When striving for a healthy lifestyle, including exercising and eating healthfully, there are many tools you can use to assist you. One particular method, that of keeping track of the calories you put in your body and the calories you burn, can be assisted with a watch that has calorie-counting capabilities. Today's sports watches have many features, including the calorie counting capability. These watches can track the number of calories you have burned during your workouts.
Basic, Less Expensive Models
There are many highly rated, inexpensive models of sports watches that include calorie-tracking capabilities. The Pro Form Heart Rate Monitor and Calorie Counter Watch, also known as PROFORM 11048, costs $64. It is a basic watch, with a heart rate monitor as well as a calorie counter. The Tech4O Accelerator Runner RM1 will cost $65. According to ConsumerSearch.com, this watch tracks pace and distance and time as well as calories burned. There is the Polar F4 Heart Rate Monitor,which is also priced at $65. Other Polar products are highly rated and this one is no different. It comes with all basic features.
Higher-End Models
The more you pay for a sports watch, the more technical features you are going to get. The Garmin Forerunner 405 is no exception. It will cost you $300. The features it includes are distance, speed, time, heart rate and calories. It is also Global Positioning System, or GPS, enabled. Then there is the NordicTrack CardioTrack Combo Heart Rate Monitor Watch. This watch costs $190. It has a timer, a heart rate monitor that runs with or without a chest strap, which is included, fat burn and calorie counters and a 100 hour stopwatch.
Strapless Pedometer Watches
There is a different model of watches with calorie counter features. This type is a strapless version which you would hook onto your pants waist band. For a basic model, there is Liquid Crystal Display, also known as LCD, Pedometer Walking Step Calorie Counter Watch. This watch does everything its name says it does and it will only cost about $8. A higher-end version of this type is the Highgear VIA FM Radio Pedometer with Calorie Counter, Watch, and Chronograph. A chronograph is a watch with stopwatch capabilities. Again, this strapless watch does everything that its title says and it will cost $30.
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