Water resistant sport heart rate monitor: wear watch and chest transmitter belt as deep as 98 feet (30 meters) below water surface. Or use while bicycling, running, etc.
Note: Wrist heart rate monitor functions only when transmitter chest band is not submerged in water. Stand up out of water to get heart rate.
Manufacturer's Limited Warranty: 1 year.
Monitor heart rate for safer exercise. If your workout is too strenuous, your activity can become counter productive and strain muscles. For an effective workout, no matter what the aerobic activity, you must maintain your heart rate at a proper level for a minimum of 20 minutes. The proper level is generally 65% to 85% of your maximum heart rate.
Omron's Weight Management products help you monitor progress in achieving a healthier, more active lifestyle. Whether your goal is to maintain or improve overall health, lose weight or get more energy in your daily life, physical activity is essential to staying healthy.
Why should you know and monitor your heart rate?
Exercising in your "zone" provides optimum fat burn and weight loss.
High and low alert keeps you in your "zone" during workout.
Helps you avoid muscle strain from working out too hard.
A heart rate monitor is a device that allows a user to monitor their heart rate while exercising. It usually consists of two elements: a chest strap transmitter and a wrist receiver (which usually doubles as a watch). Strapless heart rate monitors are available as well, but lack some of the functionality of the original design. Advanced models additionally measure heart rate variability to assess a user's fitness.
The heart rate monitor was invented by the Australian physicist, Robert Treffene. He appeared on the television show The New Inventors with his device, which was made with swimmers in mind.
The first EKG accurate wireless heart rate monitor was invented by Polar Electro Oy in 1977 as a training tool for the Finnish National Cross Country Ski Team. The concept of "intensity training" by heart rate swept the athletic world in the eighties. By the 1990's individuals were looking to heart rate monitors not only for performance training needs, but also for achieving everyday fitness goals. Today, the same concept of heart rate training is being used by world-class athletes as well as everyday people.
The chest strap has electrodes in contact with the skin to monitor the electrical voltages in the heart (see electrocardiography for more details). When a heart beat is detected a radio signal is sent out which the receiver uses to determine the current heart rate. More expensive monitors send a unique coded signal from the chest strap, and this prevents a user's wrist receiver from receiving signals from other nearby transmitters. This is known as cross-talk.
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