To get the most out of your fitness training or health-monitoring program, let lifestyle consumer electronics company, Oregon Scientific, help you along with their heart rate monitor (model number HR308).

The HR308 is the ‘smart trainer’ model and smart it is! Smart trainer means that by entering your personal details – sex, age, weight and height – the device will set your own personal training zones, making it easier for you to monitor your progress.

The wireless chest strap measures your heart rate and transmits the data to the watch. The results are then displayed on the HighGlo backlight screen also calculating the number of calories and percentage of fat burnt while exercising.

The product also features a heart rate alarm alert to keep you in the zone. And if all of that isn’t enough, this nifty gadget has a 12/24-hour clock with alarm and calendar as well as a 100-hour stopwatch.