Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Garmin's most recent wrist-top fitness view

Garmin's newest wrist-top fitness see is really a 50-megaton blast forward that combines the very best with the company's past two Forerunner models - the 305 and 405 - but easily laps each on almost all counts.

Like its predecessors, the 310XT uses GPS to track your runs and rides, but it adds so much more for that equation that it feels like a breakthrough device rather than an upgrade.

Triathletes in unique will love this view - it's certainly the very best triathlon timekeeper we've yet tested. Not just does it sync up with your ANT+ power meter to display watts as you roll along about the bike, but the auto-multisport mode also lets you switch from 1 sport for that subsequent by hitting the lap button, and it occasions your transitions to boot. And this wrist mounted wonder isn't some aqua-phobic wussy either: The new waterproof body can stand up to steady dunking, you can also get it swimming, kayaking, surfing and rowing without fear of turning it into a brick.

Garmin has shrunk the guts of this baby enough that it looks almost like a standard, if extremely odd, view. Metrosexuals might give it a pass, but soul-sucking hipsters could in all probability get away with wearing it in public.

This Forerunner will probably be the king of training tools, and between the leading heart-rate, speed and distance tracking wrist tops we've seen inside the past several years. Acquiring talked about that, for elite and pro stage athletes, it doesn't offer you the kind of sophisticated heart rate monitoring and stride feedback available about the Polar RS800CX, which we recently reviewed. But for most athletes only seeking a personalized greatest, the Forerunner 310XT will consider you there in stride.

WIRED Big display easier to read than Dr. Suess. Came up clocking like Flava Flav even instantly immediately after an hour spent submerged underwater. Vibrating alerts will leave you feeling informed. Links up with power meters, cadence sensors, heart rate monitors, and footpods to track just about every kind of performance metric short of medals won. Mac compatible (at very last!).

TIRED Somewhat basic heart rate monitoring. Expensive, but look at it as an investment in your health; triple bypass surgery costs a lot a lot more.

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