What is the best (affordable) Heart Rate Monitor for competitive cyclists?
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The best - Suunto.\n\nThe best (real World and affordable) - Polar.\n\nForget the others.\n\nI'd go for Polar - there is a big range, and from the cheapest to the most expensive they do all the essential heart monitoring stuff to the same high standard.
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Yes, that is correct. Your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) is how many calories your body burns just to keep your heart pumping, your lungs breathing, etc. \n\nHowever I've never heard of wearing a heart rate monitor constantly, I believe they are designed to be used just during aerobic exercise to help you keep within your Target Heart Rate range. If your monitor does have a calorie counting feature on it, if you wear it all day it will be difficult to say how much of what it is counting is your BMR and how much is going to whatever activity you are doing, as your body is performing both at the same time and the monitor won't be able to differentiate. \n\nI would recommend going to www.selfdietclub.com, it is a free service provided by Self Magazine and you can browse through hundreds of activities and exercises to find out how many calories you're burning for each. You'll also be able to keep a running total of how many calories you're taking in. \n\nGood luck!
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For road cycling i'd recomend ridley, or mbk.
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The resting heart rate is a base line. The real indicator of fitness is how quickly your heart rate returns to that base line after it is elevated. Try doing a one minute step test -- just up and down on a step for one minute -- measure your heart rate as soon as you stop, then measure it at 30 second intervals and see how long it takes to return to normal. The fitter you are, the faster it comes down.
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Casio makesa great watch for hiking called a pathfinder.And some G-Shocks are also very good.I would highly recomend the casio pathfinder model.
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any type of cardio would be helpful, so the orbitrek could be helpful. it's easy on the knees, so that's good. the important thing is whether you would use it on a regular basis.
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I really like my Cateye Micro Wireless CC-MC100W - $40.00\n\nVDO makes an excellent cyclo computer.\nwww.pezcyclingnews.com
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I have a couple suggestions-\n\nPerformance Bike \nSuperGo\nREI\nPricePoint\nColorado Cyclist\nExcel Sports Boulder\nNashbar\n\nNashbar has the best deals, in my opinion, but all are worth checking out.\nSee below for links
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a normal resting pulse should be between 60 and 100 bpm
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I use a Garmin Vista with MapSource software in combination with my Polar Cardio-monitor and PC-Coach software. The data transfers easily and can be combined in a single file for each ride providing a map, the route, full GPS data including elevations etc, together with the full spectrum of fitness stuff.\n\nThe Garmin goes on the handlebars no problem and the Polar watch has a neat handlebar holder too.
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depends if you wish one to examine CVS or Respi or Abdo..\nHowever Litman cardio-II is best one in the world..
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'good' and 'affordable' are both relative terms, but you might give Edmuns Scientific a try, they are having holiday sales, are reputable, and i never got any duds from them. Once you look there, you may totally luck out and find one you get the specs for on ebay.
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My first stethoscope was a Littmann Classic II SE. I now use (rarely...) a Littmann Cardiology III. Don't go crazy and buy a really expensive one. $30-40 should do it. Since you are learning, I think you should try one that allows you to really hear the difference in heart and lung sounds.\n\nhttp://www.allheart.com/littmannscopes.html\n\nWelch Allyn makes a nice one too...but I've never used one.\n\nNOTE: Umm...I wouldn't spend $300 on an electronic stethoscope. No offense to the poster below, but 1.) you are a nursing student...you don't need it, honestly. 2.) for what you are doing, you want one that won't be broken easily 3.) you will catch alot of crap from nurses, doctors, med students, etc...showing up as a student with an electronic stethoscope. I mean when med students show up on my service with electronic stethoscopes they spend more time taking care not to break the damn thing than they spend using it. You need to know if the patient has rales in his lung field, you need to know if the patients heart is beating, and you'll use to for blood pressure monitoring, if you do it the old fashion way. That's it. Stay focused on what you are supposed to be learning. Good luck...and watch out for the lonely medical students.
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Check the reviews at http://www.treadmilldoctor.com  They don't sell treadmills, so their reviews are pretty objective.\n\nI have a PaceMaster Platinum that is great.  I think it was a little over $1500, though.
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35-45 beats per minute.
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Wow! That could be complicated....see: http://www.icsroscher.de/HeartScope.htm\nYet, an experiment using "cheap and cheerful" technology is described on http://www.picotech.com/experiments/calculating_heart_rate/\nwhich makes use of a (relatively) low cost data logger http://www.drdaq.com/products.html\nwhich plugs directly into the parallel port of your PC, see  http://www.picotech.com/applications/ecg.html\nHope this helps....
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it all depends if you are a seasoned cyclist ? if you are not, i would recommend you to go to your LBS and get the bike guys over there to help you choose a bike within budget, you don't need to go high end as you are a beginner and you dont need those really high end frames as you would not be able to tell the difference. \n\nif you are a seasoned cyclist, i believe you would have gone to Ebay and look for some really good used bikes, and your budget would have gone twice the amount. anyway LBS is the best bet as they are able to tell you when people around the area have group rides and you are able to join in. Kick back and Enjoy the new bike you purchased. Cheers