Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Heart Rate Monitors While You Walk

By Henry Calhoun

Walking is such a great way to exercise. If you are walker, perhaps you own one of those pedometers. If yes, you might want to pair it up with a heart rate monitor, which is a good accompaniment in improving your fitness. There are a number of reasons on why you should get one to get the fullest benefits of your health endeavors.

To start off with you should first know what heart rate monitors are. They are devices that aid in fitness which have transmitters that are strapped around a person's chest. This is basically the same as how an ECG works. The bands to strap these devices on with are elastic and adjustable so that the best contact is made. However, nowadays there are also strapless heart rate monitors available.

The heart rate monitor is worn on your wrist just as you would wear a watch. If you are a biker it can be placed on the handlebar. Many think taking the pulse manually is enough but the heart rate monitor is more accurate.

Heart rate monitors can be used for just about every indoor and outdoor activity, such as biking, rowing, skiing, walking or skating. Regardless of the activity, these devices are helpful and are a great tool to use in order to ensure the right amount of activity is being done.

Heart rate monitors are also very useful when training in managing the right amount of exertion. This is especially beneficial when speed training. You should not be overexerting yourself .You would need a break every other day but on the other hand too little won't enhance your fitness. Exerting too much effort for a span of time could actually have you using the wrong muscles.

The way heart rate monitors are useful is that they help in making your physical fitness as beneficial as possible. I can tell you if you are training too little or too much or too fast or slow.

The heart monitor is like having your very own personal training instructor coaching you along with the advantage of having it whenever you want. It instructs you to slow down when going too fast or when necessary to speed up.

Other features of heart rate monitors are built-in watches, stopwatches, and lap timers, target zone monitoring, alarms, memory, recovery rate tracking, calories burned counter, and more. You might think that heart rate monitors are merely for the purpose of, well, monitoring your heart rate, but they also have functionalities that are useful during trainings and workouts.

To sum it up, heart rate monitors are gadgets that promote good health and can be taken with you wherever you go. For those that prefer walking as an exercise, these devices are invaluable and will only improve the effects of walking, as well as the overall experience.

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