A heart rate monitor is an excellent fitness tool, allowing you
to work out within your chosen heart rate zone. Extras beyond the
heart rate reading include stopwatch, exercise timer, clock,
settable heart zones with alarm, and backlight. Check whether you
can change the battery yourself or must send it to the factory.
Decide what you want and shop for the best value.
Polar A5 Heart Rate Monitor
The Polar A5 includes calorie calculation, walk fitness test,
automatic and manual setting for heart zones, zone alarm when you
get out-of-zone, and records your total time in zone. It displays
heart rate both in number and percent of maximum. It has watch,
alarm, and backlight. The only drawback is that you can't change the
chest transmitter battery yourself.
Reebok Heart Rate Monitors
Watch and heart rate with triple row display showing your average
heart rate, highest and lowest heart rate and exercise time. The
target zone memory records time in, above and below target zone with
your average heart rate.
CardioSport Heart Rate Monitors
Target zone limits with upper and lower alarms. Features include a
calendar, time display, and daily alarm. Large LCD display with
super glow light is easy to read. User changeable battery and 3-year
warranty.
