The Foot pod – The foot pod measures your running speed, distance and your stride path with 2 acceleration sensors. It does this up to 98% accuracy and can be calibrated personally. It is easily attached to ones foot strap and it can even be used indoors on Treadmills. It is light at 45g and used with the T6 it becomes a wireless running computer. The main advantage to cross trainers again comes when analysing heart rate data after a training session. You will not get a read out from your Treadmill of your speed and distance alongside your heart rates from many gyms. The T6 with the Foot pod will give you the ability to make better training decisions as your analysis will be better informed. The benefit to the cross trainer is that this will help with the planning of how to best do the treadmill part of the course. Questions like what is the best speed to start at and when should I reduce speed are all made far easier to answer with the build up of accurate data that you can collect over time. This in turn will lead to better performances.

The Bike Pod – This measures speed and distance when on a Bike outdoors. It can be calibrated to your wheel size to give a 99% accuracy. It only weighs 22g. Although it can only be used on an outdoor bike only, it offers cross trainers who do long VO2 bike sessions outdoors a greater amount of feedback to begin to know when to move across to do more interval work. 

MTB Bike Pod - This offers an alternative the the above bike pod with the pod itself being place on the front forks and not the hubs.

The PC Pod – This wireless USB link to your computer provides convenient downloading of data recorded with T6 and all of its PODS. It gives an added advantage to coaches who are training up to 3 people at a time, in that it will record all their heart rate data on a computer screen in live real time. These can be displayed on a graph as a percentage of maximum heart rate so that precise training of more than one person at a time becomes a very real possibility. It also comes with the added advantage of being able to pick up the transmissions from these athletes heart rate belts from all around the room. It also comes with the Suunto team software that allows coaches to create logs and profiles for different people and a history of their training is also easily accessible. Any combination of the 7 parameters can also be selected for viewing and this is a huge boost for coaches wanting to get the best out of their team. Downloading data after your exercise can be fraught with difficulties with some heart rate monitor models, especially the analogue versions. The wireless compatibility of the T6 , T4 & T3 ensures all the data is captured and it can even displayed in real time. A lap top next to your exercise equipment will give the serious athlete all the detail they need to make on the spot decisions in speed alteration in order to train at the optimum heart rate. The main benefit here is that you will be able to train to precise lactate thresholds and these are recorded and traceable over time to build a good history of improving fitness. One of the challenges in cross training is to know when one should move over from VO2 training to Threshold training in the lead up to a main event. If you move across too soon, your VO2 base can get eroded too much before the race. Move over too late and you will not peak in enough time as you will not have been able to have put in enough threshold sessions. The precision T6 offers you, along with its real time accessibility of the data, will help you determine exactly when to make these changes to your training.

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Suunto Team pack

This team pack offers the ultimate value for money deal for the serious coaches and trainers in all sports. Included in the pack are the following:-

10 Suunto T6's and ANT Transmitter belts

11 PC interface cables

10 T6 quick guides

1 Suunto team pack intro sheet

I Suunto Training Manager Card

Suunto Training Guidebooks

10 Suunto Training Manager software

1 Team Manager software

Replacement batteries of T6's and the belts

Smartbelt docking station

Docking station

With a docking station you can insert smartbelts into it and instantly transfer data onto a PC. The Smart belts record the heart rate data onto an integrated memory chip for later downloads. The belts can store upto a hundred hours of data without a wristtop computer ( heart rate watch). The recording automatically starts and stops and is ideal for working with groups of people and the team pod as it provides minimal distraction, requires minimal instruction and is minimal fuss. The Octathaletes will put them on at the start of your session and at the end, you can download all your data onto your team manager software on your laptop or PC. A docking station comes with a smart belt.