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Timex T5J031 Unisex Digital Fitness Heart Rate Monitor Watch | 
| Brand: Timex
Category: Watch
Department: womens
List Price: $99.95
Buy New: $53.88
as of 11/7/2009 19:35 CST details
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New (18) Used (1) from $45.00
Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  73 reviews
Sales Rank: 6
Media: Sports
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 1.8 x 0.5
Warranty: One-Year Warranty
MPN: T5J031F5
Model: T5J031
UPC: 753048265206
EAN: 0753048265206
ASIN: B000P8VWRC
Release Date: July 23, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Sports timing watch with heart rate monitoring; sized for both men and women | | • | Chest strap heart rate monitor works with watch to provide target zones and time in zone | | • | Recovery heart rate timer; displays calories burned | | • | 100-hour chronograph; 27-lap memory; 100-hour countdown timer | | • | Watch is water resistant to 50 meters (165 feet); up to 2-year battery life |
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Product Description
Zone Trainer Digital Heart Rate Monitor
Heart Rate Features:
- Target Zones: Preset your heart rate exercise zone. Alarm notification when you are not in zone
- Zone Trainer: Display option quickly shows if you're in the target zone
- Average Heart Rate: For your workout and for each lap
- Time in Zone: Spent within your selected heart rate target zone
- Calories Burned
- % of Max Heart Rate Display
- Recovery Heart Rate Timer
- Max Heart Rate Zone Calculation: Automatically sets your five training zones; one manual zone
- Digital Transmission
- Data Recorder 2 and Data Recorder Compatible
- Owner-Replaceable Battery: Water-resistant hatch in heart rate sensor allows for a quick and easy battery change
Watch Features:
- INDIGLO® night-light with NIGHT-MODE® feature
- 100-hour chronograph
- 27-lap memory with average heart rate per lap
- 100-hour, countdown timer
- Alarm with 5 minute backup
- Month/day/date with 12/24 hour time
- Watch: Water-resistant 30m
Amazon.com Product Description
Combining stylish looks with power sport timing and heart rate monitoring features, this mid-sized Timex Digital Fitness watch (model T5J031) 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.
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 73
 Excellent product October 22, 2009
Sergio M. Souza (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
I have used several monitors in the last 10 years and this is the best one I have ever had. And it is also an excellent cost-benefit.
PROS: - Several functions not common in this price range: you can choose among 6 options to monitor your workout (% hr + chrono, number hr + chrono, etc), your recovery hr, 27 split laps etc
- good design, it is also a beautiful watch
- excellent price
- good manuals
CONS: - just a minor thing: the split time is accumulated not the lap time
Conclusion: Go for it!
Overall a good deal October 11, 2009
D. Person (So. Cal., USA)
I would give this HRM 5 stars except that the chest strap is rather short. I have a 40 inch chest and had to make the strap as long as possible in order to fit. I got this watch to replace a Sigma Easy Onyx as that watch fogged up after rinsing it under the faucet despite claims that it is waterproof. However, the chest strap on that HRM was much longer, I think I took it in about half way for a proper fit. So if you have a large chest I doubt the Timex will fit. The watch features themselves are straightforward. I actually prefer the layout and functions better than the Sigma once I adjusted to the change.
Not perfect, but quite good. September 18, 2009
L. C. Scanlon (Connecticut, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
With just a few seemingly minor improvements, this HRM would be really excellent.
Strengths:
-- includes most of the functions that all but the most fanatical exerciser would probably need (or want.)
-- With quite a few display options, most people will find a display that suits them. For example, you can display the elapsed time large with the heart rate small, or the heart rate large with the elapsed time small. Plus there are numerous additional options and switching among them on the fly is pretty easy.
-- The watch has picked up the signal from the chest band without any problem at all.
-- I've used the device daily for two months, one hour per day, and am still on the original battery, so battery life seems ok.
Weaknesses:
-- The chest band could be a little longer. My chest is 46 and it's slightly too snug on me.
-- The instructions were written for when the watch is brand new and has never been used. Some of the functions don't work as described when the HRM has been functioning. Can be frustrating.
-- As far as I can tell, the calorie calculation bears little relation to reality. However, it does seem to be a good relative measurement of the intensity of a workout compared to other workouts. I cover the exact same hilly route each day. In theory, the calories expended should be roughly the same each time, but the more quickly I traverse the route, the higher the calorie count -- sometimes by a lot.
-- Their suggested method of determining maximum heart rate is questionable. Nowhere else have I read that max heart doesn't change with age. They provide some exercises to undertake to determine your max rate, but the final calculation requires that you multiply by a number based upon your assessment of your current fitness level. Way too subjective. Wikipedia has a good discussion of the various methods of determining max heart rate that is far more reliable, in my estimation.
-- The biggest shortcoming from my perspective is that it keeps track of the cumulative time in only one heart-rate zone. That's fine if your goal is to reach a target zone and stay within it, but I do a lot of interval training, so I'd like to how much time I spent in EACH zone.
Overall, this HRM is an excellent value and with a few improvements would be an excellent device, as well
The First Easy To Use Heart Monitor I Found. September 13, 2009
I bought two polar rate heart monitors, and each one cost more than the Timex, and I never saw my heart rate or figured out how to make either one work. Yes I tried customer support, and it's a joke. Leave it to Timex to produce a completely intuitive product. You put the strap around your chest, and you see your heart rate. Do a few simple tests, and you have your 5 zones for light to heavy exercise. It works and it is easy to work.
Definitely Performs - No Complaints September 6, 2009
A. Reader (USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
After wearing the Sportline for about a month, I realized that the finger-tip method of measuring my heart rate while working out on my treadmill was not helpful. I read reviews for the chest strap HRMs and chose this one.
The data I get from this watch are similar to what I was getting from the Sportline with one big exception: calorie count. I had a feeling the calorie count on the Sportline was way too high and I believe the information I'm getting from the Timex (about 200 calories less, which seems more reasonable given the type of interval training I'm doing on my treadmill). The other thing I love is knowing my heart rate real time, not the delayed response I was getting trying to get my pulse to show using the finger-tip push button on the Sportline.
I don't use many of the features this watch offers, but I don't feel like I'm missing out. I want accurate heart rate readings; I want to know when I'm below or above my set zone (the alarm is audible even when wearing ear buds and listening to my ipod); I want to know how many calories, how long in my zone, recovery rate, and minimum/maximum heart rate readings during my workout. This watch delivers all of that and more.
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