Polar has released a new version of its Verity Sense heart rate monitor, with new custom sports profiles for indoor workouts, personalized heart rate zones for swimming, and a choice of black or dark ...

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I wear a chest strap heart rate monitor when running year round, because the native optical tracking on even the best sports watches is often unreliable. The wrist is a tough place to get an accurate ...

There are forearm-based heart rate monitors, wrist-based heart rate monitors, smartwatches, fitness trackers and even headphones that can track your BPM too, but generally speaking, chest straps are ...