Suunto T1 Heart Rate Monitor and Fitness Trainer Watch (Brick Polished) | 
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| Brand: Suunto
Category: Sports
List Price: $139.99
Buy New: $119.00
You Save: $20.99 (15%)
Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 20119
Color: Brick Polished
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Size: 000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 6.4 x 5.3 x 3.4
MPN: SS013202010
Model: SS013202010
UPC: 045235402090
EAN: 0045235402090
ASIN: B000VKBR9C
Release Date: September 12, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 2-3 business days
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| Features:
| • | Powerful training tool offers key statistics to help achieve your fitness goals | | • | Displays current heart rate, average heart rate, and maximum heart rate | | • | Features a three-tier zone training system with alarms | | • | Full-featured sports watch with dual time, date, and alarm | | • | Provides log memory for one workout |
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Amazon.com Product Description
The Suunto T1 heart rate monitor and fitness trainer watch combines precision technology with contemporary style for an easy-to-use yet sophisticated device. Perfect for walking, cardio training at a gym, cycling, running, or any number of fitness activities, the T1 is a great training tool to making your exercise regimen beneficial and fun. Excelling in zone training, the T1 resembles a speedometer as its zone training dial helps you match your workout intensity with your fitness goals and warns you if you are over-exerting. Zone 1 is ideal for burning fat and improving cardiovascular health; Zone 2 ups the ante with increased calorie-burning and cardiovascular benefits; while Zone 3 is ideal when you want to push your limits and improve your peak performance. An advanced sports instrument, the T1 is also a stylish timepiece that can be used with minimal instruction. By working with your personalized fitness profile, this watch provides essential feedback from your aerobic activities, including heart rate, calories burned, and zone training information. 
The T1 displays your current heart rate, average heart rate, and maximum heart rate. | Key Features: - Displays current heart rate, average heart rate, and maximum heart rate
- Real-time calories burned
- Three-tier zone training system with alarms
- Heart rate limit with alarm
- Dual time, date, and alarm
- Log memory for one workout
- Workout totals for current week, previous week, current month, and previous month (heart rates, calories burned, training time, and time in and outside of each zone)
- Stopwatch with first 30 laps stored
- User-replaceable battery (both chest belt and wrist unit)
- Heart rate transmitter belt
- Water resistant to 30 meters (100 feet)
About Suunto
Suunto was founded in 1936 by outdoors man and a keen orienteering enthusiast, Tuomas Vohlonen, who had long been bothered by a problem: the inaccuracy of traditional dry compasses and their lack of steady needle operation. Being an engineer with an inventive turn of mind, he discovered and patented the production method for a much steadier needle, better readings, and a new level of accuracy. By 1950 the company was exporting compasses to over 50 countries around the world, including Canada and the United States. In 1952, Helsinki was hosting the Olympic Games, and the torches carried to light the Olympic flame were Suunto products. The next step was improving the stability and accuracy of marine compasses. The first marine compass, the Suunto K-12, was launched onto the market in 1953. In 1957, Suunto started manufacturing hypsometers, which measure the height of trees. In the 1960s, the compass range grew further and Suunto introduced its first diving compass--initiated by the divers themselves. A British sports diver attached a Suunto compass to his wrist and found that the device also worked underwater. Thanks to his feedback and initiatives, the new business category was found. Suunto's exports and business grew steadily and Suunto then focused on combining its strength in precision mechanics with new skills in electronics. Accuracy, reliability, and ruggedness have been Suunto's key values from the very beginning of the company history. Today, Suunto is a leading designer and manufacturer of sports instruments for training, diving, mountaineering, hiking, skiing, sailing, and golf. True to its roots, Suunto is today the world's biggest compass manufacturer. Prized for their design, accuracy and dependability, Suunto sports instruments combine the aesthetics and functionality of watches with sport-specific computers that help athletes at all levels analyze and improve performance. Headquartered in Vantaa, Finland, Suunto employs more than 500 people worldwide and distributes its products to nearly 60 countries. The company is a subsidiary of Helsinki-based Amer Sports Corporation with the sister brands Wilson, Salomon, Atomic, Precor, and Mavic.
