Surface9
Mon, Jun-11-07, 06:18
I still have my very OLD Polar heart rate monitor, but the
wrist unit is starting to fail - it was very basic and only
read out the heart rate (beats per minute) in non-flashing big
led numbers and it started as soon as you wetted the sending
unit and placed it snug against your bare chest. No buttons,
no confusing features - just a basic continuous non-flashing
readout of your heart rate.
I can't find anything like that anymore - not even at POLAR
- they all brag about "features, features, features"
time-of-day, average this and that, and who knows what all
kinds of nonsense that just confuse you when ALL you want to
to quickly look at your wrist and see a readout of your
heart rate.
Last week I purshaced a Polar and everytime I look at it, it
is either telling me the time, or some stupid stopwatch, or
who knows what, and, I have to stop, punch it to go off, punch
it again to start again, and then wait a few seconds for it to
finally read out my heart rate - by the time I get to see my
heart rate it has naturally slowed down because of all the
rigamorow I have to go through before I get to see the number.
Then I contunue my workout and, anytime I look at my wrist to
check it again, it is no longer reading out my heartrate but
giving me some other stupid feature and I am back to having to
turn it off and go through that nonsense all over again. I
emailed Polar and they just ignored me.
DOES ANYONE make a basic no-nonsense wrist-chest heart rate
monitor anymore? Like the basic kind Polar USED TO MAKE??????
All I want is to wet the sender, strap it onto my chest, strap
on the wrist unit, hold it next to my chest for a few seconds,
and then start my workout and not have to do anything else but
occassionally take a quick glance at my wrist and see a big
solid number (non-flashing) that reflects my heart rate at
that time. I know this is possible becuase I bought this one
less than 4 years ago but the wrist unit quit working recently
and I can't find one just like that anymore - blast! Why do
companies have to "improve" what are very good products and
just make a mess of things - why can't they keep on making the
basic things like that basic dedicated heart rate monitor?
This is very frustrating!
wrist unit is starting to fail - it was very basic and only
read out the heart rate (beats per minute) in non-flashing big
led numbers and it started as soon as you wetted the sending
unit and placed it snug against your bare chest. No buttons,
no confusing features - just a basic continuous non-flashing
readout of your heart rate.
I can't find anything like that anymore - not even at POLAR
- they all brag about "features, features, features"
time-of-day, average this and that, and who knows what all
kinds of nonsense that just confuse you when ALL you want to
to quickly look at your wrist and see a readout of your
heart rate.
Last week I purshaced a Polar and everytime I look at it, it
is either telling me the time, or some stupid stopwatch, or
who knows what, and, I have to stop, punch it to go off, punch
it again to start again, and then wait a few seconds for it to
finally read out my heart rate - by the time I get to see my
heart rate it has naturally slowed down because of all the
rigamorow I have to go through before I get to see the number.
Then I contunue my workout and, anytime I look at my wrist to
check it again, it is no longer reading out my heartrate but
giving me some other stupid feature and I am back to having to
turn it off and go through that nonsense all over again. I
emailed Polar and they just ignored me.
DOES ANYONE make a basic no-nonsense wrist-chest heart rate
monitor anymore? Like the basic kind Polar USED TO MAKE??????
All I want is to wet the sender, strap it onto my chest, strap
on the wrist unit, hold it next to my chest for a few seconds,
and then start my workout and not have to do anything else but
occassionally take a quick glance at my wrist and see a big
solid number (non-flashing) that reflects my heart rate at
that time. I know this is possible becuase I bought this one
less than 4 years ago but the wrist unit quit working recently
and I can't find one just like that anymore - blast! Why do
companies have to "improve" what are very good products and
just make a mess of things - why can't they keep on making the
basic things like that basic dedicated heart rate monitor?
This is very frustrating!