Polar was the pioneer in portable heart rate monitors for athletes, and continues to set the benchmark for heart rate devices. Their latest launch is the top-shelf RCX5, featuring just about every ...

I’ve used quite a few heart rate monitoring watches in my day. I’ve played with Suuntos and Nikes aplenty, with whosits and whatsits galore. But the RCX5 is different in its utter simplicity. Designed ...

The Polar RCX5 doesn’t look like the sort of watch that’ll set your heart racing, with its monochrome display and faintly alarming red design. But it’ll tell you exactly what your heart’s doing, with ...

The French didn't only invent the guillotine. They also bequeathed us something even more painful (though that's hard to prove): "Les trois sports", aka the Triathlon. A swimming-cycling-running ...

The mighty PEZ database has stopped chugging, and the entries have been sealed – all that’s left is to choose one – drum roll please… And the Winner is Ryan Lund of Providence RI. Ryan said it’s the ...

LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., June 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Polar (www.polarusa.com), the leader in heart rate monitoring and fitness assessment technologies, today introduced the RCX5. Building on decades of ...

The Polar RCX5 Tour de France features Smart Coaching, which shows users how to plan, train and analyze each of their sessions in detail. Users can personalize endurance training programs for cycling ...

We pitted the devices head-to-head, wearing both the Jawbone Up and Fitbit simultaneously, and testing the Polar RCX5 G5 GPS and MyTrek on outdoor runs, on the treadmill and working out in the gym. We ...

Polar USA has this week unveiled their latest wrist training computer, the Polar RCX5, together with some new accessories to measure your fitness and training schedules. The new Polar RCX5 has been ...

In an era where fitness bands and new wearable 'smartwatches' are clearly converging - just like iPods and smartphones did in 2007 - what is the role of a dedicated sports watch? Polar is among a ...

To describe the Polar RCX5 as a training tool is a bit of an understatement; it’s a second brain, really, albeit a fairly complex brain that requires a dog-eared manual You can save this article by ...

New accessories for the RCX5 include the G5 GPS sensor – an incredibly lightweight and compact sensor which measures speed/pace and distance and provides an online map view of training – as well as ...