Product Description
Suunto T1 Wristop Computer, Brick
The Suunto t1 tempers science with style for a sophisticated heart rate monitor that's powerful yet decidedly simple. Aiming for weight loss, cardiovascular improvement or rigorous conditioning? Working from your personal fitness profile, the Suunto t1 keeps you on-task.
Features:
* The Suunto t1 hides advanced technology behind an interface that's friendly andeasy to use. Because results matter more than features, the Suunto t1 focuses on the essentials -heart rate, calories burned and zone training- with accuracy and simplicity. With minimal instruction,walkers, runners, spinners and cyclists can confidently use the Suunto t1 to achieve health and fitness goals.
* Working from your personal fitnessprofile, the Suunto t1 displays real-time averageheart rate and real-time calories burned with excellent accuracy. When the Suunto t1 says you've burned 238 calories, it's not a rough estimate, but rather, a number you can trust.
* The Suunto t1 also excels in zone training. Resembling a speedometer, the zone training dial helps you match your workout intensity with your fitness goals. Zone 1 is ideal for burning fat and improving cardiovascular health; Zone 2 ups the ante with increased calorie-burning and cardiovascular benefits; while Zone 3 is ideal for serious endurance training.
* As a sports instrument, the Suunto t1 features a stopwatch with lap/split. As a timepiece, it's ready for travel with dual time, date and alarm.
Specifications:
Real-time calories burned
Current heart rate, average heart rate and maximum heart rate
Three-tier zone training system with alarms
HR limit with alarm
Dual time, date and alarm
Log memory for 1 workout
Workout totals for current week, previous week, current month and previous month (counts, calories burned, training time, and time in and outside of each zone)
Stopwatch w
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 An Excellent HRM !!! July 27, 2008
I have had the Suunto T1 Heart Rate Monitor for nearly a year now and its the best HRM I have ever had. Yes there are more expensive HRMs that retain more workout history, but most people are looking for peak HR, average HR, time in each zone, zone alarms, # laps and time. the T1 does that and more.
I have used 5 times a week for one year without a scratch -- puzzled by other reviews here.
I bought this for my Mom too -- she's not a techie and she loves it too.
The Suunto T1 uses 2032 replacement batteries and a two-pack (one for watch and one for chest strap) is approx $4.40 at national discount retailers (like WM).
Amazon has the BEST price on many Suunto products including the T1.
If you are looking for a HRM with many features and excellent performance, then the Suunto T1 is it !!
 Good HR monitor, basic and elegant February 22, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I replaced my very complex Polar RS200sd with the Suunto T1. So far, I am very happy. It is easy to set up (the Polar one about required a NASA engineer), easy to operate, gives good, consistent readings, and looks nice on my girly wrist. This particular model does not have the labels for the buttons on the front of the face - I think the next model year improves this. But there are only 4 buttons, and once you get aquainted with the unit, I don't think it is much of a problem. I like the calorie visual feature on the watch face, it is motivating. Have not had any trouble with the wrist unit picking up Heart Rate (had issues with that on the Polar.) So far, I am very pleased and would highly recommend this as a great HR monitor for a casual exerciser, or an athlete who does not need to store multiple workouts. (This model only stores one workout. The Sunnto T3 model stores more, but I did not need that feature.)
 doesn't measure up February 2, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was very disappointed with the Suunto.
- The design of the watch is such that the display scratches very easily. After just a few weeks of using it (running and cycling) the watch values/numerals were very difficult to read (I had ordered the watch with the black display which I guess did not help). Suunto suggests buying a display shield to prevent this from happening. I believe a sports watch should be designed such that it does not scratch easily.
- The heart rate monitor functionality was not very reliable. After about 3 months, it 'acted up' and at times would fail (I did replace the batteries to make sure that was not the culprit). Eventually, the heart rate monitor functionality stopped working entirely.
- The only thing I like about the Suunto is the interface for setting and reading heart rate zones.
