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Message: [QUOTE="vtcwbuff, post: 3211396, member: 1197"] I don't wear one. I mentioned it to my cadiologist a couple of visits ago thinking that he might recommend one. I brisk walk 3-5 miles a day at a local track and use an inexpensive, accurate, pedometer. I was concerned with wearing something that would indicate a target heart rate and had read much about how inaccurate many popular heart rate monitors are. My doctor told me that my target heart rate is "slow" and it would be a waste of money since one of the meds I take controls heart rate. He was right - I tried to raise my heart rate by walking faster and the highest I could get it was 92 bpm. Walking at 3.5 mph it is about 85 bpm. [/QUOTE]