Does it do a continual heart rate or do you have to stop and put fingers on the watch to calcuate your heart rate?
1622460
No it does not do a continual heart rate. You have to push button on side for it to show heart rate. It would be nice if it was continual.
318105
I'm not having any trouble with my Smarthealth watch. I check my pulse about 4 times a day to make sure I'm still alive. Actually, checking your heart rate often helps your watch calibrate and customize its other functions specifically for YOU.I love this thing.
540834
You need to be more specific with your questions. Your best bet is to find and download the user's manual. It will give you specific instructions. However, I wouldn't recommend this watch - at least not based on my experience. Its performance (as a heart monitor) is inconsistent - sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
834768
It gives a continuous reading of your heart rate. You can see the rate change as your exertion go up or down.
1291055
the large silver "button" at the "6 o'clock" position on the face of the watch is the button you press down to see your heart rate. As long as the button is depressed, it shows your heart rate ongoing. How I use it: I flip into this really rapid heart rate quite often, especially if I'm doing even basic things - I want to see how high I get, but also how fast it comes down. As long as I'm pressing down the button, I can watch what is going on with my rate. I am a Cardiac Nurse and I love this watch - I recommend it to alot of my patients especially because you don't have to wear a chest strap like you do with other brands to get a heart rate reading. This one is really slick!! the large silver "button" at the "6 o'clock" position on the face of the watch is the button you press down to see your heart rate. As long as the button is depressed, it shows your heart rate ongoing. How I use it: I flip into this really rapid heart rate quite often, especially if I'm doing even basic things - I want to see how high I get, but also how fast it comes down. As long as I'm pressing down the button, I can watch what is going on with my rate. I am a Cardiac Nurse and I love this watch - I recommend it to alot of my patients especially because you don't have... » Read More the large silver "button" at the "6 o'clock" position on the face of the watch is the button you press down to see your heart rate. As long as the button is depressed, it shows your heart rate ongoing. How I use it: I flip into this really rapid heart rate quite often, especially if I'm doing even basic things - I want to see how high I get, but also how fast it comes down. As long as I'm pressing down the button, I can watch what is going on with my rate. I am a Cardiac Nurse and I love this watch - I recommend it to alot of my patients especially because you don't have to wear a chest strap like you do with other brands to get a heart rate reading. This one is really slick!! « Show Less
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Yes. But I'll answer this in a little more detail. It will show your HR continuously. Press (hold for 3 secs) the button below it and it will say START. It will then show the HR continuously until you press the bottom button (hold for 3 secs) again to STOP. Once stopped, you can clear it by pressing and holding the lower button on the right side and it will say Clear in 3, 2, 1. Then it will all return to zero. It will periodically tell you when the HR is within zone or outside of zone. The message appears in the center HR area but then disappears returning to the HR. But does not show zone continuously. It would be nice if it would give a little tone or something to let u know when the in/out of zone appears. But you have to look at the watch a lot to catch it. I don't use this feature tho. If you calculate your hi/low HR zone, all you need do is check the HR periodically. You can see for yourself if HR is out of zone. And if it is out of zone, how much. Sometimes out of zone may be only a few heart beats. In which case you know how much you need to slow down or speed up. But really, if you are monitoring your HR you can see when you are getting close to being out of zone and slow down before you go over the line. Don't need a continuous HR zone alert then. Hope this helps.
578767
all watches with a temp will do that. Only way to go around it is to take it off to measure temp. Once its on the hand your body temp will affect it. But thats why I use it as a guage to get a ruff idea.
523026
You place your forefinger on the side of the watch and wait till it beeps. It has never worked that well for me though
1973558
To the best of my knowledge, it doesn't. You need to put 2 fingers on the watch sensors to get a pulse reading.
596111
It does not take it all day long, or monitor it at any other time. You must press the button on the front and hold in order to get your heart rate.
610297
No it doesn't have stop watch, but pressing the run button you get a timer. If you are looking for stopwatch function for running time then the watch has auto lap of 1km else you can set it up with the lap button
1579041
Hi Edgar, this watch comes with a sender unit that fits on your chest and sends your Heart rate to your wristwatch, I bought this for my wife and I have the men's version of it which is a little bigger. Both work great!
531033
Only your heart rate. Remember the closure on the band is weak. I actually lost mine walking to work. Think twice if you are going to be very active with this unit.
596108
Just FYI the Timex Iron man with chest strap continuously shows heart rate so you don't have to keep poking the button throughout your workout.
160703
Yes, it does. In order to change from Interval timer to stopwatch, the user will need to hold the "Change" button until "Stop" is displayed on the screen. Once "Stop" is displayed on the screen, the user will push "Start/Pause" on the front of the unit. This will arm the stopwatch and time digits will appear on the screen. The user will push "Start/Pause" on the front of the unit to begin timing and push "Start/Pause" again to stop timing.
1959780
It only works if you have your heart strap on, but you would push the bottom button on the right side of the watch. Continue to push the button until you see calories counted. It may take about 3 pushes of the button to get to it.
523025
wear it on your arm and hold the silver bezel on the front of the watch. hold it for about 7-10 seconds as the black heart shaped icon blinks on the screen. It will either measure your heart rate or beep that it cannot.