Suunto T4C Heart Rate Monitor Watch - Black Volcano - Suunto T4C Heart Rate Monitor Watch - Black Volcano

When? What intensity? And how long? The Suunto t4 shows the way. Equipped with Suunto Coach, the Suunto t4 adapts to your changing physiology, making an on-target workout plan for achieving your goals.

Its good to have a goal. And its even better to have a plan. Designed for athletes in training, the Suunto t4 monitors your progress and makes intelligent workout recommendations for frequency, duration and intensity. Whether you accept or decline a recommended workout, the Suunto t4 continues to adapt, maintaining an up-to-date plan for your athletic success.

Suunto Coach generates a 5-day plan for improving your aerobic condition. Employing Suunto Training Effect technology, it tells you which days to work out with precise information on duration and intensity.

Suunto T4 Features
• Suunto Coach (adaptive training advisor)
• Real-time Training Effect
• Current heart rate, average heart rate and maximum heart rate
• Real-time calories burned
• Three-tier zone training system with alarms
• 2 adjustable HR limits with alarms
• Speed and distance with optional Foot POD, Bike POD or GPS POD
• Compatible with PC POD
• Dual time, date and alarm
• Log memory for 15 workouts
• Stopwatch with 50 split laps
• Interval timer
• User-replaceable battery
• HR Belt with error-free ANT transmission technology
• Water resistant to 30m (100 ft)
• Interchangeable bands
  
  

If you accept a recommended workout, the Suunto t4 will guide you through the session to make sure you receive the proper training load. If you decline a recommended workout in favor of a rest day or a non-recommended workout, the Suunto t4 will continue to monitor and adapt, adjusting your 10-day plan accordingly.

Salient t4 features include Training Effect, heart rate, calories burned, and speed and distance with optional Suunto PODs. Additional functions include dual time, date, alarm and stopwatch with split/lap.

Equipped with optional PC POD and Training Manager Lite PC software, you can transfer data to your PC and easily maintain a personal training log (see below).

Further Information
Training Effect (TE)
Training Effect shows the degree to which an individual workout improves your aerobic fitness. More powerful than conventional zone training features, Training Effect tells you the quantifiable results of your workout.

Why Training Effect is important
If your workouts are too easy, your aerobic condition wont improve. Likewise, if your workouts are too difficult, you run the risk of overtraining and hindering improvement. Between those extremes, its difficult to gauge the effectiveness of a workout on gut-feeling alone.

Training Effect takes the guesswork out of working out, giving you real-time and post-exercise information about the effectiveness of your workout.

During exercise, Training Effect shows the real-time effectiveness of your workout. After exercise, Training Effect displays the final degree to which a workout improved your condition.

How Training Effect works
Training Effect is based on *EPOC measurements during exercise, combined with information about your current fitness level and exercise history. *EPOC (Excess Post-exercise Oxygen Consumption) is a scientifically sound measure of training load.

Training Effect uses a straightforward, one-to-five scale. Heres what it means:

Training Effect Category	Results	Explanation
1.0 - 1.9	Training Effect: minor	Enhances recovery. Can develop endurance base with sessions longer than one hour. Does not improve maximum performance.
2.0 -2.9	Training Effect: maintenance	Maintains aerobic fitness. Helps build foundation for harder training in the future. Does little to improve maximum performance.
3.0 - 3.9	Training Effect: improvement	Improves aerobic fitness if repeated 2 to 4 times weekly. No special recovery requirements.
4.0 - 4.9	Training Effect: rapid improvement	Rapidly improves aerobic fitness if repeated 1 to 2 times weekly. Augment with a few recovery sessions (TE 1.0 - 2.0).
5.0 - up	Training Effect: overreaching	Dramatic increase in aerobic fitness if combined with substantial recovery.

Suunto Coach creates a snapshot of your aerobic condition and makes an intelligent plan for improving it. Based on your personal fitness information, the plan will contain a mix of high-intensity days, low-intensity days and rest days. By following the plan, your body will receive the proper training load for optimal improvement. Because the plan is living, any action or inaction will cause the plan to evolve. Here are the first six days a hypothetical Suunto Coach plan for moderate aerobic improvement.

Day 1: 30 minutes at TE 3.0
Day 2: 35 minutes at TE 3.0
Day 3: rest
Day 4: 25 minutes at TE 3.9
Day 5: 40 minutes at TE 2.5
Day 6: rest

The Suunto t4 will guide you through each workout, making sure you finish in the allotted time with the intended training load. If you miss a day, Suunto Coach will adjust the plan with optimal improvement in mind. As the weeks progress, the Suunto t4 will assess your progress and increase the training load as needed.

Package Includes:

• Suunto T4
• Quick start guide
• Owners manual
• Suunto Chest Strap Transmitter
  

  When used with the Suunto PC Pod (see below) and the Suunto Training Manager Lite Software, the Suunto T4 allows you to wirelessly download an review your workout data

  Suunto Training Manager Lite is an integral part of the Suunto t3 and Suunto t4 experience. It stores and organizes training sessions, allowing athletes to analyze their performance and create ideal training plans. With one-button activation, training sessions are quickly uploaded via wireless PC POD (see below). Using intuitive graphs and charts, athletes can view their performance over a single workout or a specific period of time. Training sessions can be broken down by type of activity (i.e. biking, running or kickboxing), giving users a deeper understanding of how different activities contribute to overall progress. Equipped with a Suunto Foot or Bike POD, athletes can evaluate their performance in terms of speed and distance.