Does anyone know if Woot ships from their Carrollton facility? Do they allow local pickup?

My first 3peat.

1 for me, 1 for the wife, and 1 for gifting.

At the risk of sounding like an WAFFLES! TASTY WAFFLES! (It's what I do best), where is the key that tells which color little box next to your name means what? I saw it before, but can't find it now and I am curious about mine.

This is a great deal- in for 3. BTW most of you and your comments, except on this
product, are truly annoying.

bmrbill wrote:Sometimes these will go wacky if you are also wearing an MP3 player. I have one and on very long runs, the thing wacks out while I'm also using my MP3 player.

Otherwise, this is a great product and price!

so it WON't work with an ipod. gotcha.

notsomuch wrote:At the risk of sounding like an WAFFLES! TASTY WAFFLES! (It's what I do best), where is the key that tells which color little box next to your name means what? I saw it before, but can't find it now and I am curious about mine.

Just hold your mouses/pointer on one of the boxes, a little window'll pop up and tell you.

I bought this last time it was available and it is a great product. It's very easy to use. As others have mentioned, it sometimes loses my heart rate for a few seconds, but that is relatively infrequent. It links up to the gym equipment easily, which I like. The memory also stores 20 workouts, so if you are trying to track your workouts, it's great for that.
Also, to answer one question that does not appear to have been answered yet, it works well for women. I am a little bit bigger than your average woman (38" chest, 44" bust) (but working on that thanks to this), and I find this very comfortable and have plenty of room to go either larger or smaller with the band as needed. It just sits right along the bottom bra band and I forget it's there almost immediately.

I've lost 40 lbs in 4 months with the assistance of this little device. To be effective it requires several points of data from the user, the entry of which can be convoluted - but considering the small display, not unreasonably.
Once set up the timer mode summarizes the key data points: k-cal expended as well as time heart rate above, in, and below ideal (i.e. fat burning) zone. I use this most often with the Stamina 55-1610R elliptical trainer (only $99 on Amazon) in front of the television for an hour.
When I push myself I burn approximately 950 k-cal. With human fat being around 3500 k-cal I loose 1 lb just from exercising 4 times a week. I've made other choices, mostly around what I eat, to loose the pounds I have but I credit this device with helping me loose at least half of that.
I'm a 6 ft 40 year old male who started at 263 lbs and am now well on my way to my target of 190 lbs. I no longer think about getting back in to shape, I now think about getting fit. If I can do it, any one can.

I bought two last time around... one for myself, and one for my wife. I use it about every other day when I go running, and my wife uses it almost everyday on her bike rides. Good buy for the money! I'm buying another because my mother-in-law wants one. Go WOOT!

got this sometime in the spring from woot. it's been great. it never loses my heart rate, and the chest strap holds itself pretty securely as long as it's tight.

like other chest straps, you should wet the conductors on it before using and then begin your physical activity. you do need to be sweating during its use or it will dry out and you will get erratic readings. if you are getting these erratic readings, you are probably not sweating enough

joshp97 wrote:so it WON't work with an ipod. gotcha.

it works fine with my ipod nano strapped to my arm on my runs. i've probably run at least 100 times with this combo (nano/reebok watch/chest strap) and ive never had any issues.

diletante wrote:Just hold your mouses/pointer on one of the boxes, a little window'll pop up and tell you.

Thank you. You would think that I would know that, being better than everyone else and all...

I got two of these last timethey were on. I've used numerous HR monitors over the years as I'm a competetive cyclist. These are very inaccurate, if you don't have a history of accuracy from other monitors, you may be totally mislead about the results of what you read from this monitor. My experience with these is they may read as much as 30 BPM higher, but only at high exertion, not at 60-70% of max HR. Not reccommended, and unable to get customer service to even respond to my emails.

niblick77 wrote:Does anyone know if Woot ships from their Carrollton facility? Do they allow local pickup?

This will ship from Woot HQ in Carrollton, and we don't let people pick up their orders.

but, I think SmartPost has improved in DFW. My last few packages got to me pretty quickly.

macmateo wrote:I've lost 40 lbs in 4 months with the assistance of this little device. To be effective it requires several points of data from the user, the entry of which can be convoluted - but considering the small display, not unreasonably.
Once set up the timer mode summarizes the key data points: k-cal expended as well as time heart rate above, in, and below ideal (i.e. fat burning) zone. I use this most often with the Stamina 55-1610R elliptical trainer (only $99 on Amazon) in front of the television for an hour.
When I push myself I burn approximately 950 k-cal. With human fat being around 3500 k-cal I loose 1 lb just from exercising 4 times a week. I've made other choices, mostly around what I eat, to loose the pounds I have but I credit this device with helping me loose at least half of that.
I'm a 6 ft 40 year old male who started at 263 lbs and am now well on my way to my target of 190 lbs. I no longer think about getting back in to shape, I now think about getting fit. If I can do it, any one can.

