12 Sep 2007 - Mold & District Reds buy Heart Rate Monitor for Simon Spender

Mold &  District Reds have purchased a

Heart Rate Monitor for

Simon Spender.

What is a Heart Rate Monitor and what does it do?
A heart rate monitor is a device that measures the frequency of your heart beat. In a similar way to that of hospital ECG machines they use electrodes to measure the beats of the heart. They then transmit this information to the wrist receiver (the watch) for viewing and analysing.

How Do Heart Rate Monitors Work?
Heart rate monitors actually obtain a pulse reading by picking up the minute electrical signals given off by the heart each time it beats. These signals are detected by highly sensitive electrodes fitted to either a chest strap in the case of ‘normal’ heart rate monitors or fitted to the face of the watch itself in the case of the strapless systems.


What are the Benefits of Training with a Heart Rate Monitor?
Measuring the frequency of your heart beat is an excellent way of monitoring exactly how hard your body is working. Put quite simply, the harder you work the more oxygen your muscles need. Your heart has to beat faster in order to transport oxygen rich blood to areas where it is needed as well as to remove waste products produced by your working muscles.

As you get fitter your body becomes more efficient at using the available oxygen. As a result there is a decreased demand for oxygen from the working muscles. This means that the heart has to work less hard and beat fewer times in order to supply your working muscles with oxygen. In time as you get fitter you will see your heart rate reducing. For example, you may find that your times are reducing for your ‘usual’ distance but you don’t feel like you are working any harder, or, you find that your average heart rate for a specific workout is getting lower.

Here is a summary of just some of the main benefits of training with a heart rate monitor.

1. Specific to You - Heart rate monitors allow you to train at a level specific to you.
2. Know How Hard you are Working - Heart rate monitors give precise information about how hard your body is working.
3. Efficient Training - A heart monitor will allow you to ensure you get the most out of what training time you have available.
4. Monitor Improvement - Heart monitors allow you to easily measure how your body has adapted to exercise over time.
5. Motivation - As heart rate monitors allow you to monitor your improvements this in turn will motivate you keep training to keep the your fitness levels up and to improve further still.
6. Fine tune your Training – By allowing you to train in specific heart rate zones a heart rate monitor will allow you to be precise about the type of training you are going to do. For example - fat burning, improve endurance or raise aerobic intake.
7. Prevent Overtraining – Heart rate monitors can help to prevent you overtraining