Some Features Of Your Next Exercise Monitor

Lots of people who really want to their training routine now use a heartrate monitor

. By the way, digital technology has been advancing very quickly in the last few years. These advancements have allowed many of the heart monitors on the market to provide more than just display your heart rate.

In actuality, heart rate monitors provide quite a few functions that they could be considered training computers. Many people using one do not know what functions are available on some advanced models.

Here is a guide to what functions are available:

A clock feature is now standard on all except the most basic models. Some manufacturers have some very stylish heart rate monitors that can be used for a smart wristwatch.

Various audible alarms are also quite common, along with a watch function. The alarm can be set, to wake you up in the morning, but they can also be part of an exercise program built into the heart monitor. These are to notify you when you enter or leave your exercising heart rate.

A lot of heartrate monitors now come standard with a stopwatch feature.

An onboard storage capability too is now standard, providing you the ability to store the data of your workout routine. This enables you to compare the data of different workout sessions and save and store the data to your PC at home.

A lot of heartrate monitors, even some that would be considered quite basic, provide a letting you see, letting you know the amount of calories you have expended both during and after your training session, and allowing you to set training targets.

A very attractive capability mostly on advanced models, especially for runners, is the capability to measure your speed. Many heartrate monitors do this by communicating with GPS navigation satellite systems. By the way, today technology now exists to attach a device to measure your pace to your running shoes, and this transmits how fast you are going and how far you have traveled to your training monitor.

Many of the advanced models provide a fitness test feature. Based on information such as how old you are and how much you weigh, as well as your heartrate -- that provide a measurement of just how fit you are. This sets a standard that you can use to measure your progress as you do your exercises.

Lastly, there are more advanced models that have even more functions. There are models made specifically for cyclists that provide speed and distance information including their pedal stroke. Some exercise monitors will even tell you weather information such as the temperature, your altitude level and even a measure of the barometric pressure. After I chose my Polar FT60 Heart Rate Monitor , I began to notice an immediate advancement in the overall quality of my workout sessions.

By watching my heart BPM I am able to get enough rest between exercises to get the maximum benefit from my training routine. Also, like many individuals I skipped doing many aerobic exercises because they were boring to me. After I began to use my heartrate monitor, I was able to focus on things like number of calories burned each workout session, as well as my heart BPM during my interval training. So regardless of the make or model you choose to buy, if you are serious about getting fit and want to get the most out of your fitness program, then seriously look into purchasing an exercise monitor.

by: John Miller

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