Suunto T6c Heart Rate Monitor: Amazon.co.uk: Sports & Leisure

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Suunto Foot Pod V2

5.0 out of 5 stars (2) �54.99

Suunto GPS POD

�95.85

Suunto PC POD

�59.01

Suunto Bike POD

4.0 out of 5 stars (1) �32.44

Suunto Road bike POD

�44.84

› Explore similar items

Customers Viewing This Page May Be Interested in These Sponsored Links

(What is this?)

Suunto T6c IncDel �259.00 opens new browser window

www.elitehealthandfitness.co.uk - Available in Black / Fusion! Seen it cheaper? Challenge us

Suunto t6c opens new browser window

www.First4Shape.com - Suunto t6c Full Range Great Savings Black, Fusion, Red Arrow & Bundles

Suunto T6C HRM �324.99 opens new browser window

Suunto-T6C.simplyrun.co.uk - Free Next Day Delivery - Leading Uk Online Running Specialists-Buy Now

Product Description

The Suunto T6c heart rate monitor is a professional-grade training tool for monitoring, analyzing, and optimizing your training. Easily check your real-time Training Effect for an accurate measure of how hard your body's working, and quickly adjust your workout as needed. The Suunto t6c also gives you a read-out of your EPOC - your excess post-exercise oxygen consumption level - which lets you measure and adjust your training loads to ensure that your body is safely getting the most from each workout.

Tags Customers Associate with This Product

(What's this?)

Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.

suunto(1)

See all 2 tags...

Customer Reviews

4 Reviews

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

Average Customer Review

4.2 out of 5 stars (4 customer reviews)

Share your thoughts with other customers:

Create your own review

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Suunto T6C - Expensive but effective, 18 Oct 2008

By	Ian Townsend (Temporarily in Johannesburg, South Africa) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

t6c Suunto GPS POD
I have owned my T6C for three months. It merits 5 stars for functionality, but the price of the T6c and its GPS add-on is high.
As an active 57 year old it has really helped me regain my former fitness level after an injury layoff, without over-extending myself.
The many data options on the T6c help me exercise at the right intensity and for the right duration. Downloading the data to a PC is simple, and the Training Monitor software is an excellent logbook and performance analyser. The GPS POD links simply to the T6c to give speed and distance, but does not provide a track that can be viewed on a map.
My T6c has done everything I wanted and has been totally reliable. The only negative I can report is that the HR signal from the new style "comfort" chest strap does not register with the most common gym treadmills or bikes. Also, although the T6c becomes simple and intuitive to use, it is essential to read the manual for intitial set-up.
I have other Suunto and Garmin equipment, and bought the T6c to replace an old Polar HRM. I considered all three brands but selected the Suunto because of it's features, battery life/replacement, and good experience with my Suunto Vyper dive computer.

Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Long term user review, 27 May 2009

By	P. Noakes "Paul" (Wolverhampton, UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've owned a Suunto t6 for nearly 4 years now so feel able to write a long term review as with the cost of this kind of kit you don't want to be replacing it every couple of years. I've used heart rate monitors for 20 years and previous to this I've always bought Polar and found them always have problems no matter what model in the range from middle to top end price. Normally used for cycling I was attracted to the t6 because of the foot pod that would give me speed of running in real time. For the first 12 months of ownership I had nothing but trouble with the item. Initially it was superb and quite a revelation in terms of the amount of data it can give you so it's really aimed at the athlete wanting to seriously monitor their training rather than someone just wanting a device for basic fitness. There are far cheaper units out there doing what would probably suffice. After 3-4 months the foot pod would randomly switch off and fail to send any signal to the watch. Over a couple of months this frequency increased and I ended up sending it back to the supplier who sent it back to suunto in Finland for them to return it saying there was nothing wrong with it! Zero marks for customer service there. First run back with it and it duly switched itself off several times. The supplier (heart rate monitor) were excellent throughout and sent me a trial footpod and this worked well initially and then it too went wrong. The whole unit, watch, chest strap and pod went back to suunto in Finland with a detailed description of the problem and the lot came back saying there was nothing wrong! First run and it was still faulty. Eventually with the help of the supplier I tracked it down to the chest strap somehow causing the problem and since then it has generally worked consistently. But this took about 8 months messing about with suunto until this was established and certainly no help from suunto to sort the problem out. Once calibrated the pod itself seems fairly accurate in terms of measuring distance and speed but I don't think any of the devices will be 100%.

Connection to the pc is by a pathetic cable that clips on to the watch with 3 small spring loaded prongs onto corresponding recesses in the back of the watch. This has always been temperamental and I've had one cable replaced under warranty and still need to manually hold the clip tight into the back of the watch to ensure correct transfer of data. Not sure if this is done wirelessly now but it needed sorting.

The watch munches batteries at a rate of one every 3-4 months. Mine is used around 7-10 hours per week and uses the standard cr2032 type. All batteries are user replaceable unlike some of the polar equipment. The software provided and upgradeable online has endless ways of analysing what's recorded on the device and I've found it fairly good in that respect.

The device is still going strong 4 years on which is better than any polar unit I ever owned so this must say something about the quality, the first 12 months aside. I wouldn't buy another one as I think most of the features I use are available in much cheaper units and a lot of what the t6 offers are gimmicks that no one other than the elite athlete coach will use. I'd rate the software analysis at 5 stars, features of the unit 5 stars, reliability at 3 stars, Suunto customer service zero, and that damn cable connection at one star only because it can still connect! Overall 3/5. Not a full review just my experience of owning one long term.

Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Taxing Time!, 27 Mar 2009

By	J. Melvin (UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is an excellent product, very tactile, light, not too large and easy to use. The software that comes with it is easy to set-up and use and gives day/week/month and even yearly views of your workouts with very helpful graphs. Suunto are unique in that they measure the variation of time between heartbeats and together with user inputted data calculates EPOC (Excess Post-Exercise Oxygen) levels to give a real-time training-effect which basically tells you how hard you are working physiologically and therefore lets you plan the intensity of workout and subsequently the rest required. If you want a simple HR monitor to workout at a certain ratio of maximum HR (eg fat burn)then this product is too advanced for you and go for the T3C or T4C however if you are training for any specific activity i.e. half/full marathon or triathalon this is a must have aid in your training programme.

Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)

2115|R1OWAXVQ023PYN;2115|R2ICZ4SWXYBFVJ;2115|RO0JDJRNOLGGP;

Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review

› See all 4 customer reviews...

Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Top class product
Very good device for those serious about cardio fitness. Needs some study to get the best out of it and the software but it's worth the effort. Read more

Published 3 months ago by J. Crosby

› See all 4 customer reviews...

Listmania!

Top 10 Triathalon Books: A list by listmania

Create a Listmania! list

Look for similar items by category

Sports & Leisure > Fitness > Heart-rate & Fitness Monitors > Heart-rate Monitors

	76% buy the item featured on this page: Suunto T6c Heart Rate Monitor 4.2 out of 5 stars (4) �247.49 - �330.00
	5% buy Suunto T3C Heart Rate Monitor - Black Polished 2.0 out of 5 stars (1) �108.00
	5% buy Suunto T4c Heart Rate Monitor 3.5 out of 5 stars (2) �121.00 - �135.00
	4% buy Suunto PC POD �59.01

Suunto T6c Heart Rate Monitor

Select

Loading...

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Product details

Customers Viewing This Page May Be Interested in These Sponsored Links

Product Description

Product Description

What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?

Tags Customers Associate with This Product

Customer Reviews

Customer Discussions

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight

Start a new discussion

Listmania!

Look for similar items by category

Your Recent History