Cardiorespiratory Monitoring

You have decided to make exercise a part of your daily regimen but are wondering how you will know that you are working out enough. This is a question that many people have to deal with, and the good news is that it is possible through monitoring with devices that are now widely available in the market. Monitoring vitals such as your heart rate, your respiratory rate, temperature and others will tell you how much energy you are burning up every time you work out.

This is important because workouts are only effective if you are burning up more calories than you are consuming. It is a good measure of your health – if you are healthy you should be able to expend more energy than you are consuming without overstraining yourself. A cardiovascular monitoring device will also tell you when you are overworking your body. You also get to know how your body performs in different environments – how comfortable are you working out outdoors as opposed to indoors, for example?

As we age our systems age too, and it is important to keep track of how this is happening so that if any problems start to develop you can get ahead of them. You want your heart to keep going strong for as many years as possible and it is not enough to work out and hope that it does – you need definitive proof, and the only way you can get it is with the use of a cardiorespiratory monitoring device. Buy one that can give you as many statistics as possible; in fact, there are some that will even warn you of impending problems so that you can see your doctor on time.

Equivital has developed several excellent such devices and they are used by athletes, medics and ordinary people like you and me. You can find out how to buy one on their website, http://www.equivital.co.uk/.