Posts Tagged ‘heart rate monitor’

Suunto Lumi Sportif: Computerised Watch for High Intensity Activities

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

The Suunto Lumi Sportif is a wrist-top computerised watch, specially designed keeping the trendy, active and smart independent women in mind. With built-in barometer, altimeter, compass and weather indicator all stuffed together in a feminine designed computerised watch; the Suunto wristop computer provides the independent women the option to trail the coarse mountain ridges as well as the city streets with much ease.

The altimeter in the Suunto Lumi Sportif watches accurately measures up to 30,000 feet and helps display the ascent/descent in elevation, current elevation and also records session for later analysis. The altimeter is an useful tool for skiing, mountain climbing and other outdoor adventure activities. The barometer in the Suunto Lumi Sportif watch helps in measuring and recording air pressure and also predicts the variation and changing weather conditions. The digital compass uses a bearing with rotating bezel ring that helps in monitoring direction of travel. The presence of the weather indicator provides the user with history of the last 3-6 hours weather conditions.

The Suunto Lumi Sportif watch also features automatic Alti/Baro mode that helps in easy switch between the barometer and altimeter functions. The Suunto Lumi Sportif watch also has a storm alarm feature which automatically gets activated if there is a rapid air pressure drop and warns the user with alarm flashes and sounds about the indication of bad weather and notifies any approaching storm. The alarm clock in the Suunto Lumi Sportif watch has a dual and 5 minutes snooze time that helps the user be on time and also informs about any upcoming events. It also predicts sunrise and sunset times, sets regional data, and also informs about the remaining daylight hours. The multi-purpose Suunto Lumi Sportif watch is made up of polished stainless-steel housing and elastomer strap that can withstand the rugged outdoors. With a 2 year warranty period, pendants, 5 strap options and carabiner jackets, this incredible Suunto Lumi Sportif watch can be designed according to the event or the activity intended to perform by the user.

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Polar RS400SD: Advanced Heart Rate Monitor for Dedicated Runners

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Fitness is not just a need of the day and of the new lifestyle but also a trend in the New Age. Polar understands the fitness needs of today’s masses and that is why it has come up with ingenuous equipment, heart rate monitors which can be used for getting the optimum out of your workouts. The RS400SD is one of its most advanced heart rate monitors which come in handy when you desire to sweat out as part of your fitness regime.

This wonderful device measures your heart rate while also calculating your distance and speed of running. The tool can easily be synchronized the software polar pro trainer 5 software in order to get the best in analysis and guidance while also creating personal settings for you. The Polar RS400SD monitor helps you determine and decide whether your recovery time and training program are letting you develop your performance optimally. There are also various zones for you to train in. The monitor helps you determine which zone is most suitable to you depending upon your physical attributes, your heart rate, the intensity of your workout etc.

With a device like this you get to know exactly how hard or how not so hard you have been working out. This not only helps you keep motivated but also helps you decide upon an action plan for reaching your goals.

The best thing about the monitor is that it comes in the body of a sports watch and has all the features and attributes of a good watch.

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Garmin Forerunner 50 Heart Rate Monitor includes a Footpad and USB Ant Stick

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

In an age where fitness has become not just a health necessity but also a healthy trend, manufacturers are striving to create the best of equipment and tools for optimising the results achieved through difficult training and workout sessions. Training through heart rate monitors is particularly gaining steam and it has become one of the best ways of getting a comprehensive insight into workout and thereby, optimising and customising your workouts accordingly. Garmin Forerunner 50 is one of the most amazing heart rate monitors in the league.

The amazing device provides you with the most accurate estimate of your heart rate by keeping track of it while you are training or exercising. It also gives instant feedback making you aware of how hard or how much below the mark you are working out. The device is also efficient at instantly transferring the data to your PC. The Garmin Forerunner 50 also provides useful workout data regarding training time, lap time, lap pace, distance, pace, lap distance, best and average pace, along with calorie count and definitely average and maximum heart rate.

The device can easily be paired with a number of different devices to get the right kind of data for whatever mode of workout you zero upon or what suits you the most. For instance, if doubled with a cadence sensor this amazing tool helps you get precise estimates of distance and speed with regards to your cycling workout.

The most incredible feature of this Garmin fitness device is the fact that within a certain range the data from the Forerunner 50 gets automatically transmitted on to your PC. Thereafter, you can analyse, store or may be even share online your workout data.

