Ideal Heart Rate for Exercise. Excuse my ignorance.. I just ordered this heart rate monitor and want to start exercising more seriously than what I´ve done before. I have absolutely NO IDEA how to know what heart rate I should aim at. How do I know? Ideal Heart Rate for Exercise. Excuse my ignorance.. I just ordered this heart rate monitor and want to start exercising more seriously than what I´ve done before. I have absolutely NO IDEA... » Read More Ideal Heart Rate for Exercise. Excuse my ignorance.. I just ordered this heart rate monitor and want to start exercising more seriously than what I´ve done before. I have absolutely NO IDEA how to know what heart rate I should aim at. How do I know? « Show Less
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In the paperwork for this Omron heart rate monitor I received today, there is a guideline for determining your range for an aerobic zone, anaerobic threshold zone, etc. Before using this product, I thought I was doing pretty good but when I made sure to get to the upper limit of my aerobic zone, I was sweating my tail off. I feel like it's let me know how much I should push myself without pushing myself too far.
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There is no truly accurate formula that doesn't rely on monitoring your heart rate.Most monitors include a method for determining your target heart rate and max heart rate.Your age, fitness level, and resting heart rate are usually factors in most calculations.You can google up a variety of them. However, if you know where your heart rate is when you work out, you will soon get an idea for how hard you're really pushing yourself. Everyone has a different peak, valley, and sweet spot. Just use Google and find a calculator for Target Heart Rate.
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The heart monitor is worn on the chest. On the strap you'll see two vinyl areas on either side of the physical monitor unit. You normally need to moisten those before you start a workout to ensure an electrical connection to your skin. Once your start you workout they rely on natural moisture - i.e., sweat - to keep the connection active. To start monitoring, you press and hold the button on the Vivofit until it cycles to "HEART". First it will go to "SYNC", then "SLEEP", and then "HEART", at which point you release the button. The Vivofit will then begin displaying your heart rate assuming the electrode connection is good (remember to moisten them first). To stop heart rate monitoring when the workout is done press and hold the button until you see it read "OFF". You can then upload your activity to Garmin Connect.
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It is not a heart rate monitor per se. So, if you want to know if you are at 140 or 150 beats per minute, this is not for you. This product takes different measurements of your skin temperature and other data from an arm band and makes calculations to figure out how many calories you are burning. One of those factors might be your heart rate, but I'm not sure. By the way I had the blue tooth version of this and the one that connects to a monitor you wear like a watch. That version of this product is much better. It's more reliable and you can tell how many calories you are burning per minute. It is not a heart rate monitor per se. So, if you want to know if you are at 140 or 150 beats per minute, this is not for you. This product takes different measurements of your skin temperature and other data from an arm band and makes calculations to figure out how many calories you are burning. One of those factors might be your heart rate, but I'm not sure. By the way I had the blue tooth version of this and the one that connects to a monitor you wear like a watch. That version of this product is much better. It's more reliable and you can tell how many calories you are burning per minute.
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You have the option to choose which one (average or current) to see on your watch: for example, my running metrics are distance, average pace and current heart rate. The metrics can be decided before the run and you can easily switch between different ones during the run. Hope this help.
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No, and you don't need a "calorie counter". The numbers that heart rate monitors and exercise machines report as "calories burned" are basically just made up "estimates". Every body's metabolism is different, and even for the same person your metabolism does not work the same all the time. "Calories burned" is estimated so loosely that it is for all intents and purposes total guess work. Instead pay attention to how much time you are spending in your target heart zone. Your max heart rate is 208 - (0.7 x your age). Ultimately your target zone should be 70% to 80% of your max heart rate but you will of course have to start somewhere less than that and work your way up. You need to pay attention to how much time you spend in the target zone - 20 to 30 mins per day gives you the maximum cardiopulmonary benefit, above and beyond that is for endurance training or competitive purposes. This doesn't count stretching and warm up at the beginning or cool down and stretching at the end. All told, for cardio-pulmonary health, about an hour a day will give you most of the benefits possible. You can of course exceed that, but you won't get that much more in the way of cardio-pulmonary health. Regardless of how much time you spend working out, the "calories burned" estimates really don't mean a thing. Just train to your target zone, stay in there at least 20 to 30 mins, don't forget stretching and warmu-up/cool down, and everything will fall into place. Pay more attention to inches lost than weight loss - as you put on muscle mass, it takes up less space than the fat so inches will melt off faster than the weight. You are replacing flabby fat with firm muscle and the muscle does weigh more. Anyway you don't need to worry about "calories burned" - pay attention to your training zones because that's where the benefits are. None of these devices can give you an accurate estimate of how many "calories" you are "burning".
