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I won’t be able to wear the watch on my wrist - so it’ll be in my pocket or probably on belt loops.
I already have a wahoo HR monitor chest strap so looking for a recommendation for a not too expensive sports watch that will connect to it.
Thanks in advance
Forerunner 35?
What do you want to do with it? What sort of sports?
Look at the Garmin Forerunner watches. Any of them should connect to the Wahoo heart rate monitor, plus tell you time, distance, speed etc, and record a track for where you have been.
Or the Garmin Instinct, if you want more rugged styling, and better navigation features.
Though they may be less accurate for GPS if in your pocket or on a belt. Your body blocks the view of the sky. But with modern GPS chips, they are pretty good anyway.
Thanks both. Its wouldnt be for GPS, just to record heart rate.
Will look at the forerunners thanks
If you just want to record heart rate, there are some heart rate monitors with built in memory. So you can record your heart rate, then you can download it to the phone app afterwards. No need to carry any watch.
eg Wahoo Tickr X, or Polar H10, or Polar OH1.
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If you want to record HR doing sport you'll probably need a chest strap. The optical sensors don't seem to work that well recording peaks (they use a lot of averaging to get rid of noise).
Polar Vantage V user....
Here is a typical Polar HR trace using the built in optical sensor. Both the upper and lower peaks are clipped off a bit (not that you can tell from the trace, but my peak and resting HRs are higher / lower than shown). The two gaps are where I took it off and charged it (it only uses about 7% of battery a day, but I charge it when I'm in the shower / reading in bed regardless of the battery state).
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