Saturday, November 29, 2008

A Better GPS Tracking Tool for the Athlete?

By Joseph Aaron

Nowadays communication and navigation systems like the Global Positioning System (GPS) are becoming more prevalent in athletics and exercises like running, bicycling, competitive rowing, and skiing. With the Garmin Forerunner GPS watches, you can come to know your actual rate and your median and most impressive speeds and even the distance that you covered. This communication and navigation device manufacturing company has designed its Forerunner GPS series of watches. You choose between the 50, 101, 201, 301, 205, 305, 405, and 705 styles of the Garmin Forerunner line of watches.

These models offer a few regular as well as special components. Of course, every one of the GPS forerunner watches will offer you precise details of where you are and all the statistics related to your rate of activity, but several of them have additional features such as keeping track of your heart rate, a computer data recording interface, a GPS transmitter, speed and pace targeting alarms, distance alerts, lap info recorder, auto time and distance splits, and a milometer.

The heart rate monitor offers you precise information on your heart during your exercise session. It is very important to know one's heart rate when one is working out or burning extra calories, because that will give you an idea of it your efficiency. Exercises are meant to be done at certain intensities and they can have an unwanted effect on the heart if you vary from the right intensity. The 301 model offers you a heart rate monitoring feature.

With the computer data recording facility, you have the chance to download your performance details on to your home computer and tweak them using some compatible software. Both the 201 and 301 models include the computer data-recording function. The GPS transmitter is usually found as a standard component of GPS watches in the Garmin models. It lets one know the latitude and the longitude of the place where you are standing. Unfortunately, they make your watch feel a bit more weighty.

If you are a professional runner, you might want to be alerted when your speed goes beyond or goes below a set limit. Your Garmin Forerunner GPS watch can make this happen. You can also set the watch to alert you when you go over your goal distance. If you fear that having an abundance of details is likely to frazzle you, merely use the smoothing feature to smooth out any minute differences. The Lap recorder makes it simple for you to record and save your data for each and every lap that you take during your sprint. The Autosplits function gives your watch the ability to take recordings either in time and distance. The milometer tracks the distance that you've gone. - 2368

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