A heart rate monitor is an excellent fitness tool, allowing you to work out within your chosen heart rate zone. Extras beyond the heart rate reading include stopwatch, exercise timer, clock, settable heart zones with alarm, and backlight. Check whether you can change the battery yourself or must send it to the factory. Decide what you want and shop for the best value.
1. Polar FS1 Heart Rate Monitor
The Polar FS1 heart rate monitor lets you set a manual target heart rate zone with visual and audible alarm. It give you your average heart rate during your exercise and elapsed exercise time. You can also wear it as a watch - it displays the time and it also has a stopwatch function. The extra large digits are appreciated. Water resistant up to 50 meters.
2. Polar F4 Heart Rate Monitor
The Polar F4 is designed for women and has a large number display. It includes calorie calculation, automatic and manual setting for heart zones, zone alarm when you get out-of-zone, and records your total time in zone. It displays heart rate both in number and percent of maximum. It has watch, alarm, and stopwatch, but no backlight.3. Reebok Fitness Trainer Heart Rate Monitor
Watch and heart rate with triple row display showing your average heart rate, highest and lowest heart rate and exercise time. The target zone memory records time in, above and below target zone with your average heart rate.4. Polar A3 Heart Rate Monitor
Displays heart rate and elapsed time, where you are in your chosen heart rate zone and you can choose to see that number and your heart rate as a percentage of your age-based maximum heart rate. You can also set an alarm to beep when you drop below or go above your chosen zone. When finished exercising, it shows your average heart rate and elapsed exercise time.5. Cardiosport GO-20 Heart Rate Monitor
Target zone limits with upper and lower alarms. Features include a calendar, time display, and daily alarm. Large LCD display with super glow light is easy to read. User changeable battery and 3-year warranty.6. Cardiosport GO-10 Heart Rate Monitor
GO 10 includes a training zone with alarm to advise when to increase or decrease training intensity. There is a scan function to show maximum, average and minimum heart rate readings plus an exercise timer so it is clear exactly how long the training lasted.7. Timex Ironman Heart Rate Monitor
Features a chronograph, heart rate monitor, countdown timer, watch. Automatic, age-based heart rate zone calculation zone, with average time in zone and average heart rate. Night light with Indiglo.8. Polar FS2
The Polar FS2 allows you to enter your target zone and gives you both visual and audible alarms when you are out of the zone. It displays heart rate and exercise duration and has a backlight. It also has watch functions for time of day and stopwatch. Once done with your workout, you can recall your total exercise duration, maximum and average heart rate.9. Ekho E-10 Heart Rate Monitor
Prevention Magazine rated its transmitter the most comfortable. This is an entry-level model which displays your heart rate continuously and the time of day. 5-year manufacturer warranty and user replaceable batteries on transmitter and watch.10. Oregon Scientific Talking Heart Rate Monitor
Don't want to read your monitor? This heart rate monitor announces heart rate readings, workout time and calories burned through headphones. It has a Smart Training Program to track your progress based upon exercise type and user profile.