If your life is like a lot of people and it involves a lot of sitting during the day; you drive to work sitting and you sit at your desk all day; and you eat too many calories and you have a bit of a roll around the stomach... then, it's important to realize that you ought to be exercising. This is a call out to sedentary people to realize that movement is a biological necessity for our species.
Our genetic code never could have expected that there was going to be a time when we would be sitting all day. It's never happened before in the history of the world, and our genetic code is designed with the expectation of a certain amount of calorie expenditure. Therefore exercise is actually a requirement for optimal health.
That's why (you may have heard about these studies) even moderate exercise (getting off the couch) 30 minutes a day has enormous health benefits compared to doing nothing.
Furthermore, our schedules are generally quite full and we don't feel like we have TIME to workout. So if you're going to get some workout in it behooves you to make it as efficient and effective as possible, given the amount of time that you can devote to it.
One way to help make sure your workouts are as efficient and beneficial as possible is to wear a heart rate monitor during your workout to help make sure that you're working out at an ideal intensity level, given your current state of physical fitness. Because: if you work out too lightly you won't get as much benefit for the time invested and if you work out too heavily you could create a lot of lactic acid in your muscles and make yourself sore, which can lead to not wanting to work out the next day and an overall aversion to exercise.
You may want to consider using a Polar Bluetooth heart rate monitor because it'll do two thing for you: not only will it display your heart rate moment by moment... and you can check it by looking at the device on your wrist... it will also transmit this information to your mobile phone. You can download an app that will track the information for you, and later you can download it and create very useful reports from it.
Of course we're talking about mobile phone apps so that means you have to have a smart phone like Android OS, Blackberry OS or Windows OS. A couple of common applications, for example, that do what I'm talking about are Edomono and Run Keeper.
Those apps can't function on their own - they need a heart rate monitor to provide the raw data and Polar is one of the few brands that supports tracking applications.
Now, instead of just having the moment by moment measure of your heart rate, you can actually track how much you're progressing over time. If you stick to your exercise program, you'll be able to see that your cardio-pulmonary endurance will change over time. Your heart and your breathing will become more efficient. Once you start to get into shape, you'll have a lower heart rate with the same level of exercise. But when you're just starting an exercise program it wouldn't be too surprising to see that you hit very high heart rates after just running for a short while or just doing a little bit of weight lifting.
Note that if you use any Apple device (iPhone or iPad) you'll have to get an application from iTunes that supports this specific device. Apple's gadgets use a closed Bluetooth stack so you have to have the correct application to receive the data via Bluetooth. On the other hand, Android devices and most other smart phones can connect right away.
The Polar Bluetooth monitor has is worn around the wrist or chest and it transmits your heart rate information to your smart phone. So you have to simply launch the application, like Edomono, and set the target route and the hear rate monitor will send data directly to your device wirelessly and the application will then calculate the calories that you're burning and assess your cardio respiratory endurance and display the results.
The Polar monitor is very easy to wear. It doesn't have bulky attaching mechanisms. Eventually you may get so used to it that you forget that it's on. It's easy to put it on and it's easy to remove after your workout, compared to other brands.
Over time the software will show you that your heart rate is changing naturally as you condition your body more and more by repeated exercise workouts. If you like to see the progress that you're making, a Polar Bluetooth heart rate monitor will be of great help.
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