sharing a heart rate monitor

facesnorth · Post by **facesnorth** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 1:00 am

Hello all,

I realize there are always lots of questions about heart rate monitors, but I have searched many forums and can't find an answer to this question. Many of the HRM's seem to want to be used by only one person to store their info, etc. Is it easily possible to share an HRM with wife or do we each need our own?

I was looking at the polar F4 or F11. I'd like to get as cheap of one as possible, but I don't want to wish I'd gotten the one with more features later.

Right now I think the zone alarm, a timer, and maybe calories burned feature are the main things we'd use, although programmed workouts could be useful, and maybe something to track results over a period of time.

Thanks.

facesnorth · Post by **facesnorth** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 12:17 am

We ended up buying the Garmin Forerunner 305. It seems like a good one, although we haven't really had a chance to figure it out yet. Going to do that soon.

facesnorth · Post by **facesnorth** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 11:39 am

Thanks. Good to get an answer to the original question.

last response on the 18th was in response to another post, but that seems to have disappeared now. What happened?

Boss Man · Post by **Boss Man** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 2:35 pm

Not sure about that. I did remove one comment, but it was from someone just trying to promote Heart rate monitors.

They had supposedly an American profile in their details, but they were using an Indian Broadband, so it was obvious they were just trying to promote / sell HRM's illegally.

facesnorth · Post by **facesnorth** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 1:17 am

I don't remember that one, but maybe that's all it was. I think it was someone suggesting I buy a particular Polar HRM, so I just responded to mention I had already bought the Garmin. Anybody else own a Garmin 305 or maybe a 405? We haven't really figured it out yet, but it seems to offer most of the same features of the Polar units.