Available from April 2010, Suunto has added new features to its heart rate monitors – aimed at performance oriented fitness for sports enthusiasts and racers alike.
According to Suunto, the new Dual Comfort Belt ‘makes the Suunto heart rate monitors the ultimate multi-sports solution both indoors and outdoors.’ The comfort focused textile heart rate belt is compatible with most gym cardio equipment, Suunto heart rate monitors and Suunto Fitness Solution classes.
The term Dual refers to the fact that the Suunto Dual Comfort Belt is the only heart rate chest strap on the market that combines digital ANT wireless technology for disturbance-free transmission to the wrist unit and group monitoring, alongside traditional analogue transmission for compatibility with gym equipment.
With the Suunto Dual Comfort Belt, a fitness enthusiast can monitor his/her heart rate while spinning, running on a treadmill or any other gym cardio equipment with display. Suunto Fitness Solution is a group exercise monitoring system that shows up to 72 participants’ heart rates simultaneously in real-time in the class.
In line with the introduction of Suunto Dual Belt, Suunto refreshed the design of the heart rate monitor range. The new t6d Black Fusion and t6d Black Smoke are now available in black, with stylish red and grey accents.
The Suunto t6d is targeted for committed amateur and professional athletes. It measures the time interval between heart beats and its variations to produce seven different body parameters. The Suunto t6d shows many of these measurement results directly on display: the Training Effect, aerobic benefit of a workout or training session on a one-to-five scale, EPOC (Excess Post-exercise oxygen consumption), and calories burned.
The user can also freely customise the display and choose which data he/she needs mostly for the current training activity. With the help of sport-specific attachment PODs (Foot POD, Bike POD, GPS POD, Cadence POD) the user can expand the heart rate equipment as needs evolve.
Suunto t4d White Blaze and Suunto t4d Silver Frost feature the Suunto Coach function, helping users maximise their performance. The Suunto Coach feature generates a personalised 5-day training plan that helps to maintain a balance between workout and rest times. It makes intelligent recommendations for the frequency, duration and intensity of workouts – and gives accurate, personalised guidance by prescribing different training intensities on different days.
Using Training Effect as a guide, Suunto Coach also maps out an accurate schedule of when to train and when to rest – and adapts the programme according to the actual days users train.
