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Cardiovascular activity is all about exercising your heart. Our range of heart rate monitors from Polar, York Fitness, Timex and Oregon Scientific allow you to plan and adapt your training session. Price Match on all Polar, York Fitness, Oregon Scientific and Timex Heart Rate Monitors. Quantity Discount is also available to Retailers and Organisations. Call to open a Trade Account or to discuss your heart rate monitors requirments.
Why monitor your heart?
As many athletes know, a heart rate monitor is essential in keeping track of fitness. You can monitor the intensity of your exercise, allowing you to increase or decrease this as appropriate. Seeing your heart rate increases motivation and clearly indicates underperformance or an improvement in fitness. It also means you can train at your own pace and adapt your fitness programme, making it an ideal training partner.
How Heart Rate Monitors Works?
Heart rate monitors are like rev counters. They're usually attached to your chest and continually transmit your heart rate information to the monitor's receiver, normally a wrist watch. Most monitors feature alarms that can be set at a target level that beep if you go above or below this, and often you can store session information for future use.
Target Heart Rate According to Age and Physical Shape:
| Age | Beginners | Advanced | | 20 | 130-150 | 150-170 | | 25 | 127-146 | 146-166 | | 30 | 123-142 | 142-161 | | 40 | 117-135 | 135-153 | | 50 | 110-127 | 127-144 | | 60 | 104-120 | 130-136 |
Heart Rate Monitors
CHEST STRAP TYPES: These are used if you want to carry on normal exercise / activity and have CONTINUOUS monitoring of your heart rate. They generally have functions like heart rate ZONE ALARM to bleep when you go above / below a certain HR threshold. They generally give post exercise feedback like calories burnt, average, max and minimum heart rate throughout the session. CHEST STRAP types can be ANALOGUE or DIGITAL.
NO CHEST STRAP - STRAPLESS = These units work with ECG accuracy to provide heart rate "on demand". That means as and when you press the buttons on the front. For light / moderate exercise, and for use throughout the day, this is convenient and often preferred to a chest strap type. However, for continuous monitoring of heart rate, especially throughout shorter duration, higher intensity exercise, the chest strap type is often preferred. See Techtrail, MIO, Sigma Sport PC3T, WK045 etc . QUALITY NOTE. We do NOT sell the cheap optical / movement sensing pulse watches you may see on other sites for under £20.. why not? because they're inaccurate and cannot be trusted. We only sell ECG calibrated devices that electrical sense the heart rate activity.
ANALOGUE CHEST STRAP = These are the most popular heart rate monitors. They sense heart rate activity via a small chest sensor worn around the chest and send the data using wireless technology to the watch. They will give continuous heart rate monitoring throughout a session. They provide accurate post exercise data review as they have been recording throughout (unlike the STRAPLESS versions that only read HR when you touch the sensors) These units will generally interface with most popular gym equipment. There is the potential for interference from other HRM users, if used within 3 feet of your unit. However, If used in a quiet gym, or on your own... no problem.
DIGITAL CHEST STRAP = Everything as above, with the exception of a more ROBUST digitally signalling signal from chest strap to watch. This has the clear advantage of reducing the risk of interference. However, it will NOT interface with popular gym equipment... no big deal.... you can see your heart rate on your wrist :-) You will find digital HRMs from Timex, Suunto (T6), CardioSport and Oregon Scientific
Polar make a CODED analogue transmitter / watch system that has ability to interface with most popular gym equipment and a reasonable degree of crosstalk / interference protection by way of "coded" signals. See Polar FS2C, F6 and above, RS series, S series (except S120 and S15)
DUAL MODE - ANALOGUE CHEST STRAP and NO CHEST STRAP = These units have the best of both worlds. Strapless monitoring for times when you just need heart rate on demand, as and when the user wants to monitor heart rate, and, continuous monitoring via the wireless analogue chest transmitter for more thorough monitoring. Currently we have two units that can do this. The MIO Ultimate and Techtrail DUO.
Heart Rate Monitors are very much essential for following Exercise & Fitness equipment beside other outdoor activities such as cycling and road running.
Treadmills are without a doubt one of the most popular items of home and commercial gym equipment, powered or motorised treadmills use a motor to move the belt, keeping the rate at which you walk constant. Many motorised treadmills have powered incline adjustments. One of the main advantages of a motorised treadmill is that it's more challenging - it can go faster than you can, so you have to work harder to keep up. Argos Sports offer folding treadmills - for those looking to save space and who may be on a budget. Non-folding treadmills - for those who have enough space for a treadmill, and commercial treadmills - for those who want a high quality treadmill with advanced features, similar to the standard you get in gyms throughout the world
Cross trainers also known as elliptical trainers offer the same benefits as a treadmill but are low impact machines, i.e. your feet remain stationary. These cross training machines have adjustable resistance, sophisticated digital displays and are quiet in operation. At Argos Sports we offer compact elliptical trainers for those of you short of space and on a budget, standard elliptical trainers for those of you who have the space available. We also offer commercial elliptical trainers for those who want a high quality elliptical cross trainer similar to the ones you use at a gym
Rowing Machines have the advantage of using the entire body in a single, fluid motion. The seat on a rowing machine slides on rails and there are handles attached to stretchy cords that simulate the arm motion of using a paddle. Rowing is low impact and non-load bearing. At Argos Sports we offer air rowing machines such as the concept2 model which is used in gyms throughout the world. Magnetic rowing machines that are silent in operation, and finally water rowing machines - if you are serious about indoor rowing we suggest water rowing machines
Exercise bikes (sometimes referred to as exercise cycles or Exercise Bike) are good for the large muscle groups in the legs. These bikes are manual and have variable resistance. Some exercise bikes will also work the torso and upper body. A recumbent exercise bike puts less pressure and stress on the back. At Argos Sports we offer upright exercise bikes which give you the feel of a pedal bike, recumbent exercise bikes where you sit back and pedal putting less strain on your back (good for those who have the room and beginners). Finally we offer spinners and racers designed for those serious about there biking.
Multi Gyms allow you to do various exercises on one piece of fitness equipment (multi), with different sections to let you concentrate on different muscle groups and body areas. The majority of multi gyms offer the same core exercises such as chest press, leg extension/curl and seated row. At Argos Sports we offer compact multi gyms - for those short of space and on a budget. Standard multi gyms - for those of you who have the space and multi stack multi gyms for the advanced user who wants a multi gym similar to ones use at a gym
Argos Sports offer an extensive range of boxing equipment from boxing boots, boxing free standing equipment, boxing bags, boxing gloves, stands and brackets and much more . As well as being a market leader for fitness equipment and exercise equipment we excel in our supply of boxing necessities.
Table tennis tables are becoming popular in the UK, table tennis is a great sport mainly because its fun and you get a workout at the same time. At Argos Sports we offer outdoor table tennis tables, indoor table tennis tables, and also our new ready to play table tennis table which require limited setup. We also offer table tennis accessories such as bats, balls, nets and more.
Outdoor trampolines with safety enclosures are becoming a popular piece of garden furniture. At Argos Sports we have our own unique brand of outdoor trampoline called Jumpking Jump Pod Trampoline. The Jumpking Jump Pod brand offers great quality at a great price and they are suitable for all users
Argos Sports offer the widest range of gym equipment, from weights benches, smith machines, standard and olympic weights, multi gyms, power racks, weight storage racks, leverage machines and much more.
From Baseball, Basketball System, Air Hockey Tables, snooker Tables, pool tables, heart rate monitors and more we have a complete range of sports equipment, all at great prices.
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