Omron Strapless Heart Rate Monitor

by Omron

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

Product Description

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Omron HR-210 Heart Rate Monitor
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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.

What's in the Box

HR-210 Heart Rate Monitor, lithium battery and instruction manual.

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Features of the OMRON HR-210 HEART RATE MONITOR

1. Indicates stopwatch mode or stopwatch is running
2. Indicates alarm is on
3. Display stopwatch, date, or mode banners
4. Indicates a heart rate reading is detected
5. 12 hour clock
6. Calorie unit
7. Weight unit
8. Indicates beep tone in on
9. Indicates keypad is locked
10. Indicates battery life
11. Display time or calorie reading

Target Heart Rate Zones
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Together we'll accomplish more - Optimal Training 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.

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Product Description

This is an excellent quality strap free heart rate monitor.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3 x 3.5 x 6 inches ; 4.8 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.
• Origin: China
• ASIN: B005DKJIVE
• UPC: 073796882105
• Item model number: HR-210
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (116 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,893 in Health & Personal Care (See Top 100 in Health & Personal Care)
  • #32 in Health & Personal Care > Medical Supplies & Equipment > Health Monitors > Heart Rate Monitors

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

91 of 94 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to Use, Accurate October 20, 2011

By Soccer Mom VINE™ VOICE

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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 strap 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.

80 of 86 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars A digital watch that takes your pulse September 23, 2011

By Wandrwoman TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

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This is a combination digital watch and chronograph that allows you to take your pulse by placing two fingers on a metal plate that surrounds the face of the watch. To call it a strapless "heart rate monitor" is deceptive as it is not continually monitoring your heartbeat; it is recording your pulse whenever you feel the need.

I have also tried the Omron HR-310 Omron HR-310 Heart Rate Monitor with Strap and although both models are disappointing, I recommend the HR-310 which at least is a true heart rate monitor.

Some things you should know about this product:
1) In order to benefit from this training watch you have to enter specific information such as the date, time, date of birth, weight. You do not enter sex or height or basic fitness level -- all important factors in interpreting one's fitness training zone through heart rate.
2) Set up is not difficult. There is a dedicated "+" button as well as a "-" button. You can enter your specifics relatively quickly and easily.
3) The instructions are fairly inscrutable but better than for the other model.
4) The watch strap is a bulky plastic affair in two shades of gray. The tightest notch is approximately 6" and the loosest is approximately 8". The metal back of the watch must sit flat and make full contact with your wrist in order to work properly. If you have an extremely small or large wrist, this is not for you.
5) The manufacturer recommends that you stop exercising to take your pulse, although walking is probably ok. This will be inconvenient for most.

If you are looking for a heart rate monitor training watch get one with a chest strap. It may sound inconvenient and uncomfortable but at least it will deliver more benefits.

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Omron HR-210 September 21, 2011

By laurenurg

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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.