Nike Imara Heart Rate Monitor Review

The Nike Imara Heart Rate Monitor is a sleek women's heart monitor watch which looks good and can be worn continuously. It provides very basic heart rate displays.

The Nike Imara heart rate monitor is a gorgeous looking device especially designed for female runners. It displays all the functions of a watch like time, date and alarm. Additionally, it has features of a sports watch like continuous heart rate monitoring. This it does with the help of a wireless analogue chest transmitter. It can display heart both in terms of beats per minute or as a percentage of your maximal heart rate or target heart rate. Whenever you stray out of your predetermined target heart rate zone, the Nike Imara will sound a beep which lets you know that you should either speed up or slow down.

The two stage segment countdown timer is ideal if you wish to go in for interval training. Note that the timer is the larger number in the display.

The brilliant display also lets you know how many calories you have burned during every stage of the workout. Thus, this little gadget can form a big part of your weight losing routine.

The Nike Imara has a back light so you can use it in the dark as well. The watch has a scratch proof exterior and is water resistant. It is available in black and ice blue colours.

The Nike Imara heart rate monitor, designed especially for women, is indeed a sleek but sturdy and efficient heart rate monitor. You can wear it all the time. However, the analog signal is likely to suffer from interference from other HRM's or some treadmills.

Customer Reviews

Here's what customers are saying about the Nike Imara heart monitor watch:

...Overall I'm extremely happy with this HRM. It has all the features I wanted, a nice design, and decent price without a lot of extra features I would never use...

...The heart rate function worked decently well and tracked calories as stated. Like other reviews have said though, it is very sensitive to others around you that may also be wearing one and get really thrown off. Same with walking/jogging my dogs around the neighbourhood, there were times that my heart rate would go to the 60 bpm range and then after half a block jump to the 200 bpm range - way off...

...I should have invested a little more money into a heart rate monitor and gotten a Polar, which most of my colleagues have and NONE of them have had the terrible experience I have had with the Imara...

...I love how it tracks my calories and how much time I exercise in the low, medium and high ranges. I love that it's water resistant up to 50M, so if I'm lazy, I don't even have to take it off when I shower. In fact, I've been wearing my Nike Imara almost constantly ever since I got it. That is unheard of for me, since I used to change watches like jewellery. That's when I realized that I love my Nike Imara...