- Overall, I was so disappointed by the overall design of the product that I did not want to replace it with a new Suunto (the watch broke during the warranty time). I bought a Polar heart rate monitor instead and I just love it.
Nice HR Monitor -- but falls short of other Suunto models January 11, 2008
23 out of 23 found this review helpful
I have owned at one time or another 5 different Suunto watches -- or wristop computers as they like to call them -- and without question, Suunto manufactures Great products. Without calling this model bad, I WILL say that it is not only the least expensive, but also the cheapest built model I have seen.
I couldn't help but notice the number of reviews that state the watch looks almost entirely different in person than it does in photos...and I HAVE to admit that this watch looks vastly different in person than it does on my computer. Specifically smaller--a LOT smaller. Now there is nothing wrong with a small watch, but this one almost looks like a feminine version. NOT what I had in mind when I decided to get a good heart rate monitor for while I work out.
Suunto is notorious for using plastic faces on their watches making them more apt to get scratches than average watches. If you are considering buying this for your primary means of telling time, you simply MUST reconsider for two major reasons...No. 1 the watch face can scratch at the drop of a hat. Seriously, I feel that a good stiff wind has the potential to mar the plastic face. No 2 has to be Suunto's penchant for claims that their watches are Water Resistent way more than they actually are. Once again, I get worried if I walk into a sauna wearing a Suunto if it won't get waterlogged and die on me.
All that aside, Suunto DOES make technically capable wristop computers that can do a variety of really amazing things, the least of which is tell time. Whether you want to determine your altitude or your bearing with a compass, Suunto's are dependable and quite accurate. My personal favorite is the Observer -- not only is it my favorite, but probably the best-looking Suunto as well. But we're talking about the T1. ALL of the Suunto models I have owned were relatively easy to program and figure out, but with the T1 you practically needed a certificate of membership to MENSA in order to figure out. The button sequence to shift from one section of the functions to another is simply confusing to say the least. I don't want to make it out that I think of myself as some kind of genius (because I'm not) but I have a large watch collection and some have some complicated set-up features and they all pale in comparison to the confusing order you have to do things in order to just set the watches time and date function. Then -- as with all Suunto models -- you have to arrange it depending upon whether you live in a Metric country or standard like we have in America and, well let's just say reading the manual quite thoroughly is pretty much essential if you plan to get anything of value out of your T1.
The heart rate monitor works great by the way. I've used it several times already checking the accuracy against other sources and since there really is no point in spending this kind of money on something that won't work you ought to know that once you decipher the heiroglyphic manual enough to get it working properly, it really DOES work well.
Bottom Line: If you need a heart rate monitor and you have some time to devote into reading the manual that (for me anyway) seems written in a somewhat confusing manner, and you aren't planning on wearing it for everyday use, the T1 can be a valuable addition to your workouts. Either way I recommend attempting to find a model and inspect it IN PERSON before buying because the photo you see here and what it looks like in reality on your wrist really is quite different.
***UPDATE***
After more use, I have decided that I was more harsh than necessary in regards to how difficult it is to learn to operate the T1. While the instruction manual is FAR from being the easiest to understand, and while sophisticated, the T1 could use a little update on becoming a bit more user-friendly. But overall, I have to admit that once you get past the tedious programming phase (setting the day, date, time, your age, weight, height etc) the watch is pretty accurate and at a glance can tell you a LOT of info. I'd recommend updating the instruction manual to make it a little easier to understand and I would then offer the T1 a full-4 stars. I just wish it were a bit larger.
'Nuff said.
Simple, attractive, reliable December 1, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I've had my T1 for about 4 months and I love it. It took a bit of setup with the manual but now I can reset even the personal settings with ease. (My husband and I both use it and reset it between our various sessions.)
The display is easy to read, it's attractive, the usability is good after the learning curve, and the chest strap is comfortable enough. (I have forgotten to take it off a few times actually.)
I use it as a watch when I'm not running. I've found it to be very reliable. No interference, no spontaneous resets, no problems!
If you need a straight forward heart rate monitor without a lot of bells and whistles I can't recommend this enough.
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