Beets Blu Heart Rate Monitor

The optional theme for The Fit Dish (hosted by Jill Conyers @ JillConyers.com, & Jessica Joy @ TheFitSwitch.org) is…favorite on-the-go breakfast ideas!

Tis the last day to enter my Nektar Naturals giveaway!

I don’t have any new recipes for you today because planning/scheduling my life is a mess (of sorts) right now.

I kinda feel like this grumpy cat.

Before I moved from the bay area (or if you want to get all technical, CA -> NJ -> CA -> WV -> KY), I don’t think I’d ever even heard of(?) mason jars. (I know, I know.)

But mason jars are where it’s at. You can use them for so many different things! I’m gonna share two old recipes with you–greek yogurt parfaits + chia pudding!

Wayyy back in the day (about 5 years ago), running was actually a semi-regular part of my life for about 1.5 years. I had just graduated with a degree in exercise biology and (nerd alert) thought it’d be cool to be able to track my progress and calculate my maximal/target heart rates and all that goodness since I was going to be running a half marathon, so I got myself a heart rate monitor to keep track of what I was doing. I had the Polar FT4, which I used for most of my runs until I moved across the country for grad school and lost all my running buddies.

Somewhere between all the moving, my Polar FT4 ran out of batteries and I also stopped running, but…I somewhat recently decided to pick it back up again, because I am currently living a rather nomadic lifestyle, and running is one of the most portable hobbies I can do at the moment! (Note to self: don’t go from zero cardio to a technical 10 miles without building up to it.)

I was contacted by BeetsBlu a couple weeks ago about reviewing their heart rate monitor. Since my heart rate monitor is ~3000 miles away in some unknown location, I was game to try it out!

There are affiliate links in this post, so if you go through it to make a purchase, I make a teensy bit of monies, at no extra cost to you!

BeetsBlu Heart Rate Monitor

You can download the BeetsBlu app (see below) for free from iTunes, or you can pair it with another app. I am a creature of habit, and back when I used to run, I used to use MapMyRun, so I checked that out with it, and it worked well!

I figured it’d do me some good to also check out the app associated with it too though!

You can see your heart rate, heart rate zones, history, set your age + weight, and also input your resting heart rate, or set it to only show your fat burning activity, so I thought that was pretty cool!

Pros

• Lightweight, comfortable + easy to use
• Variety of compatible apps on iPhone 6
• As far as HRMs go, it’s very affordable

Cons

• If you’re a hardcore runner/endurance athlete and looking for something more high-tech, this might not have all the features that you’d want, but for me at my current state, it works!
• (I currently cannot speak for the durability and the battery life since I’ve only had it for a couple weeks, but…so far, so good!)

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• What’s your favorite on-the-go breakfast?
• Have you ever used a heart rate monitor?

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