Chest Strap vs Watch. Which Heart Rate Monitor Should You Use? 

My heart rate increased watching this video

Very straight-forward breakdown of the options. Thank you!

Informative and to the point video. Thank you.

Precise information, thanks 👍

Super clear and succinct ... thank you

That is exactly what I was looking for. You are a life saver!

Very Informative. Thank you

Super helpful video...it's been so long since I had one of the first generation Polar systems, I had no idea which direction to take lol. Thanks for all the info!

Very nice video.. thank you

Very informative, when zone training my wrist reading is much higher than my Garmin strap HR.

Wow. Perhaps the best ever RU-vid "how to" anything I've ever watched. Covers what you want to do, how you might want to do it, AND most importantly a complete explanation of they why, in this case the difference between the underlying tech on HRS vs HR sports watch depends on physiology, which is kinda the point. HRS monitor on phone, HRS monitor on dedicated sports watch. Been using Polar HRS with phone app, which obviously is PITA when you are on the go, Especially when using for hiking, like in phone unfriendly environments like a driving rain. OTA hand being an older (66) , uh hi BMI like 33 and undertrained I need a 99% + accurate BPM when I'm crawling up the last of that 800ft climb. Just got a Garmin inspire, understood that some BPM variability. Used for first time last night on a stair climber and spent more time trying to comprehend the quantitative and time-lag differences between G and Polar HRS/Phone than I actually did on the activity, which involved a lot of sweat and blood flow. So thank you for that. Awesome. Now over to AMAZON to order the , wallah, Garmin HRS. 😄🤔. I will be back to check out rest of channel, as noted need training for hiking. Best

Thanks! 💯 🔥 🤘

AMAZING VIDEO, WOW!

Thank you

thanks for clarifying this. I bought the strap and the watch and was thinking the strap was pointless, but now I understand. :)

Very interesting! I always wondered how the optical sensor worked. I wore my cheapo fitness watch along with my famous brand chest strap sensor through different workouts to compare the results. They seem close enough for my purposes so I pretty much stick with the more convenient watch method, although its readings did fluctuate more than the chest sensor.

Thanks for this video! I was searching for a video from a woman's perspective. As I have a large chest, I was wondering how this would work. I appreciate your detailed info.

I never could keep the modern chest straps in working order. Clean them regularly and the break, seldom clean and they apparently short circuit. Went with the smart watch with a broadcast HR function. Works well.

I thought my cheap Decathlon strap was not working anymore. I didn’t know the water thing with the sensors. I just swiped the sensors with a damp washcloth and now it works! Thank you!

Hi (3:00) - Not sure that Apple Watch is supporting Ant+ (as it is a protocol developed by Garmin). I would say that Android and Apple are supporting Bluetooth strap. Garmin watches are compatible with both bluetooth and Ant+.

I have the fenix 7 pro (elevate 5), I'm checking it together with the band with the auxiliary heart rate app... the precision is impressive, even during repetitions. I tried to do an extreme test (repeated short uphill runs for 20 seconds at maximum), it performed well there too

UPDATE ON APPLE -> A CONVERTER IS NEEDED FOR THE ANT+ and the apple phone at last check and Apple hsa Bluetooth low energy now. I will be doing a video update soon! Thanks for your understanding

This is really helpful! I've got a garmin watch so if I buy a strap not from garmin I'll have to take my phone with me on runs to read my HR since it won't come up on my watch?

I hear good things about the Polar H10, I’m thinking about getting one and pairing it to my Apple Watch.

The question I want to ask is, what watch should I buy to display the heartate of my chest strap. I dont want to buy an expensive apple watch JUST to display my reading in real time with a beep if I go iver

If you are the proud owner of a Galaxy 4 watch, get yourself a chest strap monitor because the watch HR latency is a real problem

Minor correction, I think. At about the 3 minutes mark - Apple devices do not support ANT+ “natively” are more readily compatible with Bluetooth LE, as opposed to the ANT+ type of wireless signal. And many Android devices support ANT+ “natively” but should also have Bluetooth LE compatibility as well.

Have a older Apple Watch series 4 finding it not to be accurate. Have a new Garmin find it giving at least give immediate feedback and seems to work fine.

Hi Dear one just wanna ask u if i can use it to monitor my horse heart rate after some workout pls advice and which one shall i use

I have a Garmin 245 , do you turn off wrist based heart rate in the settings if using the HRM dual strap , or do you just pair it and it takes the reading from that, it means both wrist and strap would be connected so which one would it display or as mentioned before do you turn off wrist hr

If I use a strap and my garmin watch the watch is dominating and my Zwift/Garmin statistics show the (too low!) heartrate of my watch. It is a huge underestimate: 110 instead of 150 ! For cycling I can leave my watch at home, but for running I bought this watch. How can I stop the heartbeatmonitoring of my watch and get my watch to show the number of my strap?

