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Roger Brown
If you are just getting started and looking into buying a heart rate monitor watch, you need to checkout the Mio! It is much cheaper than many of the other options out there. You don't get the features and all the bells and whistles that you get with many of the other watches in this area. However, do you really end up using them anyway? It has been said that we only actually use about 10% of what a watch or any piece of electronic equipment will do. So, why does it really matter if the darned thing has a tide chart? Here's a more in-depth investigation into what you get with the Mio heart rate monitor watch… * Of course you will get your pulse rate - all you have to do is hold your fingers over the two little sensors on the diagonal corners of the watch and it will give you an instantaneous readout - you don't have to stop your workout in order to get your pulse and you don't have to have a chest strap which can be a bit of a hassle * You can also get your caloric burn during a workout - you just have to start the session and stop the session on your watch * A great feature is that you can make this all personal to your data - you can put in whether you're male or female and your age * Percentage of whatever your max pulse rate happens to beLighting for night use (if you happen to be a runner) * Other features on the Mio heart rate monitor watch that are just like any other digital watch - water resistant, stopwatch, count up and countdown timer, as well as a calendar If you are serious about your working out, the type of data that you can get with a heart rate monitor watch will be hard to do without once you have gotten used to using it. If you're in the gym or running on a daily or even a weekly basis, it can be a real motivator to know what your heart rate is while you are working out. It gives you the target that you can shoot for and improve upon. It would be easily make the argument that working out is really a waste of time if you don't know your heart rate and you don't keep your heart rate and the proper zone to achieve the goals that you have set out to complete. What I mean by that is if you're not operating in an ideal cardio or fat burning heart rate zone, then you are basically wasting your time. Since those zones are defined by a percentage of maximum heart rate, how would you know you are working out within that zone and wish you had some sort of electronic or analog feedback from a device like this? In summary, the Mio heart rate monitor watch is an ideal first product in this genre for you to buy. That is because it has most all the functionality, (that you will actually use), of a lot more expensive watch but it is priced at under $50.
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