| Help I need to know what the best heart rate | | | | popular due to the features and functions. |
| monitor is for running. | | | | The more advanced monitors will include features |
| Not sure exactly what a heart rate monitor does? | | | | such as a Memory facility to review Workouts & |
| The monitor comes in two different parts: a chest | | | | Calories BurnedThe calorie calculation is based on your |
| belt detects your heart rate and transmits it to a | | | | body weight, gender and exercise heart rate Some |
| receiver on your wrist, which looks like a watch. It's a | | | | models display calories burned during exercise session |
| useful addition to any runner's kit because it provides | | | | or total calories burned for the entire exercise |
| an accurate reflection of how hard you're exercising - | | | | session. All of these monitors have time of day and |
| our own guesses are usually unreliable and mean that | | | | most include calendars. These monitors are ideal for |
| we can all too easily end up running faster or slower | | | | some one on a weight loss work out program. |
| than is good for us. | | | | Next comes the monitors that can give advanced |
| Have you been considering buying a heart rate | | | | exercise feedback. This information is saved in the |
| monitor and been confused with the mountain of | | | | memory of the monitor and can be reviewed after |
| information and the many different types of monitor | | | | your work out.This type of monitor gives you lots of |
| that are available. Listed below are the main types of | | | | information of your workout that are stored in the |
| monitor available. | | | | heart rate monitor memory. This includes: average |
| Simple, easy and low cost These monitors are the | | | | heart rate lap times, time spent in,above,below your |
| simplest to operate and least expensive to buy. The | | | | target zone and in some cases calories burned. Most |
| displays are big and easy to read. In many cases | | | | of these memory heart rate monitors also have |
| these heart rate monitors also include a stopwatch | | | | interval timers so you can really fine-tune your |
| and time of day. If you want a basic starter monitor | | | | workouts. This type of heart rate monitor is |
| this is the one to choose, these heart rate monitors | | | | excellent for looking back at your completed |
| will work for any of the following activities, | | | | workouts and keeping track of your progress. |
| swimming, walking, aerobics, cycling, | | | | Moving on to the heart rate monitors that can give |
| The next step up is multi purpose heart rate monitor | | | | you optimum results. The information gathered during |
| and sports wristwatch. These will generally have the | | | | a work out will be downloaded to a computer.These |
| following features as standard Target Zone, Time, | | | | heart rate monitors allow you to download the |
| and Heart Rate These monitors combines a sports | | | | information to a computer to review and analyse |
| wristwatch with a hear rate monitor. You can pre | | | | your exercise sessions. Exact training info for |
| install your exercise Target Zone, display the time of | | | | amateur and professional athletes, or for any one |
| day and also use it as a stop watch. Many models will | | | | interested in storing and analysing their exercise |
| calculate exercise recovery time. You can wear these | | | | information. You can also manually recall the data on |
| heart rate monitors as sports wrist watches when | | | | the face of the watch. |
| you aren't exercising. These monitors are very | | | | |