Garmin Forerunner 620 GPS Watch with HRM-Run - Orange & White

It s the next best thing to having your own personal running coach. Forerunner 620 offers advanced features like recovery advisor race predictor and VO2 max estimate to help you train smarter and achieve new race goals. When used with the HRM-Run monitor the 620 also provides feedback on running form by showing your cadence ground contact time and vertical oscillation. For indoor training the 620 s built-in accelerometer tracks distance so you don t need a separate foot pod. It Knows Your Potential Regardless of how long you ve been running you likely want to know how you can improve and objectively measure your fitness. Forerunner 620 does just that by estimating your VO2 max which is a good indicator of athletic capability. Previously the only way to know your VO2 max was by paying for a lab test. When used with a heart rate monitor the 620 crunches several pieces of data like your running speed beats per minute and heart rate variability to estimate your VO2 max. The number itself indicates the maximum volume of oxygen you can consume per minute per kilogram of body weight at your max performance. A colour gauge on the watch shows how your VO2 max data compares to other runners of your gender and age range. Based on your VO2 max estimate the 620 can predict your race times for several distances. This can give you a time target for your next race assuming you ve completed proper training. Rest Day or Run Day Forerunner 620 takes out the guesswork when it comes to planning your recovery time between hard workouts. Just like a coach it learns you and your physiology based on your heart rate data so it factors this against your last workout and then shows how much time before you are fully recovered and ready for your next hard running workout. When wearing HRM-Run the 620 provides a recovery check which is a real-time indication of your state of recovery within the first several minutes of your run. When you ve completed a run the recovery time shows how long before you should attempt another hard workout. Colour coding on the gauge makes it easy to interpret green means you re good to go. When you see red and a recovery time of more than 3 days you might consider taking a rest day or just doing a light recovery run. Following Your Form The 620 is the first GPS running watch that provides feedback on your running form by reporting multiple metrics. When used with the HRM-Run monitor the 620 reports your cadence vertical oscillation and ground contact time. These metrics are called running dynamics and they impact your running economy. The HRM-Run has an accelerometer which measures your torso movement as you run in order to compute these metrics. Cadence is the total number of steps you take per minute left and right foot combined. Vertical oscillation is the degree of bounce in your running motion measured in centimeters. Ground contact time is just like it sounds the amount of time your foot spends on the ground during each running...

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