Polar RS100 Heart Rate Monitor

*Available for domestic customers only

  Heart rate monitors (HRMs) are a great biofeedback tool for measuring your efficiency as you Body Sense slight adjustments in your running and walking form. We use and choose to sell the Polar brand because they’ve been making great heart rate monitors longer than any company out there.

The importance of a heart rate monitor in ChiRunning and ChiWalking:
 A heart rate monitor will help you measure (in heartbeats per minute) the effect that any of the ChiRunning/ChiWalking form focuses might have on your performance and efficiency. It offers you an objective measurement of how hard your body is working when you run or walk. Being able to Body Sense whether you're going too fast, too slow, or just right is an important skill to have, especially on long training runs or in race conditions. HRMs are an excellent tool to help you learn to associate your Perceived Rate of Exertion (PRE) and your heart rate.

When training for any middle-to-long distance running event, monitoring your heart rate will keep you within a healthy and safe optimal training pace, and insure that you don't burn yourself out in the process or cause injury to your body.

Read Danny's Blog, “Running with a Heart Rate Monitor” and Article, "Should I Monitor My Heart While Training?" on the benefits of using a heart rate monitor.

Basic features of the RS100 HRM

Heart rate (displayed as bpm)
Heart rate (displayed as % of maximum heart rate)
Automatic/Manual target zone (% / bpm / HRR%)
Visual and audible alarm in target zones
Water resistant - 50m
Backlight
HeartTouch™, button-free operation of wrist unit
Easy start (setting wizard)
Over-sized display
User configurable displays - top line
KeyLock

Computer connectivity

Transfer logos from Polar web site to wrist unit (UpLink)
Edit wrist unit settings with Polar UpLink Tool and transfer them to your Polar product (UpLink)

Cycling features

Bike mount - opt.

Data transfer

UpLink (PC with a sound card and headphones/dynamic loudspeakers required)

Polar exercise features

Wireless ECG accurate heart rate
Polar OwnZone®
Polar OwnCal®
Polar OwnCode® (5kHz)
HR-based target zones with visual alarm - 1
HR-based target zones with audible alarm - 1
Exercise Set (extended exercise profiles)
HRmax (age-based)
Maximum heart rate of total exercise
Average heart rate of total exercise
Average heart rate of each lap
Exercise Date

Recording features

Number of exercise files (with summaries) - 1
Exercise file info page with date and time
Exercise Time (total)
Time in target zone
Target zone limits
Average heart rate
Calorie expenditure (Exercise/Weekly/Total/Fat%) - exe.tot.fat%
Lap info

Transmitter belt

T31 coded™ transmitter
WearLink® 31 coded transmitter (changeable battery)

Watch features

Time of day (12/24h) with alarm
Date and weekday indicator
StopWatch
Low battery indicator
Alarm with snooze

Need an HRM with fewer bells and whistles? Check out the Polar FS2C

*Polar's retail guidelines prevent us from selling and shipping HRMs to customers outside the United States. International Customers: Please see your local athletic supply store for ordering a HRM from Polar or another manufacturer.