Are HRM worth the money?

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  • tnqnt
    tnqnt Posts: 397 Member
    It's absolutely worth it to me. Now that I know how many calories I'm burning, I'm trying to beat myself... I think how many more calories can I burn if I go just another 3, 4, 5 minutes, etc. The whole thing is much more satisfying, seeing something immediately for the hard work I did.

    EXACTLY :) I totally agree!! :):):)
  • Rumpenissen
    Rumpenissen Posts: 20 Member
    All day long.
    My Polar FT60 serves as a coach, a tracking mechanism, a goal ....
    it is worth EVERY cent!

    I have the same model. I love the training program feature. Just knowing the thing is tracking me motivates me to train more. :-D
  • tnqnt
    tnqnt Posts: 397 Member
    All day long.
    My Polar FT60 serves as a coach, a tracking mechanism, a goal ....
    it is worth EVERY cent!

    I have the same model. I love the training program feature. Just knowing the thing is tracking me motivates me to train more. :-D

    It has made such a difference in my WANTING to go to the gym and work out... its truly amazing. I honestly feel it is as important to fitness as keeping a diary is to nutrition. :)
  • WildcatMom82
    WildcatMom82 Posts: 564 Member
    I think so definitely. I find the info a lot more accurate and what I burn (according to the HRM) is vastly different from what the machines said. Plus now I workout mostly at home and don't have to guess how much I'm burning, especially since it can be different each time I do the same workout depending on how hard I push.
  • MrNoisy
    MrNoisy Posts: 69 Member
    I think they are. Once I started using one on my cardio days and hitting my target zone, I noticed a difference in my physique was occurring more rapidly.

    Of course I also hate the damn thing at the same time. Stop beeping!! Always forcing me to try harder to keep it quiet... ><
  • fatchiick
    fatchiick Posts: 105
    You don't have to get an expensive one, I've had a couple, one broke and the other I haven't seen in about a year... so if I were to buy another one it would be for my own decadence... because honestly when I had one it was nice knowing I had to push myself a little more, it was nice seeing the amount of work I had accomplished... but overall it didn't "help" I'm a slow loser... rather I pushed myself or not, id plateau that's why I've always quit.. I'm comfortable now being a slow loser, I always push myself... so a watch really wouldn't matter and wouldn't get things going any faster... but its rewarding mentally just to see what you've accomplished. But I've learned how much the watch says I burned, means nothing really other than I burned it lol...
  • scottb81
    scottb81 Posts: 2,538 Member
    If you use it to gauge your exercise intensity it's worth it. If you only use it to count calories then it's not worth it because as others have said it only gives you an estimate that may or may not be any more accurate than the estimates given by this site.
  • spartacus69
    spartacus69 Posts: 235
    I'm going to be the bad guy here and say NO. An emphatic no.

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    Just so I'm clear, while I'm sure an HRM gives you a very accurate reading of your actual heart rate, I believe the calories burned info is not nearly as accurate as people on this site believe.


    One could even look at the research (28% overestimation of calorie burn in one study) but believers are gonna believe.

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21178923

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