Timex’s contribution to the world of athletics has been a huge one over the years. Many of the past world records set by winning athletes have been measured using Timex timing systems. While Timex continue to have this part to play in athletics, they are having an increasing impact on other fronts within the sport. Athletes seeking to train to their absolute optimum level need a method of monitoring their performance in training, seeing how it improves, and finding ways that it can be improved further.

Timex GPS watches are used by a great number of amateur athletes who are keen to see what their performance data will show on a day to day basis, how quickly improvements will happen, how these improvements manifest themselves and any discrepancies. There is a definite impact on training performance when one knows how they have been going wrong, how to right these wrongs and how to turn a bad lap time into a good one.

Timex GPS watches are an example of how Timex’s expertise in the field of performance monitoring is developing, becoming more sophisticated and as a result more useful to the athlete. When every element of one’s performance is broken down, it is then that one can detect where improvements can be made, and how best to make them.

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The Traditional Timex Ironman Watch

These Timex Ironman Watch models are designed to look very similar to the original Timex Ironman Watch of the 1980's, but since the early era, Timex have added a few enhancements and innovations on top of the original.

Still, this watch is a "bare-bones" Ironman, with basic features, yet still offers a lot to athletes, even with only minimal functionality and at the dirt cheap price you expect from an Ironman!

The watch features an 100-hour chrono, with the option to display the current lap or split aside the running time. The 30 laps of memory storage, allows a runner to store lap times of a session, then recall them for viewing at a later stage. The countdown timer provided, can be directly applied to repetition sessions where you wish to run for a fixed length of time, as opposed to a fixed distance.

Timex T5k057y1 Ironman Sleek Icontrol 50-lap Mens Watch Resin Strap INDIGLO® night-light Water Resistant 100m iPod Functions - Play, Pause, Track Forward/Reverse Volume control One-Year Warranty Three Time Zones 2 Interval timers 3 Alarms Countdown Timer 50 lap Memory Chronograph

Like all Ironman watches, (but unlike the original) these watches include Timex's patented the Indiglo electroluminescent lighting technology that consumes less battery power than most other watch illumination systems as well as the Night Mode feature, that activates Indiglo at a press of a button.

The Traditional Timex Ironman may be a starter level watch, but to this day, remains a viable option that athletes can directly apply to their training. Just as Timex designed it to be.

Timex Ironman Fitness Heart Rate Monitor Watches (T5C401/T5C411, T59751/T59761)

These watches are essentially two different shaped watches, with two color variations and identical features. They can be purchased for a relatively inexpensive price, making them a great starter heart rate monitor.

All Timex heart rate monitor watches use Digital FM, synchronized transmission preventing cross-talk from other heart rate monitor devices, transmit readings continuously and feature user-replaceable batteries.

In addition to basic features (see the description for the Traditional Timex Ironman Watch), these watches include some rudimentary, but reliable heart rate features including a target heart rate zone, recording of the time you spend within the zone, recovery heart rate measurement (a useful measure of over-training) and calories burned.

While lacking the bang of more sophisticated heart rate monitor watches like Polar and the Timex Bodylink watches, these models offers continuous ECG accurate readings of very high quality making them a great choice if you want to benefit from basic heart rate features, without spending a fortune.

Timex Ironman T5F001 or BodyLink T5F011

The T5F001 is a more advanced Ironman watch model, the Bodylink T5F011 is feature identical, but comes bundled with the power of GPS tracking.

Both watches include a heart rate monitor, but unlike the T5C4XX and T597XX watches these watches support 8x Target Heart Rate Zones, five of which are preset, the other three can be customized

These watches support 100 laps of memory recall and can record heart rate information on a per-lap basis. Perhaps the most appealing feature however is it's Interval Timer Mode, a flexible six-interval countdown timer that can run five different sessions of up to four intervals which can be repeated up to 99 times.

Optional heart rate zone goals can also be set for interval groups, the groups include warm-up and cool-down intervals - a nice touch that caters to the natural structure of an athlete's sessions.

GPS tracking allows an athlete to monitor, speed, pace and distance over their run. Timex GPS comes in the form of a light-weight, external device that attaches to your upper arm and transmits wirelessly to the watch unit.

The T5F001 is sold as a standalone watch and heart rate monitor with no GPS included, but is compatible with the Timex GPS device, allowing you to upgrade at a later stage.

Timex Ironman TK092, TK093 Women's Sleek Fitness Tracker Watch

Targeted at female athletes, this watch differs from most others in that it features a clip-on pedometer unit that accurately tracks steps, distance, miles and calories burned, transmitting readings wirelessly back to the wrist watch unit.

The watch includes 50 laps of memory storage and can record split time, speed, pace, distance per lap and also total stoppage time. Interval timer mode is supported too making it a great fitness watch for runners and a relatively inexpensive alternative to a GPS system.

Summary

All the watches mentioned here can be purchased relatively inexpensively and can offer direct and positive benefits to your fitness training.

By Rod McAnally

Rod McAnally is a competing long distance runner and sports enthusiast.
Rod's mission is to take the confusion out of selecting, comparing and purchasing leading sports watches.
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Timex’s interest in athletics predates the entry of mass media into the world of sport, but it is easy to see in old footage of past races that the company have played their part in making athletics what it is today. When Usain Bolt sprinted his way to double world record Olympic gold in Beijing, no-one really paid much attention to who was timing the race. But going back through old races it is striking how often you will see Timex’s name pop up on the footage.

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Timex have played a huge part in monitoring the performance of athletes at major meetings since time immemorial. Their impact now has expanded beyond monitoring the times run by top athletes in championship finals to a point where they are now known almost as well for the part they play in training performance monitoring for prospective champions. By wearing a Timex Ironman GPS Watch you can monitor not only your time for the 100 metres, but also your top speeds, overall pace and a wealth of other statistics.

The benefits of such close monitoring have been that athletes are able to tell at a glance which parts of their performance are suffering, how they can be improved and what they are doing right. If you want to be a successful athlete, you need to always be looking at how you can improve your performance. With a Timex Ironman GPS watch, this is easier than ever.

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