If you’re a true health and fitness fanatic, wanting more from your exercise program, then let leading consumer lifestyle electronics company, Oregon Scientific, help you become more productive and motivated.

Their SE121 and SE132 heart rate monitors have vibration functions that are unique to Oregon Scientific. These clever products can be personalised and tailored to suit your fitness needs through the smart training program that’s in-built. Once you’ve entered your personal profile – gender, age, weight, height – your training zones will be set automatically helping you monitor your progress more easily. The information is transmitted to the watches by the wireless chest straps.

A user-selectable audible or vibration heart rate alert function is available and when armed will let off two short beeps and vibration with a down or up arrow icon being displayed on the LCD screen. This lets you know that you’re either not reaching the lower limit of your maximum heart rate or that you’re exceeding the upper limit of your maximum heart rate. This vibration feature is ideal when either plugged into a personal stereo or used while in the gym, when hearing a beep is almost impossible!

These nifty devices also feature alerts for warm-up and training periods. A countdown timer of five minutes is automatically activated when your warm-up session begins (if you choose to do a warm-up) and the same applies to the training session – once the warm-up session has ended the countdown begins on the time you’ve input for your exercise session. You’ll know when the session is over – you’ll be alerted by three beeps!

The additional feature of the SE132 is the 44-lap memory.

These aren’t the only things the SE121 and SE132 can handle – there’s more! The LCD display shows the current time (in 12- or 24-hour format), date, as well as all the information relating to training – heart rate, average heart rate (with a range between 30-240 beats per minute) as well as calorie and fat burning calculations. It can be worn as a watch or fix it to the handlebars of your bike if you’re cycling.