Specifically designed for triathletes Garmin's smallest and lightest heart rate monitor (HRM) Comfortable, easily adjustable strap Extensive Running Dynamics Stores and forwards heart rate data to Forerunner® 920XT Long battery life
I run 40-50 miles a week plus cycle when weather permits and I use Garmin to track my time, distance, speed, HR, HRV, etc. stats. I feed the Garmin data files into FirstBeat Athlete and use its coaching feature to know when to rest, go light, and go hard. But I also play sports where wearing a big watch isn't desirable or permitted and this meant I couldn't collect data for these workouts. I was left trying to estimate key stats and manually putting them in to Athlete. Otherwise, it would assume I had taken that day off when in fact I had done monster workout(s).
So when this HRM came out I was excited because one of its capabilities (primarily for swimming, where water will block the ANT signal) is to record HR data when a watch/etc is out of range and then later dump it all to the watch. I am happy to report it works as advertised with my Garmin Fenix3 watch. One important thing to note is that you MUST START THE ACTIVITY ON YOUR WATCH WITH THE HRM CONNECTED (IN...Read more
I run 40-50 miles a week plus cycle when weather permits and I use Garmin to track my time, distance, speed, HR, HRV, etc. stats. I feed the Garmin data files into FirstBeat Athlete and use its coaching feature to know when to rest, go light, and go hard. But I also play sports where wearing a big watch isn't desirable or permitted and this meant I couldn't collect data for these workouts. I was left trying to estimate key stats and manually putting them in to Athlete. Otherwise, it would assume I had taken that day off when in fact I had done monster workout(s).So when this HRM came out I was excited because one of its capabilities (primarily for swimming, where water will block the ANT signal) is to record HR data when a watch/etc is out of range and then later dump it all to the watch. I am happy to report it works as advertised with my Garmin Fenix3 watch. One important thing to note is that you MUST START THE ACTIVITY ON YOUR WATCH WITH THE HRM CONNECTED (IN...Read more