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Button Functions
WARNING:
DISPLAY
It is your responsibility to use the Bodylink® Performance
Press to view
Monitor in a safe manner and to maintain full awareness of
INDIGLO
performance
conditions and surroundings at all times. Consulting the
data.
Bodylink® Performance Monitor while moving is unsafe and
could result in collision or other accident causing damage and
personal injury to yourself and others. The watch contains SET/FORMAT
Hold to set.
memory functions that should be used to record
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Viewing Performance Data in Chrono Mode Configure Mode ¶ ¶ ¶ HEART RATE HEART RATE HEART RATE HEART RATE Ä Ä Ä HRM WATCH HANDS-FREE S+D HRM SPLIT LAP SPLIT LAP SETTINGS SETTINGS SETTINGS SETTINGS LAP SPLIT LAP NUMBER LAP NUMBER ONLY SELECT SELECT SELECT SELECT NIGHT ZONE ZONE AUTO-SPLIT MODE SETTINGS SETTINGS LAP SPLIT LAP SPLIT +=ON/OFF +=OFF/ +=AUDIBLE/ +=SELECT ZONE PACE PACE AVG PACE AVG PACE BY TIME/ NO ALRT/ DISTANCE DISTANCE DISTANCE DISTANCE Ä SILENT BY DIST S&D ¶ ONLY SPLIT LAP SPLIT
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CONTENTS INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1 HOW THIS MANUAL IS ARRANGED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1 WELCOME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2 RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8 MEET YOUR NEW TRAINING PARTNER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-9 THE MODES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-9 THE DISPLAY . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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SETTING THE TIME OF DAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-22 CONFIGURE MODE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-43 VIEWING PERFORMANCE DATA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-25 NAVIGATING THROUGH THE OPTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-43 CHRONOGRAPH MODE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-26 “QUICK-SET” OPTION SETTINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-44 A NOTE ABOUT LAPS AND SPLITS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-27 CH
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Introduction How This Manual Is Arranged We’ve divided the manual into five major sections: 1. This Introduction section. 2. “Meet Your New Training Partner” (page 9), where you will find a general introduction to the watch, the modes and some common operating procedures for things like setting and working with the Bodylink® sensor data. 3. “Configuring the Watch for First Use” (page 19) is the section that describes how to set up the most important watch options so you’ll get the most benefit f
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Welcome required by world-class athletes with functions that anyone can The Timex® Bodylink® System offers athletes and fitness enthusi- use to stay “fit for life.” asts the unprecedented ability to track, store and analyze several Always consult your physician before beginning or modifying key indicators of personal performance. Using the very latest in any exercise program. digital technology, the Bodylink® System is comprised of a net- † work of up to four devices worn on the body that act to
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the Light Exercise zone, spend the majority of your exercise in the Here is how it works. Weight Management zone, and then even spend a bit of time in First, Select a Fitness Objective That’s Right for You the Aerobic Base Building Zone. The intensity of Zones 4 and 5 is • Improve Your Fitness demanding enough that exercise in these zones should be done • Lose Weight and Burn Fat for limited intervals of a workout and with the guidance of a quali- • Increase Stamina and Aerobic Endurance fied me
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You are ready for higher levels of physical activity when you can Select which level of condition represents your current physical condition and locate the Lower and Upper Heart Rate Zones for work out for this amount of time and heart rate without breathing your age from the Target Heart Rate Zone chart. See Target Zone hard and with minimal soreness. Settings to select the desired Target Zone on your Timex® Why Heart Zone Exercise is Widely Used by Fitness/Sports Performance Monitor. Training
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Your Timex® Digital Heart Rate Sensor is Your Electronic Meet Your New Training Partner Fitness Coach. You can walk, run, bike, use exercise machines, or do any aerobic The Modes exercise with the Timex® Digital Heart Rate Sensor. The key to First, you might want to take a spin through the modes to famil- achieving and maintaining your desired Fitness Objective is to iarize yourself with the different features present in your watch. exercise in your Ideal Heart Rate Zone. Press and release the M
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TIMER – Use this mode if you need a countdown timer to time a The Display fixed event, such as a spinning workout. Performance data displays Your Timex® Performance Monitor is capable of conveying a lot are more limited in this mode than in the Chronograph. of information at a glance while occupying only a small space on your wrist. Here is a quick overview of what the symbols on the ALARM – Timex has provided five alarms that can be configured watch display mean: to sound every day, weekdays on
