Product Description

Track your heart rate with ECG accuracy, It features an automatic or maunually programable hi/lo heart rate alert when out training. The watch features an alarm and calendar, whilst the stopwatch comes with a count up timer. Water resistant to 30m.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11229 in Sports & Outdoors
• Brand: Oregon Scientific
• Model: HR308
• Dimensions: .73 pounds

Features

• Heart Rate Monitor
• Day of the week and year Alarm
• Daily alarm, heart rate zone, alert alarm (Visual acoustic)
• Stopwatch with count up timer 00:00:00 - 99:59:59 (hr, Min, sec)
• HiGlo backlight Water resistant to 30 metres

Manufacturer's Description
Heart rate monitor with SMART Trainer Program. Average heart rate reading, measures calories burned. Automatic or manually programmable hi/lo heart rate training zone. Out of zone alarm audible and visual.

The SMART programme uses age, gender, weight, height & activity level to determine training intensity for a 5 min warm-up and a 30 min session.

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Customer Reviews

Bad documentation
This might be a good piece of kit, but it is badly let down by the documentation, which borders on the unintelligable.

What I wanted was a heard rate monitor that would tell me my pulse while training, and tell me the total number of calories consumed in a session.

So far I've yet to get a meaningful calorie figure: I've just come back from an 8 mile run and it claims I have burnt 397 calories, which doesn't sit well with the figure of 340 calories on a 3 mile run a few days ago.

At the front of the documentation are a series of diagrams. The rest of the booklet has information in a succession of languages. This comprises some general fitness information, and then specific instructions for different functions which each refer to the iagrams at the front. Alas there are mistakes: page 15 refers to a diagram "11c", but there are only diagrams "11a" and "11b", and where the diagrams are there, I found that the pattern of responses to buttons pressed was not always the same as the diagram implied.

The problem may well be the documentation rather than the kit, so one answer may be to be patient and continue fiddling, but I am tempted to throw this out and buy another.

Basic price, basic functionality
Have had this watch for several months now and it is just gathering dust.

I found the sensor quite intermittent when doing exercise (despite moistening repositioning)

I found the buttons counter-intuative and therefore was forever resetting etc. So much so that I lost faith.

all in all not one of my better buys.

Basic heart rate monitor that does the job
Despite the almost indecipherable instructions with over complicated diagrams that force you to flick back and forth, this is a fairly basic heart rate monitor that does the job for a reasonable price.

That is to say it lets you know if the cardiovascular work your doing is likely to make a real difference by allowing you to set targets and monitor progress. If you're working out in a gym, you probably don't need your watch to guide your programme as each machine will do that for you. And most cardiovascular gym equipment will read your heart rate direct from the belt, which almost makes the watch itself redundant.