Heart rate monitors – great for monitoring your progress

Heart rate monitors have become really popular among amateur and professional athletes and people just ran a keep fit. They range in price from less than $50 all the way up to several hundred dollars. Heart rate monitors do more than the name suggests, often measuring data like distance, time, heart rate, altitude and often a lot more. Some even have GPS systems built-in that can help you navigate or follow a predefined course.

We have tried to review the more popular heart rate monitors on the market.

In the table above you can see the heart rate monitors ordered by the ratings that we have given them. Visitors to the site are also allowed to leave their own comments and star rating for any product that we review, and these ratings will be taken into account in the overall rating for a product, so feel free to get involved and let us know what you think about the products that we’ve reviewed.

Below is a list of all the heart rate monitors that we have reviewed.

Garmin Forerunner 305 GPS Receiver with Heart Rate Monitor

Just when you thought you had everything you needed, including a top-of-the-line GPS for your car, the Garmin Forerunner 305 GPS Receiver with Heart Rate Monitor appeared for your workout. This very cool personal training tool has features I didn’t even know existed. And now I’m wondering how quickly I can get my hands on [...]

Polar FT60 Men’s Heart Rate Monitor Watch

If you work our regularly, you probably check your heart rate on occasion. Or maybe you don’t. If you don’t, it’s probably because it can be inconvenient to check WHILE exercising so you have to stop, find a clock or look at your watch, count your pulse and multiply it by whatever to find out [...]