Are you looking for the best continuous heart rate monitor? A heart rate monitor is very useful in measuring your heart rate during exercise. You can improve your heart’s strength and your overall fitness by exercising in a particular heart rate zone to achieve maximum results by using a heart rate monitor that lets you read your heart rate data continuously while you exercise.  These are just two reasons why you need a continuous heart rate monitor for exercise activities.

A continuous read HR monitor can provide a reading with a single glance.  Just imagine you are running and you need to touch the screen every time you want to know your heart rate, how inconvenient it is! Touch-type heart rate monitor like a Mi band can be fun but it can’t work for a serious fitness trainer.

There are 2 types of heart rate monitor continuous reading you should know: heart rate monitor using with a chest strap and strapless heart rate monitor watch. If you use a chest strap, you will need to wear it under your chest and see heart rate data through your smartphone or buy a wrist-watch receiver. Using a strapless heart rate monitor watch, may be more comfortable for you since you can wear it like a watch and read all data through the clock face. However for some athletes, chest straps seem to be more accurate as they use EKG sensor, not an optical sensor like the modern heart rate monitor watch.

Which one do you prefer? About the chest strap continuous heart monitor, you can find a lot of useful information in my posts: Best Polar heart rate monitor and Garmin heart rate monitor – these 2 are the top brands for chest strap continuous heart rate reading. The strap continuous heart rate monitor has been popular in the market for quite a long time, while the strapless continuous heart rate monitor watch just showed off a few years ago. Mio Alpha heart rate monitor was one of the first strapless continuous wristwatch heart rate monitor and was recommended by many people. Thus in this post, I will provide you pros and cons of this and other strapless heart rate monitors.

Review Best Continuous Heart Rate Monitor Watches

Continuous heart rate monitor without a chest strap is a new technology that was introduced just about 3 years ago. We can name some of the first strapless heart rate watch of famous brands: Mio Alpha (2013), Garmin Forerunner 225 (2015), and Polar A360 (2015).It was so hot that many brands join this market and release a lot of new models. Even the Apple watch can be considered as a strapless continuous heart rate monitor watch.
I will compare some of the most reviewed continuous reading wristwatch so you can more easily decide which one fits best with you:

Review of Mio Alpha 1 and 2 Continuous Heart Rate Monitor Watches

Mio is a Taiwanese electronics maker founded in 2002 that manufactures and markets Pocket PCs, Personal Digital Assistants, smartphones and Personal Navigation Devices. Mio Alpha continuous heart rate monitor is one of the first wristwatch heart rate monitors in the market.

Mio Alpha I is targeted at serious athletes who want to accurately assess their performance during workouts. It has one primary purpose, besides telling the time, and that’s to measure heart rate. The Mio Alpha strapless continuous heart rate didn’t include any other tracking features.

Mio at the 2015 International CES trade show on Monday announced the Mio Alpha 2. The watch has the same continuous wireless heart-rate monitoring as the original, but also adds improved software, a backlight, an improved stopwatch and a built-in accelerometer. Mio Alpha 2 strapless continuous heart rate can track your calories, pace, speed and distance without a smartphone connection. But there’s no sleep tracking or step count, and it’s unclear how the watch will accurately track pace and speed without a GPS signal.

However who those who just concern measuring heart rate and want to do it at ease, Mio Alpha I & Mio Alpha 2 continuous heart monitors are still two of my favorites as the best choices.

As I mentioned above, to learn more about the chest strap continuous heart monitors, you can find a lot of useful information in my previous posts: Best Polar heart rate monitor and Garmin heart rate monitor – these two devices  are the top brands for chest strap continuous heart rate reading. The strap continuous heart rate monitor has been very popular for quite a long time, while the strapless continuous heart rate monitor watch just appeared on the market a few years ago.