Elevate Your Fitness with the Echelon Beat Advanced Armband Heart Rate Monitor Review

Bought this for my daughter on a whim and I am so happy with it. I was expecting to be able to use my Apple Watch for heart rate and other analysis, but Echelon is currently working on that integration. At the same time, it works very well with the bike and fitness app.

I sometimes have trouble syncing with the Echelon app even though my settings confirm Bluetooth is on and connected. They didn't sync the last time I used them and I didn't have time to figure it out, but the watch itself still glowed with colors representing heart rate per minute so I could still see where I was on the heart rate scale found. I didn't want to spend extra money on a watch that does a million other things, that's what I need it for and it does the job.

We bought our Echelon bike from Costco. We initially liked the bike and this heart rate monitor was a good add-on purchase for the bike. The bike's electronics failed after two months. After many attempts to get support from Echelon, their support rep finally admitted that there was something wrong with the bikes they knew about and the only solution for them was to send me a new bike. By new bike they meant a refurbished bike. To make matters worse they said I would have to disassemble my…