hi everyone welcome back to wesknows tech news and reviews today we'll be looking at the wellue
heart rate monitor so this is the visual beat it's tiny it's only 10 centimeters by 2.3 centimeters
and quite thin as you can see and it's also feather light at just 18 grams in this review
we're going to be telling you everything about this hrm on top of that we'll also be explaining
what your heart rate actually means why do we measure it how do we measure it and how this thing
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why do people seek heart rate monitors in the first place by using a heart rate
monitor you can figure out or measure how hard or how intense your heart works
during workouts this intensity is measured in average beats per minute and when you know these
average beats per minute you can actually target your training to particular heart rate zones
technically a heartbeat is a pressure pulse causing blood to surge in circulate throughout
your body calculating the pulses per minute can indicate the intensity of a given exercise the
chest strap acts similar to an electrodiagram aka ecg the ecg measures the electrical activity
of the heart hence the electrodes on the actual heart rate monitor so these little things here
and they have to be in contact with your skin each heartbeat is associated with corresponding signal
phase and characteristics on the ecg for heart rate measurement the most important signal phase
is the qrs complex that represents the contraction of the ventricles essentially doing the
push of the blood out of the heart with the value hrm so the visual beat you can actually
record your ecg anywhere from 1 to 30 minutes and if you do the actual recording the central
and most usually obvious part of the tracing in other words the main spike seen on the ecg line
is the qrs complex it's a combination of three of the graphical deflections seen on a typical ecg
it corresponds to the depolarization of the right and left ventricles of the human heart
and contraction of the large ventricular muscles so to summarize this hrm especially using these
electrodes on the back here when in contact with your skin and preferably close to your heart it
actually me it actually measures the pulses or the pulsating heart so basically the actual heart
beats all the times when the blood is being pushed out of the heart it's quite easy to actually use
this monitor because you charge it up with the usb cable the charging time of this little thing
takes about two to three hours so i've managed to do it within about two hours and 45 minutes
and this will actually give you a run time of 40 to 50 hours the manufacturer claims 48 hours
which is quite decent because i've taken it on runs and my runs usually last anywhere between
an hour and two hours so if your run is one hour you can actually use this heart rate monitor
after charging it just once for 48 runs that's quite a bit you'll be happy to know that there is
a free app that comes along with any of the willow products so it's connected via bluetooth and it's
called vhealth the good thing is you can download it on either ios or android phones so it doesn't
matter if you've got a samsung or an iphone just go to your google play store or the apple store
download vihealth app but make sure that you pair the device not via your bluetooth settings in the
phone but in actual vihealth app the device can store up to 10 sessions so let's say you've done
one run two runs 10 runs then you'll need to actually sync it up with your v health app
for the data to be transferred from here to your smartphone if you go past the 10 recordings then
the device will overwrite your last measurements there are two ways you can actually use the wellue
visual beat so the usual way i'm sure you know is you stick it onto a heart rate strap so here it is
this is the actual chest strap from willow so we can see it here it's elastic and it's a generic
side you do have the actual the extender belt here so you can make it shorter you can make it longer
that's not an issue at all now there's no clip-on effect here as you would see on the polar strap
rather it's just a simple slip-on so here it locks in and you can take it off just like that simple
the electrodes are on the back right here so they go under your chest muscles
but you obviously know that in order to get this to work you will need to put some water on top of
this just maybe put a drop on here and sort of spread it out with your fingers because you do
need to make sure that the electrodes in order for them to pass the electrical activity of the heart
they will need to have some moisture on it because this side will actually be touching onto your skin
while the actual heart rate monitor will be stuck on there let me show you how to do that
so quite simple take it on here and you clip it on like so
done ready to use ready to slip on
but as i have just mentioned there are actually two ways of using the
willow visual beat the second way is very innovative and i have only seen this in movies
so you take your heart rate monitor and you take these disposable electrodes so and you
simply stick them on the back they also click in place boom and you do the same with the second one
click it in there we go now all you need to do is go to the edge tear off the plastic bits and
you actually stick them on yourself let me show you an example of what i did just before my run
please make note that there is a letter r on the actual hrm here it is
and that means that the r does have to be on the right side of your chest i hope you found
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