The All-in-One New Balance N8 Trainer Heart Rate Monitor

Nowadays, people do not have to pay hundreds of dollars to enjoy the advanced training features of heart rate monitor watches. Affordable models such as the New Balance N8 Trainer can now provide heart rate, speed and distance monitoring and tracking functions with built-in training data logging features. When achieving sleeker designs and indispensable training and monitoring features dictates the value of a heart rate monitor sports watch, New Balance N8 Trainer presents an easy to use, comfortable to wear and innovative and dedicated training partner at reasonable costs.

Overview

New Balance N8 Trainer has been featured in the January Runner's Word event. This New balance is actually designed to provide training athletes, particularly runners, with a fitness partner that provides deeper insights to every training session. Unlike other heart rate monitor watches, New Balance N8 Trainer targets 3 fitness components; distance, speed and heart rate, in hopes of guiding people on how to optimize their training results.

Key Features

To help you train more effectively, the N8 Trainer adopts a digitally coded HRM and SDM, which means no more annoying cross talks and no tracking interruptions. Its coded transmission keeps you from being disturbed as you train. To offer total training monitoring service, the product comes with both a heart rate strap and a foot pod. The display of the watch is designed to prominently show fitness data such as your speed, heart rate and other metrics such as cadence, lap time, elapsed time and step count.

Just like other dedicated heart rate monitors, it is also designed to produce both audible as well as visible alarms to help you achieve and stay within your target zones. Its built-in target zone indicator allows you to train below, above or within your target heart rate range, which is helpful in ensuring training progress.

Aside from monitoring your heart rate, New Balance N8 Trainer can also record your average and maximum heart rate. This precision data gathering helps assist training logs as well as calculations of calories burned during your every workout.

Workout Advantage

The timing functions of New Balance N8 Trainer perform excellently in monitoring your speed, laps and other training parameters. For instance, its auto lap function allows you to take a lap and record your time after reaching the user set distance, all thanks to its 50 lap/100-hour chronograph capability. It can also give you a 10-run memory recall of all important training information, including your best and average pace, total running distance, total exercise time, average and maximum BPM, total steps and laps or splits. Since New Balance N8 Trainer is still a watch, it can handle 2 time zones, 2 daily alarms and 12 or 24-hour time-day-date format.

Value

At its $ 135 to $150 market value, New Balance N8 Trainer maintains a healthy competition among other popular heart monitor watch brands. It stands against the $90 Timex Ironman Sleek 150 Lap track star, the $170 Polar RS300 heart rate monitor wizard, the $99 Garmin FR60 data miner and the $140 Suunto T1C fitness trainer. However, New Balance N8 Trainer gives you an all-in-one heart rate monitor watch that delivers basic heart rate monitoring, training information logging and timing functions at a decent price.