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35 of 35 humans found the following review helpful.
Perfect exercise companian
By Prao
I love this watch. I’ve had it for regarding 3 weeks now and it does it’s occupation perfectly. I love the zone system. It allows me to run much further and for longer than I have before because I don’t exhaust myself by running more immediate than my body may manage. The beeping feature (that may be turned off) that features two tone beeps to let you know whether you need to slow down or speed up to stay in your zone allows you to pace yourself without having to look at the watch. This model features a bar at the top of the display that shows the lower and upper limits of the zone you want to be in and where you are within (or outside) the zone. This is specially utile if you determine to turn the two tone beeps off. Not all heart rate monitors from Timex feature this.
The batteries on the chest strap and the watch may be substituted by the user – an not common feature I believe.
The chest strap is rather comfortable and picks up signals very well – my wife tried it and she had no disturb with it either (the strap sits on the lower side of the chest). I found that if I put it on regarding 15 min before I exercised, my body would generate the sweat necessitated for good pickup.
Some reviewers have commented that the indiglo feature where the numerals light up (rather than the face) made for difficult reading. I found that if I tilted the watch more or less (rather than place the face at right angles to the line of sight), the numerals were without doubt or question visible. I think I prefer this to the old method of lighting the face.
It is a reasonably handsome watch – a bit on the thick side (about 14 mm x 42 mm or so wide) – perfective for a man even for each day wear but surely huge for a woman.
It took me a while to determine on buying this watch. Lack of clear size selective information (their midsize, big and extra big size indications are meaningless) on the Timex internet site meant that I had to scour shops and call client service a couple of times to have them measure the watches for me.
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20 of 20 humans found the following review helpful.
Loved it, but it broke after 1 year.
By pegster
The last Polar HRM I had passed from physical life and I assumed it was the battery. Nope the whole thing died. So, I decisive to get a Timex this time. I liked that the watch battery has a long life and you may change it yourself, vs mail it back to Polar.
The use of this HRM is a little tricky. You HAVE to use the CHRONO feature or all you get is HR, no calories, etc. Now that I figured that out, I love this HRM. It gets a signal much quicker than the Polar, and it seems accurate. I love the zone feature and the recovery feature that keeps track of how much your HR drops in the 1 or 2 minutes after you stop your workout.
This HRM is SO worth the cash – equivalent in features to HRMs that cost hundreds more. I am very satisfied with this purchase!
Update – closely a year to the day, the heart rate button stopped working, rendering it useless. 
17 of 17 persons found the following review helpful.
Works great, but not with the gym’s exercise machines
By Robert Withrow
I’m 6 feet 4 inches and 210 pounds. The watch is just the right size for me and the band seems rather heavy responsibility and has a nice feature where the tail of the band has a tab that fits into a notch in the buckle piece so it doesn’t flap. The HRM sensor fits comfortably on my 42 inch chest with the detachable band expanded to it’s greatest or most complete or best possible extent. I think it would be too tight for more prominent chests.
I run the sensor electrodes under the tap and strap it on and the watch always gets a solid heart rate signal. I wear it while using a number of cardio and weight-training machines and in exercise and stretch classes flexing into a lot of crazy positions, and the sensor has yet to drop out. The batteries were fine out of the box.
The watch has a number of imagination watch features, most I don’t use. One great feature is the dual timezone setup. I keep the second zone set to UTC and a push of the “start split” button accesses it. If you are into HIIT, note that the timer feature doesn’t have the capability for doing (for example) 30 seconds HI and 60 seconds recovery.
The only problem is that I have been unable to get the sensor to work wirelessly with the Precor and Nautilus machines. Note that the product creative writing of recognized artisti value doesn’t assert that this will have to work and there doesn’t appear to be any general for interoperability amidst machines and wireless HRM devices. Some reviews for Timex HRM widgets assert that the sensors DO talk to machines. If an individual has gotten THIS specific product to work with machines, please tell us how in a comment to this review.
Otherwise I think this product gives very good value. I give it 4.5 stars and if it worked with the cardio machines I would give it five stars. Some may feel it is unfair to downgrade a product rating for missing out a feature it doesn’t assert to have: I think a five-star rating ought to indicate total satisfaction. I actually wish the industry would get together and invent a popular so these things may work together!
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