Heart Monitor Wrist watch.

Hi all, I am in the process of buying a heart rate monitor for training and
weight loss regime.

There are a plethora of them on EBay all touting different functions and
advantages.
I am mainly after

1) Something that will keep my riding , running, etc within my fatburning
range.

2) A calorie counter might be useful.

3) A watch that does not need me to place my finger on the watch face, i.e.
a continuous monitoring of heart rate.

Time, date, alarm, would be fine.

I have a Cateye Mity 2 that does me for most bike related things.

Lastly on EBay, there seem to be the very fitness training type watches such
as Dunlop etc but maybe it would be better to go for a Casio type watch that
has all the functions above but is marketed at the more action man types out
there.

Regards Alan

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Hi all, I am in the process of buying a heart rate monitor for training and
weight loss regime.

There are a plethora of them on EBay all touting different functions and
advantages.
I am mainly after

1) Something that will keep my riding , running, etc within my fatburning
range.

2) A calorie counter might be useful.

3) A watch that does not need me to place my finger on the watch face, i.e.
a continuous monitoring of heart rate.

Time, date, alarm, would be fine.

I have a Cateye Mity 2 that does me for most bike related things.

Lastly on EBay, there seem to be the very fitness training type watches such
as Dunlop etc but maybe it would be better to go for a Casio type watch that
has all the functions above but is marketed at the more action man types out
there.


I have a Sigma PC1600 which does everything you describe above, I got it
for 39.00 Euros in Holland.
Comes with a thingy to enable you to strap it to handlebars.

You can see one on he
http://www.ukfitnesssupplies.co.uk/m...FitnessSupplie
sLtd/PC1600/55396,
but for gods sake, don't pay 69 quid for it.

--
Mike

Alan wrote:
Hi all, I am in the process of buying a heart rate monitor for training and
weight loss regime.

There are a plethora of them on EBay all touting different functions and
advantages.
I am mainly after

1) Something that will keep my riding , running, etc within my fatburning
range.

2) A calorie counter might be useful.

3) A watch that does not need me to place my finger on the watch face, i.e.
a continuous monitoring of heart rate.

Well, the 'industry-standard' HRMs are Polar and while their
super-dooper models are very expensive, the low-end models do include
this sort of functionality (some models have beeps based on programmable
zones and will report calories burned, they all use a wireless
connection with a chest strap).

http://www.polar.fi/polar/channels/e...c/Fitness.html
summarises the ones they market for fitness. The F4 sounds like it will
do what you need - you should be able to pick it up for around 40 pounds.

Hi all, Thanks for your helpful replies.

Regards Alan


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Alan wrote:
Hi all, I am in the process of buying a heart rate monitor for training
and
weight loss regime.

There are a plethora of them on EBay all touting different functions and
advantages.
I am mainly after

1) Something that will keep my riding , running, etc within my
fatburning
range.

2) A calorie counter might be useful.

3) A watch that does not need me to place my finger on the watch face,
i.e.
a continuous monitoring of heart rate.

Well, the 'industry-standard' HRMs are Polar and while their
super-dooper models are very expensive, the low-end models do include
this sort of functionality (some models have beeps based on programmable
zones and will report calories burned, they all use a wireless
connection with a chest strap).


http://www.polar.fi/polar/channels/e...c/Fitness.html
summarises the ones they market for fitness. The F4 sounds like it will
do what you need - you should be able to pick it up for around 40 pounds.