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heart rate monitor

MrsCupCakeBoyle
MrsCupCakeBoyle Posts: 259 Member
edited September 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
How do these work?

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  • eeeekie
    eeeekie Posts: 1,011 Member
    I've been trying for 3 weeks to get mine to work! I wanna break it!
  • MirandaDeCrane
    MirandaDeCrane Posts: 78 Member
    I am interested in getting one! They seem more accurate than the digital machine calorie counts,,,
  • TiDinzeo
    TiDinzeo Posts: 309
    I got mine working in minutes. You set your height, weight and gender and it measures your heart rate as you exercise and woks out how many calories you've burned. The most reliable, or so I've heard, are the ones with a chest strap. I haven't tried any others, so I couldn't say for certain but I'm happy with mine (a polar FT4 which comes with a chest strap).
  • cjnorman
    cjnorman Posts: 93
    If itis a chest strap kind you need to wet the pads a little before puttng it on. Then it needs to sit right under your "girls". The strap is like an EKG and reads the electrical pulses caused when your heart beats. It then relays this data to the watch.

    http://running.about.com/od/gear/p/heartratemonitr.htm
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