Polar Soft Strap Set

Excellent replacement for the Garmin soft strap supplied with my Garmin 310XT GPS watch. After a few weeks the heart rate signal started to drop out. I replaced the battery, tried electro gel etc all without success. Research on the Internet advised to buy the Polar strap , which I did. Works brilliantly. No need to buy the transmitter (the hard rectangular bit) as the Garmin transmitter clips directly onto the Polar replacement strap. Likewise no need to pair it again. My thanks to Polar and to those who posted the solution on the Internet. Garmin really should sort this problem out as I shouldn't have had to buy a replacement on something only a few weeks old. The hard strap on my Garmin 305 has worked without any problems for years, just the occasional battery replacement which I would expect. 25/2/16 FURTHER TO THE ABOVE The rubber sensors have now started to peel away from the elastic strap giving a slightly erratic reading, so I purchased a replacement only to find the transmitter would not clip on. Thinking the 'poppers' were faulty I ordered another - same problem. I then looked more closely and found the rubber surrounding the 'poppers' was slightly raised compared to the first one I had purchased, so careful use use of a sharp knife (Stanley Blade) I trimmed off the excess and all is now fine. Seems like Polar have slightly altered the manufacture of these straps.

I first bought a Polar Strap as a replacement for the Garmin strap (the Garmin one fell apart after 9 months). Today I've just replaced this Polar Strap with another new Polar Strap and it has over 2 years of constant use - I run 6 times a week, 50 miles per week. It is super-comfortable and I don't even notice it on 15 hour races. Highly recommended for Quality & Performance. I rinse it under the shower after every run, sometimes with a bit of shower gel and leave to dry naturally hung up with my run clothes. I think I've put it in the washing machine twice in 2 years - as I rinse it as soon as I come in from a run it never got that grimy. The only thing is the price has gone up - the one I bought 2 years ago was £9.63, I see they are now £17.50 each! Have bought another one today to keep in a draw as a spare...the price is only likely to rise!

This is my second strap in less than a year. I have a Garmin Fenix3 and when the contact pads on the back of that HR strap started to come away, I resented paying nearly 40quid for a new one, so when I found out that this one works, I purchased. You need to use a sharp knife to cut away some of the rubber around the poppers in order for the Garmin sensor unit to snap in place, but after that I found the strap performed very well. I like that the sensor strip cover the whole strap in one piece rather than the 4 pads on the Garmin one. However, sadly after just a few montbs, when unpopping the Garmin unit one day, one of the poppers came away from the strap. I bought a replacement again, but shortly after, I noticed the price of the official Garmin ones have come down too, so next time I'll probably buy Garmin. I'm going to try to be more gentle when unpopping the unit now, but it's a shame the strap didn't last at least a year. I always look after my kit, but I guess you do get what you pay for at the end of the day... Buy cheap, buy twice.

I bought this chest strap to replace the one that came with my Polar V800 HR monitor. I had been experiencing major issues with erratic readings on my HR watch for months but had been putting it down to RF interference and static build up. In the end the HR feature of the watch had become virtually unusable so I decided to try replacing the chest strap as a first step. I’m delighted to report that all of the issues I had been experiencing vanished once I started using the new strap. No more unreliable and inaccurate readings. Polar advises users to take care of the strap by washing after every use in warm soapy water. This is a piece of advice I neglected to follow with the original and which undoubtedly led to its premature demise. I have been diligently washing the new strap after every use and am pleased to report that the strap has performed without a hitch over five weeks of daily use at an average of at least an hour per day. The other good news is that the battery in the transmitter seems to be draining at a far slower rate than it did on the old strap. Update October 2020: since writing my original review my impression of this product has plummeted. The replacement strap I purchased in February lasted about 4 months before it started giving the same erratic output as the original. I ordered another replacement in July and that lasted less than ten weeks before it too started giving useless output. I followed the care instructions with diligence bit it has made no difference.

I bought this to replace the strap for my Garmin FR220 heart rate monitor. The Polar strap is compatible with the Garmin transmitters (both use press-studs to attach the transmitter to the strap). The Polar strap is reputed to provide a better signal and overcome the known Garmin problems of spikes, excessively high HR records during the start of a workout, and susceptibility to wind effects (more relevant to cyclists than runners). You can find out more about this these issues on the excellent DCRainmaker website. The Polar strap needs minor modification to work with a Garmin transmitter - just to trim about 1mm off the plastic collars around the press-studs on the strap. This will take you about 30s with a sharp knife. Once that's done you are good to go. After a few runs, I can confirm that everything is true - the HR plots for my runs now omit the "Garmin Spike" of high HR during the first 5 minutes, and everything works perfectly. It has saved me from wasting money on a complete new strap & transmitter.

It’s a good strap except it falls apart where the sensor attaches to it. The metal connector came detached from the strap within 7 weeks of use.

Very comfortable!

véritable sangle Polar, contrairement au indication d'Amazon sa longueur maximale est de 107 cm (le tissus est extensible et doit être être ajusté avec une tension suffisante pour bien plaquer les électrodes) mon tous de torse 97 cm : longueur de la sangle à plat réglé à 85 cm. Très confortable, on ne ressent pas sa présence. A savoir : la durée de vie d'une sangle cardio. (utilisée ou non) est de 18 mois max. ; les électrodes "sèchent" inéluctablement.

先人達の教えに従い、ガーミンのハートレートセンサーで使用。510jセットのもの。ボタン部に関してはキツい位で、外れる心配は全く無い。振り回してもガタが出ることも無いだろう。 ベルト自体はソフトで柔軟。胸囲ピッタリに設定しても使っていて苦しくなることは無い。使用時にその存在を意識することも無く、素晴らしいとしか言い様が無い。 ここまで来てこの低価格。他を選ぶ理由は無いだろう。

This was a replacement for a 5-year-old chest strap for a Polar F7. It works better than the original (which had wimpy contacts and weren't conducting properly) AND it's more comfortable. I thought my transmitter was going bad, but it was the old, worn chest strap that was dying. Th big plus was that I was able to get this in a size small - the women's Polar came with a medium, and it was a challenge to keep it on when it got stretched out over time - had it cinched up all the way and was still too big. The small fits perfectly and I may get another for wearing while the other is still drying after rinsing out between uses.

Da mir der bei der Polar mitgelieferte Gurt bereits von Anfang an etwas zu groß war und dann mit der Zeit noch ausleierte, musste schnell Ersatz her. Also bestellte ich mir den Brustgurt in der XS, auch wenn mir das vom Hören etwas klein erschien. Im Endeffekt gibt es zu dem Produkt jedoch nicht allzu viel zu sagen. #Inhalt Der Artikel wurde gut verpackt in seiner Originalverpackung mit Bedienungsanleitung geliefert. #Praxistest Ich bin rumdum begeistert! Mit einem Unterbrustumfang von ca. 74cm passt der verstellbare Brustgurt perfekt und bietet vom Umfang her sowohl nach oben, als auch nach unten noch Platz. Der Wechsel des Emfängers war durch die Druckknöpfe auch kein Problem und auch die Übertragung der Herzfrequenz klappte sofort. #Fazit Perfekt für alle, denen der Standardgurt zu groß ist! Der Preis ist zudem wirklich unschlagbar. Ich hoffe sehr, dass euch meine Rezension gefallen hat.