Timex Ironman Review 2026: A Luddite Fitness Bro’s Dream Timepiece
The fitness watch world has never been more advanced. Most offerings these days track almost every measurable metric, including heart rate, pulse oximetry, and heart rate variability. They have built in GPS, compass, altimeters, and barometric pressure sensors. Many watches will monitor your sleep and can help build a training plan. They track your workouts, providing a host of valuable data and those workouts are (of course) then uploaded to Strava. It’s great, and we should all be so grateful to train with readily available insights that not too long ago were reserved for pro athletes—if they were even available at all. It can also get tiring. We become beholden to the metrics, less likely to log an easy run or bike for fear of our Strava peers’ perceptions. Maybe we bail on those weekend plans in order to protect the holy sleep score. Here’s the thing: Sometimes we could all use an infusion of old school, analog, low-tech. As much as we love to work out with our Apple Watch, sometimes an endless barrage …
