Pyle Sports Fitness Tracker Watch - Heart Rate Monitor Healthy Wristband Pedometer Activity Tracker Steps Counter Stop Watch Alarm Water Resistant Calorie Counter Target Zones - Silver (PHRM38SL) Review

I am a fitness professional who has personally used the Polar rs300x to track my workouts for the past two years. I decided to look for another heart rate monitor for my clients and didn't want to spend a lot of money. The Pyle PHRM38GR had all the features I was looking for; custom settings, average and maximum heart rate and calories burned. For the price I thought it would be a steal if it worked. When the package arrived and I opened it I thought the build quality didn't look good. The…

I only bought this product to count calories during my workout so I can apply the number to my total daily calories in an Excel spreadsheet. This is very important to keep track of how many calories I'm consuming per day and how much I'm burning during exercise. This is the best way for me to lose weight. However, Pyle's calorie counting feature is useless. First, this device only measures in kilocalories, which = 1000 calories per 1 kcal. This calorie resolution is totally useless for someone…

My gym advertised a chest strap that would 'motivate and monitor' our progress and effort. I love the idea of quantifying my efforts to encourage hard work. But I didn't like the idea that I wouldn't have a screen (like in this gym) to keep track of my heart rate and calorie burn. I also didn't want to pay $75 for a chest strap, which I found pretty much useless unless I'm wearing running shoes. So I looked at other chest monitors that can be worn with a watch and used for bikram, waking up at…