Round timers

[SC MMA MD]

What do you guys use for round timers? We have used cheap kitchen timers, and then got the Title round timer which is better in that you can see the time remaking well and hear the buzzer, but there are limited choices for round length which can be a pain, and you need a doctorate to program it. We are thinking about changing to either the gym next flex timer: GymNext
Or the USA timer pro edition: Products - USATimer.com

The USA timer is cheaper, but appears to limit the round lengths you can have programmed, the flex timer is more expensive but has a larger display and appears to allow unlimited timer choices and is run by a phone app. Anyone have any experience with either of these?

 

[member 603]

Title round timers are great, but are also like 200 bucks a pop.

 

[SC MMA MD]

Title round timers are great, but are also like 200 bucks a pop.

That is what we have now. Way better than a kitchen timer, but frustrating in that there are multiple groups using it that all need different times, so it is hard to have all the round lengths that we want programmed in, and if some of the more experienced guys want to do a session with 10min rounds or something like that we have to program it in and reprogram the timer back after. The timer looks like it contains about three dollars worth of electronics and plastics, I can't believe it was as expensive as at was.

 

[member 603]

That is what we have now. Way better than a kitchen timer, but frustrating in that there are multiple groups using it that all need different times, so it is hard to have all the round lengths that we want programmed in, and if some of the more experienced guys want to do a session with 10min rounds or something like that we have to program it in and reprogram the timer back after. The timer looks like it contains about three dollars worth of electronics and plastics, I can't believe it was as expensive as at was.

Yeah I always thought they were like 20 bucks... The pricing for them are crazy. We have a few in our gym, and they've always been good for us. For longer than 10 minutes training, we'd just used the rest period timer (that goes up to 5 mins) along with the 9 minutes with the timer.