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Heart Rate Monitor

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A heart rate monitor is a personal monitoring device which allows a subject to measure his or her heart rate in real time or record his or her heart rate for later study.

Early models consisted of a monitoring box with a set of electrode leads which attached to the chest.

The first wireless EKG Heart rate monitor was invented in 1977 as a training aid for the Finnish National Cross Country Ski team and as 'intensity training' became a popular concept in athletic circles in the mid-80s, retail sales of wireless personal heart monitors started from 1983.

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Chromo Publishing
6139725313 / 9786139725311
Paperback / softback
07/01/2012
United States
56 pages
152 x 229 mm, 95 grams
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