Omron HR-100C Heart Rate Monitor
Omron HR-100C Heart Rate Monitor
The Omron HR-100C Heart Rate Monitor is easy to program and a cinch to wear with a ventilated watch band. Knowing your heart rate is important because if you’re working out too hard, your activity can actually become counter productive and strain or damage muscles.
 Monitor your heart rate with Omron’s HR-100C. View larger. |
To achieve an effective workout, no matter what the aerobic activity, you must maintain your heart rate at a proper level for a minimum of 20 minutes. In general, the proper level falls between 65 percent-85 percent of your maximum heart rate. To ensure you don’t drop above or below your proper level, the HR-100C is built with an alarm option that indicates low and high heart rates.
Omron includes a chest transmitter belt with the wristwatch-style monitor. This transmitter sends data to the receiver on your wrist at a distance up to 98 feet (30 meters). The HR-100C is built with a backlight function for exercising after nightfall, and it also displays time of day and a daily reminder alarm feature. Also included is a mounting bracket that makes it easy to attach the watch receiver to most treadmills and bicycles and a soft, zippered storage case.
What’s in the Box
HR-100C hear rate monitor, chest transmitter, mounting bracket, and zippered storage case.
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 HB-400 |
 HB-500 |
 HBF-306 |
 HR-100 |
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| Product Placement | Flat level floor | Flat level floor | Hold in front of body | Watch on wrist Transmitter around chest |
| Memory | 4 person profile with previous reading |
4 person profile 1/7/30/90 day(s) memory |
9 person profile | None |
| Warranty | 1 Year | 1 Year | 1 Year | 1 Year |
| Batteries | 4 “AA” (included) | 4 “AA” (included) | 2 “AA” (included) | 2 CR2032 3 volt (included) |
| Estimated Battery Life | Approx. 1 year (when used four times a day) |
Approx. 1 year (when used four times a day) |
Approx. 1 year (when used four times a day) |
Approx. 1 year (varies depending on storage and use) |
Q&A - Fitness Monitors
What is the Bioelectrical Impedance Method?
Bioelectrical Impedance (BI) is considered one of the most accurate and accessible methods of screening body fat. Muscles, blood vessels and bones are body tissues having a high water content that conduct electricity easily. Body fat is tissue that has little electric conductivity. The monitor sends an extremely weak electrical current through your body to determine the amount of fat tissue. The weak electrical current is not felt while operating the Body Fat Analyzer. The monitor is calculated by a formula that includes five factors; electric resistance, height, weight, age and gender.
What is visceral fat?
Visceral fat is located around the organs. Too much visceral fat is thought to be closely linked to increased level of fat in the bloodstream, which can lead to common conditions such as high cholesterol, cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Sedentary life style causes excess visceral fat, and exercise can reduce it quicker than subcutaneous fat (fat located under skin).
What is resting metabolism?
Resting metabolism is the energy to maintain vital functions and it counts 60 to 70% of total energy consumption. Knowing your resting metabolism can help your dietplan. If you can increase daily activity while keeping food intake at resting metabolism level, you can lose weight.
What is skeletal muscle?
Skeletal muscle is muscle attached to the bones that is used to move the body. If you do weight loss without exercise, you may lose skeletal muscle. Skeletal muscle is important to maintain your resting metabolism as well as your functionality. Monitoring skeletal muscle during weight loss is key to avoid weight rebound in the future.
Customer Review: A good buy, especially for the price
$30 shipped to your door. It’s hard to find a decent watch at Walmart for $30 - just think about that.
This thing works, it’s simple, yes, but it does what it’s supposed to do. It doesn’t record any data, upload it to your pc, or do anything other than report your heart rate. For those of you who want detailed data, avg. hr, max hr. then this unit is not for you.
I run a lot of hills and believe that my avg. hr. would be misleading given that my hr. tends to drop into the low aerobic zone down hill and will climb into the 90%-100% range on the hardest incline. I suppose if you’re running on a flat track then the avg. would be a good way of measuring the hr you spent most of your time at. The max hr function would be helpful only for those who are testing themselves to find their max. When I tested myself I pretty much knew when to check the watch.
I find the reading to be very stable while running - I have never seen a blip of 0 or 260 or anything unusual - the reading is always very stable and moves around by 5bpm or so on a flat grade. The monitor has a heart in the upper right corner of the display that seems to flash when it’s receiving a reading, if it stops flashing that that seems to indicate that the watch is no longer receiving a signal. It’s easy to set the high and low thresholds and when you are above or below your set zone an arrow appears above or below the heart to indicate that you’re too high or too low. The watch can beep when you’re out of your zone but I don’t use this function given that I’m usually listening to music while running. The readings seem to fluctuate much more before I start my run; my wife is a nurse and has taken my pulse and we find the monitor to be accurate.
The strap is easily adjusted, comfy, and *very* easy to put on. There is no scratchy velcro. I am a thin build (6′1″ 172lbs) and can’t believe there’d be anyone thin enough that the strap would be too large. The unit works ok if you don’t moisten the strips with spit or water but has consistently worked flawlessly if you moisten it before you go. I do have a fairly hairy chest, no apparent interference. I don’t use it at the gym so I don’t know how bad the crosstalk would be with other units.
I am very happy with it, it works as advertised. At $30 it’s a no brainer! I would be tempted to get something like the forerunner 50 that used hr and a foot pod but at $130 that’s just too pricey. For a basic hr monitor this can’t be beat, you are sacrificing some of the fancy bells and whistles but you are not sacrificing quality or functionality - it works flawlessly every time. The watch does have a blue back light, a stopwatch, the date and time. You can easily switch back and forth between any display and the hr monitor with the push of the red button. I find that I only need the stop watch, the time and date seem pointless given that I will only be wearing this watch while running.
My only quibble is that the instructions suggest you base your training zones on a percentage of your max hr. I would advocate that you use the Karvonen Formula that uses the max hr in addition to your resting hr.
Customer Review: Good price, but doesn’t work
I was drawn in by the price, and figured I’d take a chance since the reviews were about 50/50.
The product does not work as many other reviewers stated. My heart rate would read wacky and varied at rest and zero during exercise. And I’m fairly certain that I do have a heartbeat.
I thought it was worth the risk given the low cost. Amazon rocks as usual with returns of unworthy products, however just know going in that you’ll likely end up sending it back. In the end, it was just a big waste of my time and effort.
Despite the huge cost difference, I’ll be moving to the Polar brand (which my boot camp instructor recommends).
Because no matter how cheap you can get something, it’s worth nothing if it doesn’t work.
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