Polar RS300X G1 Heart Rate Monitor Watch

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The RS300X helps you to train at the right intensity with personal training zones. This RS300X G1 comes with the G1 GPS Sensor. Additionally, the RS300X G1 is compatible with the separately available S1 foot pod, which accurately measures your running speed/pace and distance. Committed runners will find the most value in the real-time pace and distance measurement of the S1 foot pod. And even though it attaches to your shoe laces, it's so light that you'll forget it's even there, which means it won't affect your running performance. This package comes with the Polar WearLink+ 31 coded transmitter (with changeable battery).
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• Basic RS300X -- black and orange
• RS300X SD with S1 foot pod for real-time pace/distance -- black and orange
• RS300X G1 with G1 GPS Sensor for cross-trainers -- black and orange

The RS300X G1 enables athletes to train at the right intensity and improve their performance through core metrics such as heart rate, speed, distance, pace, and calorie burn. Advanced features include Polar's exclusive OwnZone feature for individualized zone training by heart rate or pace, a fitness test, and auto lap splits, which display average heart rate, pace and distance per lap. Athletes can easily review up to 16 past workout files to check their progress and ensure they're staying on track with their fitness or training plan.
Features include:

• Heart rate displayed as percentage of maximum heart rate, BPM, and average heart rate of total exercise
• Tracks your latest 16 training sessions and your last 16 weeks of training
• Visual and audible alarm in target zones: Informs you every time your heart rate and/or speed/pace exceeds the upper limit or falls below the lower limit of your target zone during a training session.
• Polar OwnIndex Fitness Test calculates aerobic fitness (comparable to maximal oxygen uptake, VO2max) providing a reference to base training intensity and measure improvement.
• Polar OwnCal: Shows your energy expenditure during one exercise session as well as your accumulated kilocalories during several exercise sessions. Because the OwnCal tracks both the energy expenditure during one exercise session and the accumulated kilocalories during a longer time e.g. one week, it helps in achieving both short term and long term goals.
• Time in Target Zone feature calculates the amount of total training time spent in your personal target zone. You can use this feature together with the Total Exercise Time to determine the effectiveness of your training program.
• Number of laps - 99
• Watch features: alarm with snooze, dual time zone, stopwatch
• Compatible with Polar FlowLink (available separately)
• Water resistant to 50 meters
• Backlighting, display zoom
• Event Countdown Timer: Keeps your motivation high by showing how many days are left before your next running event (e.g., Berlin 23 days).

About Polar The first EKG accurate wireless heart rate monitor was invented by Polar back in 1977 as a training tool for the Finnish National Cross Country Ski Team. The concept of "intensity training" by heart rate swept the athletic world in the eighties. By the 1990s, individuals were looking to heart rate monitors not only for performance training needs, but also for achieving everyday fitness goals. Today, the same concept of heart rate training is being used by world-class athletes as well as everyday people trying to lose weight. Polar is the leading brand among consumers, coaches, and personal trainers worldwide and the company is committed to not only producing the best products, but also being the leading educator on the benefits of heart rate based exercise.

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This review is from: Polar RS300X G1 Heart Rate Monitor Watch with G1 GPS Sensor (Black) (Sports)
After reading the other reviews, I have just a few comments. This watch/gps works well for the most part. I have had several gps units, including Garmin, and they all EAT THE BATTERIES, they all LOSE SIGNALS in shady areas. The lower your battery, the longer it takes to connect. Some of the GPS watches come with an optional lithium battery you can buy. If that's an option for the one you have, I highly recommend it. I have good quality rechargeable batteries which I swap out on all my GPS units right before walking out the door. I also always have spare batteries in my car and my backpack just in case I forget. It seems like a pain, but if you get into the habit of doing this you won't even think about it after awhile. And I guarantee you, if you change the batteries before each use, you will get good signal reception, except in shady areas. However, once you are back in an area where the unit can get reception it "catches back up". So the fact that it temporarily will lose a signal is not the end of the world. I have a Garmin eTrex which I use for hiking and geocaching and horseback riding and it has the same issues - if the battery is low it takes forever to get a signal, when you are in deep shade you lose a signal. So overall, I am really happy with this unit - it works pretty much like I expected it to. And I was glad to get rid of my Nike+ stuff which never worked well for me anyways even after calibrating several times on a treadmill. This unit is way more accurate.

As far as uploading the data - yes, it's irritating that you have to buy a separate piece of equipment for this when usb works so well with all my other GPS units. But once set up, it's easy to use.

So, while not perfect, this is a good solid unit which does the job.