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Why a Chest Strap Is the Best Way to Track Your Heart Rate During Exercise

2024-12-122024-12-12 Danie

The image shows a close-up view of a woman fastening a heart rate monitor onto her chest, in what seems to be a fitness center. The foreground is dominated by the woman's hands and torso, with the black sports bra and heart rate monitor being the central focus. The background is blurred but shows the typical setting of a gym with various workout equipment visible, suggesting a place for physical activity and fitness training.

I knew that a chest strap was going to be more accurate than any watch based tracker, but I was not aware that a Coospo H808S chest strap heart rate monitor (quite a bit cheaper […]

Your ‘Max Heart Rate’ Is Probably Wrong

2024-08-232024-08-23 Danie

An Apple Watch showing the heart rate of 108 BPM and 85 BPM 9m agao. It also shows a scatter graph with a few dots in a colum.

If you’ve ever worried about your heart rate during exercise being too high or too low, you’ll want to read this. Your “heart rate zones” might be completely wrong. Not only are zones defined differently […]

Google can turn ANC earbuds into a heart rate monitor with no extra hardware – with interesting upsides

2023-10-282023-10-28 Danie

Side-view illustration of the ear and the ear canal, with an earbud plugged in, showing soundwaves travelling in the canal, and indicating deformation taking place due to heart beats.

Google performed two sets of studies with 153 people that found APG “achieves consistently accurate heart rate (3.21% median error across participants in all activity scenarios) and heart rate variability (2.70% median error in inter-beat […]

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Why a Chest Strap Is the Best Way to Track Your Heart Rate During Exercise

Your ‘Max Heart Rate’ Is Probably Wrong

Google can turn ANC earbuds into a heart rate monitor with no extra hardware – with interesting upsides

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