- Sep 29, 2000
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This is a truism across nations and gyms and brands. I have found that in many years of working out at the gym that the heart rate monitors built into the things, like the bar on a treadmill, do not work. I've tried one hand. I've tried both. Generally I'll put both on, it will realize I have two on there and start to "read my HR" and then like freaking 30 seconds later (why it takes that long nobody knows) it will spit out an insane number like 215. Or 90. The other day on a multi-thousand dollar treadmill, without even touching the pads, it was reading 190 and then spike down to 160, just all over the place.