Fitness Tracker that's NOT for running or sleeping? :)

[Kelemvor]

Howdy,

I'm just wondering what a good BUDGET fitness tracker would be with an emphasis on Heart Rate monitoring and NOT on GPS. Most of the reviews I see online are either focused on Running of Sleeping. I'm looking for one that I can use for general cardio workouts like Spinning or Cardio Kickboxing to track Heart Rate and give me info on calories burned and such. I would wear it to sleep and other things since seeing that info might be neat, but that isn't the primary reason I'd want something.

I use my phone for GPS tracking if I go running or biking so don't need the tracker to do that sort of thing.

If it has a watch face, that'd be great since i wear a watch all the time and don't really want to have to wear two thing son my wrists.

I prefer something that doesn't involve a chest strap but don't know if any of the wrist based devices have good enough HR tracking to be worth it or not.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks.

 

[zerogear]

HR is not really that active when you're moving around, however it is generally close enough to get an average. I would probably suggest MiBand 2 with Tools & Mi Band app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.zdenekhorak.mibandtools) which includes a more comprehensive HR charting/monitoring, including continuous monitoring.

 

[jhansman]

The Xiaomi Mi2 Band can be had for <$30, and depending on the software you use with it, will do cardio easily. Also a ton of other stuff, but I got mine just for heart rate when active.