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The answer is in Pulse Management or Heart rate monitoring.

What is pulse management?

Your heart beating causes a pulse. As your heart beats it pumps blood through your arteries. Feel the pulse throbbing by putting your fingers over one of your arteries, such as your wrist, neck, or upper arm.

Pulse measurement is performed to determine the rhythm of your heart rate. Counting your pulse rate is a way to estimate how fast your heart is beating.

Medics and health professionals often conduct pulse rate measurements as part of a physical examination or indeed in an emergency. Not too long ago heart rate monitors were found only in medical establishments and we began to see vending units in pharmacies. Unless we had just jogged into some premises that hosted a heart beat monitor vending system, we wouldn't get the figures we were looking for.

The development of portable lightweight heart rate monitors provided an excellent solution for training endurance athletes, many coaches invested in these new high tech units. Today there are many smaller types of heart rate monitors on the market. Heart rate monitors now come in the guise of wrist watches and pagers, they are manufactured by many famous electronics giants such as Timex, Casio and Oregon Scientific with sports brands including, Cardiosport, Nike, Speedo, Garmin and Polar.

Whether the heart rate monitor is for you or is a gift, the choice needs to be based on two issues;
(1) Your budget
(2) The purpose of the heart rate monitor ( Apart from measuring your pulse. )

The general range of pulse management instruments goes from basic to feature rich, there are entry-level heart rate monitors that will just monitor your pulse, no time keeping nor date function.

It is likely that you may experience 'buyers remorse' when purchasing a basic entry-level heart rate monitor because upon learning and understanding your pulse, you may certainly wish to learn of calories burned and indeed the time you have been exercising, these functions are in the mid range.

A Buyers Guide To Heart Rate Monitors and Pulse Management Systems.

So what sort of heart rate monitors can you expect for less that £25.00?

HR102 Oregon Scientific Heart Rate Monitor Heart Rate Monitor Manually programmable hi/lo heart rate training zone. Heart rate alert when you are out of your "training zone". Wireless chest belt (included). Clock with alarm and calendar. Stopwatch with count up timer. HiGlo EL backlight. Water resistant to 30 metres.

The jargon here is 'Heart Rate Training Zone'. What does it mean?. Heart rate training zones, allow you to monitor the correct exercise intensity. There are generally five zones;
50 - 60% of Maximum Heart Rate - Maintain Healthy Heart/Get Fit
60 - 70% of Maximum Heart Rate - Lose Weight and Burn Fat
70 - 80% of Maximum Heart Rate - Increase Stamina and Aerobic Endurance
80 - 90% of Maximum Heart Rate - Improve Oxygen Uptake and Raise Lactic Threshold
90 - 100% of Maximum Heart Rate - The Red Zone

What can you expect for almost ten times the above;

S810i Polar Heart Rate Monitor The new S810i is like having a sports research facility at your disposal. Infrared technology links this powerful Heart Rate Monitor to your PC (optional Infra Red interface required). R-R Variability, a Polar exclusive feature allows you to test your stress levels and detect over training. This is the perfect unit for a research facility or advanced coaching programs. That isn't to say that if you were training for the London Marathon you shouldn't invest in one.

Polar S810i Features
OwnIndexS™ - Measures your VO2 max.
OwnCal™ - Tracks nutrition expenditure.
OwnCode™ - Personal transmission feature.
Exercise Set™ - program the parameters of five key workouts (TZs, Timers, Recovery).
Downloads data to your PC in seconds with the optional.
IR interface.
View heart rate as a % of Max hr.
3 Target Zones and Timers.
Average and Recovery Heart Rate.
Interval Trainer.
Lap Splits with avg. Hr.
Low battery indicator on watch receiver.
New, easy to use programming logic.
Full function stopwatch and everyday watch.
Stores 99 Files.
File Storage Capacity: 60 sec. - Approx 200 hrs.; 15 sec. - Approx 120 hrs.; 5 sec. - Approx 44 hrs. (Storage capacity dependent on features in use).
Polar WearLink 31 coded transmitter.

As illustrated there is a vast difference in a heart monitor for over £20 compared with one for over £200.

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