The best 5 heart rate monitors and watches

Your heart rate plays a great role in leading a healthy lifestyle and improving your fitness training. Nowadays tracking your heart rate is quite easy, as most activity trackers and smartwatches come with a built-in heart rate monitor.

This is a convenient way to measure your heart rate quickly, although no smartwatch will ever be perfectly accurate.

Here are the best 5 heart rate monitors and watches:

1. Fitbit Ionic

Fitbit-Ionic
Fitbit-Ionic

The Fitbit Ionic smartwatch has been around for a while now, but it’s a great option if you’re looking for a heart rate monitor smartwatch with some nice assortment of metrics for runners. You can balance the smartwatch and fitness tracker capabilities while maintaining your heart rate.

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2. Garmin Forerunner 945

Garmin-Forerunner-945
Garmin-Forerunner-945

The Garmin Forerunner 945 is a great piece but quite expensive. It’s great if you’re a serious runner. Featuring everything from VO2 max, to altitude, to recovery time, and more. You can adjust it as per surrounding heat, and can also help in case of an accident. Having two weeks of battery and a range of smartwatch features, this device has it all.

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3. Garmin Venu

Garmin-Venu heat monitoring watch
Garmin-Venu heat monitoring watch

Garmin Venu is one of the best multisport watches available. With some cool features like the “breathwork” mode that can help you to concentrate and relax. You can track your respiration rate, know sweat loss, account for elevation and temperature and more. All this comes in an attractive package that looks like a watch, with a big AMOLED display.

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4. Garmin Forerunner 245 Music

Garmin-Forerunner-245-Music
Garmin-Forerunner-245-Music

The Garmin Forerunner 245 Music is an amazing GPS based watch with a stellar heart rate sensor. Available with the third-generation Garmin Elevate sensor, and with a great heart rate sensor, it has many more features to offer. It also offers accurate GPS and sleep tracking, including a handful of advanced running features, sufficient music storage, Garmin Coach training plans, and a battery that can last up to seven days.

It is an excellent mid-range GPS running watch.

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5. Polar Vantage V and M

Polar-Vantage-V-and-M
Polar-Vantage-V-and-M

The Polar Vantage V and M are also unique multisport watches that come a lot of Polar’s best features. It is packed “Training Load Pro” which evaluates the strain your training is putting on your body, and over 130 sports profiles. The M version is a little affordable, V is the fully-featured version.

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Synopsis

These are some of the most popular and feature-rich smartwatches with the best heart rate monitors for you to stay healthy and fit.