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Button Functions Here is a second example of the button functions in Lap Data Most of the time, the button functions correspond to the labels mode. Here the buttons change their functions to enable you to navigate through the stored lap data. Again, the new function of that are painted on the case. However, there are situations where each button is indicated on the watch display. the button functions have to change to enable you to set the Time of Day, or configure your heart rate target zone. I
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Starting the Bodylink® System NOTE: As a convenience, Chrono and Timer will automatically When using the Performance Monitor, you can view real-time data search for Bodylink® sensors for fifteen seconds upon entering from a Heart Rate Sensor or Speed + Distance Sensor, or both, in the mode. Time of Day, Chrono and Timer. The procedure to do this is the same in all modes, though the data that you can view and their 4. When the watch has successfully detected transmissions from position on the dis
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• If you want to stop monitoring data from your Bodylink® sen- SEARCHING (Speed + Distance) – The Speed + Distance Sensor sors, hold the DISPLAY button down until the message HOLD has not yet detected enough GPS satellites to calculate your cur- TO SHUT OFF RCVR is displayed on the watch display. Continue rent position, speed and distance. You will not be able to view holding the DISPLAY button for a few more seconds; the watch speed, pace or distance information until the Speed + Distance will
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fore, if possible, move away from other users of Timex® Sensors if Configuring the Watch for First Use this error occurs. Now that you’ve become familiar with the layout and functions of the The watch will search for the “missing” device for one minute buttons, as well as the way the modes are arranged on the watch, it after this message appears on the display. See “Viewing Perfor- is time to set the watch up for use. There are a few essential set- mance Data” on page 14 for the procedure on ree
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determines how distance and pace values and settings are dis- Time of Day Mode played throughout the watch. Your Timex® watch will display time, date and day of week for Target Zone Settings two time zones. Each time zone is kept synchronized to highly Use target zones to keep your heart rate and speed within a accurate UTC time (also known as Greenwich Mean Time) when defined set of limits during your workout. you use the Speed + Distance Sensor and can be displayed in 12- • Heart Rate Target Z
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Time Zones 2. Press DISPLAY (+) to increase or STOP/RESET (–) to decrease This watch has two independent groups of time settings, which the value. If the watch is in 12-hour format be sure to set the we refer to as “zones.” The one that is visible on the display is AM/PM indication correctly. called the primary zone; the one you can’t see is called the sec- 3. Press SET/FORMAT (SELECT) to select (in order) minutes, year, ondary zone. You may “peek” at your secondary zone by pressing month, date
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• Each time you use the Speed + Distance Sensor, the watch will Viewing Performance Data correct itself for any drift from UTC time since you last used the When using the Speed + Distance Sensor or the Heart Rate Speed + Distance Sensor. Sensor, you can monitor your performance data in the bottom line of the display. Viewing this data is simply a matter of pressing and Here are a few tips regarding time synchronization: releasing the DISPLAY button until you see the data that you want: • When us
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mode, such as Time of Day, while the Chrono is running without Chronograph Mode disrupting its operation. The stopwatch icon will appear to indicate The Chronograph (Chrono) mode allows you to record the elapsed that the Chrono is running. time and other information for an event, up to 100 hours. Up to A Note About Laps and Splits 100 laps may be stored, with the following data for each lap: Throughout this section we will talk about “laps” and “splits.” • Lap number, lap time, and split time Wh
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The watch will show the lap and split time for the lap that you just Hands-Free Operation completed. If you are viewing HRM or Speed + Distance data, the You can configure the Chrono to start when you start moving and watch will then display the average statistics for the lap (depend- stop when you do. In addition, you can have splits taken automati- ing on the data you are viewing). The watch will then return to the cally based on either the distance covered or elapsed time. See running Chrono
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scan quickly to a particular lap; release the button to view the Lap Data Mode data for that lap number. Lap Data mode allows you to review stored lap information at any If you were using a Speed + Distance Sensor, or a Heart Rate time, whether the Chrono is running, stopped or reset. Sensor, each recalled lap will have three displays of data; the All lap data is erased when the Chrono is started from reset. lower line of each will always show the lap number (labeled “RCL” for “Recall”). If you
