When exercising he wears a Polar heart rate monitor which sends data from a chest strap to his wristwatch. But his exercise bike also has a heart rate readout that depends on your hands touching ...

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Not only can you get better accuracy by wearing a chest strap heart rate monitor, you can even use a chest strap without a fitness watch—just connect it to your phone. Chest straps don't break ...

If you're against wearing a chest strap, the Wahoo TICKR FIT armband is a very viable alternative if you don't mind it being ...

For those who want the most accurate readings during exercise, our testing still leads us to recommend the Garmin HRM-Pro Plus chest strap. For more convenient tracking, the Apple Watch Series 10 ...

Indicates whether the model employs a chest strap mounted sensor that transmitts to a watch, a chest strap mounted sensor that transmits to an iPhone app, a watch that requires the user to touch ...