| A heart rate monitor is a device for measuring your | | | | sessions you will notice a drop in your resting heart |
| heart rate whilst exercising. It's made up of a band | | | | rate. |
| that fits round your chest and a wrist device that | | | | The Polar heart rate monitor was the first to be |
| looks like a wrist watch. The chest band uses | | | | produced in 1977 for the Finnish national cross |
| electrodes to measure your heart rate and transmits | | | | country ski team and are still one of the most |
| this information to the wrist device using radio | | | | recognised and widely used today. The Polar S120 |
| waves. | | | | Heart Rate Monitor has lots of useful features that |
| A heart rate monitor is useful if you suffer from | | | | include Exercise Set to save your training sessions |
| blood pressure or have any heart related problems | | | | for easy recall, along with average heart rate, |
| and want to exercise safely. | | | | maximum heart rate, time in target zones, |
| It's also good for anyone who wants to monitor their | | | | percentage of maximum heart rate, 3 heart rate limit |
| progress as you can control your heart rate by | | | | settings, 60 laps with average heart rates and a |
| simply adjusting the settings on your exercise | | | | recovery calculation based on time or heart rate |
| machine. | | | | Heart rate monitors are also available as strapless. |
| You can monitor your fitness by monitoring your | | | | The Reebok strapless heart rate monitor gives you |
| resting heart rate. | | | | the lowest and highest heart rate readings. |
| Find your resting heart rate by putting on your heart | | | | You can use your Reebok strapless heart rate |
| rate monitor and then lie down for about 20 minutes | | | | monitor for monitoring your heart rate during running. |
| so that you are completely relaxed. Look at the | | | | It also has a Chronograph/stopwatch mode, and |
| recording and make a note of it. | | | | countdown timer, as well as a heart rate memory |
| As you become fitter with your exercise training | | | | and recall and many other features. |