GarminHRM Pro Plus

This heart rate monitor is an outstanding choice for serious athletes and fitness enthusiasts. The chest strap design ensures a secure fit, and it delivers precise heart rate readings during workouts, which is essential for optimizing training sessions. I particularly appreciate the added feature of capturing running dynamics, providing valuable insights into my performance. The device is comfortable to wear for extended periods, and the battery life is impressive, lasting for weeks on a single charge. Overall, this heart rate monitor combines accuracy, comfort, and advanced features, making it an excellent tool for anyone looking to take their fitness to the next level.

I purchased this so I could have higher accuracy (and more responsive) heart rate readings than my watch gives me, and so that I could specifically run a lactate threshold test to better set up my heart rate zones. I pair this with a garmin forerunner 965 and so far it has worked seamlessly.Pretty simple unboxing, but not a lot of information is given. It does not just pair automatically, but has to be added to the watch. Its relatively simple, but there is a step required to do it. Then when worn and starting an activity, the watch automatically recognizes it and uses data from the strap over its own sensors.As far as I can tell, the heart rate readings I am getting from it are accurate and responsive, though in my case, I am not sure its a massive improvement over the optical heart rate sensor I am already using. Though I am sure its still an improvement.Running the lactate threshold test was handled by my watch, but it required an external heart monitor and again as far as I can tell it works well.The watch reports my heart rate changes quickly when I change pace and while I have yet to do any sprint intervals with it yet, I imagine it will fare much better than the watch, which could often miss the entire interval before my heart rate would respond on the watch.

Works really well, pretty comfortable, and easy to care for. It seems accurate. Highly recommend.

Great HRM! Seamlessly syncs with my garmin watch when running and my wahoo computer when cycling. Does get a little smelly after wearing it, but I make sure to rub soap on it to prevent it from stinking up. I do not wear it while swimming unless I am wearing a wet suit over my heart rate monitor as it falls down when I am moving through the water. Battery life is pretty long and only change it about once a year.

I've had my eye on a heart rate monitor for quite a while because I was honestly a little curious about how accurate my Garmin venue 3s was being that it's on my wrist and it gets jostled around a lot as I'm running. I knew when I bought my watch that because it's pretty much the newest watch available and that they advertised that the heart rate monitor on it was the same as Garmin's $1,000 watch but to be honest I'm still skeptical about the accuracy of watch statistics in general so when I saw this heart rate monitor was 80 something dollars compared to the over 120 on the Garmin website I had to have it while it was such a good price!So before I bought this I spoke to somebody from Garmin just to see that this was indeed compatible with my watch because I saw that there was a lot of people in the review section here that didn't believe this was compatible with the venue series even though on the Garmin website this heart rate monitor shows photos in a list with all the watches compatible with it so just to be sure I talked to the Garmin associate and she confirmed, yes, the venue series is compatible with this heart rate monitor. The only downside to my watch with this heart rate monitor is that she said my watch wasn't Advanced enough (ie: not from their strict sports lines like the forerunner, epix, or fennix series) so while it would track my heart rate, all of the running Dynamics wouldn't record from this. Also, weirdly enough, she mentioned this wouldn't read my heart rate in the pool with my particular watch which I was confused about because I don't understand how the heart rate can work while running and all other activities but not with swimming? Even though my watch has open and indoor swiming options? But nevertheless I'm kind of cool with that because I dont swim with my watch and I bought this because I do a lot of heart rate training while running or cardio in general so I can kind of brush that aside. Another downside for the venue 3 watch is that for some reason even though I can get Dynamics from my watch itself it won't read from the heart rate monitor so all of the aspects of the heart rate monitor that can improve your indoor running or make it more accurate on the treadmill, from what I understand, won't send to my device so my stats will still read from my watch. Now onto my proper review!I've worn this heart rate monitor for about a week now and over the course of four different workout sessions ive tested it with a mix of running, indoor cycling, and the elliptical. From what I see compared to the stats from my watch from previous exercises as well as comparing it to the heart rate monitor on my gym equipment (which reads 5-10 bpm close to my watch) I'm able to say with absolute certainty that the venue 3 watch is actually super accurate with my heart rate! Basically if I'm just stationary or walking or doing any sort of activity that doesn't shake my wrist horribly then it reads my heart rate the same as this heart rate strap. The heart rate strap however is so good at picking up my heart rate that it'll read my heart rate as raising or lowering on a dime with little to no delay and when I'm running it'll read my heart rate is actually about 10 to 20 beats per minute slower than what I've been going off of on my watch. Which is actually such a relief because historically I have been struggling so hard at running in the easy Zone that I honestly thought I just had to do run/walk intervals to keep my heart rate under 145. My charts in the app also read so much smoother. Before it would look like sharp peeks that would jut up or down and now it reads as hills and slopes. It connects easy, starts automatically when I put it on, and stays in place once I place it under my sports bra band. As far as the Dynamics I cant tell if its true it dosnt record because it was able to tell I was still moving even though I had both my arms up, texting, while walking on the treadmill which usually if my arm with the watch stops moving it thinks I stopped walking/running and it also proped for a calibration of milage after its first treadmill use soo? I'm also skeptical it wont read my hr while swimmung as I just tested by putting it on and selecting the indoor swim option on my watch and it proped that my hr monitor connected so I believe some of the info the garmin associate gave me was wrong 🤷‍♀️Anyways, this has definitely been a game changer in my workouts this week and Im so jazzed to have this in my arsenal for my next training block!

Bought this to work with my Garmin Venu 2SQ. It fits me comfortably and connected easily to my smartwatch. I hike 5-6 miles 3 days a week in desert hills and another of 9 mile hike when I feel like it. Heart rate readings for the first mile or so seemed very erratic using the internal watch sensor. After that, there are a few times on uphill climbs that heart rate doesn't seem to track what I am feeling. The HRM Pro seems much more accurate and much closer to the Polar monitor with chest strap I used 10-15 years ago when I was a runner (too old for that now). I got to where I could physically sense my heart rate, look at the Polar and I was within a couple BPM of the watch most of the time. The HRM Pro with Venu 2SQ is more like that experience now. I guess it gathers a lot of other metrics, but the watch is fine for those. Happy with the purchase.

Loved the belt, so easy to put on and off -- but it doesn't work with my exercise equipment brand !! A bummer- had to return