LifeSpan Fitness Heart Rate Monitor Ring

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June 17, 2008

Binding: Sports
ASIN: B0010Z5ROI
Manufacturer: LifeSpan Fitness
Release Date: 2007-12-07
Average Customer Review: (From 4 total reviews)
List Price: $39.99
Amazon Price: $26.99 (1 new available)
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Features

  • Patented infrared technology to accurately monitor the users heart rate
  • One size fits all design also includes silicone finger insert to accommodate and fit fingers of all sizes
  • Clock, Stopwatch and Heart Rate are the rings readouts
  • Easy to use 2 button design
  • Great alternative to the cumbersome heart rate strap and watch sets

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Customer Reviews

Only buy this if you want your blood pressure to go up. by Jerry Dodds
There is a reason this heart ring is getting bad reviews. It doesn’t give a good reading when you exercise. While I was resting the monitor ring seemed to work fine, but when I started exercising it showed my heart rate went down from 80 to 40. When I turned the heart rate monitor on, it would stay on for a few minutes and then just shut off. The clock mode will only give you 24 hour time with no way to change to 12 hour time. If it worked as described it would be worth the money, but learn from my mistake and others. Look for something better. By the way, on the second day that I owned this heart ring I got it wet. I went and looked at the manual that came with the ring. No were did it say it was water proof, much less water resistant. As you might guess it stopped working, so I threw it straight into the trash were it belongs. This LifeSpan fitness heart rate monitor ring had a life span of less than 36 hours.

Great product, I love it! by Kristin Jacoby
I am SO glad that I bought this. I wear my ring everywhere I go, not just during my walks but alsoi running the kids around and running errands. During my sons last doctor visit I had it on and asked the doctor to check my heart rate to compare to the ring and the ring was just a couple of beats lower than the nurse had recorded…so I am quite pleased with the accuracy and really love the size and ease of use. I get aked often when I am out about what the ring and am happy to share how good the product has been for me.

Heart Rate Ring is just a Toy by Seaview
The LifeSpan Heart Rate Ring simply does not deliver what it promises. It is difficult to get consistent and reliable readings because of what appears to be poor contact with the skin. You have to hold still and press the strap against your skin to get a reliable and stable reading, which takes about 30-60 sec. Since its primary use is during ones exercise routine, trying to stay still is a challenge ! The Ring is also very difficult to program, and appears to have a bug which puts the ring into the program mode during use. I would not buy another one, nor recommend it. It is just another tech toy.

not good for exercise by Tom
The monitor seems to be fine when the pulse was around the resting rate but can’t keep up when the heart rate climbed with exercise. Can’t blame sweating or finger movement as I was cycling indoors on a trainer and wasn’t even sweating when the monitor started to lag behind. I even kept the hand off the handlebar to minimize any movement. The gap in reading was especially pronounced in the beginning as the heart rate rapidly climbed. Around the true rate of 50’s to 70’s the monitor seemed accurate. However, by 90’s it was about 20 behind, and by 130, it was at least up to 40 to 50 behind. With steady exercise, the gap gradually narrowed, but at a steady rate of 150’s the reading was still about 20 to 30 behind and then would drop down to 70 to 90s for many minutes. When my heart rate climbed to 160 to 180s, the reading became totally unreliable. I tried holding the sides of the ring to keep the sensor steady, using different fingers, and repositioning the sensor etc. but didn’t make any difference.

The sensor and the light (infrared?) source are on each side of the ring and am guessing that they detect the change in light transmission through the finger as the blood flows through the fingers. The reading isn’t instantaneous but seems to take an average or a reading every few seconds. It’d have been fine if the readings were accurate.

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