Good to hear. Makes me think I can too!

Thanks

joshp97 wrote:so it WON't work with an ipod. gotcha.

Untrue.
I never had a problem using this with an MP3 player

Good product for general usage. I would recommend going the extra few bucks for a Polar with a transmitting signal that is not effected by other wireless devices. I have used these with uncoded signals and they go crazy around thigs like invisible fences for dogs.

icybeam wrote:Really though, will this fit on a woman? I already saw that the watch is too big for my wrist most likely, but I can handle that. I have a 34 chest, will the strap fit me or will I have to worry about it falling down?

the straps will adjust very small. Maybe down to 24.

samuel04 wrote:You don't want to have this one. Bought one several months ago, made in China. Just toy. The belt broken in few days. have to throw away. Good luck to you.

You must have alien sweat. Mine it much better built than that.

niblick77 wrote:Does anyone know if Woot ships from their Carrollton facility? Do they allow local pickup?

No local pickup.

notsomuch wrote:At the risk of sounding like an WAFFLES! TASTY WAFFLES! (It's what I do best), where is the key that tells which color little box next to your name means what? I saw it before, but can't find it now and I am curious about mine.

Hover your curson over the box and it'll come up.

joshp97 wrote:so it WON't work with an ipod. gotcha.

Don't have an Ipod and the other poster didn't say anything about having an Ipod but my mp3 player doesn't bother my monitor even after an hour. And yes i know you shouldnt use earbuds while biking but I bike on a private road.

I have one on my wrist right now...use it every day for running and biking...for the money it is better than any other I looked at...almost tempted to buy another.

I paid $39 on E-bay for mine.

Use it with an I-pod and a sansa SanDisk e-200...it is about as spot on with heart rate as the hand readers on a treadmill...I am a fan.

Plus it is RBK and not Nike...so you don't look like some Nike Clone.

I don't know if I want this. I know its a sweet offer, but would I really use it? When I run, I just kinda, run. I'm on the fence as of now... but 20 bucks is almost too hard to pass up on.

I bought this when they had them in May. I have been using it since! I LOVE this HRM!!! It has everything I wanted and for $25? It has the calories burned and also keeps a record of them. The chest strap is very comfortable, I don't even notice it. Also, as a woman with a large chest, I place it right under them - like where the bottom of by bra is. Works like a charm. LOVE IT!!

Bought one last WOOT.
Excellent-accurate, reliable, durable, comfortable.
Chest strap monitors are the only way to go for accuracy.
As far as "wetting the chest sensor" mentioned in other posts, you don't really have to do this. Once you start to sweat, the problem is solved. For the period between starting your workout and starting to sweat, you might not get accurate readings during that few minutes, but don't be so anal. It's really not a big deal. If you don't sweat during your workout, you probably don't need a hrm.

hi

As anyone used this watch+HRM belt for swimming... The description says it is water resistant, but any first hand experiences will help...


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In for 3. I'm very excited. 2 for gifting and 1 for me. Hopefully this will help to keep me motivated to workout more consistently! Outside of the cardio benefits, maybe I'll get a better idea what kind of workout I'm getting while lifting weights too!

zach85 wrote:There's a difference between water RESISTANT and water PROOF... Resistant is like when you're running or (in my case yesterday) riding your bike in the rain, it will provide some decent protection. But it cannot be submerged in water. Water PROOF is what you want, the ability to be submerged under water for a longer period of time.

No, it would be difficult to find any mechanical/electronic product which actually claims to be "waterproof." Check out a $1500 Seiko professional diver's watch - 1000M WATER RESISTANT.

icybeam wrote:Really though, will this fit on a woman? I already saw that the watch is too big for my wrist most likely, but I can handle that. I have a 34 chest, will the strap fit me or will I have to worry about it falling down?

I bought one of these last time on woot. I am pretty small myself (32) and it fits great. I have to wear the watch on the last "notch" but it is a perfect fit!

I bought this last time it was on Woot and I love it.

