Timex T5J031 Heart Rate Watch Review

If you can imagine a heart monitor that ranks highest in most people’s minds for heart monitors and also comes very highly recommended by users for comfort, ease of reading, performance, reliability and stylishness, then you would be talking about the Timex T5J031 Heart Rate Watch.

Timex Heart Monitor

This particular heart rate watch, the Timex T5J031, contains so many features that other heart monitors do not, that it’s difficult to describe them all.

First of all, it is a sport’s timing watch that is sized for both men and women, thus it can be said to be a unisex watch for it is truly a mid sized watch. It supplies heart rate monitoring though its chest strap heart rate monitor. One can have this watch provide not only target zones but the time-in-zone as well. This Timex heart monitor even allows you to track your average heart rate.

More Great Heart Rate Watch Features

It has a recovery rate timing mechanism and even displays calories that you’ve burned. It is a 100-chronograph which means that it is both a timekeeper and can function as a stopwatch as well! For swimming, it has a 27-lap memory and even features a 100-hour countdown timer as well as informing you of your heart rate per laps.

Further the Timex T5J031 heart rate watch is water resistant up to 185 feet (50 meters). Many people are glad that it is water resistant so that they can take a jog in the rain. One of the features that everyone loves is the easily accessible function buttons making it exceptionally easy to work with. Oh, you will think that one of the really cool things is its special Indiglo night-light that will uniformly light the surface of the watch dial. It does this by means of patented blue electroluminescent special lighting technology.

What More Can You Ask For

The night mode attribute will allow you to illuminate or light up the Indiglo night-light for a total of 3 seconds by pressing any button, no matter what your mode or function is set for. The Timex heart monitor will use less battery power than the majority of other watch illumination systems. This will enable you to have a watch battery that will last much longer. Your watch will come with an up to a 2-year battery life, which is unheard of regarding most watches or heart monitors!

In Case of Emergencies

Should your battery eventually run out, there’s no need to either send it back to the manufacturer or have to see a jeweler to replace it, as Timex heart monitors contain batteries that can be self-replaced by the owners themselves! Most people think that’s a wonderful feature as they’ve had the nasty experience of having to send away their heart monitors when the battery stopped functioning.

In addition, you can also easily use your Timex T5J031 watch as an alarm and it even will feature a 5-minute backup. By the way, it truly is also a watch, as it has month/day/date with available 12/24-hour time select too. The Timex T5J031 heart rate watch comes with a very durable resin case, and there’s also a very comfortable resin strap, which features a stylish tapered profile.

For the latest models, check out the Timex Heart Monitor Selection.