{"id":4472,"date":"2009-10-04T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-04T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/?p=4472"},"modified":"2011-05-03T11:24:25","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T17:24:25","slug":"heart-rate-monitor-ring-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/2009\/10\/04\/heart-rate-monitor-ring-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Gadget Review: Brookstone Heart Rate Monitor Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"fitness product reviews\" href=\"http:\/\/fittip.me\/mLRR5U\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10070\" style=\"margin: 10px; border: 3px solid black;\" title=\"heart monitor ring review \" src=\"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/ring.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"155\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/ring.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/ring-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve been wearing a heart rate monitor for probably the last 4 years. \u00a0Of course, I&#8217;m using the watch with chest strap setup. I have great success with this equipment and I&#8217;m not sure I could have trained for the marathon without it. \u00a0Now, that chest strap isn&#8217;t the most comfortable, so when I saw that there was a heart rate monitor ring out there &#8211; I had to give it a try!<\/p>\n<p>Here is my review on the Brookstone Heart Rate Monitor Ring<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pros:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Device Size\n<ul>\n<li>It is lightweight and great for walking or running.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Sizer Ring\n<ul>\n<li>Adapted to my smaller fingers with the sizer ring<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Price\n<ul>\n<li>At only $40, this would be a steal (if it worked).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Cons:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Not Multi-Functional\n<ul>\n<li>Either timer or heart rate, not both.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>No Calorie Counter\n<ul>\n<li>A feature I wasn&#8217;t sure I&#8217;d miss, I did.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>No Light\n<ul>\n<li>Another trivial feature that I apparently use often.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Put to the Test:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My usual jogging bpm (beats per minute) is around 170- 174. \u00a0On this particular jog, my watch\/ strap read my heart rate at 170 bpm. \u00a0At the same time, the ring was reading between 98-140 bpm.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nConclusion: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t have any success with this product.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"gadget review heart rate monitor ring\" href=\"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/2009\/10\/01\/gadget-review-heart-rate-monitor-ring\/\">Watch Full Gadget Review: Fit Life<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"heart rate monitor ring review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brookstone.com\/heart-rate-monitor-ring.html?his=2~46337~2~root_category%40kwd~heart+rate+monitor+ring\">Brookstone Heart Rate Monitor Ring<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"fitness product reviews\" href=\"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\"><em>WithAmyMac.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been wearing a heart rate monitor for probably the last 4 years. \u00a0Of course, I&#8217;m using the watch with chest strap setup. I have great success with this equipment and I&#8217;m not sure I could have trained for the marathon without it. \u00a0Now, that chest strap isn&#8217;t the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,619,12,23,9,620,225,616,8,93,613,21],"class_list":["post-4472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-amy-mac","tag-brookstone-heart-rate-monitor-ring","tag-exercise","tag-fit-life","tag-fitness","tag-fitness-equipment-review","tag-fitness-tips","tag-gadget-review","tag-health","tag-health-and-fitness","tag-heart-rate-monitor","tag-withamymac"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}