Over the year , Garmin has managed toshrink and squeeze its GPS ironware into a running watchthat does n’t attend monstrous on your wrist joint . But center monitoring always required wearing an sticky chest shoulder strap . With the newForerunner 225 , Garmin rescue the whole fitness tracking computer software in one aerodynamic radiocarpal joint - wear down package .
Instead of grow its own heart rate monitoring technical school , Garmin team up up with Mio to comprise its ocular sensors into the Forerunner 225 . And since Mio has beenperfecting heart rate monitor physical fitness watchesfor years now , the the raw Forerunner will likely benefit from Mio ’s know - how with highly - exact EKG meter reading .
Available sometime this summer for about $ 300 , the Forerunner 225 will be waterproof to 50 meters so you do n’t have to vex about wearing it while train in the rain , or while you ’re really working up a sweat , or , err , taking a shower . It ’s rechargeable battery is good for around four week when using it as a regular watch , but that drops to about seven hr when using the GPS and middle rate detector .
And like other late Garmin seaworthiness sentry , the Forerunner 225 can be couple to a smartphone making it easier to back up your training data and access or dissect it over prison term through its free accompanying app . In other words , the watch will be great at guilt - tripping you . [ GarminviaSlashGear ]
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