Polar AXN300 Heart Rate Monitor

Heart Rate Monitors are part of cardio exercise programs, because heart rates should fall within certain ranges for optimal conditioning. The Polar AXN300 Heart Rate Monitor has features that make it great for skiers or mountain bikers but it is good for other athletic training and outdoor activities as well.

Polar Heart Monitors:

Polar heart monitors are the leading brand of heart rate monitors for heart rate training because they invented the first ECG wireless heart rate monitor in 1977. Individuals use them for workouts and exercise where the heart rate needs to get to or stay below a certain level.

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Available in different models for different outdoor sports, the AXN300 is specified towards skiers and mountain bikers because it tracks vertical climbs and steepness. The Polar AXN300 has a large display that gives you the time, heart rate and calorie expenditures. It has three alarms and a stopwatch feature as well.

Great For Skiers, Hikers And Mountain Bikers:

OwnCal mode provides a customized calorie expenditure tracking for your workouts and helps you reach short and long term weight goals. It can hold up to 80 exercise sessions and give you information on heart rate averages and calories expended.

What’s great for skiers and mountain bikers is that is uses barometric pressure to determine the altitude, instead of GPS. Dropping barometric pressure can indicate bad weather, so you can monitor weather fronts to get to safety if a nasty storm is approaching. It also has Slope count to track the distances and speeds of vertical slope feet in a day. It makes it easy to impress your friends after a ski resort vacation!

Lightweight with Enough Features:

This wristwatch-like Polar heart rate monitor is lightweight, weighing only 3 ounces, due to its plastic case and fewer features than some of the Polar heart rate monitors. It still has enough features to track your heart rate performance in multiple sessions, track calorie expenditures and heart rates during vertical climbs, tracking ascent, descent, uphill and downhill steepness. While it cannot download, it can upload settings from a personal computer.

The alarm system will keep you into the target heart rate zone to optimize your workout and training sessions. It is a popular model for multiple sports, but targeted for sports that involve vertical slopes and variable ascents and descents, which makes it the perfect Polar heart rate monitor for skiers, hikers, mountain bikers and rock climbers.

Sturdier Construction Than Previous Models:

Even though the AXN300 heart rate monitor is made of lightweight plastic, it is a sturdy heart rate monitor and altimeter, made for the rugged outdoors. Waterproof, they say it is good to 100 meters, although they don’t tout it as a scuba diving piece of equipment, but it is laid out with outdoor activities in mind. You can cycle between time, altitude, barometric pressure, a compass, tests, a stopwatch and a countdown timer, in addition to the heart rate monitor readings.

The Polar AXN300 heart rate monitor has a lot of features packed into a small, portable package that is great for any exercise or outdoor sport activity you throw at it.