LondonSkaters Speed Team - Speed Skating & Rollerblading Club in London

Markus · Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 73

Can anyone recommend a simple heart rate monitor? no GPS etc required, really just the heart rate functions (min/max/alerts/etc), easy to use is a bonus...
What's the right one to get?
ta muchly

ed! · Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 3:10 pm Subject:

If you skate with our hands behind your back, ensure whatever you choose is of the right technology to still be able to measure readings.

This conversation stated there were limitations to some technologies:

http://www.londonspeedskaters.com/forums/posting.php?mode=quote&p=40498

Of course, times have changed, so there might be some improvements made.

Alan · Joined: 19 Sep 2005 Posts: 642 Location: Hackney, London

Decathlon do some fairly basic and cheap ones (plus more upmarket ones), which I have always found reliable.

Fred_Paris · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2011 11:19 am Subject:

A lot of people in the Club use Garmin or Polar, but there are other brands worth looking at, it's a good idea to choose what works best based on the use outside of skating, if you run, hike, swin you might have different requirement.

The only strong recommandation I would make is data encryption, the signal between belt and watch must be unique otherwise you wont be able to use it when people around you have HR on.

peterc · Joined: 10 Mar 2004 Posts: 1284 Location: M3 somewhere

I have a Garmin fore-runner 50, seems to do the job. Downloadable, you can get a bike "pod" for it.

If you wear gloves, you may need to wear it on your right wrist to stop it pressing the start-stop button by accident.

Barrie · Joined: 21 May 2006 Posts: 1380 Location: Putney

I've used the decathlon ones, but not in a pack.
I've now got the decathlon keymaze 700 gps one which is pretty good for the money, but again, I *think* that the HRM signal is not coded.

How useful is a HRM when in a pack?