Heart Rate Monitor and How To use it On Any Smartphone
Heart rate monitoring is greatly useful equipment to monitor exercising and to keep it in controlled limits and does not exceed the normal level. It is not only for the heart patients; athletes and sportsmen need it more and is important for every healthy person to monitor the heart for a healthy living. Now with development of technology, you can have personal device to measure real time heart rate or you can record it for later study.
Samsung’s Galaxy S5, the latest flagship smartphone comes with an outstanding feature, the heart rate monitor that no other smartphone has.
It is easy to use smartphone heart monitor; most modern smartphone are equipped with a camera and an LED flash, with the help of an app ‘Heart Rate Monitor ‘available for Android and iOS, produces similar results as Galaxy S5′s internal heart rate sensor.
‘The Runtastic Heart Rate app’ from Runtastic also gives identical results, on any smart phone with similar fitments.
For any heart rate sensor device, like a watch, we have two sensors one top and bottom. It is simple operation; index finger is placed below and the middle finger on top, wait for the heart rate to show on the screen.
These sensors can check the heart rate even while lifting weights but check your heart beat during resting periods. However this cannot be done during the exercises with frequent movement like cycling and fast running.
It depends upon grade and model, wrist heart rate monitors can be capable of some advanced features; caloric expenditure. For this feature you need to fed some information like weight, age and gender, the monitor will give the result after the exercise or any physical activity.
There are other versions too; bluetooth heart rate monitors belts compatible with Android OS, while Bluetooth 4.0 Smart Ready is compatible with iPhone 4 and 5. Engineers are researching to make both universal.
The maximum heart rate is measured in simple way; subtract age from 226 for female and subtract the ages from 220 in case of men. This will give you the optimum heart rate range. For
Heart rate for aerobic zone heart rate is 60%-70% of the maximum. Multiply the maximum heart rate by the percentage is aerobic zone heart rate of the user .This is ideal level for cardiovascular workouts. This initial figure should be noted for further reference. Push the start button and monitor starts measuring heart rate. Check the monitors each 5 minutes to know the progress for ideal time zone.
There is yet another device to monitor the heart rate and that is Polar H7 Bluetooth Smart Heart Rate Sensor. It works on Bluetooth Smart technology and gives live and accurate heart rate by a compatible Bluetooth device using a standard heart rate profile.
This is a very useful device for the gyms where the training session and the fitness of the exerciser is to be monitored for optimal levels. The device is compatible with Apple products like 4th and the 3rd generation iPads, iPad mini, both iPhone 4 and 5, the 5th generation iPod touch and the 7th generation iPod Nano.
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