I am a sucker for tech gadgets
May 18th, 2008
I was thinking about getting a heart rate monitor, so started researching and found this Yamaha Bodibeat. It’s an mp3 player that is also a heart rate monitor. In monitor mode, it will match the tempo of your music with your desired heart rate, i.e. play a faster song if your heart rate is slow or player a slower tempo song if your heart rate is too high. There’s another mode that matching the tempo of the music with your pace via the pace counting feature. And after your workout, you can download the info from the device to your PC and see your running stats. It will also function as a regular mp3 player to listen to your own playlists etc. How cool is that? Or am I just a geek with disposable income?
May 18th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Yes! I hav…err I mean I recognize the symptoms and you are a geek
What a great find. I have to have that gadget! I mean jeeze look at all the stuff it does, what a neat little rig. As for the $$$…ya can’t put a price tag on your health.
May 19th, 2008 at 10:42 am
this sounds really cool. are you going to get it, and be our guinea pig?
-k
May 19th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
It is coming out summer ‘08, no idea on the price. If it’s reasonable, I might buy it. I was thinking about a heart rate monitor, so that would justify a little bit of the expense, right?