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4 customer reviews
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- The MIO Breeze Heart Rate Monitor is an easy-to-use, ECG-accurate heart rate monitor that works without a chest strap. It's a "no frills" product for an older market who want a quality, stylish sports watch that will help them monitor their heart rate throughout the day and during low-impact, recreational fitness activities.
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- Just what I was looking for
- Started running and was concerned about keeping my heart rate in my target zone so I decided to purchase a watch with a heart rate monitor. The Mio Breeze works great, allows me to pace myself to stay in the zone and to check my recovery time after a hill or sprint. Once in a while it fails to give me a reading, may be due to lack of moisture between watch and wrist or poor contact. The stop watch feature is easy to use and is handy to check times along routes and to see times per mile.
I like the styling even though it is a little larger than I am accustomed to. The numbers are large and bright enough to make them easily to read.
- Get rid of those bulky, uncomfortable chest straps! We finally have a way to determine our heart rate that is quick, easy and portable. This wristwatch lets you find out your current heart rate with just a quick two-finger push.
The watch is a *little* bigger than a normal wrist watch, so I wouldn't wear this to an elegant dinner. Still, wearing it most other places seems quite fine. It has normal date and time functions, so it fully replaces my normal "sports watch" I would wear.
For the heart rate test, it is very easy. You are wearing the watch on one arm - let's say your left arm. So then you would take two fingers from your right hand and press them against the two silvery buttons on the watch's top face. You hold it there for about 5 seconds, and then the system shows you your heart rate.
Also, because you input your weight into it, and your age, it knows your ideal heart rate and shows you the current one as a percentage of your total. So you see at a glance how well you're doing.
I tend to do a number of "active" exercises, and there is NO way I could wear a chest monitor and have it stay on. This is the perfect solution. I go out for a walk, I play Dance Dance Revolution, and no matter what, I can check my heart rate in an instant.
Now, to the issues. First, it *is* a bit bulky. It's a unisex model meaning it's fine for my boyfriend but on me it's a little large. I guess I would rather have gotten a "women's model" - but at the price it didn't make sense to buy two for our family. It made more sense to get one we could both wear. So on one hand it might be a smidge large for a woman, but on the other hand having it be a device we can both easily use is definitely a plus. So I hesitate to complain about this.
Next, it sometimes takes me 2 or 3 tries to get a reading - including spinning it around so the face of the watch is pressed against the inside of my wrist. I tend to have very low blood pressure. If I prick my finger for a blood test, I get a drop maybe before it stops. So I realize completely that I am "not normal" in this sense. That being said, I was just having dinner with a friend of mine who is rather thin, and she had to do the same thing - spin the watch to point towards her inner wrist before she could get a reading. So maybe it's certain people that it has trouble reading. Maybe it's because she wasn't sweating and there wasn't enough moisture to conduct the current. I'm not really sure. So it does work - but it might take a try or two based on your situation and body shape.
So in general I highly recommend the unit. Just be aware if it doesn't work immediately on you that it's not you - it's just an inherent issue with an electrical-sensing device that you wear on a wrist.
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- Not useful for staying in HR Zone
- In my experience with this product, it was impossible to check my heart rate while actually exercising. In order to do a heart rate check, I had to stop exercising and stand still in order to take the reading. This is not useful if you are trying to do an interval workout within various zones.
- This item does not work as represented. It is almost imposible to get to work and when it does it is not accurate. I confirmed with my cardioligist that the readigs it did give were not near accurate. I will ask for a refund!
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- Not useful for staying in HR Zone
- In my experience with this product, it was impossible to check my heart rate while actually exercising. In order to do a heart rate check, I had to stop exercising and stand still in order to take the reading. This is not useful if you are trying to do an interval workout within various zones.
- This item does not work as represented. It is almost imposible to get to work and when it does it is not accurate. I confirmed with my cardioligist that the readigs it did give were not near accurate. I will ask for a refund!
- Get rid of those bulky, uncomfortable chest straps! We finally have a way to determine our heart rate that is quick, easy and portable. This wristwatch lets you find out your current heart rate with just a quick two-finger push.
The watch is a *little* bigger than a normal wrist watch, so I wouldn't wear this to an elegant dinner. Still, wearing it most other places seems quite fine. It has normal date and time functions, so it fully replaces my normal "sports watch" I would wear.
For the heart rate test, it is very easy. You are wearing the watch on one arm - let's say your left arm. So then you would take two fingers from your right hand and press them against the two silvery buttons on the watch's top face. You hold it there for about 5 seconds, and then the system shows you your heart rate.
Also, because you input your weight into it, and your age, it knows your ideal heart rate and shows you the current one as a percentage of your total. So you see at a glance how well you're doing.
I tend to do a number of "active" exercises, and there is NO way I could wear a chest monitor and have it stay on. This is the perfect solution. I go out for a walk, I play Dance Dance Revolution, and no matter what, I can check my heart rate in an instant.
Now, to the issues. First, it *is* a bit bulky. It's a unisex model meaning it's fine for my boyfriend but on me it's a little large. I guess I would rather have gotten a "women's model" - but at the price it didn't make sense to buy two for our family. It made more sense to get one we could both wear. So on one hand it might be a smidge large for a woman, but on the other hand having it be a device we can both easily use is definitely a plus. So I hesitate to complain about this.
Next, it sometimes takes me 2 or 3 tries to get a reading - including spinning it around so the face of the watch is pressed against the inside of my wrist. I tend to have very low blood pressure. If I prick my finger for a blood test, I get a drop maybe before it stops. So I realize completely that I am "not normal" in this sense. That being said, I was just having dinner with a friend of mine who is rather thin, and she had to do the same thing - spin the watch to point towards her inner wrist before she could get a reading. So maybe it's certain people that it has trouble reading. Maybe it's because she wasn't sweating and there wasn't enough moisture to conduct the current. I'm not really sure. So it does work - but it might take a try or two based on your situation and body shape.
So in general I highly recommend the unit. Just be aware if it doesn't work immediately on you that it's not you - it's just an inherent issue with an electrical-sensing device that you wear on a wrist.
- Just what I was looking for
- Started running and was concerned about keeping my heart rate in my target zone so I decided to purchase a watch with a heart rate monitor. The Mio Breeze works great, allows me to pace myself to stay in the zone and to check my recovery time after a hill or sprint. Once in a while it fails to give me a reading, may be due to lack of moisture between watch and wrist or poor contact. The stop watch feature is easy to use and is handy to check times along routes and to see times per mile.
I like the styling even though it is a little larger than I am accustomed to. The numbers are large and bright enough to make them easily to read.
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