Product description
If running is what you do to stay in shape, the RS100 will give you valuable feedback that can help improve your fitness or lose those last few pounds. It combines all the heart rate features you need with the stopwatch you're used to. Track your average heart rate and time for each lap, so you can integrate heart rate easily into your fitness running program.
In order to reach your fitness goals, you need to exercise at the right intensity. The Polar RS100 wrist heart rate monitor helps you to easily and accurately measure your heart rate to help you get to just the right intensity or your exertion level. This basic HRM features added stopwatch and time-of-day watch features as well as extra-large digits for easy readability. The Time in Target Zone feature calculates the amount of total exercise time spent in your personal target zone. You can use this feature together with the Total Exercise Time to determine the effectiveness of your exercise program. The RS100 displays heart rate as beats per minute (beats per minute) and as a percentage of the maximum heart rate. The Target Zone feature can be set manually or automatically (for age/weight), and the RS100 provides visual and auditory alarms when you've moved away from the zone. Other features include dual time zone, alarm with snooze, and water resistance to 50 meters. It's a great choice for using in large groups, where other exercisers might be using wireless training gear that could interfere with your own signal. The RS100's coded transmission prevents crosstalk with other monitors so you'll get a personalized workout--even in a class environment. It also includes the following exclusive Polar features: - Polar OwnCal: This feature shows your energy expenditure during one exercise session as well as your accumulated kilocalories during several exercise sessions. You can set daily and weekly exercise goals in terms of calorie expenditure with the OwnCal feature. Because the OwnCal tracks both the energy expenditure during one exercise session and the accumulated kilocalories during a longer time e.g. one week, it helps in achieving both short term and long term goals.
- Polar OwnZone: This feature guides you through an appropriate warm-up routine and automatically determines a safe and effective exercise heart rate zone--your OwnZone--while taking into account your current physical condition.
Manufacturer's Warranty
The original purchaser of this heart rate monitor is backed by a limited warranty that states that this product that the product will be free from defects in material or workmanship for two years from the date of purchase. Note:
Polar heart rate monitors are precision instruments; consumers are not advised to change their own battery. Polar recommends that all service be done by an authorized Polar Service Center which will include a warranty for 90 days on repairs and 6 months for batteries. About Polar
The first EKG accurate wireless heart rate monitor was invented by Polar back in 1977 as a training tool for the Finnish National Cross Country Ski Team. The concept of "intensity training" by heart rate swept the athletic world in the eighties. By the 1990s, individuals were looking to heart rate monitors not only for performance training needs, but also for achieving everyday fitness goals. Today, the same concept of heart rate training is being used by world-class athletes as well as everyday people trying to lose weight. Polar is the leading brand among consumers, coaches, and personal trainers worldwide and the company is committed to not only producing the best products, but also being the leading educator on the benefits of heart rate based exercise.
Features
- Improve your training with watch-style heart rate monitor with stopwatch functionality.
- Monitor your intensity level to ensure you achieve the desired goal for each workout.
- Calculates the amount of total exercise time spent in your personal target zone.
- Comes with Polar T31 coded transmitter, which prevents interference from other nearby monitors.
- Backed by a 2-year warranty.
Customer Reviews
Inaccurate HR reading -- 2010-09-02
This HRM is completely inaccurate. It's not that it is not reading my heart rate, but that it says that my resting HR is 39-40 bpm, when it is actually around 60. It did work one time but that was it. Every time I've used it, except for one workout, it has stated that my HR is between 40-55 bpm during a heavy workout! I'm going to have to return it and I'll probably get a Timex instead.
lackluster at best - better deals out there -- 2010-08-12
I generally don't write reviews about stuff but I really wish someone on this board would have written this...so I decided to do something about it for the next potential customer. The main issue with this watch is that there is no way to change the information displayed on the main (big font) line of the display. So, if you are doing interval training or keeping track of your mile/km times in a race, you cannot make these lap times large enough to comfortably see. Instead, you are stuck with the total time of the workout as it accumulates with the lap time in small, hard to read font above it. I am 26, have great vision, and do not normally have a hard time reading fine print - but, when you're running at 90% max HR it's difficult to steady and synchronize your bouncing head and swinging arm. Can you picture the fun?
I owned a Nike heart rate monitor and sold it because it didn't do lap times at all. I thought with this one I had solved my problems, but the staff at Polar insist on reserving this essential feature for the 200 series and above.
I will promptly be returning this for a Timex...much more bang for the buck.
Cheers and happy running!
Disappointing calorie calculation -- 2010-08-06
This heart rate monitor was easy to use, once I read the manual and figured out how to set it.
However, I've used it on a couple of bike rides since I got it last week. Today, I biked 17.5 miles in just under 2 hours. Four different web site calorie calculators gave me calories-burned numbers of 879, 986 (2), and 994, based on my weight. The Polar RS100 gave me a number of 569. That seems abnormally low to me. A similar thing happened last time; the Polar was quite far below the websites.
This is disappointing, as I bought this primarily to show calories burned during exercise.
Great monitor for basic use and with cardio machines -- 2010-07-25
I was using a timex monitor that I got for cheap at Costco. It wouldn't work with the precor machines and I kept losing the signal. My trainer recomended buying a polar and replacing it and glad I did.
I get a reading as soon as I put on the strapband (with my timex sometimes there was a almost a minute delay before getting a reading even using heart rate cream on the strap). It works fine with all the precor machines and it is nice having the reading go on the machine and getting told the heartrate stats as well when I finish an eliptical machine work out.
There is one thing I dont like and I may just need to read up on it. I can't figure out how to get the time to show with the heartbeat. I also like to time some things and the only way I can figure out how to do it is with the lap feature. Not a big deal but I have the alarm sound turned to silent but it wsill still beep when I am outside my targeted heart rates which is annoying and embarrasing at a gym.
If someone wants a cheaper heart rate monitor go with this one. I wouldn't recomend any of the other ones that sell for cheaper like the timex, they don't work with the cardio machines and this does, and this one is also reliable.
Great product -- 2010-07-09
This is my first HRM so there was a learning curve on using the features of the product. I'm typically pretty good with electronics and functions/menus. For some reason it has taken me a little longer to get this one figured out. That said it works great, really helps me focus on the performance level of my workouts, I should have had one years ago. The workout summary is great and helps me track my progress. It took awhile to get used to the chest strap, it is not uncomfortable, but was different having a strap around my chest.
|
Home
