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Indicates whether the model employs a chest strap mounted ... a watch that takes continuous heart rates from the user's wrist. The Polar FT1 is part of the Heart-rate monitors test program at ...

Pretty much every fitness tracker and smartwatch has an optical heart rate sensor, but they're not always perfectly accurate. Not only can you get better accuracy by wearing a chest strap heart ...