Anybody recommend a good wrist style heart rate monitor. Tired of getting stuck with treadmills with inop pulse monitors.
Recommend a wrist heart rate monitor.
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gathermewool
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Any Fitbit will work great.
Never had issues with a Fitbit HR with the Heart Rate monitoring itself.
The screen cracking... that's the reason I stopped by new Fitbits
The screen cracking... that's the reason I stopped by new Fitbits
gathermewool
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My Fitbit Ionic's screen cracked, but it was my fault. I weed-whacked with it and a stone chipped it. I got another year out of it before its death, possibly due to moisture intrusion; can't be sure it wasn't something else, though.
Anything Garmin is fantastic. Fitbit has fallen to the wayside these days.
JHZR2
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Apple Watch?
I have a fitbit wrist watch I rarely wear it because I hate the feel of a strap on my wrist. I'm back on a cardiac rehab program 3 days a week. I'm wearing 3 stick-on monitors with nurses all around me. I doan need no stinkin' fitbit 
Hermann
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A $59 Fitbit HR has served me well. Keep track of my sleep and my heartrate while exercising.
Polar H10 chest strap.
Yes, I can read the part where OP said "wrist". This is better (more accurate). ANT+ talks to a lot of exercise equipment, so the treadmill should pick up and display the HR from the strap. If it doesn't, get a Polar watch to go with the strap.
Yes, I can read the part where OP said "wrist". This is better (more accurate). ANT+ talks to a lot of exercise equipment, so the treadmill should pick up and display the HR from the strap. If it doesn't, get a Polar watch to go with the strap.
gathermewool
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18 hrs of battery life? No thanks. My wife likes her Series 5, but I like the week-long battery life of my Fitbit.
I have a chest strap, it talks to some treadmills but not others, and it feels weird. Any I can never get my starting pulse rate as it jumps all over until the pickups get moist (from sweating). A wrist monitor is preferred as I can see it and not have to ever worry if the display is burn out or broken.
I had a couple of Fitbits but found they did not measure high heart rate well. YMMV. I was just looking into this again, as my Polar died a while ago, but found a simple Timex with a chest strap in the junk drawer. Seems most solutions today are expensive and have short battery life, while collecting that data into an app so to make a graph is cool, its not like I am going to look at more than once.
Yeah, that's the downer on the watch. Think I am getting one for Christmas, series 7. Fun factor will be the ECG, O2 and HR... plus all the other stuff now that I am in the Apple world. But yeah, if not interested in that stuff I think its a killer the low battery life and question if I will get tired of it.
With that said, having just joined Orangetheory they use their own proprietary HR monitor, only used it two or three sessions now and its been 100% reliable. I can only assume durable being its used in a gym setting.
They have been lending me one, now that I am sure I am staying will be purchasing it this morning at my class for $120 maybe $110 which isnt cheap for just a HR monitor I suppose. Hopefully its the durability for the cost.
I can use it outside of the gym with their app and maybe with the Apple watch since the data from the gym session goes to the Orangetheory app on my phone and also populates the Apple Health app to some degree. If I can get it to do that, my health ins company will pay me $10 a month for attaining a certain number of steps a month if I agree for it to link with Apple Watch.
We are still in the "dark" ages with technology compared to where it will be in another decade and more... getting all this stuff to talk to each other.
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Hermann
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Forgot to mention I am getting about a week of battery life between chargings
