Polar RS300X G1 Heart Rate Monitor Watch good buy
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011Finally, I trust the watches calorie approximation very little. If you set your VO2Max manually instead of trusting the watches test it does get closer to every other reference I have used as a baseline for comparison. Since I didn’t know mine, I self tested using the Rockport test and if you are having a good GPS day the Rockport test is easy to perform. In any case I feel the Rockport test is destined to give much better results than the at rest test Polar performs. It seems to me that building in a Rockport test in addition to the at rest test would have been ideal for a company that would enjoy selling more GPS units. They may have very good reasons for not doing so, but reading between the lines, I again find myself assuming it to be a sign of apathy and complacency.
The watch is still a cute toy and I am not exactly throwing it away, but I can’t help but feel I could have gotten a better value elsewhere and were it more than a toy to me, I would be replacing it.