How to Monitor Heart Rate during Cardio Exercises
Monitoring your heart rate is essential for you to know much weight you are exerting on your heart. This also helps to determine the amount of calories you burn during the process. Nowadays, a machine that you use to exercise can monitor your heart rate while you work out, but there are a few conventional methods to measure the heart rate. You can take a count of your pulse rate to determine your heart rate.
Instructions
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Monitoring Through Machine
If you are doing workout in the gym or at home and use cardio machines, let your machine monitor get the heart rate for you. Almost all machines have installed monitors in them and they regularly monitor heart rate and calories burned while doing cardio exercises. You can adjust level of monitoring levels as you adjust your exercise regimen. -
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Purchase Separate Monitor
You can also buy separate monitor from drug store, sports and exercise shops or even you can order online sports shop or auction sites. They allow you to monitor the intensity of your workout while you do it. You can either place the monitor on your shoulder or fix it on your forearm. There are a number of monitors available in the market, it is essential that you follow instructions carefully, as otherwise you might get confused with the actual heart rate level. -
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Take Your Pulse Rate
If you do not have a monitor to scale your heart rate, you can take count of your pulse rate to determine the heart rate. You can take your pulse at two places of your body, either placing your index finger on the neck just below the jaw and ear or placing the same finger on wrist just behind your thumb. This is the simplest way of taking your heart count while doing the cardio exercises. -
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Listen to Your Body
If you do not have any other source of measuring the heart rate, use your common sense or listen to your body. You are able to judge the level of your workout on your own and adjust it accordingly. It is likely that initially your body responds less to the exercises but the level increases gradually as you increase the workout. You can increase your workout intensity with the passage of time, and let it respond in the natural way.
