Check How Hard Really Working By BillF on Mar 07, 2009 - Updated Sep 18, 2011

I received a Omron heart rate Monitor Model HR-100C for my birthday. I allows me to exercise and know if I am in the ideal heart rate zone for the type of workout and my age. It has a wrist receiver which also serves as a watch and a transmitor which attaches to your chest. My brother had suggested I look into monitors because two concerns pushing yourself to hard in weight loss exercise or more lickely from his experience pushing your self not hard enough. When I recievived it , I immediately put in on and took a run around the neighberhood and found a amazing amount of variablity especially when you are warming up. He was right it is easy to exercise too easy which is quickly detected by too low a heart rate. I think it cost about $50 and see this or similiar monitoring health device as very valuable in finding out if your exercise are really at the correct level for weight loss or conditioning. Overall it was a very nice and useful gift from my daughter.