I have been using a borrowed polar heart rate monitor for a while. An old one that just displays the HR of the watch face and records the average and max heart rate of each session (day in my case).
It has been pretty useful. It is a much better indicator of how well I am doing than my own senses, which only seem to tell me when I have overdone it.
But the sensor I have been using just died. And I do not think I can really afford to replace it.
The h10 and h7 monitors are at the upper range of what I can spend, but they do not work with the old polar watches and it is the watches that are the most expensive part of the polar system.
I imagine this is a pretty common problem, as we are the people who need these sorts of things the most and have the least money.
So I was wondering if anyone had had any success with the less expensive chinese brands of chest based HR monitors found on ebay, Amazon and elsewhere. Preferably one that works with a watch and has an alarm that can be set to tell me when I am overdoing it.
Or a good cheap watch that will work well with a polar or wahoo or something monitor.
(Preferably one that just has black LCD on a grey background, I am a migrainer and have issues with flashing lights LEDs and so on.)
Or some other solution that I have not thought of.
I was also wondering if anyone could give any suggestions about good apps that log all the heart rate data so that I can get a better idea of patterns.
Thanks
It has been pretty useful. It is a much better indicator of how well I am doing than my own senses, which only seem to tell me when I have overdone it.
But the sensor I have been using just died. And I do not think I can really afford to replace it.
The h10 and h7 monitors are at the upper range of what I can spend, but they do not work with the old polar watches and it is the watches that are the most expensive part of the polar system.
I imagine this is a pretty common problem, as we are the people who need these sorts of things the most and have the least money.
So I was wondering if anyone had had any success with the less expensive chinese brands of chest based HR monitors found on ebay, Amazon and elsewhere. Preferably one that works with a watch and has an alarm that can be set to tell me when I am overdoing it.
Or a good cheap watch that will work well with a polar or wahoo or something monitor.
(Preferably one that just has black LCD on a grey background, I am a migrainer and have issues with flashing lights LEDs and so on.)
Or some other solution that I have not thought of.
I was also wondering if anyone could give any suggestions about good apps that log all the heart rate data so that I can get a better idea of patterns.
Thanks