Mark of Fitness MF-180 Exercise/Heart Rate Monitor
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Product Reviews of Mark of Fitness MF-180 Exercise/Heart Rate Monitor
Product Review: Great workout watch/monitor
Summary: 5 Stars
Terrific product if, like me, you can't wear a chest band heart monitor. Even if you can you may find this little jewel more convenient. Stop watch,lap counter, heart rate/pulse monitor, time in heart rate zone, watch...all accurate and easily accessed. The directions folder is a little vague at several points, but the setup is fairly intuitive if you've ever owned a digital watch. I can't say enough about the quality of this little device. Very well made in Japan, a bargain!Product Review: Heart Monitor
Summary: 4 Stars
This was a gift . It came on time and was half the price of one we had looked at . So we were happy !Product Review: Inconsistently accurate, with occasional spurious readings and some wear discomfort.,
Summary: 2 Stars
This unit was purchased with the hope that it would give continuous and reliable readings. It often does, but inaccuracies are not uncommon; e.g., when removed it sometimes continues to report a heart rate, and during use it occasionally reports erroneously higher readings, compared to baton and direct pulse measurements.
Others with different hand and blood vessel geometry may obtain different results, but with the anatomical dimensions of my hand I found the unit too inaccurate to consistently rely on.
Wearing the unit is not without comfort issues for me. The velcro fastening material is placed along the full width of the finger mount. This results in the unit sometimes becoming uncomfortable to wear. Also, the width of the finger mount means the index finger cannot be easily flexed when the unit is worn.
Although settings are not intuitive, the instruction manual is clearly written, and the unit provides a number of useful additional functions, i.e., clock, alarm, stopwatch, under and over heart rate alarms, and calories burned.
However, my primary aim was to get a consistently accurate heart rate monitor. For that purpose, this unit has proved less than fully satisfactory.
Product Review: Love It
Summary: 5 Stars
I think this is a great item. It took some time to get used to all the features, but I really only use the monitor and calories burned. I use it for running and it works great. However, after I got better at running, it would have trouble picking up my signal when I would first put it on. I put in a new battery this may have helped. But I now use one of those hand squeezers to get the blood flowing to my finger before I put it on and it seems to work as great as it always did.Product Review: NOT FOR CYCLING OR DANCE OR FREE WEIGHTS
Summary: 2 Stars
"DO NOT USE WHEN BICYCLING." This is printed on the back of the MF-180 package. This gadget is intended ONLY for JOGGING & WALKING. Inside the user manual it further states that this monitor WILL NOT give accurate measurements for any exercise that requires gripping or "excessive hand movements".
Additional limitations: if you have dry skin or cold hands the readings will not be accurate. The technology behind this gadget is limited to very specific conditions.
For me that meant that the bulk of my exercise routine of which includes bicycling, aerobic classes, free weights and Nautilus type machines. I should have picked up on that from the other reviewers and their comments about keeping the finger in a particular position. I will continue with the chest belt.