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Okay, so I called the Polar customer service line last week. They explained that the eloctrodes on the newer model HRM are very sensitive to salt build up. The young lady recommended that I wash it thoroughly after each workout in the washer machine. Which is totally too time consuming. However, I did try it that night and the next day it worked great the next day.

So, now I have been hand washing it in the sink each night with mild bar soap. So, far it's working much better.

Interesting. I think I've had mine about a year or so and the instructions in mine say to wash weekly in the machine. I wonder what she means by "newer".

I've always scrubbed the contact pads with my fingers when I rinsed it off, that's not enough for my strap.

Glad the handwashing is working for you. :)

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I use livestrong.com it has callorie tracking and what you burn...awsome tool beven breaks down your sugars and everything.

Livestrong.com is good for recording food intake, but on calorie expenditure it is very inaccurate. I did use it for about a year though, before I got my HRM.. so if it's working for you.. great. But as you get closer to goal, you may need more accurate info.

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I agree that livestrong is very inaccurate with calories. For my kickboxing class it says for 45 minutes I should burn 807 calories, with my HR monitor I actually burn anywhere from 400-450, depends how hard I work. Now the elliptical is closer to my actual number, but still quite off. So unfortunately you may be fooling yourself into thinking you are burning more calories than you are

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I always drink Chinese green tea to lose my excessive amount of weight of the body.Green tea reduces weight very quick and burn almost 200 calories in a day.It also prevent the fat cells of the body.

Not a prayer that drinking green tea will burn 200 calories in a day... There are studies showing it is beneficial but nothing near that extent. Please cite the study showing this...

Personal heart rate monitors during cardio are very important! Don't rely much on the ones on gym equipment - they are at best generalizations.

Brad

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It sucks recently I think my polar HRM has taken a turn for the worst. It is an older model an F6 and it has been giving me very unreliable data for the past week or so. For example it says my max HR is all the suddenmuch higher than it was. Also the calories burned have dropped drastically, I did lose weight and I expected it to drop but not by like 100 calories a session. I did take earlier advice and scrub the electrodes but no dice. I've e-mailed polar today and waiting on a response. May have to get a new one, or consider a body bugg

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It sucks recently I think my polar HRM has taken a turn for the worst. It is an older model an F6 and it has been giving me very unreliable data for the past week or so. For example it says my max HR is all the suddenmuch higher than it was. Also the calories burned have dropped drastically, I did lose weight and I expected it to drop but not by like 100 calories a session. I did take earlier advice and scrub the electrodes but no dice. I've e-mailed polar today and waiting on a response. May have to get a new one, or consider a body bugg

Dig around on the polar site.. they have detailed suggestions for helping with the contacts on the strap. Have you tried a Water based lubricant on the contacts? I find that works MUCH better than plain Water.< /p>

And if you decide to go with a different device.. as well as looking at the bodybugg, look at bodyfit media (same company as bodybugg) and fitbit. Fitbit I think does almost the same as the BB, but it's a lot cheaper.

Good luck

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I just came back from my kickboxing class and it finally after a week of acting weird gave me accurate data. Idk maybe it was moving around a lot or something, not sure. This may sound stupid but I just got a new sports bra and wore it the first time today, so maybe it was moving around to much with my old bras. I'll have to see if it continues to work. But I feel better that the info I have been getting all week was truly off and I was not going crazy

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