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Heart Rate Monitor still not fixed

Toria — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:49:44 +0000

Oh boy I am not having much luck with this heart rate monitor. I sent it back because York Fitness said they would replace it, waited over a week and it came back to me — with the batteries changed — what? Is that replacing it York Fitness? I had already had the batteries changed and it made no difference.

They said I didn’t include a proof of purchase, but I certainly did — I included my original Amazon receipt — which is retrospect was dumb of me because now I don’t have that, I should have sent a copy.

When I complained with a long email, their response was ‘Did the new batteries fix the problem?’.

F******

I don’t know what my next move is, but I will not be spending any more money on postage and the like, that’s for sure — I am £10 down already!

HRM going back and WP updated

Toria — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:20:54 +0000

Hurrah, I emailed the manufactures of my HRM direct and they are going to replace it for me and I did manage to update my WP version without a hitch this time. Now I just need to fine or create a pretty theme for it

Heart Rate Monitor is here

Toria — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:40:46 +0000

My Heart Rate Monitor arrived on Saturday, I thinks I like it.

The first time that I used it on Saturday I was not impressed and thought it was going to have to go back, it was jumping all over the place…60, 140, 62, 145, 190, 59…etc. And I did nooooot like the read out at the end of it, it had me as having burned 100 calories less than the read out on my elliptical – that’s pretty huge for a 40 minute workout – and it said my average heart rate was 112, but I know from having watched it that it was at around 140 for most of the time, all that jumping obviously caused the wonky reading.

I tried again with it last night and it functioned much better, rather than having it on my wrist I just put it on my elliptical….so that it wasn’t physically moving with my arm. Got much better results, didn’t notice it jumping – average 135 and only 30 calories less than the read out on my elliptical.

Both of those were with my resting heart rate set at 65 though, I am not sure how accurate that is, I measured it without reading the instructions…now that I have read them it says you should measure it when you first get up in the mornings, so I did that this morning and it came back as 51 – that seems rather low to me, given the average is 60 – 80 so I am not sure that’s right either, I will test it more over the coming days and try work it out.

I need to do some serious reading about other things also, I have no idea to work out what a good heart rate target is for me – so far I have only used it to measure my rate, I have no got into setting zones, tiz (?) and all the other fancy stuff.

But overall, I like it and I think it’s going to be useful once I fully understand how to use it.

No loss this week

Toria — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:46:22 +0000

As suspected, no loss this last week…but that’s OK because as mentioned I did only manage to work out twice. Fingers crossed I can get back on track and back to losing next week…so close to that goal of 12 stone, soooo close.

I go away on vacation on June 5th, my realistic goal for then 11.10 – that’d be awesome.

My Heart Rate Monitor just got dispatched today so fingers crossed it’ll be with my by the tail end of the week, I am ridiculously excited about it – I hope it’s decent