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MIO Shape Elite Heart Rate Monitor
Category: Sports
Binding: Sports
ASIN: B000F7L020
Manufacturer: Mio
Release Date: 2006-05-15
Average Customer Review: 
(From 5 total reviews)
List Price: $149.99
Amazon Price: $79.95 (9 new available)
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Features
- Watch-and-monitor-in-one
- Tracks heart rate and exercise time and monitors calorie-shedding progress
- Easy-to-read display
- Features a 12- and 24-hour digital clock, date display, alarm, stopwatch, and timer
- Water resistant up to 10 meters
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Editorial Reviews
Product Description:
The science behind getting fit fast!
Burn calories, lose weight, right? Not necessarily. Workout too hard and you’ll tire quickly. Not hard enough and you’ll burn too few calories. Measuring your heart rate is the only way to ensure you stay in the optimum calorie burning zone.
Think of MIO Shape Elite as a speedometer for your body, monitoring your heart rate and calorie burn for maximum effect. And MIO’s patented strapless heart rate monitors makes it easy to burn fat without fuss, get fit and get on with life!
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On-demand Heart Rate:
Superior MIO technology gives ECG accurate readings WITHOUT a chest strap
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Set Calorie Targets, Count Calorie Intake, Track Calorie Burn:
MIO’s patented calorie management tool is worn right on your wrist. MIO is a strapless heart rate monitor watch and a calorie counter
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Get up to Running Speed Fast:
Step-up your routine with MIO’s dual interval Walk/Run program. Proven to get you in better shape in less time
Product Description:
This sporty heart rate monitor watch from Mio tracks heart rate and exercise time precisely and continuously so you can work out safely while getting the most out of every session. This watch tracks your calorie-shedding progress by setting appropriate targets and tracking the number of calories you eat and burn. As a full-featured sports watch, it also includes a 12- or 24-hour military time digital clock, date display, daily alarm, stopwatch/chronometer, dual interval timer for walk/run programs, and is water resist up to 10 meters. The super bright backlit display makes it easy to read the numbers day or night.
Feature Details:
- Dual interval walk/run timer
- Displays percentage of maximum heart rate
- Full-featured sports watch with clock, date, and alarm
- 99:59.59 maximum stopwatch/chronometer
- Bright backlight display
- Water resistant to 10 meters
About Mio
Mio was invented in 1999 by entrepreneur and mother of three, Liz Dickinson. Like many of us, Liz balances family and career, leaving little time for fitness. After several unsuccessful attempts to achieve her fitness goals and shed the pregnancy weight-gain of her third child, Liz turned to a personal trainer for advice. While working with a trainer, Liz realized the key to getting in shape and staying in shape is to practice smart eating habits, monitoring calorie intake, and using a heart rate monitor to ensure that she exercises at the right level. Liz realized there wasn’t a product available on the market that would easily help her follow her trainer’s advice.
Liz didn’t have time to read labels and carry a calorie journal in her purse, nor did she have much patience for the uncomfortable chest strap she had to wear to get her heart rate. She knew there had to be a better way, so Liz used her technology and marketing savvy to create Mio, the world’s first heart rate monitor to work without a chest strap. And, it didn’t stop with just heart rate, as Mio also has a patented calorie management system that offers a straightforward approach to managing your diet. With the help of Mio and a balanced diet, Liz was able to shed those unwanted pounds and gain the benefits that come with improved fitness: more energy, more vitality, and less stress, and help many others do the same with the creation of Mio’s products.
Customer Reviews
It’s going back! by Phillip J. White
I am a little surprised by some of the GREAT reviews that I have found on the internet regarding this unit. I received it for Christmas this year and have used it 10 times now while running and the P90X program I am doing. I have to say for ME, dead nuts accurate readings,(within 1%) I give it a “A-” for that. I never had a problem getting a quick accurate reading, The problem is can you read it??
For engineering and functionality it gets a “D”. I’m an engineer so maybe I am a little tougher to impress, but I was VERY disappointed with the design.
To start with, I have 20/10 vision (better than average) and in normal light,lighting at the gym, or in my basement where I run the treadmill the numbers are almost impossible to read. The numbers on the LCD are too close together, for instance, a heart rate of 152 is easily mistaken for 162 ,even by my 13yo son who has eagle eyes. He said to me one day while wearing it “how do you read this thing?”
The display has a “Indiglo” type backlight, however, I found that if you turn on the light and then take a pulse reading, the light goes out before you can get a reading. And, if you take a pulse reading and then hit the light you might just be able to catch the reading before you lose the light. You are suppose to be able to extent the light by 2 secs by hitting any button while the light is on, that never worked for me.
The better design would be to have the pulse reading come full screen with another touch of a button, OR just a larger display period.
Being an engineer I know quite often they get locked into the one aspect of the product that they are working on without looking at the over all larger picture, that being “Is It Usable!” The other features seemed to work fine, but again, if you can’t read it what good is it. I was very frustrated by the lack of forethought.
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Decent Unit by JCT
This MIO monitor is a pretty good tool for serious exercisers and others as well. I have found erratic heart rate readings and some difficulty managing all the functions especially during a workout.
I bought the item from the Amazon GOld Box for $80 so I am satisified. I wouldnt be too thrilled if I paid $150.
Each model gets better! by Ben Dixon
I got my first Mio in 2001. I think I may have been one of the first in the world to get one. I read an article on it and when I saw it was a decent looking heart rate watch and you could find how many calories you burn and get an accurate heart rate, I knew I had to have it. I have to say that I wasn’t too thrilled with that first model. It was HUGE and bulky and had this weird light feature that turned the light on and off when you shook your wrist. If you left the light on (which I did all the time), the battery ran out. Sadly it ended up in my night table. I got pumped up again when I saw the Mio on Dr. Phil a couple of years ago so I bought one and I really found a remarkable difference. Same great features. I noticed that I got my heart rate more quickly and they got rid of that annoying light feature! I got a SHAPE ELITE for my birthday and I can definitely say that Mio has hit a home run with this one. It has got timers that the other watches lacked. It even has one that matches a walk/run program they promote in the little book that comes with the watch. For the FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE I can run 10km! It only took me 13 weeks to get there. I feel in the very best shape of my life at 44. I can say without hesitation it was the Mio SHAPE ELITE that got me there. Still the same great calorie burn info, even better uptake on the heart rate when you are in motion and, neat things like a heart rate recovery test that tells you how fit you are. It is a sleek, super looking watch (a far cry from the bulge on the wrist it used to be). I wear it all day and I absolutely love it.
Wish I had one 
by John
The Shape was excellent for me. It motivated me to exercise after my knee injury and helped me lose a lot of weight. I could always push myself harder after every workout because of its features.
I wish I had the Shape Elite now. I checked it out and it’s way better. Not only does it look better, but you can also measure your heart rate recovery.
MIO watches are excellent because they’re so easy to use, compared with using a cumbersome chest strap of other heart rate monitors.
This would make a great Father’s Day gift!
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