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| | Description | Stainless Steel Case, Heart rate monitor continuously tracks your heart rate during exercise. Easy to read display Automatic activity timer, Elapsed workout time is automatically recorded. Workout review recalls activity time and average, peak, and minimum heart rate. Sensor Features Comfortable, lightweight strap Owner-replaceable battery with 2 year life Water-resistant 30m (sensor will not provide accurate heart rates when under water) Grey Polyurethane Strap | |
| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 0.0 inches | | Product Width: | 0.0 inches | | Product Height: | 0.0 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.49 pounds | | Package Length: | 8.5 inches | | Package Width: | 5.1 inches | | Package Height: | 2.7 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.6 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 141 reviews |
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Good Beginner HRM Watch Jul 30, 2010
I've had this HRM watch for the past month and have liked it. The readings provide the information I wanted in a HRM watch - my exercise time (the time between when I turned it on and when I turned it off) and both the average HR and maximum HR during that period of time. The chest band is not difficult to put on and the numbers on the watch are large enough to be read without my glasses. I've had no problem with the chest band picking up my HR, even without getting it damp first. My one complaint/caution is you have to be careful when you end your exercise session and when you want to review the corresponding HR. You begin measuring your HR by pressing the ON/OFF button down for less than a second; you end the exercise by holding that same button down for about 3 seconds, until the display reads HOLD TURN OFF, one word at a time. To review your workout, you have to hold the same button for another 3 seconds until the display reads HOLD FOR INFO, one word at a time. If you're not careful and don't hold the button down until the readout ends and you see the first number (the length of your workout), it will start a new workout and you'll lose all of the old info. I lost the first few workouts because I didn't hold the button down long enough. Other than that minor inconvenience, I really like it.
 Good, Cheap Heart Rate Monitor Jul 28, 2010
This product is great for the health enthusiast who doesn't want to spend more than $30 or $40 to know what their heart rate is. It's a basic product, easy to use, and helpful for keeping your heart fit.
 Excellent in-use functionality, but poorly designed for monitor battery replacement Jul 26, 2010
This monitor gives consistent reading of heart rate during workout. When a workout is finished the monitor can provide you with your maximum heart rate during the session, as well as your average heart rate during exercise, and the total time of exercise. Its functionality as a monitor is excellent.
The reason for the less than five star rating is the unfortunately poor design and planning for battery replacement in the monitor. The chest strap battery is easy to change, just insert a coin, twist to remove the battery compartment cover, install a new battery and replace the cover. Unfortunately, the battery in the wrist monitor is not so easy to change. It requires releasing a watch strap pin where the watch strap connects to the monitor, to allow the watch's back to then be opened next. Four small screws must then be removed from the back so it can be taken off. Then an even smaller screw, it is quite small, must be removed from the battery cover so a new battery can be reinserted. This process must be reversed to close the watch monitor. This is quite a tedious process requiring jewelers screwdrivers to work with the monitor's small screws. This process clearly presents some significant problems for the end user. In fact, the manual states in capital letters, "TIMEX STRONGLY RECOMMENDS TAKING YOUR MONITOR TO A LOCAL RETAILER OR JEWELER TO HAVE THE BATTERY REPLACED".
The batteries have proven to be quite long-lived, so perhaps some of the five star reviews may have been made before the batteries needed changing. For a relatively inexpensive monitor to require visiting a retailer or jeweler to replace a battery or risk damaging the monitor is simply poor design.
The bottom line: five stars for information display and functionality, two stars for monitor battery replacement design.
 Singing in the Shower! Jul 26, 2010
I am not pleased with this product at all. You need to be soaking wet for the transmitter to work and then you still need to move it around on your chest to get a reading. If you were having sex in the shower it might work well! I do not recommend this product!
Prelim review of Timex T5G941 HRM Jul 25, 2010
Completely satisfied with this device after one month of 3/wk use. If you have the proper equipment and are comfortable working with microelectronics, you can replace the CRxxxx cells in both the wrist and chest units in a few minutes yourself, and avoid the cost of having some expert do it for you. This is far superior to another manufacturer's HRM I used previously who required that I ship them off to a repair center - incurring greater costs and a delay.
So far it has been completely reliable. I also note that the Timex chest unit seems to "lose contact" (my assumption) under certain exercise motions less frequently than the previous HRM did.
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