Guest post by Diane Raymond a ACE-certified personal trainer. Summer is nearly here, which means travel will be on the schedule for many of you at some point soon. Vacation itineraries don’t often include time for exercise, but with a little planning and creativity, there isn’t any reason your trip can’t include a workout or [...]
Heart Rate Monitors as a Fitness Tool
Apr 22nd, 2010
This is a guest article by Amy Kessler.Amy has been into health and fitness for herself for the past 10 years. Most of us already know the importance of getting enough cardio exercise to help strengthen our heart. Your heart has to pump blood from the top of your head to the tips of your [...]
Portable Heart Rate Monitors in Fitness and Sports
Feb 16th, 2010
An electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG) is a medical diagnostic device which graphically records the electrical activity of the muscles of the heart. It is used to identify normal and abnormal heartbeats. First invented in the early 1900s, the ECG or EKG (derived from the German electrokardiogramma) has become an important tool for diagnosis of abnormal [...]
Heart Disease and Portable Heart Monitors
Jan 16th, 2010
Cardiovascular disease is what occurs when something in the heart blood vessel or its electrical activity isn’t working right. These diseases can be manifested in various types including as abnormal rhythms. There are many different types of abnormal rhythms of the heart. Atrial fibrillation is one such disorder, it is found in about 2.2 million [...]
How to choose a Portable Heart Rate Monitor?
Dec 28th, 2009
Portable Heart Monitors enable users to measure the electrical activities of their heartbeats at home.With a monitor such as this they are not required to visit a healthcare facility. They are also not required to pay the added expense of going to the physician’s office or hospital when they need an ECG diagnosis,these can be [...]
