The Best Last-Minute Deals on Heart Rate Monitors for October Prime Day
The heart rate sensors on smartwatches are usually good enough for casual training (and some of them are really good), but to get the best possible accuracy, you want a separate heart rate monitor—ideally a chest strap. Fortunately, fitness trackers and smartwatches aren’t the only wearables on sale right now. Heart rate monitors from Polar, Coospo, and more are available at discounts, and here are the best deals I’ve found.
- ▪The heart rate sensors on smartwatches are usually good enough for casual training (and some of them are really good), but to get the best possible accuracy, you want a separate heart rate monitor—ideally a chest strap.
- ▪Fortunately, fitness trackers and smartwatches aren’t the only wearables on sale right now.
- ▪Heart rate monitors from Polar, Coospo, and more are available at discounts, and here are the best deals I’ve found.
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The heart rate sensors on smartwatches are usually good enough for casual training (and some of them are really good), but to get the best possible accuracy, you want a separate heart rate monitor—ideally a chest strap. Fortunately, fitness trackers and smartwatches aren’t the only wearables on sale right now. Heart rate monitors from Polar, Coospo, and more are available at discounts, and here are the best deals I’ve found. The Polar H10 chest strap is $20 offAll electrical chest straps are good, but the consensus in the fitness world is that if you want the best, you get the Polar H10. It’s the chest strap that Apple used in its own heart-rate accuracy testing; it’s also the one I recall being put on me when I did a VO2max test in a lab.
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