What is a monitor of the heart rate?
It's easy to keep track of your heart rate. If you're alive, you have one. A heart rate monitor lets you train at your target heart rate so that you can perform at your best in competition. You need to know how monitors work first. Most of them look like wristwatches and can tell time and check your heart rate at the same time. Buy one with a chest strap transmitter that sends heart data to the wrist unit. This will give you a constant readout of your heart rate. Devices that don't have a chest strap can tell your heart rate, but only if you touch them with your hand. If you decide to buy one, you can find a few examples of what's out there and some details about them below.
Polar, one of the top manufacturers (www.polar.fi), makes, among other things, the following:
Polar FS1
Heart rate target zone monitor with high/low heart rate monitor alarms that can be heard. During exercise, it shows your heart rate and how long you've been exercising. Has the option to remember how long the whole workout took and what the average heart rate was. Its clock can show either 12 or 24 hours. It comes with a transmitter for the T31 chest heart rate monitor and an elastic strap. You can get it in either dark blue or yellow. This is perfect for newbies and simple exercises.
Polar AXN 700
This heart rate monitor has all the features you need for hiking, climbing, skiing, mountaineering, and other outdoor activities. It has a titanium case and the following extra features: a resting heart rate test, a slope counter, 3 sets of heart rate limits, and a bearing setting. Among a heart rate monitor's usual features, you can also find:
HeartTouch lets you use the wrist unit without pressing any buttons. By touching the Polar wrist unit to the chest transmitter belt, you can briefly see your lap information.
Polar OwnCode keeps other heart rate monitors from getting in the way. As more and more people use heart rate monitors today, it's important to make sure that other devices don't interfere with them when people are at the gym together or jogging with a friend. The unique coded technology blocks signals from other heart rate monitors that aren't wanted. This makes sure that your heart rate data is sent without any problems.
Another company that makes heart rate monitors is Reebok (www.reebok.com). I found a few of their designs below:
Heart Rate Monitor for Reebok Personal Trainer It gives you an ECG-accurate reading of your heart rate. It shows the time of day, the date, and has a daily alarm. Scan Sequence Just press a button, and the unit will show you your average heart rate, your highest and lowest heart rates, and how long you've been exercising. Included is a Contour Lite Transmitter.
Monitor for the Reebok Precision Trainer
It has a heart rate zone high/low limit that can be set in 1 beat increments to find the exact heart zone and an out of zone alarm that sounds when the heart rate is out of zone. It shows your heart rate and how much of your maximum heart rate you are using. It figures out what the percentages should be for you, so you don't have to. For example, a 99-hour stopwatch with a memory for 50 laps and a target zone time total. Its main special feature is the triple display, which can be switched between: Time of Day, Heart Rate, and Percentage of Maximum Heart Rate or Stop Watch, Heart Rate, and Percentage of Maximum Heart Rate or Time in Zone, Heart Rate, and Percentage of Maximum Heart Rate.
If you want to learn more about heart-rate monitors, you can go to the following sites:
www.heartratemonitor.co.uk/
www.heartmonitors.com/
www.consumersearch.com/www/health and fitness/heart-rate-monitors/
www.epinions.com/well-Supplies-Home Diagnostics-Heart Rate-All