I never get accurate hr readings no matter whether I'm using strap or my Garmin forerunner. They always read way too high. E.g I was running for 2hrs at 5:34min/km pace and I was able to speak in full sentences with my husband . My heart rate monitors read that my hr was around 170-180 per min. Yesterday when I was resting between weightlifting sets my hr strap read that my pulse was 124 per min and in reality it was around 70-75 when I checked it manually. This is beyond frustrating since I'm trying to follow a training plan for a half marathon.

Chest strap only really accurate way to train, Thanks for your review. Unfortunately wrist based heart rate monitors are still very inaccurate, via the 6X Pro. Complete difference from wrist vs when I put my Chest strap on.

I noticed today the heart rate monitor on my stair climber is way off. It will say 140-150 when it's actually 115-120.

Use the finger, find your pulse..15sec and multiple by 4.

The video is interesting but, for me, not very useful. My Garmin watch gives widely varying heart readings so I'm thinking of buying a chest strap. But I want to know about connectivity. If you run and have a chest strap monitor do you have to take your smartphone along to see your heart rate or can you download on to your smartphone after the run, like I do with my watch? When you say the Garmin chest strap and watch 'talk to each other' what exactly does that mean?

Didn’t know I needed to wear a sports bra with mine 🤔

The biggest advantage of chest straps is that the battery lasts for 2 years - it's a clear win for me

ur voice is so sweet

that's what she said literally lol @2:11

the problem with watch is now I can't easily take off my arm warmer lol

So hitting a punching bag will probably disrupt my wrist heart rate monitor?

Yb better

Talking about accuracy without talking about how accurate you need it to be... Not good... Just because I know down to the hardware level how the bits move around in a computer, doesn't mean you need to know that to use a computer.

Watches are completely useless for activities, they far from accurate. Measuring HR from wrist when active is messy and limb's movements also affect blood pressure, what smartwatch can misinterpret as heart beat.

She is super cute omg

Oh my. I was simply curious if the heart rate strap that was bundled with my treadmill was worth using as I already own an Apple Watch. Then this girl Alecia shows up and I can’t help but smile. You’re absolutely tied for the most beautiful woman on the planet. I had to Google a bit just to learn about your endeavors. Ah hah. I know I am spoiled in many ways growing up in the Bay Area of California. However I planned ahead and wanted dual citizenship; so when my parents were visiting Banff I decided to risk the prematurity thing. Life story. Southern Alberta! I write for the Flames! You’re so friggin cute and I mean that in the most innocent (and am aware that it is not exactly appropriate feedback). Psshh….I’ve known a Canuck from the squalor that is Ontario for nearly a decade. Maddie guided me through a quick core workout while I was in a hotel one evening…..I saw something. The ‘it’ factor of charisma, knowledge, beauty, enthusiasm….blah blah. MadFit is now a huge channel. So you’re such creep you can predict the entrepreneurial success of women based on your inherent misogyny? Hey 🙁 I love Southern Alberta. It has a rare beauty. Calgary has a combination of Western ‘Cowboy’ culture in a vibrant urban setting sans the inherent ignorance, racism, etc that is often found in say, Dallas. Texas is great; but you know… Beautiful blondes are plentiful and are all equally valuable unique humans on and on… You aren’t Texas Alecia. You have the rad culture but you also have some crazy Rocky Mountains. An ethnic minority who is homosexual snd struggling with Methamphetamine addiction (odd tangent; but somehow fitting the theme of this rant) who wants to participate in Stampede festivities?! Shenanigans ya blankety slur slur blankety blank! Calgary will still welcome you. Let’s work on the illicit drug abuse however. What’s the catch?! A S-ton of oil? WHAT. You are like a temperate Norway with all your friendly tolerant economic prowess geographic beauty snd Alecianic population. I could surf and ski in the same day growing up. I could geographically Alecia. This analogy is an absolute disaster. This is what happens when you study Sociology for six years at Berkeley yet remain a man with good intentions. The struggle between my instinctual recognition of someone special, my kind nature simply wanting to say ‘keep doing what you’re doing’, whilst being aware of the social climate and this content involving cardiovascular monitoring. Well dammit. I have been placed and met people. Super amazing men and women. Very few radiate whatever Wild Rose enthusiasm you have going on here, you’re truest a charismatic leader and instead of fascism; you’ve chosen to build a career sharing what you love. If I was….a human. And received this abstract excessive tangential praise….I’d be concerned. Don’t be! I had fun. Best of luck and Go Flames Go! www.wildr.ca

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