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| Impact Sports ePulse Heart Rate Monitor Watch and Calorimeter | 
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| Brand: Impact Sports Technologies
Category: Sports
List Price: $129.95
Buy New: $114.95
You Save: $15.00 (12%)
Buy New from $114.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  (5 reviews)
Sales Rank: 666
Media: Sports
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 15 x 2 x 0.8
Model: EP1
UPC: 689076933766
EAN: 0689076933766
ASIN: B0019ZDIOK
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
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| Features:
| • | Chest-strap-free heart rate monitor and calorimeter that wears around the forearm | | • | Delivers the benefits of heart rate monitoring without uncomfortable chest strap | | • | Shows current heart rate, maximum and minimum heart rates, and average heart rate | | • | Calculates calories burned based on personal profile and heart rate | | • | Includes fat burning and cardio target zones; powered by AAA batteries |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com Product Description
Dynamic heart rate monitors have traditionally required an uncomfortable chest strap and compatible watch, practically restricting their use to serious athletes. Enter the ePulse, the world?s first armband heart rate monitor and calorimeter. Known as the "people?s fitness monitor," the ePulse makes it practical and convenient for anyone who is interested in tracking calories burned to enjoy the benefits of heart rate monitoring while performing literally any type of activity, from running to walking to simply doing daily chores. p The ePulse works by integrating light sensor and microchip technology--the same type used in hospital heart rate monitors--to accurately read the pulse from the forearm. Once on your arm, the ePulse continuously acquires and shows your current exercise heart rate while calculating calories burned based on your heart rate and personal profile. If you use the ePulse several times a day, it automatically compiles your calories burned into a grand daily total, including when your activities consist of moving around the office or doing work around the house. The ePulse also measures your basic metabolic rate (BMR), which is a prediction of how many calories you will burn based on your personal data input, and then adds your daily calories burned to show your total caloric burn for a day. This function is particularly useful for people who are trying to count calories and lose weight through a program of diet and exercise. p In addition, the ePulse handles a number of basic calculations, including elapsed exercise time, average heart rate, and minimum and maximum heart rates. People with specific training goals can further use the ePulse to calculate optimal heart rate exercise zones for both burning fat and boosting cardio conditioning. The ePulse will then provide a target high and low range for your heart rate, with a green LED light telling you when you're in the target zone. p The real advantage of the ePulse, however, is its chest-strap-free design. At best, chest straps are an annoyance, and at worst are so uncomfortable that they alienate many people from using this type of valuable training and fitness tool. Women in particular report sensitivity to chest straps, and many won't use heart rate monitors as a result. The ePulse, by contrast, is comfortable for both men and women, allowing users to easily regulate their workout intensity and better attain specific fitness or weight management goals. The ePulse--which incorporates an easy-to-ready day/night LED display and is powered by AAA batteries--requires no programming to immediately display heart rate data. p The ePulse excels during the following activities: general fitness, aerobics, running, tennis, racquetball, golf, resistance training, weight loss monitoring, weightlifting, and daily chores.p
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| Customer Reviews:
 E-Pulse - a promising device but not there yet! November 14, 2008
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
After reading the mostly positive reviews of the ePulse on Amazon, I decided to purchase the device about one month ago. I work out quite hard and pushed this device to its limits. Here are my general thoughts on the ePulse. br /br /If all you are looking for is a device that gives you a real-time measurement of your heart rate, this device works fine. However, other functionality does not deliver as promised. The minimum heart rate is set to 0. The watch seems to take awhile to average out that 0 heart rate when calculating average heart rate for the entire workout. If you are working out for several hours, this shouldn't be a problem, but the average heart rate will report several beats too low if you are doing a shorter workout (such as 30 minutes).br /br /Also, if you attempt to view other data screens such as maximum heart rate while working out and then go back to current heart rate, it will read way too low. It takes approximately 30 seconds to re-adjust back to your actual heart rate.br /br /At high heart rates (such as 160-170 beats per minute (bpm)), the watch will occasionally stop adding calories burned to the device. For example, during a tempo run where my heart rate was near 170 bpm for ten minutes, it told me that I burned a total of 15 calories over the ten-minute period. When I went back to a lower heart rate in the 145-150 bpm range, the watch started calculating calories burned much more accurately.br /br /I have spoken with the designers of the ePulse, and they told me that they were able to replicate these problems. They intend to fix them for their new model release. br /br /So, if you are looking for a device to simply give you a measurement of your current heart rate and don't care about any other bells and whistles, this device is fine. However, if you want to know an accurate idea of how many calories you burn and what your average heart rate is, I would wait the 6-12 months for the next release.
