Strapless Heart Rate Monitor

Entry Level Polar Heart Rate Monitors

This is the entry level for the Polar heart rate monitors. These monitors cost the same (or perhaps a little more) than a regular watch, but with the added functionality of a heart rate monitor.

First off I must say that these watches have all of the functions you’d expect with a digital watch such as 12/24 hr time of day with alarm and stopwatch functions. They’re all waterproof to 50m (160 feet or so) and have a large display. They all read your heart beat continuously, but this does mean you need to use a chest strap which is supplied with the watch.

Here’s the basic feature list:

Automatic and Manual target zone (% / bpm / HRR%) – manual bpm
Heart rate (displayed as bpm)
HeartTouch™, button-free operation of wrist unit
Manual target zone (% / bpm)
Over-sized display
Visual and audible alarm in target zones
As mentioned above water resistant to 50m

They can all be mounted on a bike with the optional bike mount, but they do not also act as cycle computers – you need the specialist cycle heart rate monitors for this.

The exercise features are as follows:

Average heart rate of total exercise
HR-based target zones with audible alarm
HR-based target zones with visual alarm
Wireless ECG accurate heart rate

With Recording features:

Average heart rate
Exercise Time (total)

Transmitter belt

T31 coded™ transmitter – compatible
T31 transmitter
WearLink® 31 coded transmitter (changeable battery) – compatible

Watch features

Time of day (12/24h) with alarm – w/o alarm

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