Omron HR-210 Strap Free Heart Rate Monitor

Product Details

Product Dimensions: 3 x 3.5 x 6 inches ; 4.2 ounces
Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
ASIN: B005DKJIVE
UPC: 073796882105
Item model number: HR-210

Product Description

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Omron HR-210 Strapless Heart Rate Monitor +
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:
Get the most from your workouts with an Omron HR-210 Strapless Heart Rate Monitor.You'll get your numbers quickly and accurately so you can adjust your training to reach your goals faster.
Why you should use an Omron Heart Rate Monitor:
Whether you are a regular walker or jogger, managing your heart rate during your workouts is a crucial component of achieving your goals.
The Omron HR-210 Strapless Heart Rate Monitor offers:

+ No Strap - just put it on your wrist and you're ready to go
+ OMRON Sensor Technology - accurate results from just two fingers
+ Fast Numbers - get your results in as little as 6 seconds
+ Zone Alerts - programmable zones warn you if you're too high or too low
+ Water Resistant – the HR-210 is water-resistant up to 164 feet

It's all about staying in the "zone."
Every fitness program from weight maintenance to strength training has an optimal Heart Rate Training Zone. With an Omron Heart Rate Monitor, you can track your heart rate to ensure you stay in your optimal zone by adjusting the intensity of your workout and maximizing your success. (See the Training Zone chart below for more details)
Features of the OMRON HR-210 STRAPLESS HEART RATE MONITOR
Features +

Indicates Stopwatch Mode or Stopwatch is running
Indicates alarm is On
Display Stopwatch, date or mode banners
Indicates a heart rate reading is detected
12 hour clock

Calorie unit
Weight unit
Indicates beep tone is On
Indicates keypad is locked
Indicates Battery life
Display time or calorie reading

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Together we'll accomplish more - Optimal Training Zones
Target Heart Rate Zones: +
By exercising within your target-training zone, you'll achieve more in less time. Each zone offers different benefits. The most popular zone range is 50% to 80% of your maximum heart. This is where you achieve cardio benefits, burn fat, and become fitter. Your Omron Heart Rate Monitor is programmable so you can maintain your workout within your chosen zone. (See the chart for percentages)
+ Health Maintenance (65%-78%) – Low-intensity level training. Good if you're a beginner and strengthening your cardiovascular system.
+ Aerobic Exercise (65%-85%) – Increases strength and endurance. Burns calories faster and can be sustained during longer workouts.
+ Anaerobic Exercise (78%-90%) – Improves speed and power. This zone builds muscle faster, but cannot be maintained for long workouts.
+ Red Line (90-100%) – Maximum capacity.
This is an excellent quality strap free heart rate monitor.

Product Features

Accurately tracks and displays your current heart rate
Tracks calories burned
Stopwatch, clock, alarm and calendar
Water resistant

Customer Reviews

Prior to trying out this strap free monitor, I owned an Omron wrist monitor with a chest strap as well as several finger pulse monitors. I love the finger pulse monitors. All you have to do is put your finger inside a little pencil sharpener sized box and seconds later your pulse reading appears. I have to admit to owning but never using an Omron monitor with a chest strap. It just seemed like too much work. I was always puzzled why the chest strap monitors seemed more popular than the finger monitors. It seemed like donning and setting up a chest strap under your clothes is a lot of extra work for what is supposedly only a minor increase in accuracy over a finger monitor that can be used at any time and any place.
I was pleasantly surprised then to test out this Omron strap free wrist monitor. It seemed like a product that has long been overdue in the market place. While the finger pulse monitors are easy to use in general, if you want to measure your pulse during cardio exercise you have to stop, or at least slow down, to put the monitor on your finger. With the Omron wrist monitor you have the the simplicity of the finger monitors with the convenient access of a wrist watch. In order to use this product you wear it like a regular wrist watch and simply place two finger on the outer corners of the rim to check your heart rate. This makes is easy to use if you like to check your pulse while jogging, hiking or other aerobic exercise. I like to check my pulse when I'm hiking up hill, but in the past this meant tossing my finger monitor in my back pack, then stopping and taking off my back pack, digging around for the pulse monitor and then taking my pulse. With the wrist monitor I can take my pulse at any time without having to stop.
We checked the readings for this strip free wrist monitor for accuracy against several finger pulse monitors we already own and the results came out the same. If you are a former chest strap monitor user I think you will be impressed with how much more convenient this strap free product is to use.

I love my heart rate monitor! It tells you how long you've been working out for, the current time, and can read heart rate obviously. It's easy to reset every work out session. Plus, the more frequent you take your heart rate reading, the more accurate estimate of calories burned it gives you. I love this setting because it motivates me to exercise longer when I see that the effort is paying off in large quantities of calories burned
My only complaint would be that you have to stop exercising to get your heart rate to read. You put your middle and index finger on the silver metal above and below the screen, and the sensors take about 10 seconds to pick up your heart rate. I prefer to do this though instead of wearing an uncomfortable strap around my chest like other products require.