GPS montres de sport ont été adoptés avec enthousiasme par les athlètes d'endurance, car ils arrivent sur le marché au cours de la dernière décennie comme un outil de formation avancée pour fournir des informations d'entraînement en termes de vitesse, allure, distance, l'altitude et la cartographie routière.
Malheureusement il n'y a pas autant de dames montres GPS qui fournissent les qualités que les femmes actives cherchent généralement.
La grande majorité des athlètes féminines ont des besoins et exigences suivantes:
Ayantsleeker wrists (in general) than men, women require smaller watches with sleeker designs and wrist straps
Ladies demand a much more comfortable fitting watch than the average male tends to tolerate
Ladies want more paler, feminine colors and designs
Female watches usually have smaller watch faces and buttons
A fundamental design problem in creating a GPS watch for girls is the difficulty of fitting a bulky GPS aerial into a miniature sized watch that is comfortable enough to wear while partaking in physical activity.
Some sports watch manufacturers side-step the problem, by packaging the GPS receptor into an arm band which is simply a GPS receiver case mounted on an adjustable elastic band. With the GPS external from the wristwatch, the designers can keep the wrist piece small, while offering the benefits of GPS. A two-piece system is not a bad choice, provided you are comfortable wearing a bulky device on your person.
Other popular sport watches like the Garmin Forerunner line, mount the GPS in the actual wristwatch itself. While Garmin have recently gone to great lengths to make their sports GPS wristwatch smaller, the Garmin watches do still tend to sit quite heavily on the wrist.
There are of course other alternatives that do not require GPS at all. A wireless accelerometer foot pod device fits externally into an athlete's shoelaces. It measures a runner's leg speed through the air and with a little calibration, accurate speed and distance can be measured. A foot pod is more comfortable than an external GPS and about as accurate for measuring speed and distance, it also does not stop working around large objects, an issue encountered with GPS systems whenever the GPS satellite signal is obstructed.
But a foot pod suffers a couple of drawbacks. In some cases it must be calibrated for accurate readings. Calibration is not a big deal, but is not required in a GPS watch. A foot pod also does not measure altitude as it cannot track your 3D location like a GPS watch can, therefore it cannot plot your training route on a map. On the other hand a foot pod option is often a superior alternative to cheaper GPS watches that cannot measure altitude or record routes.
In summary, GPS watch can provide some truly powerful benefits to athletes who want the full range of information on their fitness training. While female athletes may need to accept a few compromises, the positives will far outweigh the drawbacks for many active girls.
We provide much more information on ladies GPS watches on our website including three popular watches that we consider great choices for female athletes.
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