compatible
Data Xchanger USB Compatible
Ironman Features
	Alarm with 5-minute backup INDIGLO Night-Light INDIGLO Night Mode Water Resistant to 50m 2 Year Battery Life One-Year Warranty	Alarm with 5-minute backup INDIGLO Night-Light INDIGLO Night Mode Water Resistant to 50m 2 Year Battery Life One-Year Warranty	Alarm with 5-minute backup INDIGLO Night-Light INDIGLO Night Mode Water Resistant to 50m 2 Year Battery Life One-Year Warranty	Alarm with 5-minute backup INDIGLO Night-Light INDIGLO Night Mode Water Resistant to 50m 2 Year Battery Life One-Year Warranty	Alarm with 5-minute backup INDIGLO Night-Light INDIGLO Night Mode Water Resistant to 50m 2 Year Battery Life One-Year Warranty	Alarm with 5-minute backup INDIGLO Night-Light INDIGLO Night Mode Water Resistant to 50m 2 Year Battery Life One-Year Warranty	Alarm with 5-minute backup INDIGLO Night-Light INDIGLO Night Mode Water Resistant to 50m 2 Year Battery Life One-Year Warranty

Heart Rate Basics Explained

Heart rate monitor watches are high-tech devices that have the ability to accurately measure the rate your heart beats while you are exercising. The beats per minute of your heart, or “heart rate” can be useful for guaging the intensity of a workout. Most heart rate monitoring devices allow you to set up at least one target heart rate zone.

A heart rate zone is simply an upper and lower heart rate limit that is your target range over a workout. A target heart zone can serve as a guideline for achieving your optimal fitness intensity. You will tend to find that a cheap heart rate monitor watch will support a single target zone and more zones as you go up in price.

Heart rate watches that feature multiple zones can be useful for different types of exercise workouts. For example on a long, slow fat-burning or recovery run, you might select a target heart rate zone that is 60-70% of your maximum heart rate, whereas for a high intensity anerobic workout, a target zone of 80-90% might be more appropriate.

Heart rate zones can help ensure that you are not overtraining or undertraining. Another sign of overtraining is your heart beat recovery rate. If your heart rate drops too slowly over a measured interval (say two minutes) then it is a sign that your body has not yet fully recovered. Over-training is a bad thing and a trap of many over-zealous fitness fanatics. It can lead to under-performance, yielding a negative fitness benefit when you workout instead of a positive one and in a worst case scenario, overtraining can cause an injury that prevents any fitness progress for weeks of months!

Finding the right balance is not easy, it is more of an art that a science. One thing that can help is to keep track of the vital statistics of your workout one of which is heart rate and heart rate recovery, which is why heart rate watches can help considerably.

As a general rule though, it is usually better to under-train than to over train. So contrary to popular opinion, skipping that exercise class once in a while is actually not a bad thing.

What Timex Ironman Heart Rate Watches Offer

Timex Ironman Heart Rate Monitor Watches are a high quality option for those seeking an affordable heart rate monitor solultion. Timex have taken state of the art continous digital heart rate measuring technology and integrated it into their already successful Timex Ironman Sport Watch design to create an attractive fitness package for all levels of fitness enthusists and performance atheltes.

Timex Triathlon Heart Rate Monitors feature a coded wireless digital FM signal between the heart rate monitor strap and wristwatch, that offers a distinct advantage over traditional analog heart rate watches. A digitally coded signal avoids the common problem of cross-talk interference with other heart rate monitor devices, exercise equipment and even high voltage powerlines. In plain English, when you invest in a Timex Heart Rate Watch, you can enjoy the assurance that your workout readings, won’t get disrupted by other wireless devices. The heart rate strap is also water resistant to 50 meters, allowing you peace of mind in the rain, or around water.

Timex Monitor Watches are also designed for convenience and allow you to replace the batteries in the heart rate strap yourself. Other heart rate monitor companies place the burden and inconvenience on you to send the heart rate strap back for a battery replacement.

All Heart Rate Monitor Timex watches feature multiple Target Heart Rate Zones (described above). With the exception of the T59751/T59761 and T5C401/T5C411 watches (Timex’s entry-level options), the heart rate zones can be set up manually giving you full control. The time you spend in your target zone is also recorded and a zone alarm feature included that sounds an alert when you fall outside your goal zone.

All but the Timex Ironman Road Trainer and Timex Ironman Race Trainer Heart Rate Monitor Watches can connect with the Timex Data Recorder. The Data Recorder is a small device (purchased seperately) that is capable of storing extended heart rate and GPS data and provides a mechanism from transfering this data to a PC.

(The Timex Race trainer is compatible with the optional Timex Data Xchanger that uses wireless ANT+ technology to connect to PC)

By integrating continual, digital heart rate technology with the integral features of their flagship Timex Ironman Watch, Timex offer a heart rate solution that is effective and increadibly simple to use out of the box. Unless your heart rate nees are panoptic and you enjoy spending a week memorizing a complex watch manual, a Timex Ironman Heart Rate Watch should meet nearly all your fitness requirements at a price tag that won’t send you running the other way.