can someone recommend a cheap, reliable and simple heart rate monitor?

[sakuraba97]

thanks.

[Urban]

Polar makes a good one

[sakuraba97]

they're all in the hundreds though... is that as cheap as they come?

[tripnastic]

I use the Nike Triax. The older models are a bit cheaper, between 80-90 or so.

[Urban]

The polar B1 is 45 dollars (though I remember paying 60 dollars for mine). I wouldn't hurt for you to do a little looking around before assuming they're all 100+ dollars.

[Urban]

http://www.amazon.com/Polar-B1-Monit.../dp/B000KN51CE 37 dollars on amazon. Thought upon taking a closer look at mine I see its an A3. not a bad model, tells you average heart rate, has a user defined zone and an alarm that sounds if you go outside of that zone. Looks like everything fitness sells it for 80 bucks.

[LCDforMe]

Sweet^

I need to look into getting one of them.

[PATHANY]

I have a polar and love it...It's nice taking my dog out for a jog and being able to see if Im in my target zone...

[mjfan12]

Originally Posted by sakuraba97

they're all in the hundreds though... is that as cheap as they come?

just like anything else, there are loads of items in many price ranges. I got a cheap polar from a local sporting store for $50.

I do want a super $$ badass one eventually, mainly because I love datalogging whether its for my car, or tracking my workouts and uploading them into graphs.

[PATHANY]

Originally Posted by mjfan12

just like anything else, there are loads of items in many price ranges. I got a cheap polar from a local sporting store for $50.

I do want a super $$ badass one eventually, mainly because I love datalogging whether its for my car, or tracking my workouts and uploading them into graphs.

I'm with you on that one...I'm a datalogging freak...whether it is my workouts, my car, or the network at work I keep logs on everything (I even watch my webalizer stats for my website daily).