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Shanin Cote (Shanin_c)
Junior Member
Username: Shanin_c
Post Number: 3
Registered: 1-2008
| | Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 1:46 pm: |       |
Does anyone use Heart Rate Monitors, either for personal use, or with their students or activity participants? I am particularly interested in finding out what people use them to track and if they find the monitor helpful and easy to use. I use one, and find it very useful in tracking an accurate number of calories burned during an activity session. Does anyone use them as an education tool? Anyone not like them at all? |
Paula Summit (Summit5)
Moderator
Username: Summit5
Post Number: 158
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 8:25 am: | |
I am retired, but when I was teaching, I used POLAR HRM with my students in the elementary school. It took time to teach them how to use them, but it was worth the time. I had both the ones that recorded and printed out their results and the ones that simply recorded the time they were using them that gave the above, in and below HR times. Once they knew how to use them, I set up a rotation so everyone would have a chance to use them. It was optional, but they loved to see what their HR was during class. I made log sheets for them to record their results. The log sheet included HRM & pedometers. Those sheets were kept in folders that were kept in my store room. Students took those sheets home to be signed at the end of the grading period. Grade 3 and below recorded their information on 3x5 sheets of paper that they took home after class. This made parents aware of what their child was doing and learning in class.
I know that many teachers had difficulty making the HR straps make contact with the little bodies, but most of the time it worked for me. Either one of their friends or I put the HRM straps on the kids who were unable to do it themselves. We would wet the contacts and they would pull their shirt forward and I would slide the strap up under their shirt, they would hold the contact area to their body and I would attach the other side of the strap. I would not recommend this method for every teacher...I always asked if they wanted me to put the strap on for them and it was done in the alcove to the gym proper where other students were visible.
Many of the parents purchased personal straps for their children. I kept those in box by class. They were supposed to put thier strap into a plastic baggie. I also had straps for those who didn't purchase. I had a clean bag and a used bag. I washed them at home. The students washed the HRM transmitter with soap after use and replaced them into the HRM storage case that was hanging on the store room door.
What I liked most about the HRM in class is that it gave the students the tool to monitor their heartrate during the run/jog/walk portion of class. It validated the at risk students walking during the activity which in turn, improved their attitude in class. I used the HRM receivers that recorded and printed out the log for those students. The students were not aware of what I was doing with the print out HRMs...it would appear that I was rotating that monitor among students. |
Shanin Cote (Shanin_c)
Junior Member
Username: Shanin_c
Post Number: 4
Registered: 1-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 06, 2008 - 8:44 am: | |
I didn't realize you could purchase the strap separately, and I also didn't know there were monitors that recorded and printed out the results. How many did your school purchase for you to use in class?
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Peter M. Woytowish (Pdub1107)
Junior Member
Username: Pdub1107
Post Number: 5
Registered: 9-2009
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 08, 2009 - 7:45 am: | |
I'm a current student at SRU and I had a personal fitness class that used HRM. We used the ones that do not download and they worked out fine for our class. We just strapped them on before class and had a watch that recorded how long we were in our target heart rate for and we got points if we met the required time limit. This is very basic but it worked fine for us. |
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