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Need help with a HRM...

mfoster1019
mfoster1019 Posts: 152 Member
edited January 5 in Fitness and Exercise
I am interested in getting a heart rate monitor watch (the one you wear on your wrist). I want it to track my calories burnt more so than my actual heart rate. I do NOT want a monitor where I have to also wear a band on my chest (or anywhere else). It'd be a bonus if the watch was also GPS capable to track how far I've run and how long it took me. Does a monitor like this exist? If so, what brand, website, etc? Also if so, and you have one, do you like it?

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  • Mokey41
    Mokey41 Posts: 5,769 Member
    The watches you wear on your wrist only require you to keep regularly touching a little sensor pad and are wildly inaccurate. If you want a GPS tracker you'll need to look at Garmin probably. The chest straps on new monitors are made of a really soft fabric and don't feel any different than the band of your bra.
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