Omron HR-100C Heart Rate Monitor

I began cycling 5 weeks ago and I wanted to make sure that I stayed in the weight management zone of 60 to 70% of my max heart rate. It is the easiest monitor I have ever used. Great buy.

I have had it for just over a month. I had by-pass surgery in June and my cardio-therapist recommended that I get a pulse monitor. This one had the best price. I am now going to the YMCA and some of the equipment has pulse monitoring built in. My monitor agrees most of the time with the built in monitors. Of course, I don't have any way to tell which is the most accurate. But my gut feeling is that the Omron is the closest. I would certainly recommend it.

Works great, I wear the watch for the time all the time and use the monitor for swimming and running. I get no signal when I'm in the water but as soon as I stand up in the pool it sends the heart rate to the watch. No problems so far.

Low rating due to the battery in wrist monitor being dead when I received it. Compounded by the not our problem response from Omron customer service.

From Omron customer service:

"The batteries are trial batteries and are only meant to last for about 6 months. The batteries are not covered under the warranty, therefore, we do not have them so send out."

It is a good basic watch. It is easy to read and has a backlight. The first one sent to me had a dead battery, but they sent a new one quickly.