Garmin Forerunner 225: your heart, closer than ever to your wrist

It is no longer necessary to have a tape to know your heart rate, because the new Garmin GPS sports watch has special sensors on its back that make that job very easy

 

Garmin, the world leader in portable navigation solutions, presents its first sports watch with GPS that controls the heart rate directly from the wrist: Forerunner® 225.

An attractive and innovative system that greatly simplifies training and that provides users with the best technology in a single product, as well as complete information that helps to know important data and values ​​to improve day-to-day objectives.

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LED sensors

Garmin Forerunner® 225 It offers heart rate without the need for a tape and, in addition, has several innovations to improve the way of calculating the effort of users.

How is it able to provide the heart rate data? Thanks to an advanced optical sensor manufactured by the company MIO that projects light on the skin and calculates the amount of light returned. Since there are slight changes while the blood pumps through the wrist, the sensor detects these changes and employs a sophisticated filtering process to determine the user's heart rate. At the same time, the seal on the back of the watch prevents the external light from penetrating, thus ensuring correct detection of the heart rate data.

Calculating the effort

To calculate and provide information about the effort, Forerunner® 225 It incorporates an indicator of different colors that determines the heart rate zone and the beats per minute in real time. Thus, when this indicator is in gray, it means that the user is in the warm-up zone or, which is the same thing, that starts at 50% of the maximum heart rate; if detected in the blue zone, it is translated into a zone of smooth rhythm, equivalent to 60% of the maximum; the green color represents the aerobic zone and starts at 70% of the maximum; while, the orange is the threshold, which starts at 80% of the maximum and red is the zone of maximum heart rate, which starts at 90%.

In this way, the athlete can plan his training plan always having control over the area where he is and, at the same time, concentrate on the effort he needs to make.

Garmin Forerunner® 225 establishes the zones of each user based on an estimate of the maximum heart rate according to age and subtracting this data from 220. If necessary, it is also possible to adjust the zones on the watch or on Garmin Connect, which allows you to customize the device according to the particular needs of each user.

 

 

GPS, accelerometer and daily activity monitor

In addition to integrating a GPS that calculates the distance and pace of the athlete, Garmin Forerunner® 225 it has an accelerometer that captures the data concerning distance and rhythm when you practice exercise on an indoor track or on a treadmill, without the need to add a pedometer.

It even has the activity monitor function, since it counts the steps and calories burned throughout the day and reminds the user that he has to move after more than an hour of inactivity. It is only necessary to walk for a couple of minutes to reset the inactivity indicator of the product.

Always connected

When paired with compatible phones, Garmin Forerunner® 225 provides connection functions, such as automatic data uploading to the free Garmin Connect online community, where you can save, plan and share activities. 

Once downloaded and linked with the smartphone, the device automatically transfers, and whenever it is in the range of the phone, the data previously stored in the sports watch.

Among the additional connection functions, you will find real time monitoring, which allows friends and other fans to follow the steps and statistics of the user in real time. To this is added the possibility of sharing activities on social networks by publishing updates through the application.

Finally, it is possible create training sessions advanced or download free training plans, as well as send them to the watch and receive indications like those that a coach would provide.

PVP Forerunner® 225: 299 euros (VAT included)