Polar RS800 heart beat monitor wrist watch

For any serious athlete on an intesive training schedule the Polar RS800 is a must purchase.The thing about life is how fast technology progress`s.Twenty years ago I was an athlete specializing in the 800m.I ate properly,slept well and trained hard.But the equipment available to us then was nothing like what is available today.I remember buying a stop watch wrist watch to record my training times.It was at the time the newest and best available on the market.The only functions on it where a stopwatch and a twenty four hour clock to tell the time.
When i remember that watch i bought and then compare it with the Polar RS800 available today,im quite flabbergasted actually.This Polar RS800 can monitor you heartbeat whilst training or at rest.And perhaps most amazing of all is that the watch stores all the data and then this data can then be transferred to your personal computer and put in files so you can compare training sessions and analyse everything.As well as monitoring your heart beat this watch can tell you how much energy you are using and how many calories you are burning on each training session.You can also preset the watch with an intensity level based on your fitness level and age.If you begin to under train or over train from the preset level the watch will alert you with beeps so you can adjust.If you purchase the optional S3 stride sensor you can record strides and distances covered in conjunction with the Adidas Adistar Fusion running shoe.
So there are you a few basic operations of the Polar RS800 and i am very impressed with it.Im much older now than when i used to compete competitively,but i still run 5 days a week and really enjoy looking at my training results on the computer transferred from this watch.And guess what? This watch also has a stop watch and a 24 hour clock to tell the time !