Suunto - Polar interval timers

Customer question:

Please can you tell me, which of the male-specific chest-strap type heart rate monitors that you supply have an integrated ‘interval timer’ preferably with separate warm-up but not essential? Do any have 2 seperate inteval timers e.g. 40sec High, 60sec Low, and seperate 20sec High and 90sec Low?

heart rate monitor uk says:

The Suunto T3C heart rate monitor  - Suunto T4C heart rate monitor and Suunto T6C heart rate monitor have

1 x WARM UP TIMER

followed by

TIMER 1

followed by

TIMER 2

then repeat timer 1 and timer 2

During these stages of interval timing, the heart rate zone does NOT change - it only  has 1 x active HR zone

The Polar RS200 has 3 x timers.

Tmr1 Tmr2 and Tmr3

Each timer has it’s OWN HR zone

You can run just T1 on repeat - or - T1 then T2 and repeat or - T1, T2 and T3 then repeat…

You can start heart rate monitoring by pressing START once, WARM UP manually… then strat session proper by pressing START again, this then starts T1-T2-T3 process….

The Polar RS400 and Polar RS800 have even more flexibility - adding RECOVERY times between intervals

An example of a Polar RS400 heart rate monitor Polar RS800 interval session would be

10 mins warm up between 100 - 130 bpm

Then 5 x 3 min intervals between 140 - 155 bpm with a second recovery interval

Then 20 mins steady at 130 - 140 bpm

Then recovery down to 90 bpm.

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