Advantages: Stylish, Display calory burns. Disadvantages: resin can become loos by constant use.
Timex Target Fitness Digital Heart Rate Moniter is a great watch. It is stylish. It is sports timing watch with heart rate monioring. This watch can be used by both men & women.
It comes in two colors Grey & black.
Some Features of this watch:
It has easily accessible function buttons.
Durable resin case.
Resin strap.
This watch moniters your heart rate while you are doing your workout.
It also displays data of calories burn while your are ... ...not for diving.
It has a feature which shows Beats per miniutes.
It has workout summary zone.
27 laps memory.Laps & split. It has a large digital disply.
It has Indiglo night light which gives you disply glow in dark to ease to watch digits.
It uses less battery power than other watches.
The target Fitness heart Rate Monitor allows you to train without interpretation.
100hr chorograph, 100 hr countdown times.
It is water resistant to 50 mt.
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Advantages: Compact, Cheap, Robust Disadvantages: Tricky to use
I have owned one of these for about 2 years now, and it is still going strong. It does all the usual cycle computer things, but also displays your heart rate, calories burned, etc. You can also programme to use on 2 separate bikes - very handy, when like me you have two bikes but don't want to shell out for two computers!!
SETUP AND USE
Easy to follow step by step instructions. When it comes to operating the computer unit, this is where you need ... ...sub-programme, etc. This is one way that the unit can be kept the size that it is though. Once you have dialled in the settings specific to your bike, day to day use of the computer is easy.
POSITIVES
Large read out.
Back light - can be tricky to use though.....when it's dark.
Compact design.
Wireless speed sensor for your forks.
Has all the functions required for a heart rate monitor computer.
Robust design.
Can give you daily, weekly, monthly ...
Advantages: Great range fo features, great accesories, reliable brand Disadvantages: Very expensive compared to other heart rate monitors
...different manufacturers, such as Polar, Suunto and Garmin amongst many others I decided to opt for a Suunto T3, which was not the cheapest and basic but it definitely is not at the top end either. It is described as ?the ideal heart rate monitor for casual use?.
****What is it?****
The Suunto T3 is a training aid consisting of a watch and heart rate belt that measures your performance whilst carrying out any sports activity including running, cycling, ... ...exercise data in to a Suunto software package. The T3 does not have this capability, nor is there the opportunity to get this as an add-on. Whilst I would like the above feature I thought it was a bit too much and could not justify the additional cost for the model that had this function. ****Negatives****
There is no multi user function and the T3 can only be set up for one person. Whilst some may not see this as such a bad thing, after all would ...
Advantages: easy to use, accuracy Disadvantages: non green throw away transmitter when battery dies
...to boost their sales and profit?? They used a CR2032 battery and with normal use, they last about 1 year or so. I will never buy polar again, instead I bought a similar unit from Lloyd Pharmacy which costs £8, yes £8 !!! and you can change the batteries!!!! ...
Advantages: Cheap, simple Disadvantages: Update frequency too slow, not really accurate.
Great watch. I've not used all the function yet, but everything is pretty simple.
The hart rate update a little slow to my preference.So often I can see reading like: 90, 120, 85 ... not as accurate as I would like, but still a nice watch.
The strap is 30m water resistant, but they say that in the water the transmission might not be as good as normal. So I would not recommend this particular model if you are a swimmer (as it's not super accurate ... ...the watch on some thing, not on your wrist, it's ok. I'm a drummer and I like to put the watch in front of me. The transmission doesn't suffer at all if the distance is under 2m.
The watch is made strong. I've broker ALL the watch I've possess, but I think that this one will last, as the "wrist band/bracelet" is incorpoted to the watch. (So you can't replace it)
Great watch for the price ! ...
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