I've found that it's a great "motivational" tool when working out. I started using this thing and noticed how often I just remained in my comfort zone. Having it show me every time I'm not working hard enough has really improved the quality of my workouts.

Can this watch itself read the Heart Rate, if I am not wearing the chest strap...?? :?

I dont like the idea of wearing the chest strip all the time, but I would like to know whats my HR anytime..

thanx

This is definitely worth the $25. However, don't expect it to work perfectly. The strap seems to work amazingly for biking, and pretty well for walking. However, I've had mixed luck with running and on my elliptical machine; I don't always seem to get a good signal. Sometimes, it works pretty well with only a few weird readings, but other times it reads either 238, 0, or the last number it received pretty much the entire time. I have the chest strap in the right area and I even adjust it to try possible better positions. I always thoroughly wet the conductive pad of the chest strap before putting it on, and I sweat pretty profusely so it's usually soaking under it when I take it off. Maybe my skin bouncing around excessively while running causes the readings to be less efficient.

I'll address a few things that confused me when I got it. Firstly, the chest strap is REQUIRED to get a heart rate reading. The product info led me to the assumption that you only needed the chest strap for CONTINUOUS monitoring, not intermittent monitoring. The HRM will NOT work without the chest strap.

Secondly, place the chest strap immediately below your mammaries. I have rather large pects due to muscle and fat, and it never worked when I tried to place it directly over my heart. If you place it right below, it works well for the most part. Therefore, the HRM WILL work for females (some of you are confused about that).

Thirdly, a quick way to measure HR is to just go into chrono mode with the strap on. Once you push start, it will continuous record your heart rate and spit out data like calories/fat burned (based on your inputted weight), average/max heart rate, and other stuff. I've never used timer mode. The watch will tell you heart rate without pushing start in chrono mode, but it won't save any information.

As aforementioned, for biking this thing is great. Even on some runs it's invaluable (when it's working properly), as I get a good idea of how hard I'm really working (I need to be about 150 HR, anything over 165 leads to anaerobic respiration it seems). Speed isn't always indicative of how hard you're pushing, particularly if there's wind and stuff.

So, in summary, get it, but don't expect perfection.

I purchased this the last time that it was on Woot. It works really well with the treadmill. However, the watch reading is sometimes off, but not terribly so. Great for caloric burn estimates!! Happy running!

I have one and it works well...of course i'm still out of shape!

Just copped me one! I'm pumped!

Welven wrote:What's the chest strap for?

You're head... Wear it like a head band...





HERE'S YOUR SIGN!

rajwadkar wrote:hi

As anyone used this watch+HRM belt for swimming... The description says it is water resistant, but any first hand experiences will help...
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I think consensus has it among those who know the answer from actually using it, as well as the actual definition of "water resistant" (and I'm tending NOW to agree with them), that this thing will SURVIVE in water up to 30 ft deep....BUT, it won't give heart rate readings when the chest strap is submerged in water.


Maybe, 1) the water interferes with the electrode's making a sufficient electrical connection to the skin, maybe due to pure water being FAR from a good conductor...especially with the extremely low current levels this thing detects and amplifies, and/or, 2) the transmitter utilizes too short a wavelength of electromagnetic radiation at too low an intensity to transmit thru water more than a few cm to a few inches?

I would tend to think that either of the above would preclude obtaining readings when submerged in water...unless electrolytes/salts were present in sufficient concentrations, as in a salted swimming pool (which, btw, would be a pretty neat thing to try: maybe someone could try and let us know? I don't have access to one of those. Or, the cheapest electrode gel available is water soluble, but I'm almost certain that also have non-water soluble, petroleum based gels for such uses...and I will bet (I'll even give SLIGHTLY better than even odds in favor) that it WILL give HR readings while submerged if a non-water soluble real "medical" or "research" grade electrode gel is used, even if only when you hold your wrist pretty close to your chest. In fact, I'll try it and let you all know.

Bottom Line: It won't give HR reading when the chest unit is submerged, but IT WILL NOT BE DAMAGED IF SUBMERGED IN 30 ft OR LESS OF WATER.

I have one already, got it this winter and I use it nearly every day. I've owned several others I paid more for, but this works well and is pretty easy to use. I've found it very accurate. I just Ordered another for my recumbent trike and for a spare. Worth the 25 bucks I like the bike mount feature.

notsomuch wrote:At the risk of sounding like an WAFFLES! TASTY WAFFLES! (It's what I do best), where is the key that tells which color little box next to your name means what? I saw it before, but can't find it now and I am curious about mine.

Struggles...