 Excellent Weight Loss Tool October 13, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I started using the ePulse in early August to help me increase the intensity of my workouts and to log my calories burned. Separately I also logged my caloric intake. The most useful ePulse metrics for me were the fat burning heart rate range and the daily calories burned. I wore it during my cardio-tennis classes, aerobic classes and running. The measurements were consistent and the armband was comfortable and non-intrusive. The ePulse was a very effective tool for me to achieve my weight loss goal. I highly recommend it.br /
Really works for me October 10, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The ePulse heart rate monitor is very accurate and it's much easier to use than HRMs that require a chest strap. The product is easy to wear - you just put it on your forearm and it locks onto your pulse. I had a couple of questions about the various settings and called customer support who were friendly and helpful. Great Product - It's about time!
 Does not live up to its Description October 4, 2008
10 out of 14 found this review helpful
This HRM is kind of a "mixed-bag". Yes, it does operate well as far as not requiring a chest strap, my primary reason for purchasing it. However it has quite a few "warts" that should be noted:br /br /One of the data readouts is minimum heart rate. My unit would only display a zero whenever I queried minimum heart rate. A minimum heart rate of zero thus messed up the average heart rate calculation [(max heart + min heart)/2]! I contacted the manufacturer by phone and email and they never returned either. I asked Amazon for a replacement and they quickly provided another HRM in two-days. Well, this unit has the same anomaly: zero min heart rate. So beware if you need min and average heart rate databr /br /Next, the manufacturer elected to mount the rigid plastic battery box (two AAA-batteries) on the underside of the arm band. The bulk of the square cornered plastic box bites into the forearm flesh and is uncomfortable. I could not turn the band inside out because of the way they hard-wired the box to the display. Why wasn't the battery box mounted on the outside of the band!?br /br /For outdoor sports, this unit is no good if the season requires long-sleeve outerwear (it has to be against the forearm skin) unless you don't need real time visual output and can wait until you get back indoors to interrogate composite data.br /br /The display is not really readable in full sunlight or even in bright overcast (you have to cup your opposite hand over the display and hold it against your eye socket to read it). This is a bit of a bore while I am jogging on sunny or bright days.br /br /There is a row of LED dots on the bottom of the display that light up at various times. Nowhere in the users guide do they provide a legend or narrative of what the heck these LED's are telling the user. The only one I can figure out is the blue dot, second from the left which glows when the pulse sensor is locked-on to the pulse. The first dot on the left glows yellow I think when the pulse sensor is still seeking. The rightmost LED appears to light up green when one is on or near the cardio zone or the fat burning zone. I cannot discern what or which. There are seven-LED's total. Somebody please post a comment to my review if you have decoded the LED's!br /br /So, this unit is good only if your primary concern is real time data without requiring a chest strap. Settle for a cheapo wrist mount HRM I guess if you have the patience for a push to `sense and read' unit and hate chest straps too.br /br /And, oh yes, the iPod "mount" is just a gimmick.. a sticky-back two-by-nothing strip of Velcrobr /br /Forget any support whatsoever from the manufacturer. br /br /br /
New State of the Art August 20, 2008
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
I put my new ePulse monitor through some tough paces this weekend. I started on Friday with an intense 40-minute workout with my personal trainer, mainly lower body and aerobics, and found the device to be very accurate and reliable. Over the weekend I played two rounds of golf in the heat using my cart but with a lot of walking and climbing around the rocks and roughs, places where one is not supposed to venture during golf. I wore the unit the whole time, both days, and had inputted my personal information to the device. Here are my observations:br / br /1. Golf day one: 4 hr 55 min, temperature range 92-104 F, total caloric burn 833 cal, range of pulse rate was between 59 and 105br / Golf day two: 5 hr 1 min, temperature range 90-99 F, total caloric burn of 842 cal, range of pulse rate was between 56 and 102br /br /(Note: I kept the unit on continuous monitor so I could watch the data)br /br /2. The armband is non-intrusive. Once it's on a few minutes you don't even think about it, while on first inspection it looks "bulky" it's actually light and unobtrusive. I actually put it on pretty light and only once did is slip during a wild drive swing.br / br /3. It was hot and I got pretty sweaty. No problems were encountered with the sweat or the armband staying put. Except when I looked at the readout it was out of sight and out of mine.br / br /4. The unit was really easy to read except in bright, direct sunlight. In direct sun and wearing sunglasses one needs to shield the screen with ones hand. Still, it was very readable.br / br /5. I never once noticed a missed beat or had to reset or maneuver the unit to get continuous readings. Seems very stable and accurate. In my case anyway, precise location of the sensor was not required.br / br /6. Battery consumption was about 50% with new energizer batteries each day (again using continuous monitoring not the on-daman feature). Although, it was still running well even after the screen told me to replace the batteries.br / br /My conclusions are that the ePulse has set a new state of the art in fitness monitoring, is an excellent exercise and health tool and is totally usable for anyone wanting pulse rate and caloric burn info. The other functions likewise will be very valuable to many users. Battery life is a bit short but when the unit is used in the "on-demand" mode this becomes a non-issue. The direct sun impact on the readout is not a huge problem when compared to the ease of use and performance. All of this good stuff and NO CHEST STRAP required!br /br /A VERY HAPPY ePulse user.br /br /
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