The Heart Rate Monitor: History & More The heart rate monitor was in the realm of sci-fi not so very long ago. Researchers started checking heart rates around 1912, using water buckets as counterweights in the first laboratory model. The first electronic heart-monitoring tool, the electrocardiograph, was originally the size of a room, and even…
7 Steps to Using a Heart Rate Monitor Heart Zones Training with your mind-body link – the heart rate monitor – may seem confusing at first. You’ll be learning and discovering new ways of looking at the effort you put out, new ways of understanding fitness that you were never taught in your physical…
7 Steps to Using a Heart Rate Monitor Heart Zones Training with your mind-body link – the heart rate monitor – may seem confusing at first. You’ll be learning and discovering new ways of looking at the effort you put out, new ways of understanding fitness that you were never taught in your physical…
7 Steps to Using a Heart Rate Monitor Heart Zones Training with your mind-body link – the heart rate monitor – may seem confusing at first. You’ll be learning and discovering new ways of looking at the effort you put out, new ways of understanding fitness that you were never taught in your physical…
7 Steps to Using a Heart Rate Monitor Heart Zones Training with your mind-body link – the heart rate monitor – may seem confusing at first. You’ll be learning and discovering new ways of looking at the effort you put out, new ways of understanding fitness that you were never taught in your physical…
7 Steps to Using a Heart Rate Monitor Heart Zones Training with your mind-body link – the heart rate monitor – may seem confusing at first. You’ll be learning and discovering new ways of looking at the effort you put out, new ways of understanding fitness that you were never taught in your physical…
7 Steps to Using a Heart Rate Monitor Heart Zones Training with your mind-body link – the heart rate monitor – may seem confusing at first. You’ll be learning and discovering new ways of looking at the effort you put out, new ways of understanding fitness that you were never taught in your physical…
About 35 years ago, I started using heart rate data as a guide and the heart rate monitor as my companion for all my workouts. I used it to train and qualify for the 1984 USA Olympic Marathon Women’s Trials. Along with 200 of the fastest marathoners in America, I ran the qualifying time of…
Where the Blink Heart Rate Monitors Started A little History I bought my first heart rate monitor in 1981. I had co-founded Fleet Feet Sports five years earlier and I was on the hunt for a way to run faster and longer. That first monitor, biofeedback device, didn’t look like anything you see today because…
Find YOUR Wearable Device The answer to this question – Which Fits You? – is that it depends. Heart rate monitors measure and monitor the quality of your activity. Activity trackers measure and monitor the quantity of your activity. The two are quite different. Heart rate monitors are measuring the load or the stress on…