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A large, crisp, easy-to-read face displays detailed training information. The Suunto M5 women's heart rate monitor and fitness training watch provides versatile guidance with optional speed and distance information for a wide range of sports. Set your goals, and the m5 provides an ideal daily workout schedule to help you achieve them, including telling you when it's time to rest. Simply enter your personal data once, choose your target�fitness improvement, weight management, or free training�and the m5 does the rest, providing: - A personal exercise program
- Suggested workout for the day
- Real-time guidance during your workout
- Workout achievement summaries
Key Features
- Three personal targets to choose from�improving fitness, weight management or free training
- Daily exercise instructions with ideal duration and intensity
- Automatically adapting exercise program for the next seven days
- Real-time intensity guidance during workout
- Recovery time recommendation after exercise
- Motivational feedback messages
- Suunto Dual Comfort Belt, compatible with most gym cardio equipment and Suunto Fitness Solution
- Upload exercise data to Movescount with optional Suunto Movestick (sold separately)
- Download any training program from Movescount with optional Suunto Movestick (sold separately)
- Track speed and distance with optional Suunto Foot POD, Bike POD, and GPS POD (sold separately)
- Supports nine (English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish, and Finnish)
About Suunto Suunto is a leading designer and manufacturer of sports precision instruments for diving, training, mountaineering, hiking, skiing, sailing, and golf. Known for intuitive design, accuracy, and dependability, the company's precision instruments combine the aesthetics and functionality of watches with sport-specific computers that help athletes at all levels analyze and improve their performance.
This review is from: Suunto M5 Men's Heart Rate Monitor and Fitness Training Watch (Black) (Sports)
This is my first HRM, finally bought after researched for a few months and asked many opinion leaders. I bought this along with a Sigma PC9 for my mom who doesn't need a coded transmitter. I have used this for 6 weeks now, with 3-5 uses a week. I initially wanted to get M2 because of the beautiful look, but as it doesn't support foot pod, I had settled for this one. I bought the M5 running pack that comes with the foot pod and the Movestick. It was setup and paired with the chest strap and the pod pretty easy and quickly. No issues to get reading from both the chest strap and the pod in all the workouts I've done. In terms of accuracy, it spots on --> benchmarked with manual pulse reading.
With the help of this, I get motivated and in that last 6 weeks I turned from a person who have never ran a single bit, to be able to run 5km now.
There are cons of course, which I did not realize until now. But let me go through the pros first.
PROS:
1. The transmissions are coded - that's why it is more expensive than many cheaper HRM. This allows me to be able to train together with my friends who are using HRMs as well.
2. Very simple to use - Just 3 buttons to operate. No lots of questions (unlike my mom's Sigma PC9, where you have to answer 3-4 questions before you can stop/start).
3. Very large 'font size', easy to read when you are running. Get the white face, BTW, it is very clear.
4. Has a backlight, easier for those who run in the evening or very early of the day.
5. Has a personal training (or virtual trainer) that motivates you to complete the plan for each day. It tells you to up or down the effort, with audible beeps.
6. Fitness Test is available (using Rockport Fitness Walking Test). Ya, I know it is a painful way to test your fitness, but at least it is available, and is useful for a beginner like me.
7. Movescount connection. It allows you to download the workout data into the movescount where you can review and save all your workout data. Another reviewer felt that this site is a complete waste of time/effort/cost, but it is very useful for me. For someone who cannot workout alone (I lose motivation/interest if I were to do this alone), I need this to keep connected to my gang of runner friends. We compare data, we motivate each other, and we compete with each other! Another kind of motivations. :)
8. Very comfortable chest strap. My mom's Sigma PC9 could not pick up signal from her strap but could pick up my Suunto's when my mom swapped with mine. It seems that the comfortable strap can wrap around the body's curve better that allows better contact with skin, unlike those other plastic hard front piece in other brands. If you have a large upper tummy (like my mom), this would still hug around your chest comfortably and snuggly. I don't have to tighten the strap too much. I actually let it loosely wrap around my chest, and it stays all the time, probably the silicon material holds on well to my skin. No need to feel suffocated by tight straps if you use Suunto's, and in fact I always forget that I still have my strap (we usually go for breakfast right after the workout and I don't feel anything foreign there!)
9. Battery is user-changeable. This is very important for me, as it is so inconvenient to send to the manufacturer for a change. Love this feature!
10. It is not too bulky as I had thought of a HRM. My wrist is only 5.5" in diameter, and the women wrist band fits my wrists perfectly. It is also very comfortable to put on wrist too.
CONS
1. I know that it doesn't come with all those VO2 Max, Training Effect, EPOC measures (those are available in t-series), but I did not know that it doesn't even show % in each workout range. Even my mom's very cheap Sigma PC9 (less than $40) has these features. M5 only tells you the average HR, and max HR. It would be good if I can also know what % (or min) of my workout was in e.g. 120-140bmp, 140-160bpm, etc. This has bothered me a lot.
2. Foot pod cannot be calibrated. I had the impression when they don't allow calibration, the accuracy should be quite good, but I was wrong. When I ran with my friend, we started together, ended together, for 1,600m (about 1 mile), I was short of 200m from her reading! We use the same model. I was told that in low speed the accuracy is quite far off, but the accuracy increase when speed increased.
3. It does not show Speed and Time/Timer together on screen. It shows 2 readings at the same time, with lots of combinations that you can toggle with the middle button. But they just don't have this combination of Speed and Time/Timer. I need this because sometimes I wanted to keep to a pace when I'm on interval training for a period of time (e.g. 4x4min). I need to know both the pace and the duration, at the same time.
CONCLUSION
All in all, this is a very good basic function HRM for a beginner like me. But if you are looking for more features, go for the t-series. t6d is a good one. That would be my next HRM if I have the budget to upgrade. :)
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