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Suunto t6d Heart Rate Monitor with Dual Comfort Belt | 
| Brand: Suunto
Category: Sports
Department: mens
Buy New: $270.72 - $429.00 (On sale from $479.00)
as of 9/7/2010 11:57 MDT details
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 11727
Media: Misc.
ASIN: B0037T78W4
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Product Description
Fine-tune your training with the Suunto t6d Heart Rate Monitor. This wrist computer, which comes with the Dual Comfort Belt, provides information previously only available in sports laboratories, including training effect, oxygen consumption, respiratory rate, energy consumption, and excess post-exercise oxygen consumption (EPOC). After your workout, upload your training log to Movescount.com for analysis and the chance to share with a worldwide community of dedicated athletes.
Product Features- Material: [Housing] plastic; [Strap] rubber
- Altimeter: Yes, usable -1,600 to 29,500ft (-500 to 9,000m)
- Barometer: No
- Heart Rate Monitor: Yes
- Chronograph: Yes
- Thermometer: Yes
- Digital Compass: No
- Adjustable Declination: No
- Low Battery Indicator: No
- PC Compatible: Yes
- Waterproof: Water resistant to 330ft (100m)
- Backlight: Yes
- Alarms: 3 Time
- Battery Type: User-replaceable coin cell
- Battery Life:
- Size: Medium
- Weight: 1.9oz (55g)
- Recommended Use: Running, cycling, multi-sport training
- Manufacturer Warranty: 2 Years
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| Customer Reviews:
Excellent HRM August 14, 2010
J. Boerhout
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
There are many HRMs on the market, just about all of them follow the "more data/features == better" strategy. Suunto does not. Suunto does very well with this HRM. It is quite easy to set up and get going with it - though there are a few functions not (very well) described in the manual. The thing that convinced me about the T6D is that once you set it up, it allows you to focus on your training rather than having to fiddle with buttons and look at non-essential parameters.
There are three displays: Time, Display1 and Display2. The Display1 and 2 are used during training and show you three rows of configurable parameters. Download Suunto's user manual for a list of all the parameters if you're interested - there are quite a few. The third (bottom) row of each display you can program a number of parameters for that you can cycle through when training - very handy!
Suunto's claim to fame is the Training Effort (TE) value it computes as an overall index for how hard your training was. There is some technical literature about this and Suunto's claims appear not entirely taking from thin air but have a level of medical foundation it seems. The TE values at least work for me and they give me direction to my training schedule. Be sure to take the time to set all your personal parameters up properly as this will make a big difference in the TE values.
Another thing that attracted me to this watch is the extensibility through pods - Suunto sells a foot pod, bike pod, GPS pod etc. So you don't have to buy an HRM with a GPS built-in that seems totally cool when you buy it but in the end you don't need or don't use all that often. Buy the pod you need when you need it.
Not a functional item but the Suunto T6D looks good (my opinion anyway). I bought the black flame and worried a bit about the readability of the inverted display. In a dimly lit room it is rather tough to see I must say but then again, we're not training in a dimly lit room are we? If you do some night time exercises, the watch has the option to turn on the backlight at the touch of a button or continuously (though it will eat your battery when you leave that on all the time). In sunlight, the display is perfectly readable. I frequently use it as a regular watch and have no issues with the display.
Suunto also has PC software you can download for free. It allows you to obtain your training logs and study the data. Though the software appears fairly stable (no crashes), it has a very bad user interface and lacks features. Oh well, it is free I guess. Suunto also has a web-site [...] which allows you to upload data and participate in groups - less data analysis but some form of socializing. Hopefully Suunto improves on the analysis aspects of this soon.
I came from a Polar s610i and the Suunto is quite a change; for the better I must say. As an HRM Suunto works better (much less glitches and an EXTREMELY comfortable sensor strap), the Suunto looks much better and their is a ton more meaningful data.
My experieneces with the Polar RS800CX and the Suunto T6D August 8, 2010
nomad (San Diego)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I own a Polar RS800CX that has served me very well for more than a year, averaging more than 2 hrs of use every day. Changing the battery in the wrist unit was quite a challenge. The seal is too tight to pry loose with a coin. So I used my Exacto to scrape lose the salt caked in the case-cap crevice and then resorted to a 12 in. long screwdriver with a quarter inch head to unscrew the cap. The notch soon wore out, so I cried Uncle and the good folks at Polar sent me a harder case replacement. The strap snapped off the wrist monitor and again Polar sent me a replacement but let me figure out how to get it on. It was easier than doing a Rubik's cube but I now believe that Nordic folks like to hand you little riddles by way of saying hello.