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Polar RS800: Elite Heart Rate Monitor and Training Gadget

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Serious and professional athletes, fitness freaks, those on doctor recommended health regime; all understand the importance of the right fitness equipment for getting the most out of their training and workout sessions. Having a personal trainer is just as important. And what can be better if the trainer and fitness equipment come in one single compact pack. That is what happens in the case Polar’s RS800. This high end equipment guides you through your training and workout like no other device will.

The battery powered device is the ideal heart grate monitor which gives the most accurate reading of your real time heart rate. This intelligent device comes in the body of a wrist watch and the Polar RS800 also performs all the functions of a good watch; after all time keeping is a tad too crucial to efficient working out and training. The Polar RS800 device can be synchronized with the Polar pro trainer five software, doing this shall help form customized training plans. The device analyses for you just how hard or how not so hard you have been working. This feature ensures you are not shooting in the dark and have highly motivated goals at each level.

Besides the personal training zones which are integrated in the device help you train at the right intensity and pace.

There cannot be a better fitness instructor for all those who are always hard pressed for time. And for professional athletes and sportsmen it shall be a perfect friend and companion along with their respective instructors.

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Polar RS200: Efficient Heart Rate Monitor helps you Train

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

Finnish company Polar has carved out a niche for itself in the arena of high end and top notch quality fitness equipment. The recent on offer from the house of this incredible manufacturer is the RS 200, a heart rate monitor in the body of a sports watch. It is impossible to not fall for its sporty looks if your casual wardrobe has a special place for sports wear.

With this intelligent equipment you can optimise your work out and get the maximum out of your training sessions. You can plan work out regimes with it and also keep track of your last sixteen workouts and also your workout progress over sixteen weeks. This helps keeps you focussed and motivated giving you exact statistics of how hard or not so hard you have been working. The Polar RS200 heart rate monitor gives you the most exact measurement of your real time heart rate so that it will be easier to decide you need to train harder, less hard or whether you are training just right.

It also shows how much time you have actually spent on the various time zones before graduating to the present one. This also helps you know how effective or ineffective your current workout has been.

Since the fitness equipment comes behind the face of a sports watch, it does double as an excellent watch also making sure you are always running on time. Digital display gives you the most accurate time measurement. Moreover, the illuminated display lets you see the time even in dark, all this to make sure you never lose out on your precious time.

An excellent gadget in the wardrobe of a fitness and/ or sportswear freak, the device is true value for money.

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Polar RS400: High-end Training Watch with Heart Rate Monitor

Sunday, June 14th, 2009

Polar, world class manufacturer of high end training equipment, has yet another training equipment in its fore, the RS 400. RS 400 is a heart rate monitor in the form of a cool sports watch. Designed especially for professional athletes, the device comes handy even to those on fitness programs and doctor recommended exercise regimes. With the help of this intelligent heart rate monitor, you can keep track of your real time heart rate to find just how hard or how not so hard you are working out. By finding this important data, you can then form a personalized exercise regime.

RS 400 comes with Polar’s Pro Trainer 5 software…. a one of its kind analyzing, planning and training software available in the market. With the help of this brilliant software you can easily prepare a comprehensive training program and can easily transfer the plan to your personal Polar RS400 watch. This action can be executed through wireless infrared connection. Heart rate monitoring in case of this device comprises max heart rate, max/ average of your total exercise or of each Lap, audible alarms and three target zones. It also features different sport zones. You can choose the right zone for yourself from among the five options available depending upon the percentages of your max heart rate.

Another feature lets you see your total calorie expenditure and also helps you decide weekly career goals on the basis of targeted calorie expenditure.

Moreover, the OwnZone feature guides you through apt warm up routine and then automatically determines an effective and safe heart rate zone for you.

With this device you will never go wrong if quality, performance and functionality loom large on your priority list.

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Polar Rs300X: Sports Watch has the Ability to redefine your Workout

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Polar has given a new definition to training and workouts with its new Rs 300x. This chic model, which is a refined and modified replacement for the Rs 200 and Rs 200 sd, has all the features of a mini running computer in the body of a watch. This equipment is ideal for professional sprinters or running enthusiasts or weight watchers who aim to shed off the extra kilos through running.

Polar has given a new definition to training and workouts with its new Rs 300x. This chic model, which is a refined and modified replacement for the Rs 200 and Rs 200 sd, has all the features of a mini running computer in the body of a watch. The Polar RS300X is ideal for professional sprinters or running enthusiasts or weight watchers who aim to shed off the extra kilos through running. Committed runners will find the greatest utility through the real time distance and pace measurements made by the S1 footpod. You can also improve your performance through the core metrics of distance, speed, pace, heart rate and calorie burn. Hence, possessing this intelligent watch computer running computer watch computer combo is sure to help you decide the most apt intensity for you to train and hence, ultimately, improve your performance.

