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Polar S120 Heart Rate Monitor Watch
The Polar S120 Heart Rate Monitor Watch as a basic training tool has several personalized features including the Exercise Set for individual training settings and a file for tracking the performance after the training session. Uplink, an easy computer connection, enables you to download sample exercise sets and monitor icons. The transmitter strap is included. You may also buy this watch with an optional bike mount. *Available for US shipment only.
$79.95 
Mediocrity in metal and plastic
First, the good. Functionally, this has the key features, 3 ranges you can set, timers corresponding to each, and basic but handy watch functionality. Now, the bad. I found this monitor to be extremely difficult to get some function out of. I'm a Polar certified sales rep and I had an evil time with it. The stretchy band doesn't provide enough friction and the tingly electric feel on your skin is noticeable and uncomfortable. In five attempts to use this HRM, I found it works fine sitting still, but a minute or two after I start running it tells me my heart is about to burst beating at 290+ Bpm, or has stopped and I'm dead. I tried numerous things suggested in manuals and online (electrodes wet? Strap in right place, etc etc) to no avail. After a minute or two, I was in Faux-cardiac-arrest again. For a basic consumer level HRM, it is far, far too finicky.
solid product
I read a lot of reviews that said this monitor was very hard to use/the user interface was poor/the manual was lacking. Aafter purchasing the watch, I don't know what the complaints were about. People, this is a watch, not Windows XP. What were you expecting? Context sensitive help? Anyway, I did not find it hard to use, and the manual was adequate. The watch works well for what is was designed for. And unlike a lot of other polar monitors, it actually has watch functions like stopwatch and alarm. A lot of the more expensive models were lacking these. You can wear this as your daily watch as well. The watch is comfortable on your wrist. It is lacking a light, and I'd wished for that a few times.
Horrible directions
Horrible directions...the thing works but there are horrible directions requiring lots of time to set up and use. Once you start using it, its ok.
Polar S120 Heart Rate Monitor Watch is Great
My first monitor just tracked my heartrate, but didn't track my workout time and didn't show the time of day. I'm very happy with the S120 - it does all that and more. One nice feature is that you can set it to beep at you when your heart rate falls below your pre-set level -- so you know when you need to kick it back up a notch. It also has many more features that I don't use, but might some day. I definitely recommend this product.
Great watch. Lousy directions.
Great watch, but the directions suck. It took hours to get a workout programmed in correctly. Polar really needs to rework the directions.
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Training Tips
Your fitness level will improve by overloading, working your body hard enough to stimulate the body, progression, increasing the frequency, intensity, and duration of exercise over time, and regularity, working out frequently, at least three times a week.
As your fitness improves over time by following a carefully planned fitness program, your ability to exercise closer to your maximum heart rate will improve.
Did you know that to lose approximately one pound of fat, an average adult would have to walk 30 miles? You don't have to walk those 30 miles all at once.
If you consume 100 calories a day more than you need, you will gain about 10 pounds in a year. A reasonable combination of diet and exercise can help control your weight. The key is to balance your caloric intake with the amount of exercise.
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