Hi, I'm new here. I do a variety of exercise - hiking, kayaking, xc-skiing, snowshoeing, walking, and working out at the gym. The gym is my regular one because I can do it rain or shine, year-round.
I need a new heart rate monitor. I want a chest-strap one for accuracy and consistency, with a display I can read on my wrist. That's ALL I need.
I don't care if it also has GPS, ANT+, Bluetooth, timings, warning, pacing, laps, alarms, and sends a card to your mother on Mother's Day, but I'm not going to use any of those features. ALL I want is to glance at my wrist while I'm working out to see my heart rate.
I mention this because lots of these devices have so many features and options that they get in the way of being a HR monitor - you have to press a lot of buttons, scroll through menus, configure stuff, tell it your weight, age, religion and hair color and read a long manual in eight languages, just to get it to display your HR. No. I don't want to be bothered with that much complication. My old Polar unit that I'm replacing was like that and it was a pain. Plus all those features consume your battery. I want something that I put on when I start my workout press a button and BAM, it's a hear-rate monitor - I don't want to fiddle with it. What's the simplest one I can get? Price is not a factor, but simplicity is.
Thanks in advance!
I need a new heart rate monitor. I want a chest-strap one for accuracy and consistency, with a display I can read on my wrist. That's ALL I need.
I don't care if it also has GPS, ANT+, Bluetooth, timings, warning, pacing, laps, alarms, and sends a card to your mother on Mother's Day, but I'm not going to use any of those features. ALL I want is to glance at my wrist while I'm working out to see my heart rate.
I mention this because lots of these devices have so many features and options that they get in the way of being a HR monitor - you have to press a lot of buttons, scroll through menus, configure stuff, tell it your weight, age, religion and hair color and read a long manual in eight languages, just to get it to display your HR. No. I don't want to be bothered with that much complication. My old Polar unit that I'm replacing was like that and it was a pain. Plus all those features consume your battery. I want something that I put on when I start my workout press a button and BAM, it's a hear-rate monitor - I don't want to fiddle with it. What's the simplest one I can get? Price is not a factor, but simplicity is.
Thanks in advance!