How do you use a polar heart rate monitor?
There are many Polar heart rate monitor models differing in the features that they offer. But typically a Polar monitor comes with a chest strap and a wrist watch. The chest strap is used to measure electrical activities of your heart. You put it around your chest. The wrist watch is used to display your heart rate. Usually within a short time, the watch detects the heart rate signal from the chest strap. You can set heart rate limits on your exercise, so you don’t over or under exert yourself. You start the stop watch when you start exercising, and stop the stop watch when you are done. You then review your exercise data (e.g. average heart rate etc) on the wrist watch to see how you did. Depending on the model, it can get a lot more complicated than what I have just described but this is the basic way to use a Polar heart rate monitor.
