Ironman – The Perfect Training Aid
According to Timex's advertising propaganda, athletes should not swim, bike, run, jump, climb, throw or kick without an attached Ironman watch.
But are real athletes as passionate about the range and do they rely as heavily on the watches as their American creators believe they should? Timex's Ironman sub-brand is reportedly used by the firm to attract younger consumers, according to marketing trade press in the US. But it has also become the mainstay of many a successful sports performer and helped guide them through their long, gruelling training programmes. Supported by its position as an official timing partner of major sporting events such as the New York Marathon, Ironman has been pushed as the perfect training aid to help achieve success. However, with a multitude of features which are used to gauge the condition of your body and areas for improvement, it hasn't taken much pushing by advertising executives to have the brand accepted in elite sporting circles.
Historically, Timex developed the first-ever watch which was aimed purely at the sports market and, with the Ironman, it has continued to hold its own in the increasingly competitive performance, health and fitness market.
Ironman is also one of only a handful of watches certified for use in space by NASA astronauts and is understood to be the biggest-selling range of sports watches on the planet.
So why are they universally accepted as the ideal tool to carry you through the often lonely, and arduous journey of a training programme? The answer probably lies in Timex's 'cover-all-bases' approach. Whether you are looking to shed a few pounds by starting to jog regularly, or you are finely-tuned sprinter training for the race of your life, there is a watch in the Ironman range to suite your needs. For example, the Ironman iControl watches are digital watches ideal for people who need stimulating to get them through a mundane session of pavement pounding. The watch transmits signals to your iPod to control your music with your heartbeat.
For more serious athletes, the popular Ironman Triathlon range includes watches which are built to be worn on the inside of the wrist for optimal viewing when running. Meanwhile, the newest Ironman models feature touch screen technology and up to 150-lap measurements alongside the target time pacer to ensure that your run goes to plan. If running is your way of maintaining a healthy heart, then the Ironman fitness measurement technology could help. Monitor your heart rate while going through the multi-workout function to kick-start your training regime with the Target Trainer.
Elite athletes can also use the wireless data exchanger to upload their workouts directly to their computer. The Ironman Fitness Tracker line, which was last year named as a Best Mother's Day gift by WebMD magazine, has proved popular among walkers and runners alike. The range helps you stay fit by tracking calories, pace, distance and steps, meaning training has never been easier to keep track of.
Be warned, however, an Ironman watch may give you every function you could possibly need to achieve your goals, but it is no replacement for the willpower needed to get out of bed and hit the streets.
Classic men’s watches for under £100
A great watch at a great price
Christmas is on its way, and it is that time of year again when you look desperately for a present for the man who has everything. In times like this you don’t want to go overboard on an extravagant watch, so here are a few ideas that may help you this year when are trailing the shops and the internet looking for the ideal gift.
Its best to think of what sort of look the person you are buying the watch for goes for, some men are looking for a watch to go with every look they have, some men want quality that will last and not go out of fashion faster than Simon Cowell’s next winner of X Factor. It is easy to point people to watches that will do this job if budget is no option, as the names of the brands role of the tongue Omega Speedmaster, Rolex Daytona, Breitling Colt, or even Channel J12. But what5 about if you have a budget of less than £100, can you find a quality watch for this money and if so what are the choices? Are there any choices many
men will be thinking?
Well there is a great choice to be honest, if you look at brands like Timex, Sekonda, Accurist and Rotary you can find some great buys which would keep you well within this budget. As well as some of the starter price Tissot watches which give you a Swiss watch for under £100 which is practically unheard of.
To maximise your budget look for a watch on a leather strap as the steel or gold plated bracelets inflate the price of the watch and can mean that you are getting a lesser watch because of your budget. The like of the Tissot Desire a mens Tissot watch which with a little bit of a Discount as found on Hot Watches makes this Tissot mens watch slap bang on the budget. Or you could look at the new Classic Dream as well form Tissot if you like your watches a little bit larger.
If you don’t mind about not having a Swiss watch, then the choice is even greater you could have the likes of the Rotary GS02580/01 or the GS02622/06 Sekonda offers almost every man’s watch within the budgetary constraints but some of the best watches to look out for are the likes of the heavily advertised 3847 and the 3101.
Any of these watches are perfect for any man this Christmas, and they wont break the bank either. SO why not have a look and see what you think today.
Tissot the mens watch manufacturer Revitalises the V8 watch series
2010 has been a year of change at the Swiss watch manufacturer Tissot, finally Tissot watches have cemented their place as a big player in the sports watch market with the launch of the new T-Touch Expert, the next stage of evolution for the T-Touch watch series. As well as this, Tissot have also upgraded the original T-Touch series making the original T-Touch even more appealing as a sports watch.
However, one of the biggest changes in the Tissot design studios was the re-launch of the V8. The V8 is a watch that was first launched in the UK over 5 years ago, it was believed at the time that the bold size and design of the V8 would make this sports watch a firm favourite amongst Tissot and sports watch customers alike. Although the V8 style was received well by retailers, once the range hit the shelves, it didn’t capture the consumers imagination and subsequently the range was cancelled in the UK in 2009.
But this was not the end of things for the Tissot V8 and its re-launch was not as awe inspiring as Tissot would have expected with many retailers staying away from the range after earlier experiences with the original V8 range. However, this reaction soon changed as Tissot invested hugely into promoting the new and improved style and look of the V8. The new black and blue dial configurations of the model hit a cord with consumer wants and needs and soon the range sold out with those retailers who had stocked this new designer watch from Tissot. Tissot had suddenly revitalised a watch that had, for all intense purposes, been on its way out of the range as a failed attempt at a men’s fashion watch. The clever use of colour and expansion of the collection to offer more than just three watches has been an overriding success. The only problem Tissot now face with this new designer watch, is keeping up with demand.
There is one particular V8 sports watches which has surpassed all of Tissot’s expectations and this is the T0394171105700. It has now become one of the most sought after Tissot watches of all time. Tissot have struggled to keep up with the peoples demand for the T0394171105700 which has thus only increased the peoples want for this particular model.
This Christmas Tissot are predicting that the V8 will become the watch to wear and the watch to give as a present to a loved one. However, due to problems with supplying for increased demand, it is hard to see how those who has wished for a V8 watch for Christmas will manage to get their hands on one.
