How to Enjoy a Cardio Heart Rate Monitor

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Ken Kashabura, personal trainer and freelance fitness writer. And this is how to enjoy a cardio heart rate monitor. To enjoy a cardio heart rate monitor, what you need to do is you need to get to wear a chest strap. Now, when you're putting on the chest strap, it has to be just under the chest, and the transmitter's going to go right in the middle of the chest. Ladies if you're wearing these, it would go right under your sports bra. When you turn it on, you're going to make sure that your heart rate's coming up. If your heart rate is not coming up, what you can do is you can wet the inside of the strap, give it a couple of seconds, and it will come on. Most heart rate monitors have a lot of different zones in them, and you can put in heart rates - your maximum heart rate, your minimum heart rate - and what they can do is they'll give you different zones. So you got easy, medium and hard. And so when you do, when you're done with your workout, you can go in there and you can look up how long you exercised, how hard you were working so what's your average heart rate was, how long you stayed in each zone. I'm Ken Kashabura, and that's how to enjoy a cardio heart rate monitor."