I also came upon FirstBeat Athlete, a standalone analysis software that can read .hrm files directly from the RS800CX. That, got me hooked on two new measures, Excess Post exercise Oxygen Consumption (EPOC) and intensity of training -the so called Training Effect. The brute force way to determine EPOC would have you lay supine in a chamber after a workout and measure the (excess) amount of oxygen you breathe in until you return to your base metabolic rate (and stop panting). Turns out that EPOC can be inferred from heart rate data and other basic biometrics and FirstBeat Athlete has productized this.
My current weekly routine consists of one long weekend run, one session of interval running, and another to nudge my lactate threshold (VO2_LT) forward. I can estimate VO2 from my heart rate reading especially once I calibrated against a sub-maximal VO2 treadmill test. Interval running is easily tracked based on speed and duration. The 10 to 15 mile weekend runs, which I prize very much, leaves me adrift quantitatively. What is my axis of exertion? Calories burned, time spent, distance covered, cadence, steady state heart rate are easily tracked individually. But, is there a measure that tracks how runners deplete as they tackle terrain and elevation with their speed and gait? I think the answer is EPOC. Knowing your past EPOC scores, you can more deliberately throttle your long runs, whether it is to stay in familiar territory or break new ground. In particular, you can start to reduce your EPOC even while running by lowering your pace just a bit and can even pace yourself to hold EPOC steady.
The Polar RS800CX can not display EPOC in real time but the Suunto T6D will display EPOC in real time. The Suunto T6D presents a new set of riddles. The D in T6D stands for dual heart rate transmitters, one of which digitally pairs with the wrist unit and the other one broadcasts and hopefully various exercise equipment can track and display heart rate data on their usually larger screens. You can always finagle this by wearing two heart rate belts, especially if you have an old one lying around. My experience with the T6D has been disappointing, unless I am running very close to the front, LifeFitness treadmill displays at my gym latch on to some other person's monitor or blank out.
I bought the sleek looking T6D Black Flame. I regret it now because the faint dot matrix style yellow on black characters don't show very well except in broad day light. The menu system is more intuitive than the Polar but it is best to tinker with it till you get it right rather than try to read about it. There are better instructions on the Suunto website than in the fat multi-language instruction booklet that you receive with the unit.
The Suunto foot pod pairs quickly with the T6D wrist unit. Pairing or repairing the Polar foot pod with the RS800CX takes more attempts. But the accuracy of my Suunto unit is worse. With the treadmill set to 2 mph, the Suunto shows 2 mph, when the treadmill cranks up to 3.5 mph and I break into a light jog, the Suunto meanders around 5.6 mph. When I am running at 7 mph on the treadmill, the T6D shows about 7.8 mph but at 8 mph there is no discrepancy. So the deviation is non linear. I am not sure if a simple scale factor, which is all you can set on the wrist unit, can correct this. Maybe the Suunto foot pod is more sensitive to irregular gait. The Polar foot pod has always been in perfect agreement with the treadmill readout. The Polar foot pod also senses stride length and running cadence (steps per minute) which the Suunto foot pod does not.
The start/stop button on the left starts a session but does not actually end a session. Once you have started the recording, the button functions as a pause/resume button. To end a session you first hit the start/stop button to pause and then hold down (not just tap) the button marked "lap" on the right. The lap button also acts as a traditional lap marker. So to stop, first pause and then hold down lap long.
The USB data sync works flawlessly once you have the Moveslink software installed. To get to it you go to the Movescount website and click on a tab, currently called "Connect to Movescount", then you click on a button labeled get Moveslink Software and the rest is a breeze. The Movescount website is the best part of the Suunto experience. It is a "classic" social networking site with everything you would expect including posting moves to Facebook and Twitter. I enjoy very much the ability to network with others whose bodies respond to exercise similar to mine.
In summary, the Polar RS800CX with its foot pod and the Suunto T6D with its foot pod both track: the full richness of R-R Heart Rate data, speed, distance, elevation and ambient temperatures. They both provide web based repositories as well as PC based programs for more tracking and analysis.
The Suunto T6D provides real time EPOC and TE readings and includes an analog heart rate transmitter. The Polar RS800CX does not have these features. Incidentally the cheaper T6C is identical to the T6D except that it does not have the analog, unpaired heart rate transmitter.
The Polar RS800CX provides stride length and cadence data and can display R-R variation data in real time. It also computes the so-called "running index" that can be a useful predictor for race completion. The Suunto T6D does not have these features.
I wish the the Suunto analog heart rate transmitter and the foot pod, were more robust. Yet, the activation of the Movescount community adds a new dimension that makes the investment very worthwhile for me. If data enriched social networking is important for you, then Suunto will appeal to you. If exercise is a solitary pursuit and accuracy and robustness are more important then the Polar will appeal to you. I get to use both!
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