Polar or similar heart rate monitor

[Anonymous]

Does anyone use a Polar or similar heart rate monitor that is attached to a belt you wear around your chest?

I've owned my second one.

I researched how various exercises for cardio don't really matter as long as I'm moving from a healthy low resting heart rate to a higher intensity heart rate, and then safely back down to the lower heart rate.

[Anonymous]

What kind of fitness watch do you have?

I had a Polar 9 and it was always struggling to connect to my watch. it would say it was connected, but then I'm running at 80 BPM? I'd have to stop my run to disconnect it or ditch it in a bush to grab on my way home. Since I have a Forerunner, I got a Garmin HRM. They just announced an upgrade to the Dual so you may be able to get something at a discount soon. Garmin products are solid. I got this HRM recently because I hate the strap that attaches around my whole chest, it's either restrictive or falls down.
https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/1132094

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What kind of fitness watch do you have?

I had a Polar 9 and it was always struggling to connect to my watch. it would say it was connected, but then I'm running at 80 BPM? I'd have to stop my run to disconnect it or ditch it in a bush to grab on my way home. Since I have a Forerunner, I got a Garmin HRM. They just announced an upgrade to the Dual so you may be able to get something at a discount soon. Garmin products are solid. I got this HRM recently because I hate the strap that attaches around my whole chest, it's either restrictive or falls down.
https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/1132094

BTW I got the monitor from Amazon for a little cheaper because $150 for a HRM is a lot.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn’t get one at all. Go by how you feel when you are working out. The “optimal” heart rate when you working out can be a different number at different times, it isn’t really about the number. It’s about the exercise intensity you can withstand.

[Anonymous]

I liked it because I could I wasn't exerting myself enough. I wasn't moving my heart rate to the green zone.

I have the Polar H10. I connect it to the Polar Flow app on my phone.

I don't think the ones that attach to your wrist or anywhere other than around your chest record as well. My phone with Google Fit records time, miles per minute, calories burned. It is not even attached to my body near my pulse so I don't think it's very accurate except for time and distance.

[Anonymous]

I have a polar armband HR monitor and I think it works well enough.