If you do sports professionally or regularly, sports watches are the sports accessory you need. Measure your workouts and take your sports performance to the maximum. Find in Bulevip the one that best suits you!
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Sports watches have become the essential sports accessory for any athlete. They measure everything from our heart rate to the steps we take, passing through calories expended, sleep or even breaths. There are endless models, with different characteristics and benefits so that you can find the perfect one for you and for the sport you practice.
WHAT ARE SPORT WATCHES?
Sports watches are accessories designed for those athletes who perform physical activity practically every day. These watches provide precision in recording training since they have functions that other devices are not capable of recording, such as heart rate, GPS, etc. and it has very specific sensors such as the accelerometer, the altimeter, the compass...
Its boom in recent years has been incredible and not precisely because it shows us the time, but because it provides us with valuable information, especially with society's increasing concern for taking care of their health. In addition, it is a very comfortable way to record this data since it has the advantage that it connects to the rest of our electronic devices.
WHAT TYPES OF SPORTS WATCHES CAN YOU FIND?
We can distinguish different types of sports watches based on gender or age, for example. Although there are not very significant differences, in general sports watches for men will be more robust, while sports watches for children will have a smaller face.
On the other hand, we are going to differentiate these clocks based on what we want to measure with them. There are watches that will be more specified for a specific sport, while others will be multifunction, that is, we can measure training sessions for different sports with them. In addition, these multifunction watches will help us measure other functions apart from training, such as health indicators: steps, distances traveled, calories, etc.
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO USE SPORTS WATCHES?
Sports watches , in addition to measuring our workouts and giving us feedback on what we are doing in each exercise, will inform us about how our body is reacting during these workouts.
In this way, during training we can observe how our heart rate varies. This is important because we will not push our body to the maximum, but we will not stay halfway in training either. We can monitor the state of our health while knowing the performance we are having during training.
They contribute to us carrying out quality training and putting aside training for sensations. We can control our performance and our time in the different training sessions and see how we evolve over time.
WHAT FUNCTIONALITIES DO SPORTS WATCHES HAVE?
Each sports watch will have different functions, in this way we find the one that best suits us, taking into account what we need. However, there are a series of functionalities that will be common to all watches.
THE SPORT WE PRACTICE
It will not be the same to measure a swimming training than a running one, for this reason we must take into account what we want from our watch. Most of the watches will measure the most common sports such as running, cycling, and swimming, but if we practice a more specific sport, we will have to look for a watch that has that functionality.
Another functionality that they have within the sport that we practice is multisport, that is, measuring several sports at once, which will be especially useful for those who practice sports such as triathlon.
GPS
It will allow us to measure the route our watch follows, the time it takes to travel it, the speeds it has reached during training, etc.
This functionality will be recommended for those people who do outdoor sports over long distances, such as cyclists or runners. However, if we practice a sport that does not need to measure these routes, the GPS will not be useful to us.
ALTIMETER BAROMETER
It allows to measure the inclination of the slopes that we climb during a training session, the differences in height during the ascents and descents of the route, etc. Again, this is a functionality that will be especially useful in long-distance outdoor sports such as running or cycling.
PULSOMETER
It allows us to measure the pulsations of our heart instantly. It will help us to get to know each other better, being able to adjust the intensity of the training so that we do not push our body excessively to the limit, but we do not remain training halfway either.
CHRONOMETER
Essential to know the time we have been training. In addition, it has more functions such as the countdown, partials, laps... especially useful in training.
CONNECTION TO SMARTPHONE
This functionality is useful because both devices will complement each other by giving us more information about our workouts. We will be able to see the results measured with the watch more clearly on the mobile. We can also schedule training, intensity, routes, etc. through our smartphone and transmit that information to our watch.
HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT SPORTS WATCH?
Not all sports watches are suitable for everyone, so we will have to take into account a series of factors when choosing the ideal one for us:
- Size: we must take into account that it fits our wrist well, that it is not an excessively large size, but that it does not squeeze us too much or hurt us. The main thing we must take into account is that it is comfortable.
- Materials: Ideally, it should be made of polycarbonate, carbon fiber, silicone, and any other material that is hypoallergenic. We seek that they are not too heavy so that they are more comfortable. We are also interested in quality and resistant materials that increase the durability of the watch.
- Visibility: the information it provides us must be clear enough to be able to have the data just by taking a look at it so that it does not harm us during training because we have to stop to be able to see the information it is giving us.
- Water resistance: essential if the sport we want to measure is swimming. Likewise, even if this is not the sport we are going to focus on, it is recommended that you incorporate this modality so that sweat or rain does not harm you.
- Connectivity: that it is linked with other devices is going to be interesting because we are going to see how its functionalities increase as some devices complement each other. It will be essential that you have Bluetooth.
