Garmin 405CX GPS Sport Watch with Heart Rate Monitor

jfm — Thu, 10 May 2012 19:19:16 +0000

This Garmin 405CX sports watch is loaded with technology that a few years ago only profession runners could afford (well, their sponsors anyway). It makes professional level performance monitoring easily affordable for you (and you don’t even need a cable) – all data transfer is done wirelessly!

The Forerunner 405CX continuously records your time, distance, pace, calories burned and heart rate.

Forerunner 405CX comes with a flexible, wireless heart rate monitor to help you make the most out of your training.

Continuously records your time, distance, pace, calories burned and heart rate.

You can easily transfer data to your computer when the Garmin 405CX is in range – you don’t need cables or hookups.

Improved Algorithms

The Garmin designers have improved on the 405′s algorithms by consulting fitness experts and professional athletes allowing the 405CX to detect micro changes in your heart rate. This means the Garmin 405CX can more accurately calculate the real number of calories burned during a work out.

Super Small high Powered Technology

Weighing in at only 60 grams the Garmin 405CX has these features:

High-sensitivity GPS receiver and HotFix™.
Heart rate monitor (a wireless heartrate monitor is included).
Records Time, Distance and Pace, also calories burned.
Stores workouts in internal memory (up to 1000 laps).
Ability to plan workouts and send them to the 405CX,
Can also be used for cycling workouts (requires optional speed bike sensor).

Virtual Training

You can also use the Garmin 405CX as a virtual training partner to improve your fitness, or you can download previous results to compete against and improve your times.

Controls

You’ll notice that there appear to be only two buttons to control the watch but this would make it difficult to change functions mid stride so a new patent pending method was developed by Garmin. The bezel is touch sensitive so you can tap, hold or run a finger across the bevel and this control various functions making it easy to use during a workout.

Conclusions

The Garmin 405CX is currently the best sports watch you can get and people love using it for fitness training.