!!! need help figuring my HRM!!!

I tried it above and I didn't get a reading. Right beteen my cleavage under my bottom bra starp is where it works for me. The monitor has to be toughing skin from what I understand. Have you tried it over and under? What are your readings in each position? Cindy

Oh Cindy! I just don't know if I'm doing it right! It's got me wicked confused! I keep pressing this button and that button. I'm not understanding what the heck to do. I did just like you said, hit the mode button, got it on chrono, then hit the start button, then the memory, and then did 20 minutes of jogging in place. Well, I kept looking at it the whole time I was jogging, and it showed a "0" the whole time at the top, but the numbers below were moving like a sun of a gun. When it showed the "0" this morning for my 20 minute jog, I hit the start button again, and then saw another number instead of the "0". But, this afternoon I just left it alone, cuz your directions just said to hit the start button, and then memory. It didn't say to hit it a few time. So, after I was done and checked it, it gave me the exact same numbers as it did this morning. Now I'm not so sure if it even recorded this afternoon, or if I was viewing what I'd done this morning, after hitting the start button again cuz of that darned "0'! :sad:
I'll bet you're sorry you ever even answered me, since I just keep bugging the heck out of you over it! :laugh:
My husband's off on a motorcycle ride, I told him he should be here, trying to help me figure this darned thing out! :explode: Brenda
ps. Maybe I'll try it under my bra, and see what happens. My knees are killing me though, so it probably won't be till tomorrow morning, after I've given them some rest.

Brenda, I'm so sorry your having this problem. I don't understand why it's not working for you other than you don't have the monitor placed correctly. You also have to dampen the rubber strips on each side of the plastic monitor when you put it on. It sounds like that's the problem to me. let me know what conspires. Good luck- Cindy

Hi, Take a deep breath- We will figure this out for you. Ok- You dampen the rubber strips on each side of the plastic monitor. I realy think your not placing it right . Try wetting the strips and placing the monitor right under your bottem bra strap. It should start reading your heart rate in a few seconds once you get to the chrono setting. Cindy

You poor dear!!!

The chest strap: I wear mine under my boobs, so that it falls under the bottom strap of my sports bra. I wet the big chunky plastic receptor on the chest strap -- either with a little water from the tap or simply by licking my fingers and swiping the receptor. That seems to give it the "connectivity" it needs. Once I get sweaty, there is rarely an issue with it picking up my HR.

The manual: when I bought mine, I read a review from a guy who said he was a mechanical engineer and couldn't figure out the manual!! Throw that blasted book away - it's worthless, imo!!

The watch: Bottom left button.... press it until it reads CHRONO. If your husband set up your profile (okay, that manual is useful for setting up USER PROFILES so maybe don't toss it out just yet) to include a warmup, the CHRONO setting will run that first. I set up my profile without a warm up. I just wanted a calorie count. Once my watch is on CHRONO, I hit the top right button ST/SP (start/stop or whatever it is). That begins my workout. It starts counting from zero seconds and up. No limits, no max, no timed workouts. Once I am done, I hit ST/SP again and it ends. (If your profile has a cool down, it might do something else here, I'm not sure). During the workout and after, you can hit the MEM button (so you are on CHRONO, have hit the ST/SP button to start your workout, or hit ST/SP to finish it, and you hit MEM -- the top left button) and it will scroll through numerous readouts. Max HR, min HR, etc etc etc but at one point in the middle of the screen it will show you CALORIES BURNED. That is what I use mine for mainly. Also, at a certain point of hitting MEM to scroll through, you can see your max HR %.... how close you are to reaching your max HR.

Hope some of that info helps! I hate you are having problems with the HRM. I love mine!!

Sounds like you know how to start your workout.

After your workout, hit the top right botton to stop the counts. You can now hit the top left button to see your totals for this workout only. Keep hitting the top left button to see all your details. Then you need to hold down the bottom right button for a second or two (it will let you know when you can stop holding). That stores the info. Then, whenever you want, you use the bottom left button to get to memory, it first gives you the total from all of your stored workouts. Then hit the top right button to scroll through each individual workout. Once you get to the one you want to see, hit the top left button to get calories burned, time in the fat burn zone, etc.

Hope that did not make it more confusing!