Mio Shape Select Heart Rate Monitor Watch
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Description of Mio Shape Select Heart Rate Monitor Watch
MioSHAPE SELECT is designed to help you manage your weight and improve your fitness through strapless heart-rate AND calories monitoring. MioSHAPE SELECT features a stylish interchangeable watch strap.Mio's Shape Select Heart Rate Watch is an excellent workout companion by providing helpful information to achieve your fitness and weight loss goals. The display features include showing your heart rate, your personalized percentage of maximum heart rate, and the number of calories burned while exercising. Additionally, you can monitor your heart rate throughout the day and also track your calories consumed against a daily calorie target and monitor your daily calorie balance. The Mio Shape Select also includes a healthy living guide with valuable advice and information.
Feature Detail:
- ECG accurate heart rate without a chest strap
- Displays percentage of maximum heart rate
- Ability to customize using age, gender, weight, and resting heart rate to provide personalized feedback
- Tracks calories burned during exercise
- Tracks calorie intake
- Target calorie setting option
- Includes MioSENSE healthy living guide
- 43 beats per minute minimum readable heart rate
- 199 beats per minute maximum readable heart rate
- 99:59.59 maximum stopwatch/chronometer reading
- Water resistant to 10 meters
- CR2032 battery
- One-year average battery life
- Clear acrylic display lens
- Polished stainless steel sensors
- Stainless steel back cover and buckle
- Polyurethane strap
- Bright backlight with 3-second display
- LCD easy-to-read format
- Keys include light, set/start, stop and mode
- Membership to ClubMio included to chart your progress, keep a personal diary, access a personal trainer, create fitness reminders, receive a fitness newsletter and personalize your weight management program
About Mio
The story of Mio began in 1999 when it was created by entrepreneur and mother of three, Liz Dickinson. Like many of us, Liz balances family and career, leaving little time for fitness. After several unsuccessful attempts to achieve her fitness goals and shed the pregnancy weight-gain of her third child, Liz turned to a personal trainer for advice. While working with a trainer, Liz realized the key to getting in shape and staying in shape is to practice smart eating habits, monitoring calorie intake, and using a heart rate monitor to ensure that she exercises at the right level. Liz realized there wasn't a product available on the market that would easily help her follow her trainer?s advice.
Liz didn't have time to read labels and carry a calorie journal in her purse, nor did she have much patience for the uncomfortable chest strap she had to wear to get her heart rate. She knew there had to be a better way, so Liz used her technology and marketing savvy to create Mio, the world?s first heart rate monitor to work without a chest strap. And, it didn't stop with just heart rate, as Mio also has a patented calorie management system that offers a straightforward approach to managing your diet. With the help of Mio and a balanced diet, Liz was able to shed those unwanted pounds and gain the benefits that come with improved fitness: more energy, more vitality, and less stress, and help many others do the same with the creation of Mio's products.
What's in the Box?
Mio Shape Select Heart Rate Watch, MioSENSE Guide, instructions, warranty
Manufacturer Warranty
1 year
Sports reviews of Mio Shape Select Heart Rate Monitor Watch
Customer Review: Good for light workouts, but difficult to use for more intense activity
Sport shop rating: 3 Stars
I purchased this monitor to avoid having to wear a chest strap during my workouts. I thought that the strap would be uncomfortable and I like the idea of just touching the face of this monitor and getting my heartrate. The first time I used it, I had little difficulty. It is easy to program, gives an adequate amount of info for the average fitness routine and relatively comfortable. However, once I started my first workout, I encountered some problems. This monitor is difficult, if not impossible, to use while running. You must stop or slow down considerably to allow your fingers to make a decent connection with the sensors. It took me a few tries to get a reading, by which point my heartrate had dropped. I had the same difficulty while spinning. I was not able to keep track of my heartrate until I was sitting and in recovery. This isn't really convenient in a standing climb where you're trying to reach a target and can't tell where you're at until you're finished. Plus, I wasn't always able to get a reading the first time and had to try again, and sometimes again, leaving me with a less than accurate reading.
I still really like the convenience of this item, however it doesn't seem to work for the type of exercise I'm doing. It seems like a great HRM for those who don't like a chest strap and are doing low impact activities or interval programs that allow for some down time in which to get a reading. However if you are involved in continuous or high impact movement, I wouldn't recommend it.
Customer Review: Good, But not great...
Sport shop rating: 3 Stars
I wasn't to excited about the idea of having to wear a chest strap just to record my heart rate. So when I came upon the Mio it sounded like the one for me. I basically just wanted to know that I was in my target heart rate zone when I was walking/running on the treadmill or doing a workout video. I didn't want to spend to much because I wasn't a hard core athlete or anything!
But what I have found out... was that the Mio works well if you are standing still. Even a slow walk on the treadmill can mess up a reading, and by the time you wait for the 8 to 10 seconds to give you a reading your heart rate has already dropped about 5 points at least. Also, I really wanted the calories burned feature but if your not checking your heart rate every few minutes then you don't get an accurate assesment of your workout. Oh! and it's very chunky in size.
I now have a polar heart rate monitor and I will have to say... it was worth the extra money and the heart rate strap isn't as bad as I once thought. I have the F11 which has the newer soft strap. But you can by the newer strap for any of the models I believe. I have heard the F6 are where they made a lot of improvements.
But my suggestion is spend the little extra and go with a more accurate one. My choice was Polar.
Customer Review: Nice sport watch
Sport shop rating: 3 Stars
I wanted a heart monitor to give me a better idea of my calorie burn. First, the actual calorie burn according to the watch is much less than my treadmill or elliptical, so that is interesting. Second is my only concern with the watch, it doesn't always register heart rate. If I'm running or on the elliptical I really have to slow down or stop to get it done. Then if it doesn't register, it slows me down more so it is frustrating because my heart rate slows down. Also, occasionally it rates low, below resting heart rate. That results in incorrect overall information. I don't use it on my equipment anymore since I know about what the difference is. But it is still useful when I am doing outdoor activities and want the feedback.Customer Review: Piece of Junk
Sport shop rating: 2 Stars
I purchased two of these one for my home in PB, AR and one for my home in HS, AR, as I work out in both places. This peice of Junk worked for about a year and just stopped working. Then the other one stopped working in about the same time. I sent one in and they wanted $85 dollars up front to look at and estimate repairs. Now the watch is selling for less than that, go figure. They not only get you on the initial purchase they make more money on your ineviable repair if you are that niave to let them get you twice.
Stay away from the MIO (Made in China) There are much better watches out there that will keep on ticking.
Cliff
Customer Review: MIO Shape Select....NOT HAPPY!
Sport shop rating: 2 Stars
I bought this thinking it would be great not to have a chest strap during my spin class...the problem is that it is impossible to keep checking my heart rate and then setting it to get an accurate heart/calorie reading. This is NOT a continuous heart rate monitor. I don't know about anyone else but there isn't alot of opportunity to STOP in a spin class!! If you are walking or cleaning house it would work but not for any intense cardio workout. I'm going back to the chest strap!