Wrist heart rate monitors
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AFAIK wrist heart rate monitors are crap. They are a watch that sits on your wrist but to measure your heart rate you have to press your index finger on a sensor on the watch itself. I've never seen one that measures your heart rate accurately or at all, through your Radial artery.
Have things finally changed?
Have things finally changed?
Never had much luck with the wrist mounted ones - having tried them for exactly the same reason as you mentioned! Use a strap version for cycling but don't bother for the gym (strap is compatible with most of the machines in there). Always found that sweat messed with the contact for the reading on the wrist based ones. I guess this would be better on the more expensive makes.
mattikake said:
AFAIK wrist heart rate monitors are crap. They are a watch that sits on your wrist but to measure your heart rate you have to press your index finger on a sensor on the watch itself. I've never seen one that measures your heart rate accurately or at all, through your Radial artery.
Have things finally changed?
Don't think they have changed.Have things finally changed?
Just stick to a regular Polar or other major brand. I've tried some of the cheaper models over the years and they've been lousy. In fact I'd probably just stick with a Polar. One colleague (far from representative) had a Garmin HRM that was diabolical. Rarely worked - none of the replacements worked either.
I'm often tempted by the fancier Polar models, would be nice to download to the PC, but at the end of the day unless you're seriously into tracking recovery times a basic model with max/min heart rate alerts is more than sufficient. Helps me massively with target heart rate training, and doing erg intervals and trying to get the rate back down between sets is fun ...
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