Timex Timex Zone Trainer Digital Heart Rate Monitor Dark Grey Watch

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Product Description

Zone Trainer Digital Heart Rate Monitor. Heart Rate Features:. Target Zones: Preset your heart rate exercise zone. Alarm notification when you are not in zone Zone Trainer: Display option quickly shows if you're in the target zone Average Heart Rate: For your workout and for each lap Time in Zone: Spent within your selected heart rate target zone Calories Burned % of Max Heart Rate Display Recovery Heart Rate Timer Max Heart Rate Zone Calculation: Automatically sets your five training zones; one manual zone Digital Transmission Data Recorder 2 and Data Recorder Compatible Owner-Replaceable Battery: Water-resistant hatch in heart rate sensor allows for a quick and easy battery change. Watch Features:. INDIGLO® night-light with NIGHT-MODE® feature 100-hour chronograph 27-lap memory with average heart rate per lap 100-hour, countdown timer Alarm with 5 minute backup Month/day/date with 12/24 hour time Watch: Water-resistant 30m.

Product Details

• Item Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B0064UCTKY
  

Product Features

• TIMEX ZONE TRAINER DIGITAL HRM FULL SIZE DARK GREY DR COMPAT

 

Timex Timex Zone Trainer Digital Heart Rate Monitor Dark Grey Watch

 

Customer Reviews

I love this watch. I've had it for about 3 weeks now and it does it's job perfectly. I love the zone system. It allows me to run much farther and for longer than I have before because I don't exhaust myself by running faster than my body can manage. The beeping feature (that can 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 particularly useful if you decide 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 can be replaced by the user - an uncommon feature I believe.
The chest strap is quite comfortable and picks up signals very well - my wife tried it and she had no trouble with it either (the strap sits on the lower side of the chest). I found that if I put it on about 15 min before I exercised, my body would generate the sweat needed 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 slightly (rather than place the face at right angles to the line of sight), the numerals were clearly visible. I think I prefer this to the old method of lighting the face.
It is a fairly handsome watch - a bit on the thick side (about 14 mm x 42 mm or so wide) - perfect for a man even for daily wear but certainly large for a woman.
It took me a while to decide on buying this watch. Lack of clear size information (their midsize, large and extra large size indications are meaningless) on the Timex website meant that I had to scour shops and call customer service a couple of times to have them measure the watches for me.
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I'm 6 feet 4 inches and 210 pounds. The watch is just the right size for me and the band seems quite heavy duty 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 maximum extent. I think it would be too tight for larger 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 fancy 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 literature doesn't claim that this should work and there doesn't appear to be any standard for interoperability between machines and wireless HRM devices. Some reviews for Timex HRM devices claim that the sensors DO talk to machines. If someone 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 lacking a feature it doesn't claim to have: I think a five-star rating should indicate total satisfaction. I really wish the industry would get together and create a standard so these things can work together!