Now, aside from telling you the time, they can also show your heart rate, calories burned, targeted heart rates, and speed and distance in easy to use one-touch buttons.  Aside from this, their features have also dramatically changed. No more boring, black straps. No more box-typed designs. Now, they come in a lot of trendy colors designed to fit the aesthetic needs of the consumer. No wonder these gadgets have never lost their appeal even until now.
There are several types of heart rate monitors that you can choose from. The most common ones available in the market right now are the heart rate monitor watches and the strapless heart rate monitors.

Heart rate monitor

These are lightweight watches that can be used by anyone who wishes to lose weight, increase cardio training levels and reach fitness goals. You can choose from designs based on your needs and you can wear them as watches, since they have clocks built into them. If you wish to monitor your heart rate, you wear the chest strap, which is a sensitive piece of equipment that actually registers the heartbeats and transmits the rate to the receiver in the watch.

Strapless Heart Rate Monitor

These are heart rates monitors that work without the need to use a chest strap. With these, you can obtain accurate ECG heart rate reading that measures the electrical stimulation of the heart. They only require you to place two fingers on the sensors between four and twelve seconds to get an accurate reading.

Many people often ask if it’s better to use the latter than the former one. Although many experts suggest that heart rate monitors are better to use, the strapless ones are more popular because most serious sports buffs want to continuously monitor their heart rate while they are doing their activity. However, this cannot be possible when they are wearing monitors with straps, as they interfere with what they’re doing. Also some sports are not suited to it, especially swimming, where the movement of the water can interfere or even interrupt the heart rate monitor.

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