A Timex Heart Rate Monitor and GPS Watch - Great Basic Functions and Reliability

A Timex heart rate monitor has long been associated with the Timex Ironman brand of watches that began over 30 years ago with the running of the first Hawaiian Ironman competition. Back in the 1960's Timex was known as the brand that "takes a licking and keeps on ticking" referring to the products reliability and durability.

With a Timex heart monitor, like the Road Trainer or the Race Trainer, you get all the good basic data including zones, zone alerts, stop watch, and may more features. These heart rate monitors give you all the solid basics for great aerobic exercise. These watches are waterproof to 100 meters,have coded chest straps to prevent cross-talk, five different training zones, and calories burned.

Your Timex heart rate monitor offers all these features on a price to fit your budget and in great designs for both men and women.

Taking you training to the next level with a Timex heart monitor is easy because you'll have all the critical feedback right on your wrist in real-time. Set-up zones for easy days, zones for tempo days and zones for interval days. Whether you are out on the road or in the gym these heart rate monitors have the key features required to get the most from your exercise.

In 2010 Timex is introducing a new GPS watch called the Timex Global Trainer. This GPS watch will have SIRF III chip technology in order to provide you with accurate speed and distance while doing anything outdoors, allowing athletes to have four data screens available on the face of the watch. The Timex Global Trainer GPS watch does everything the Race Trainer heart rate monitors do plus offers watts from a bikes power meter and it is waterproof thereby solving all the key issues facing triathletes.

An entry-level Timex heart monitor like the Easy Trainer or the Personal Trainer offer you a fast and affordable way to access your heart rate data and calories for quick trips to the gym or walks around the park. These heart rate monitors are popular due to their affordability and simplicity.

So, whether you are training for a full Ironman, or going for a walk around the block,there is definitely a Timex heart monitor to meet your needs and budget.

Our assessment is that a Timex heart rate monitor is a relatively good value and functions that parallel most of the good heart rate monitors. Concerns we heard have occasionally come from band fit or sizing but we have had very few complaints about the functionality.

At the Heart Rate Watch Company we offer you an unconditional 30 day money-back guarantee, so you can rest assured that if there are any issues relative to fit, sizing, or any other functionality that we are going to back you 100%.We are really excited about the new Timex GPS watch as it is there first venture into the turf dominated by Garmin and Polar and we can't wait to test one.