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Heart Rate Monitor Help!

Sarah_Likes_Cookies
Sarah_Likes_Cookies Posts: 26
edited February 9 in Health and Weight Loss
HRM Question - my HRM is just a watch style, no chest strap, but it does have ECG accuracy. Does anyone have issues with accuracy on their HRMs???

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  • LeeAnn2healthy
    LeeAnn2healthy Posts: 15 Member
    as long as your HRM asks for your age and weight it will be fine and will record your heart rate pretty acurately. You do not need a chest strap.....been using my watch style for years and it records really well
  • Sarah_Likes_Cookies
    Sarah_Likes_Cookies Posts: 26
    That's what I was thinking. I appreciate your comment. =]
  • GeminiBridget
    GeminiBridget Posts: 99 Member
    I have a Sportline HRM and it's pretty accurate. I found a supposedly better, more expensive one on Amazon that came with a chest strap but that one wasn't accurate, and it broke after a week. Needless to say, I sent it back and went back to my no frills one. :)
  • Sarah_Likes_Cookies
    Sarah_Likes_Cookies Posts: 26
    I have a Sportline HRM and it's pretty accurate. I found a supposedly better, more expensive one on Amazon that came with a chest strap but that one wasn't accurate, and it broke after a week. Needless to say, I sent it back and went back to my no frills one. :)

    Thanks! I have the basic, $20-$30 Sportline S7 from Walmart =]
  • GeminiBridget
    GeminiBridget Posts: 99 Member
    I have a Sportline HRM and it's pretty accurate. I found a supposedly better, more expensive one on Amazon that came with a chest strap but that one wasn't accurate, and it broke after a week. Needless to say, I sent it back and went back to my no frills one. :)

    Thanks! I have the basic, $20-$30 Sportline S7 from Walmart =]

    That's probably the one I have too! :) lol I tested the accuracy via one of the top of the line treadmills at my gym and it was reading the same as the treadmill, so I'm sold!
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