Suunto Watches

Suunto Watches

Casio is a less expensive brand and do not have as many features. This might be good for athletes short on cash. Timex will not break the bank but is still in general for runners who take their training very seriously. Garmin is near the top of the mountain for sports watches. They are pricey but have almost any feature you could desire in a watch. Perhaps the only flaw in the costlier watches is how much energy they use. A typically battery tends not to last as long as that of a lesser watch. Watch out for Suunto watches as well. They are a fine brand and durable but perhaps a tad on the heavy side, possibly not ideal for a runner.

Polar and Suunto are two makers of running watches that offer a much higher level of sophistication than a standard fare running watch. Suunto are unique in the fact that they are the only running watch that measures Training Effect, a measure of how hard you have worked out over the course of a session - a statistic that Suunto claim is more accurate than simply measuring heart rate alone. Some Suunto running watches also measure EPOC (Excess post exercise oxygen consumption). Polar running watches measure just about every heart rate measurement ever invented and provide you with sophisticated systems for measuring the effectiveness of your workouts and how much fitness you have gained over time.

Suunto Watches