Polar Rs300x Heart Monitor Watch

Polar Rs300x Heart Monitor Watch 2 Now our most frequent and top performing running computer is intensified with GPS speed and distance capability A smart, intuitive training computer for runners and cross-training athletes, the Polar RS300X wrist heart rate monitor helps you to train at the right intensity with personal training zones. It’s compatible with Polar’s S1 foot pod and G1 GPS sensor (both separately available), enabling you to combine heart rate with speed and distance and veritably make sense of your training. Committed runners will find the most value in the real-time pace and distance measurement of the S1 foot pod, while those who mix up their training regimen with cycling, inline skating, paddling, mountain biking or hiking will be best served with the speed and distance G1 GPS Sensor. It comes with the Polar WearLink+ 31 coded transmitter (with changeable battery). The RS300X helps you to train at the right intensity with personal training zones. .caption { font-family: Verdana, Helvetica neue, Arial, serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; } ul.indent { list-style: inside disc; text-indent: 20px; } table.callout { font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, serif; margin: 10px; width: 250; } td.callout { height: 100 percent; background: #9DC4D8 url(http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page/callout-bg.png) repeat-x; border-left: 1px solid #999999; border-right: 1px solid #999999; padding: 10px; width: 250px; } ul.callout { list-style: inside disc; text-indent: -12px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; } h5.callout { text-align: center; } Polar RS300X Models Basic RS300X – black and orange RS300X SD with S1 foot pod for real-time pace/distance – black and orange RS300X G1 with G1 GPS Sensor for cross-trainers – black and orange The RS300X enables athletes to train at the right intensity and improve their performance through core metrics such as heart rate, speed, distance, pace, and calorie burn. Advanced features include Polar’s exclusive OwnZone feature for individualized zone training by heart rate or pace, a fitness test, and automati lap splits, which display intermediate heart rate, pace and distance per lap. Athletes may without apparent effort review up to 16 past workout files to check their progress and assure they’re staying on track with their fitness or training plan. Features include: Heart rate displayed as part of greatest or most complete or best possible heart rate, BPM, and intermediate heart rate of total exercise Tracks your latest 16 training sessions and your last 16 weeks of training Visual and audible alarm in target zones: Informs you each time your heart rate and/or speed/pace outperforms the upper limit or falls underneath the lower limit of your target zone for the duration of a training session. Polar OwnIndex Fitness Test calculates aerobic fitness (comparable to maximal oxygen uptake, VO2max) providing a reference to base training intensity and measure improvement. Polar OwnCal: Shows your energy expenditure for the duration of one exercise session as well as your accumulated kilocalories for the duration of various exercise sessions. Because the OwnCal tracks both the energy expenditure for the duration of one exercise session and the collected kilocalories for the duration of a longer time e.g. one week, it helps in achieving both short term and long term goals. Time in Target Zone feature calculates the amount of total training time expended in your personal target zone. You may use this feature together with the Total Exercise Time to determine the effectiveness of your training program. Number of laps – 99 Watch features: alarm with snooze, dual time zone, stopwatch Compatible with Polar FlowLink (available separately) Water immune to 50 meters Backlighting, display zoom Event Countdown Timer: Keeps your motivation high by showing how a good deal of days are left before your next running event (e.g., Berlin 23 days). About Polar The basi EKG precise wireless heart rate monitor was invented by Polar back in 1977 as a training tool for the Finnish National Cross Country Ski Team. The conception of “intensity training” by heart rate swept the athletic world in the eighties. By the 1990s, humans were looking to heart rate monitors not only for performance training needs, but also for achieving each day fitness goals. Today, the same conception of heart rate training is being applied by world-class athletes as well as daily people attempting to lose weight. Polar is the leading brand amidst consumers, coaches, and personal trainers international and the company is devoted to not only developing the best products, but also being the leading educator on the gains of heart rate based exercise.

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62 of 65 persons found the following review helpful.
Overall a decent product with galore minor drawbacks
By ArizonaPilot
For numerous reason, Polar requires that these units be sent back to replace the battery, which costs $25 + shipping. On top of the annual cost of maintenance, this ship to replace policy leaves you without a heart monitor for when it comes to 2 weeks once a year.

The other issue I found is that the reception range is not very good, so the unit won’t work well mounted on a bicycle.

Finally, Polar has decisive to arbitrarily remove the % fat burn function from a lot of of it is watches. This watch does not have it, so keep in mind you will not know what % of your calorie burn was fat.

30 of 30 people found the following review helpful.
Not for anybody with 40 year old eyes
By BB23
Nobody loves the Polar Brand more than I do. Actually since 1995 I haven’t used any other brand. I have always used the basic model to get the greatest screen and font. At the White Rock Expo 12/09 in Dallas I purchased the RS300x w/ the foot pod.
Pros: + the foot pod is fantastically accurate, much better than any GPS engineering that you may afford
+ nice looking watch / monitor (although I don’t use mine as a watch)
+ chest strap will fit littler chests ( my children may use the new chest strap)
+ heart rate registers without recording so you may read your heart rate prior to or after your run but it doesn’t skew your run data.

Cons: -With 3 lines of text on each screen, You can not read the screen for the duration of a run. Particularly the tenths of miles. (This blows the whole deal, what’s the point of info you can’t read)
-too a great deal of screens to go through, just overly perplexed a good thing.
What is the value of all that selective information that you can’t read for the duration of a run. I get home from a run and realize the thing wasn’t on.
There must be a way to opt out of some of the bologna. 99% of athletes don’t need that data and don’t want it.
I still love Polar and I’m still attempting to love the RS300 but it is not easy. I guess it like buying a book and when you get home you realize the font is too little to read.

33 of 35 people found the following review helpful.
Electronics OK, crappy display
By Mike Hayden
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UPDATE: Tuesday, September 8, 2009 1:36PM

After a couple more workouts and a few hours of attempting to figure out this product… well, their user documentation is horrible, which means you must spend hours discovering closely everything on your own.

I like the RS300X for it is capacity to track and store training data. (But, finding the info is a hassle thanks to poor documentation with no examples. Ultimately, I will have to spend time creating a navigation chart myself.)

I like the chest band with it is detachable transmitter and easy-to-replace battery.

I don’t like the molded one-piece watch-band that forces you to wear the watch atop the wrist. I prefer to wear the watch on the side of my wrist where I may glimpse down to read, rather than having to raise my entire arm to read.

I still don’t like the display because of it is obnoxious glare and requirement of perfective up-close vision to read it.

Based on my experience with the RS300X and other Polar products, I would now raise my 2-star rating to 4-stars (if I could). Without magnificent and utile documentation – that SAVES MY TIME & FRUSTRATION – I can’t give it 5-stars.

All my other Polar productions have been authenti and of high quality construction. I assume the RS300X will be the same or better.

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Sunday, September 6, 2009 11:25AM

I received my new Polar RS300X a couple days ago. I shoulda shopped around…

I’ve been using Polar Heart Rate monitors since 1986. and have been pleased with them all… Until now.

I purchased this RS300X because I loathe the hassle of sending the instrumentation in for new batteries.

While the RS300X electronics seem to offer a heap of features, the littler display is perfectly crappy – a significant obstruction to my workouts!

You will have to try to read the tiny display data through TWO glaring reflections off the clear plastic lens (glare NOT SHOWN in the photos). What good is the real-time feedback info if you can’t read it while running?!?!

I assumed I would love this new product.

Unfortunately, after only two uses, I hate this RS300X. If I alter my mind after more usage, I’ll alter this review.

Mike

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