Cornerman: Gym Round Timer

Your gym's logo behind the clock, your name in the corner, your color on the screen. Three numbers, set from the remote, and a clock the whole room can read.

A round timer built for the wall of a gym, not for a phone in someone's pocket.

Put it on the TV, set three numbers, and leave it alone. The clock fills the screen so it reads from the far side of the room, and the bar underneath tells you what the timer is doing without anyone squinting at a label.

YOUR GYM'S NAME ON THE WALL

Enter your gym's code and the screen becomes yours: your logo behind the clock, your name in the corner, your color on the clock between rounds. Same timer, wearing your brand instead of ours. The screen remembers it afterwards, keeps it with the internet down, and picks up a change to your logo or colors on its own.

WHAT IT IS DOING, FROM THE FAR SIDE OF THE MAT

Green while a round runs, yellow through the last ten seconds, red for the rest between them. Nobody has to read a number to know where the class is. And if your gym's own color is close enough to one of those three to be mistaken for it, that one status color steps aside, so no two things on the screen ever mean the same thing.

THREE SETTINGS, NO SETTINGS SCREEN

Round, warning and rest sit in a strip along the bottom, each in its own color. Walk to one with the remote and press up or down. That is the whole interface. There is nowhere to get lost, and nothing to set up before the first round.

• Round: ten seconds to thirty minutes. The steps get finer as the rounds get shorter, so a sprint drill is as quick to dial in as a ten-minute roll. • Warning: the wooden clapper that tells the room the round is nearly up. Turn it off if you would rather it stayed quiet. • Rest: between rounds, or off to run them back to back.

It keeps going round after round until somebody stops it. No session length to decide in advance.

SOUNDS THAT BELONG IN A GYM

A brass ring bell starts every round and ends it. Three cracks of a wooden clapper open the warning. Both mix with whatever music is already playing rather than cutting it off.

BUILT TO BE LEFT ON

The screen never sleeps while the timer is open. Your settings are remembered between sessions. The time of day and the date sit in the corner, so the same screen is still useful between classes.

FOR ANY ROOM THAT RUNS ON ROUNDS

Boxing, jiu-jitsu, muay thai, wrestling and MMA, and equally the circuit class, the bootcamp, the interval session and the strength room working to the clock. Sparring, rolling, pad work, conditioning, stations, or a class clock that simply has to be readable from everywhere in the room.

It does not care what you are timing. It is a clock on a wall with your name on it.