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These days we tend to think that more is better, and whatsoever we buy we use this approach. Whether it be something as little as a cell phone or as huge as a car, we often make purchases that come with a lot of further and added features that we don’t in truth need. This includes choosing and buying a heart rate monitor (HRM). Inevitably we end up not making use of those pricey extras. Why complicate your life and spend extra cash getting a complex and difficult-to-use heart monitor whose features you in all probability won’t need?

For those of you who genuinely do not wish to have any bells and whistles, there are a lot of extremely basic heart monitors around. These monitors are so basic that just with regards to the only thing they do is to measure your heart rate (HR). They are the Ekho E-10, the Nike C3, the Sigma Sport PC 3 and the Polar A1. Let’s look at their lists of features in a little more detail.

Ekho E-10: This monitor may only measure HR and tell the time.

Nike C3 / Sigma Sport PC 3: These two monitors may measure HR, tell the time and record exercise duration.

Polar A1: This monitor may measure HR, record exercise session duration and calculate the intermediate heart rate of a session. It cannot even tell what time it is, making the Polar A1 in all likelihood the only HRM not to do so.

That’s all there is to them in terms of features. All of these monitors do not have:

  • date nor alarm settings,
  • heart rate zone limits,
  • backlight,
  • maximum HR of session,
  • average HR of session (the Polar A1 being the exception), and
  • calorie counter.

Even these missing features are in general considered as reasonably basic. You see, these monitors have almost not one thing extra.

The operations of these units are very simple. Once you have put on the chest strap and the wrist watch, it is a one button operation to commence and stop the HR measurement. It genuinely can’t be easier.

Out of this group, the Nike C3 and the Polar A1 have very favorable client reviews. In queer the Nike C3 is, according to it is users, accurate, easy to use, comfortable and well-designed.

These very basic HRMs are perfective for persons who:

  • have no wish to read perplexed instruction manuals,
  • prefer not to be distracted by unnecessary extras,
  • believe that simplicity is beauty, and
  • simply want to know what the current heart rate is for the duration of exercise and not one thing else.

There is one more vantage to using a very simple HRM. Having less features means having less prospects for things to go wrong!

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