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It DOES show calories burned. The two people below are wrong. After you completed the workout you get a summary of how long the work was, how long you were in the "zone" (set up by you), avg hr, max hr, calories burned. I had this watch for about 4 years now.
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There are two versions of Tomtom multi sport watch. The original came with the optional HR strap. The newest version released in spring 2014 has an optical HRM. There are still some of the older models around but they will NOT have the word "cardio" at the end. Plus they are slightly more expensive. Definitely go for the cardio one but just be sure and tighten up the wrist strap one notch tighter than feel comfortable to start with!
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Yes, you have to go where the mode button is. After pushing the mode button, just keep pushing until you get to the amount of minutes you have worked out. Basically, the seconds are included with your heart rate. I hope this helps out!
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Select Settings &gt; User Information Weight: Enter your weight. Height: Enter your height. Date of birth: Enter your date of birth Sex: Select MALE or FEMALE. Maximum heart rate is the highest number of heartbeats per minute (bpm) during maximum physical exertion. Change the default value only if you know your laboratory-measured value. Not sure what you mean by setting it for 5 zones...i hope someone else can help!
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The wahoo app is pretty amazing. It allows you to customize workouts and which sensors to use. For indoor treadmill use, I have the heartrate monitor, but turn off GPS. For something outside, I like to track where I run so will turn on heartrate and gps. You can set up each workout under a different profile, and customize which displays you'd like to see. I like the one that shows my optimal fat burn heart rate. Oh, I almost forgot you can also set each profile to alert you. I have mine to alert me when my heart rate enters optimal fat burning zone, and also when it leaves it.
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The watch will tell you how many calories you burned..as far as how much you EAT (take in) ..NO. I give this watch a B , it's good to keep your heart rate on check and tells you how long you've been working out and how many calories burned. So, YES it will tell you how many calories burned...you just got to read the manual as it can be confusing ..and make sure you wet the band ..hope that answers your question.
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The heart rate monitor is attached to a strap that fits around your chest, right under your bra, and syncs with the Vivofit. I just wear it when I exercise. Although it bugged me a little when I first started wearing it, I usually forget I have it on now.
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I have never used that option. You can bypass the range mode and use the tracking mode which keeps suggesting the heart rate goal monitoring. When you get your heart rate (for example) to a suggested rate of 118 it will up the goal to 126. Then when you reach 126, it will up the goal to 132. I stopped mine at that point before my heart started pounding out of my chest and switched it to a steady constant heart rate readout. It works very well as a no frails heart monitor.
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Hello Beth,For the model I have (Model: 8RS00) there is an additional heart rate strap which needs to be purchased/worn to monitor heart rate. I think there is another model which has it built into the watch, but I'm not sure which one. I've really enjoyed this watch and for my purposes, running, swimming and biking, it's awesome. Good upload onto my iPhone App and good reports for distances, speed, etc. Hope that helps!
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It doesn't show minimum. It shows your time active, average, and peak.You press and hold the middle grey button till it says HOLD FOR INFO. Release the button when you see "activity". (how long you had the heart rate monitor running) Press again for avg bpm, and again for peak bpm.
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My resting HR is 35 at its lowest. Watch hones in. But even so, there's no way your pulse will be at 43 after a little warm up so if you have issues just synch your pulse after a couple of minutes of warmup.
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Sorry, silly question. It's not a heart rate monitor.Just an activity tracker.http://forum.polar.fi/showthread.php?s=5080dad3b7bc0e2387ee6e1e9bc60fd6&t;=1634