Heart rate monitors

Heart rate monitors are no longer solely for the elite sportsman. Our extensive range of heart rate monitors ranges from those geared towards professional athletes to those tailored for those simply wishing to get trim.

Whether you just want to lose weight, improve your health or you are an elite racer, used correctly, heart rate monitors can help you gain the maximum from your training time. At their most basic, a heart rate monitor will show you your heat rate in beats per minute, helping you monitor your recovery rate to ensure you are not over or under doing it!

Splash out a bit more cash and you can enjoy a selection of more sophisticated functions, including the ability to record your session so that you can review your session data and the capability to key in your target heart rate zones so that you can check that you are training at the correct intensity.

As you progress up the scale, heart rate monitors include downloadable functionality so that you can review your data on your PC and keep a training log for future comparisons. At the top end heart rate monitors can come with functions to allow you to measure you cadence (number of pedal strokes per minute), speed, power output and an odometer.

Heart rate monitors can be used in conjunction with turbo trainers to provide a complete indoor training system. With a little knowledge and when used correctly, a heart rate monitor can dramatically improve your fitness levels and help you to get the most from each training and race session.