Suunto T4c Heart Rate Monitor and Fitness Trainer Watch (Black Frost)
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Manufacturer: Suunto
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Binding: Sports
Brand: Suunto
Color: Black Frost
EAN: 0045235402984
Feature: Heart rate: including average in real time
Label: Suunto
Manufacturer: Suunto
Model: SS013578010
Publisher: Suunto
Release Date: 2008-02-14
Size: One Size
Studio: Suunto
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Features
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Heart rate: including average in real time
Interference-free digital ANT transmission and coding
Suunto Coach: automatic, dynamically adjusting training program to improve fitness
Suunto Comfort Belt for improved fit and measurement
Training logbook on device
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Editorial Reviews for Suunto T4c Heart Rate Monitor and Fitness Trainer Watch (Black Frost)
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The advanced Suunto t4 Heart Rate Monitor Watch helps you develop a training program for your next upcoming challenge and keeps you on track as the date approaches. Suunto's built-in Coach software lets you know how long and how intense to train each day. If you opt for a rest day or different workout, it adjusts the rest of your ten-day cycle to ensure you get enough exercise during each phase of training. Plug the t4 Heart Rate Monitor into your PC to track your improving fitness. Of course, the t4 has all the features you'd expect from Suunto: real-time heart rate, calories burned data, heart rate alarmsall the goodies. Suunto even added their Comfort Belt chest strap to make your workout more comfortable.
Product Features- Material: [Housing] aluminum; [Strap] nylon
- Altimeter: No
- Barometer: No
- Heart Rate Monitor: Yes
- Chronograph: Yes
- Thermometer: No
- Digital Compass: No
- Adjustable Declination: No
- Low Battery Indicator: Yes
- PC Compatible: Yes
- Waterproof: Water resistant to 30ft (100m)
- Backlight: Yes
- Alarms: Time and heart-rate
- Battery Type:
- Battery Life:
- Size: Medium
- Weight:
- Recommended Use: Advanced training
- Manufacturer Warranty: 2 Years
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Consumer reviews:
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Customer Rating: 
Summary: I love this thing!
Comment: I have had my t4c for just 3 weeks, but I already love it. I am a veteran runner, used to wearing a GPS watch to track speed and distance, but this is my first HRM. It not only tells me my real-time heart rate, average and peak HR, but it has a nifty "training effect" function. I do not believe this to be "wildly inaccurate" as another reviewer has said. It will give a 1.0 to 5.0 numerical value for the difficulty of your workout. It shows a countdown to the next level, as well. When it tells me I have achieved, say, a TE level of 4.2 and it's 6 minutes until I reach the next level, I can of course increase or decrease this time by slowing down or speeding up, changing my level of exertion -- is this the "bouncing around" the other reviewer saw? But this is simply measuring the changed effect of a changed pace! At a steady pace, it counts steadily to the next level of Training Effect.
I wanted a heart-rate monitor because, in the depths of winter, I'll switch from running my rural dirt roads to the YMCA's treadmills; I was hoping that HR would offer a way to correlate my indoor workouts with my outside ones, since treadmills are different from running in the great outdoors. The t4c's training effect is a built-in answer to my need!
The manual is not so clear as to make everything easy. Oh, you'll be able to take your t4c out of the box and set it up easily; even I could do that. Going back and adjusting the settings was a bit more of a head-scratcher. The manual seemed to skip a step or two, as if it were all obvious. To the manual-writer it is; to me, though, it has required a few trips down button-pushing blind alleys to get where I want to go. But that's a small price to pay for the overall joy of this gem.
The fabric chest strap is quite comfortable; I don't even notice it. Both the watch and the strap have consumer-replaceable batteries (which I hope not to change for a long time yet!), which is better than sending the device away to Polar when the battery dies.
I wear it all day as my main watch. In the 3 weeks I've had it (while I wait for the plastic shield) it has suffered no scratches. I may not even apply the plastic thing! I would definitely recommend the Suunto to anyone looking for a quality HR monitor watch.
The only minor complaint I have is that the thing is set up for HR zones as straight percentages of max HR. You'd think the Suomi folks at Suunto could go with their fellow Finn, Karvonen, and allow one to calculate zones based on his method: as a percentage of HR range between resting HR and max HR. Well, the work-around is to set the zones to percentages that match your Karvonen numbers; you just have to do the math.
Customer Rating:
Summary: t4c
Comment: i have seen huge results in my cardio performance by using the coach and following the workout that it adjusts on a daily basis for me. i would really recommend this product to anyone serious about there performance, people have said it scratches easy, so i wear my when i work out and put it in a case when i am done.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Good, but Training Effect does not really work correctly
Comment: Overall, the T4c does exactly what Suunto advertises. The heart rate monitor is fairly accurate (I have checked it against the HR monitors on many different treadmills). I believe the coach works well although I often feel like it schedules far too many runs of the slow and lengthy type. If I increase the activity class, the sessions become much longer with little adjustment in difficulty. Suunto should have included a coach that plans for more sprint or interval sessions rather than just plain-old-fashion run-at-a-gentle-pace-for-an-hour-or-more sessions. As it is, I have to pick a day to do sprints and just see how it affects the coach's decision-making afterward.
Another major problem with the T4c is the Training Effect (TE). This feature goes hand-in-hand with the coach. Basically it is a numerical rating of the difficulty of your session. Lower numbers are easy to achieve. Anything between 3 and 5 will require more and more effort. The T4c gives an expected completion time based on your TE goal and current heart rate. However this estimate is wildly inaccurate, bouncing between times that differ by at least an hour.
The T4c menu system is a bit confusing at first but I figured out how it works after just the first run.
As for the hardware, I have yet to see my screen get scratched like so many others on the site. However I haven't removed the plastic film that the product was packaged with. I'm still waiting for my InvisibleShield to come in the mail. That should prevent ANY scratches.
Overall, this is a decent product but I do not believe I will buy another Suunto trainer in the future.
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