Recommended Heart Rate Monitors?

martinkristyk

Does anyone have a brand/type of heart rate monitor they recommend? I would like to buy one, but there are so many options, I don't know where to begin.

My exercise routing consists of jogging (on a treadmill or outside), using the elliptical, and taking some fitness classes, such as kickboxing. I'd like something that I can wear to each of these, both to know what my heart rate is and also to calculate calories burned.

At the gym today, I used the hand-grip hear monitor on the treadmill, and I'm sure it must have been wrong. According to the chart on the treadmill, I should have been targeting 140-150 for my heart rate, but the monitor had me between 180 and 190. That had to be wrong.

Thanks in advance for any input...

Kristy

littlebuddy84

I have the polar FT4 heart rate monitor and that comes with a chest strap, you couldn't go with with that one!

dad106

Polar is the most popular brand.. FT4, FT7,FT40 and FT60.

I've used the FT7 and FT60.. both are easy to use/set up, and pretty accurate. The FT60 has a few more bells and whistles then the FT7 though.