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Omron HR-310 Heart Rate Monitor +View larger
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:
Get the most from your workouts with an Omron HR-310 Heart Rate Monitor. This full-featured and simple-to-use monitor makes accurately tracking your progress easy, so you can get the most from every walk, jog, run, or workout.
Why you should use an Omron Heart Rate Monitor:
Whether you are a regular walker or jogger, managing your heart rate during your workouts is a crucial component of achieving your goals.
The Omron HR-310 Heart Rate Monitor offers:
- + Chest Transmitter: continuous, accurate readings
- + Tap On Lens: access your exercise data with a simple tap (no need to even press any buttons)
- + Exercise Data Tracking: monitor your current, average and percentage zones
- + Visual and Audio Zone Alerts: programmable zones warn you if you're too high or too low
- + Water Resistant: the HR-310 is water-resistant up to 164 feet
It's all about staying in the "zone."
Every fitness program from weight maintenance to strength training has an optimal Heart Rate Training Zone. With an Omron Heart Rate Monitor, you can track your heart rate to ensure you stay in your optimal zone by adjusting the intensity of your workout and maximizing your success. (See the Training Zone chart below for more details)
| Features of the OMRON HR-310 HEART RATE MONITOR |
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| Together we'll accomplish more - Optimal Training Zones |
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By exercising within your target-training zone, you'll achieve more in less time. Each zone offers different benefits. The most popular zone range is 50% to 80% of your maximum heart. This is where you achieve cardio benefits, burn fat, and become fitter. Your Omron Heart Rate Monitor is programmable so you can maintain your workout within your chosen zone. (See the chart for percentages)
+ Health Maintenance (65%-78%) – Low-intensity level training. Good if you're a beginner and strengthening your cardiovascular system.
+ Aerobic Exercise (65%-85%) – Increases strength and endurance. Burns calories faster and can be sustained during longer workouts.
+ Anaerobic Exercise (78%-90%) – Improves speed and power. This zone builds muscle faster, but cannot be maintained for long workouts.
+ Red Line (90-100%) – Maximum capacity.
Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review
(61 customer reviews) 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
A decent entry-level heart rate monitor,
October 10, 2011 Amy Button "lil-m-moses" (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Omron HR-310 Heart Rate Monitor with Strap (Health and Beauty)
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My experience with heart rate monitors is pretty limited, but on the whole this one seems OK. It does the job, but not as smoothly as one might like. The following items are things that I found notable about the monitor's operation.
Before testing this, I read some reviews of Omron's previous model. Some of the complaints on that item look like they persist here, including what is likely a very hard to change battery in the watch (the manual suggests having a jeweler change it). The belt battery looks like it'd be easy to change. My batteries were likely pretty fresh, as this is a new model and ostensibly shouldn't have been sitting on the shelf long, so I haven't had any trouble with signatures of low batteries yet. I've used the monitor for at least half a dozen exercise sessions now.
The listed operating environment ranges are 32 to 104°F and 30 to 85% relative humidity, which should, in theory, mean that using this outdoors in Houston wouldn't be...Read more
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
<--- Standing on the fence,
March 2, 2012 iGertrude, the Bad Sheriff "Live well, laugh... (The Wild West) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Omron HR-310 Heart Rate Monitor with Strap (Health and Beauty)
Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program (What's this?)
For the most part, this is a useful tracker. It has some interesting features like tapping on the watch face to see your heart rate. But the problems far outweighed this new feature.
I have had two problems with this, the less significant being the discomfort of the heart rate band. I compared it to my Polar heart rate straps to see what the difference is. The Omron is heavier and bigger in the center and the band itself is less flexible. The latch on the side is not as easy to close as the Polar. This one has a triangle shape that is harder to close than the Polar because you have to both seat it and then click it in place. I'm not sure why all of the security as I have never had one fall off before. The biggest part for me though, is that because of its inflexibility, it often moves around and doesn't register any heartbeat. The other problem caused by this is that I am less likely to leave it on when I am not in the gym; therefore not collecting numbers while I...Read more
6 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Great user experience, a few set-up issues,
September 18, 2011 Amber M. Anderson (Tucson, AZ USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Omron HR-310 Heart Rate Monitor with Strap (Health and Beauty)
Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program (What's this?)
First thing I should make clear because I didn't realize it. The "strap" is a separate item - it is a band that goes around your chest to pick up your heart rate and send it wirelessly to the wristband. I originally thought the "strap" was the watchstrap of the monitor shown. Turns out this is both good and bad. For the sake of simplicity I'm going to call the two parts the "watch" and the "chest strap". Some comments:
MATERIAL (CONSTRUCTION/ABILITY TO CLEAN) - VERY GOOD
Both the watch part and the strap are made of a nice rubbery feeling material (actually it feels like silicon). It's quite comfortable and even though I sweat a lot underneath of it, it was very easy to clean. It can take light washing so I just used soap and water on both pieces. The chest strap has a fabric part that is detachable...it will get soaked with sweat. My plan is to wash it in the clothes washer when it gets gross enough so we'll see how that goes (I think it should be okay)...Read more
Walking/jogging/running activity level
Alarm is set; flashes when alarm is active
AM/PM 12-hour clock
Flashes when surpassed heart rate limit
Time / heart rate
Indicates battery power is low 
Stopwatch is shown or running
Keypad tone is turned off 
Average heart rate reading 
Calorie unit 
Percentage heart rate reading 
Imperial height units (feet and inches) 
Body weight unit 
Metric height unit (centimeters)
Year of user's birth
Keypad lock is turned on
Tap on lens function is active
Heart rate is outside the set limits
Flashes when receiving heart rate signal
