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lisa
on Dec 9th, 2010 |
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Most of the great professional cycling teams like Garmin-Cervelo and Radioshack are holding their first training camps of the season in preparation for the Tour Down Under in January. In the early season most cyclists and marathoners take a protracted period of longer steady rides at lower intensity to build up their fitness base.
The reason most world-class athletes train at these intensities is to both develop the cardiovascular system and to reach a more ideal level of fitness and weight before beginning effort of a greater intensity and a heart rate monitor is the barometer that serves...
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lisa
on Feb 11th, 2010 |
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The FT80 Heart Rate Monitor Watch From Polar: Great For The Gym
Polar FT80 is a fitness watch targeted at multi-sport fitness buffs attempting to attain holistic fitness goals and is suited to multi-sport athletes, meaning individuals that rotate between endurance days, lifting days, calisthenic days, and everything else imaginable. The Polar FT80 heart rate monitor provides very good features for both aerobic and weight exercise, while additionally being capable to connect to GPS and running sensors.
Product Features
Graphical Guidance (shows you exactly when your body is ready to do your...
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lisa
on Feb 11th, 2010 |
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GPS Watch Review: The Garmin 310XT
What is absolutely crazy regarding Garmin’s hottest GPS watch, the Forerunner 310XT, is that this watch operates like a running heart rate monitor watch, a bike computer, a swimming watch, a watts output meter, a quite precise tempo and distance metrics device plus, this watch allows you to synchronize vibration or chiming alarms for lots of diverse metrics. This watch is unparalleled as a multi-event watch – punctuation mark.
The minor point of objection would maybe be the dimensions of the monitor (it is big) however it seems no different on...
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lisa
on Feb 11th, 2010 |
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This Bike Computer is Crankenstein – The Polar CS600X With Power Output
For a bike computer, Polar’s CS600X with power is some serious team issue kit that is GPS capable, indicates pulse, tempo, distance and even watts output. You will spot the Polar CS600X a top many bikes in events such as the Tour of Spain since it is the type of equipment that the pros use.
This bike computer is quite effortless to get attached, customized and prepared to ride with the exclusion of the watts output meter, because it is a tad peculiar and requires a little adjustment. It is different than...