Saturday, January 27, 2007

Crane Sports (Aldi) Heart Rate Monitor

Went in to Aldi to see if they had any car seat covers left from last week (thinking ahead to next muddy trip to the Borders). They didn't - but they did have a few HRMs left @ £12.99.

Seem like a bargain - wireless chest strap, preset and custom training zones, time in/out zone reporting, out of training zone alarms, stopwatch, clock, fitness calcs, etc etc - most of the stuff that quite expensive HRMs do at a fraction of the price.

Purchase was justified a few days later when I did a static bike session in a hotel gym while away on business. This is usually quite a heartless, difficult to motivate activity, but the HRM was really useful at making me work harder than I would have done otherwise.

This will also help me make more practical use of the "Mountain Bike Fitness Training" book as much of this is couched in terms of training zones.

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