At one point a fitness enthusiast who wanted to monitor and track their heart rate, caloric burn, and other exercise data would need a tangle of electrodes, complex equipment, and extensive personal guidance from a certified fitness trainer. Today, all you need is a Suunto t-Series wristop training device, a PC, and one or more accessories to create an optimal training range that outlines your ideal energy expenditure and muscle exertion while preventing you from overworking and damaging your muscles. The Suunto t-Series eliminates the need for a personal trainer and complicated equipment, replacing them with a user friendly watch and software interface that tracks your fitness regimen, monitors multiple facets of your physiology during a workout, and suggests adjustments before, during, and following your exercise routine. This software also allows you to record a personal training log of statistical data that reflects the progression of your aerobic health and performance capacity.

The Suunto t3 is more than just a heart rate monitor, it helps you maximize the results of your routine by provide up to the second information on the "Training Effect" of your workouts. Training Effect monitors your heartbeat by heartbeat performance and uses a simple one - to - five scale to display the improvement of your aerobic conditioning. At its essence the Suunto t3 is a more affordable version of the Suunto t6. The t3 displays not only your heart rate and real time calories burned, but can display and track you speed and distance if you pair it with one of Suunto's wireless Peripheral Observation Devices (or "PODs") for bicycling or running.

Like the t6, the Suunto t3 coupled with the ANT heart rate belt provides interference free HR monitoring anywhere and everywhere, remedying problems associated with previous HR monitors that were affected by power lines outside or electronic equipment inside the gym - making the t3 a valuable investment for those who love to train outdoors as well as in. The t3's is more affordable than the t6 -- which has weather monitoring functions as well as a other exclusive features.

While the Suunto t1 offers heart rate monitoring and real calories burned, the t3 has the additional features of:

15 log memory
Training Effect
Intereference free HR monitoring
Speed & Distance reporting (with a Suunto POD)
PC Interface (NOT included with wristop)