Healthy Heart Rate: Bell Fitness Heart Rate Monitor Watch Review

This is an excellent entry level heart rate monitor at a bargain price.

I was looking for a heart rate monitor just to do the basic job, and at the least price i could find, when i found this monitor. at just $13 here on amazon the price was too low to miss, even it were not to work. well to my astonishment it worked perfectly.

The monitor provides a watch, heart rate reading and percentage of MHR (maximum heart rate). how much time you have been training (actually for how long the monitor has been detecting a signal from the chest strap) and calories burnt.

to my astonishment the chest strap that came with this monitor works with my treadmill, a proform, and vice versa. the signal form the chest strap that came with the monitor is a bit weak though, so you have to be really close to the treadmill receiver to pick up a signal. but i guess the reason is that it was designed to be picked up by the watch in your hand, which it does perfectly. the opposite though is a great convinience, since i can use my treadmill chest strap with the watch. since the chest strap that came with the watch is a bit bulky, I found this as a great advantage to be able to use my treadmill chest strap.

in addition to the bulky chest strap, the other disadvantage is that the watch does not have a stop watch. you can use the training time timer as a stopwatch by resetting it just before your event, but this is not as accurate nor as convenient as having a simple stop watch. i dont know how they missed that.

if this watch was priced in the regular $40 zone i would have gived it a 4 star for the lack of stopwatch and the bulky chest strap. but at $13 i think it is worth every penny and much more. and it does the basic job i bought it for pefectly.

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Product Description:
Ideal for exercising, and biking, the Bell Fitness Heart Rate Monitor includes a wireless chest strap that transmits your heart rate to the watch via ECG technology. It also features three different alarm sounds when your heart rate reaches a target zone, high heart rate, and low heart rate. Additionally, this heart rate monitor has time-keeping watch functionality and also monitors your current and maximum heart rate by age.