Timex T5H881 Zone Trainer Digital Heart Rate Monitor

by Timex

Product Features

• Heart rate monitor watch for improving your training routine
• Monitors average heart rate, max heart rate, and calories burned
• Includes target zones, recovery timer, and 100-hour chronograph
• 100-hour countdown timer, 27-lap memory, and built-in alarm
• Water-resistant to 50 meters; includes 3.5-year battery

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Combining stylish looks with power sport timing and heart rate monitoring features, this larger Timex Digital Fitness watch (model T5H881) can be worn by both men and women. It features a chest strap heart rate monitor, easily accessible function buttons, durable resin case, and comfortable resin strap with a stylish tapered profile. For integrating heart rate monitoring into your training, this watch enables you to track your avareage heart rate and pre-set target heart rate zones with data for time spent within that zone and alarms. It can also display data for calories burned and offers a recovery timer that measures your heart rate after a timed recovery during or after your workout. Sport timing features include:

• 100-hour chronograph with lap and split, either in large digits
• 27-lap memory with average heart rate per laps
• 100-hour countdown timer
• Alarm with 5-minute backup
• Month/day/date display with 12/24-hour time
• 3.5-year battery life

The Indiglo night-light uniformly lights the surface of the watch dial using patented blue electroluminescent lighting technology. It uses less battery power than most other watch illumination systems, enabling your watch battery to last longer. The Night Mode feature allows you to illuminate the Indiglo night-light for 3 seconds with any button press, regardless of the mode or function. The watch is water resistant to 50 meters (165 feet)--suitable for swimming but not for diving. All Timex heart rate monitor sensors have batteries that can be replaced by consumers without requiring them to be returned to the manufacturer.

Product Description

Zone Trainer Digital Heart Rate Monitor with a black resin strap and digital display, INDIGLO night-light, 100-hour chronograph, 27-lap memory, 100-hour countdown timer, Alarm with 5 min back up, Water resistant to 50 meters, Target zones, Zone trainer, Average heart rate, Time in zone, Calories burned, Recovery timer, Max heart rate, Digital transmission, Data Recorder compatible

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 1.8 x 0.5 inches ; 4.8 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000P0TQC8
• Item model number: T5H881
• Batteries: 1 Lithium Metal batteries required.
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #23 in Watches (See Top 100 in Watches)

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

49 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is perfect!!!, September 13, 2007

By	K. Carisi (Orlando, FL) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Timex T5H881 Zone Trainer Digital Heart Rate Monitor (Sports)

This is my second Timex heart rate monitor and I would never buy anything else. I've experimented with Polars and was highly disappointed. This watch fits nicely and I recommend the black color so that dirt doesn't change the color. I wear it all day and then throw on the chest strap when exercising. I love checking how many calories I have burned and its easy to use. I highly recommend this heart rate monitor!!

32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It works and not nearly as complex as a polar, February 20, 2008

By	J. Leng (Rochester, NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Timex T5H881 Zone Trainer Digital Heart Rate Monitor (Sports)

I bought this watch to replace a hand me down Polar S210. Let me just say that I can set up a vcr, but I could never properly set up the polar. I wanted a hrm that told me my heart rate and yelled at me when I was out of my zone. That's it. I know what my heart rate zone should be, I didn't want to go through the endless options of the Polar to setup a single stupid heart rate range.

This Timex is not complicated. It does not have the advance features of the Polar. I know my way around the plain Timex Ironman and when I got this watch it took me about 5 minutes to figure out how to manually set the heart rate zones and to arm the alarm. There's also a dedicated button to simply turn on the heart rate. The manual's there and it's complicated, but it doesn't need to be read.

The Heart rate is a little goofy every now and then when jogging but that's usually because I'm not sweating enough. The watch is probably half the volume of my old Polar and not nearly as fugly. The watch face is appx 3cm high by 2.5cm wide... just a little larger than a plain Ironman Timex. The watch band's max accommodation is just over a 8 inch circumference. If you're a bigger guy, I'd go for the other model the T5H9xx

There's probably other features of this Timex that I'll never use. 4 out 5 stars because I'm pretty sure the watch amazon sent was a previously returned item.

38 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great way to get in shape, lacking one essential feature, February 20, 2008

By	Gaji - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Timex T5H881 Zone Trainer Digital Heart Rate Monitor (Sports)

This watch makes it easy to do zone training - exercising so that your heart is in one particular "zone" (a percentage of your maximum heart rate). For example - if you are exercising in Zone 3 (70-80% of maximum heart rate) you will get 3 points for every minute exercised and the idea is to accumulate a certain number of points per week. The watch tells you how much total time you exercised, and how much time you spent in your target zone. It doesn't tell you how much time you spent in any other zone or for that matter, points accumulated per exercise - two data points that would have made it much easier to follow the zone training suggested in the manual provided with the watch. Given all the data the watch provides, it would have been trivial to provide these data points as well and it's really beyond me why Timex didn't bother. Seriously guys - time to hire product managers with a functional brain. The heart sensor is, as far as I can tell, pretty accurate and the watch is easy to read. The heart monitor strap can be uncomfortable - being a guy I have all of a sudden, newfound sympathy to women who decide to burn their bras.