Recommend me an HRM
Sep.07, 2006, filed under Miscellany
I want a new HRM that I can wear occasionally in the pool, just for progress monitoring.
I don’t want one of these fancy things that can talk to the Space Shuttle and make tea in the morning. I don’t need one that can hold a philosophical discussion with my CatEye OS1.0 on the objective viewpoint as espoused by Kant, although I’m sure Fingal would be delighted if I bought one that could. What I want is the following:
- Average HR
- Max and Min HR
- Time above/below/in training zone
- Calorie expenditure
- Stopwatch that can be stopped and restarted without losing data
- Water resistant strap and watch
- Preferably coded transmitter
- Alarm clock
- 24 hour clock clock
- Backlight
- Recovery countdown
- Lap timer
- A memory that can retain all training data after I hit stop.
I’m currently using a Tchibo one which does all of the above except for the stopping/restarting and it also has the absolutely infuriating habit of not retaining the stopwatch time after you press “stop”. It was, however, about 12 quid so I won’t hear a bad word against it.
I have a budget of £80 – £120 maximum, so don’t suggest the Polar S670si turbo KITT 2000 or anything like that. I can’t afford to spend a couple of hundred mackerel on an HRM, and I don’t care if it has a foot pod with a flashy red light on it. Maybe one day when I’m rich but not now.
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