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Post by Jon Adams on Feb 17, 2005 14:43:26 GMT -5
I know many of you have used, and are using various brands of HRMs.....how do you like them? As for myself, I have used three different brands...Cardiosport, Timex/Ironman, Polar.
IMO and from my own personal experience the Polar is head & shoulders above the others. The Cardio & Timex both had many useful features, and the price for both was very reasonable, but they both had serious problems dealing with "interference". It was very frustrating trying to get a reading while on a training run when you only got a "true" reading for 50% of the time or less. The Polar on the other hand seemed to take an occasional "spike" here and there.
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Post by Wyman Hamilton on Feb 17, 2005 21:49:02 GMT -5
the timex ironman heart rate monitor sucks in my book. at least I did not have a good experience with mine.
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Post by Brent on Feb 17, 2005 22:30:15 GMT -5
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Post by Live2beoutside on Feb 18, 2005 9:45:04 GMT -5
In the past 12 years, I've had four Polar Models and still have two that I use. One died after four years of hard use and I traded the other one in on a trade-in program because it had too many features for the battery size and needed a new battery every 10 months. Since you have to send it to Polar for battery replacement, that was a big nusance and they eventually discontinued it and replaced it with a model with a more powerful battery. I've had very good success with all of them but don't care for the low budget one with minimal features (which I still have and use for two weeks every other year or so when I send my current one in for battery replacement).
The one I have now is the S710i which is a combination HRM and bicycle odometer. Data (HR's, altitude, distance and speed) can be stored in 5, 15 or 60 second increments and downloaded to a computer through an IR interface and displayed in a graphics format. It will store 44 split times along with average, max, and ending HR's for each split. It records altitude, measures temperature (if it's on the bike, on your wrist, it measurse some median value between body temperature and ambient temperature) and calculates the gross amount of elevation gain (total climbing, a nice feature when riding multiple mountain passes on the bike). It will store several files at a time (11 hours @ 5 sec. sampling, 33 hours at 15, and 99 at 60) so you can take it on vacation and download all the data when you return home.
I think the comparable model without the bike features is the S610? Anyway, if you're a data junkie, it's for you. A lot of that stuff is just icing. The only information I really respond to is average and max HR for split time and overall average HR. But the rest of the stuff is really cool to look at from a standpoint of curiosity.
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Post by Live2beoutside on Feb 19, 2005 12:24:57 GMT -5
Speaking of cheesy heart rate monitors, Jill - what was the make of HRM that you bought last spring? The one with the "alternative" procedure for determining heart rate without needing to wear the trasmitter strap? Get this, it said: "Place your first and index finger against your wrist, count the number of beats in 10 seconds and multiply by 6". Who needs a heart rate monitor to do that? You did return that one for a rerfund, right?
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