The Rs 300x id engineered to work in lieu with Polar Personal Trainer website. You can easily upload workout records from your Rs 300x to the site. This site helps customize training programs based on your specific needs, requirements and physical condition. It also helps you get connected to people with similar goals, so that you can discuss regarding your training with them, or may be you can challenge them for certain workout goals, etc.

The device is definitely a masterpiece in itself, which comes at a reasonable price and in cool colours so that you look chic and trendy while you train hand in hand with the most advanced technology.

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Polar RS200sd Heart Rate Monitor is like having a Computer on your Wrist

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

There are a lot of watches that have been projected to be high tech gadgets and have been promoted as devices offering a lot of complicated features. The Polar RS200sd does nothing of that sort. It does what a good wrist watch would do and that makes it very special. It offers everything that a runner would need and offers a very convincing technology and that too with competitive pricing. The ‘sd’ that has been attached to the model name signifies speed and distance. These two factors are critical in the whole process of running. It is quite evident that the Polar RS200sd is new to the market and is very useful to an athlete while running. The reason behind the watch gaining such popularity is that people are excited about the idea of trying out new innovation.

At the same time, the Polar RS200sd can also be called a merger of two technologies, the one that is tried and the other that is novel. The watch comes with the regular 2 year warranty and is quite efficient at its job. Other features in the Polar RS200sd include the wear link chest strap and the coded transmission feature. Those who regularly run on treadmills and are conscious about their fitness will get to measure the calories that they burn in the process through the Polar RS200sd. The watch is extremely light weight and has a clear display. Display matrix is the technology that has been used for the top half of the watch where as the bottom is kept for indications.

Buy the Polar watch if you have always been a fan of those ones which are useful during workouts. It will indeed be of great benefit.

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Suunto T4C: Professional and Advanced Training Watch with a Heart Rate Monitor

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

Suunto, the world renowned manufacturer of computers and watches, has another great device in its fore to boast of; the T4C. It is the the perfect combination of a Training watch and a Heart Rate Monitor. You will never go wrong with your training as long as you possess T4C.

The watch has the most accurate answers to your training queries. You can know how long and how fast you should run, or how fast you should cycle for optimal calorie burn. Once you buy this incredible tool you will never miss not knowing what your work out plan should be for your individual and unique physical condition.The Suunto T4C watch comes handy with a Suunto coach feature using which you can avail a five day training program. The intensity, duration and frequency of your work out can easily be decided with this intelligent monitor.

T4C includes a Comfort Belt to get the most accurate estimate of your Training Effect. This will help keep you focussed as you will always have an idea of what fruits your efforts are bearing. Another bonus feature with this model is that in case of any abrupt change in your schedule, the clock quickly revises the previous training plan and makes it in lieu with the present condition and requirements.

The model also measures your heart rate and calorie consumption while it also measure your cadence, speed and distance.

Besides serving these special high end functions the piece also performs all the functions of a regular watch. With this unique piece of technology there is no scope of being lost out of time or training plans.

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Polar F11: Simple, but Impressive Training Watch

Friday, May 29th, 2009

Polar F11 is a legend in itself. A boon for all fitness addicts and those on doctor recommended fitness programs. This wrist-watch and heart rate monitor comes handy with a Personal Training program which gives an accurate estimate of how long, how hard and how frequently you need to train.

This intelligent gadget helps create a personal workout regime based on an intimate understanding of your goals and physiological attributes. You even get a clear cut idea of how hard you have worked out and how many calories burned. This makes the Polar F11 a great motivator for further training and work-out. With this piece of modern marvel, carved out of cutting edge technology, you can keep a most accurate record of you progress through your gruelling fitness sessions.

It functions as a great time keeping device too, equipped with 24 hour minute, hour and seconds display along with alarm and stopwatch.

This piece precisely and very accurately displays heart rate and exercise time. You can even form your own weekly or daily schedule for exercise in terms of targeted calorie expenditure with this brilliant watch.

It comes with a ninety days warranty for repairs and 6 months warranty for battery. The Polar brand name has always stood for quality and this product is just another example of the magnitude of the brand’s technological advancement.

Intensity training by heart rate monitoring is a concept so popular now that nothing can threaten Polar F11’s position at least for the time being. And even though the first EKG heart rate monitors were invented to help the Finnish national cross country ski team in their workout, they have come a long way and are here to stay.

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