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Heart Rate Monitors

Heart rate monitors are an excellent tool that can help to motivate and take your training to the next level. Heart rate monitors have been used for many years by runners from top athletes to casual runners and helps the user to train to particular heart rate zones. This enables the user to get the most from their training, allowing them to control the intensity and therefore maximising the efficiency of their training. It is important to understand that there is little benefit if you push yourself too hard or not hard enough and so measuring the level of intensity through heart rate is a superb training aid. Heart rate monitors are also useful for people with heart conditions that wish to exercise and they have be known to discover heart conditions amongst runners through showing irregularities in the heart rate.

Heart rate monitors typically come as a strap that sits around the chest, picking up the heart rate and sending the information to a watch. The watch will then show the current heart rate during exercise along with other functions like time and calories.

Polar specialise in heart rate monitor technology but many GPS watches like the Garmin Forerunner 110 GPS will double up as a heart rate monitor. Generally you pay for the number of functions the watch has so make sure you know what it is that you want to know before purchasing a more expensive watch than you need, with features you won't use.

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