Finally a Heart Rate Monitor designed for swimming. Heart rate is the only accurate measurement of your intensity or your effort level, and a heart rate monitor is the easiest and most precise way to continuously measure your heart rate. By understanding and monitoring your ideal heart-rate zone while training, you are able to consistently train your body at the optimum fitness levels. Knowing the work zone for your heart prevents over-training, under-training, and encourages correct pacing.

Current versions of Heart Rate Monitors (HRM) consist of a watch worn on your wrist, and a transmitter that you wear against your skin, most often around your chest. The transmitter picks up the signals of your heart and sends them wirelessly to the watch you wear on your wrist. This setup may be good for running and dry land training, but is quite awkward and inconvenient for training in the water. The chest strap is cumbersome for swimmers, often loosening or falling off, resulting in an inaccurate heart rate. Additionally, if a swimmer is using current HRM, he or she can only read their heart rate while stopped. Thus, the swimmer will receive skewed results during stoppage rather than immediate and continuous feedback while swimming. As a result, current HRM do not provide a precise understanding of the training heart rate during aquatic fitness exercises such as swimming.

Finis Aqua Pulse HRM has been created specifically for swimmers. Its water proof design changes both how the heart rate is sensed and how the heart rate is transmitted to the user. All functions are integrated into one small unit that the user clips on to their goggle strap and rests on their temple. The Aqua Pulse uses an accurate infrared sensor that clips to the earlobe in order to pick up the swimmer heart rate. By measuring the light pulses due to capillary blood flow in the skin, the sensors calculate the number of Beats Per Minute (BPM) that the body is working. The internal computer then audibly communicates this heart rate to the user using the revolutionary Bone-Conduction Technology. Humans normally hear through air conduction, but because there is no air underneath the water, bone conduction provides the clearest sound quality possible. In utilizing bone-conduction, the sound vibrations are communicated through the temple bone to the inner ear where sound is transferred. By simply turning the unit on, the swimmer heart rate can be sensed and automatically communicated during the swim.

Finis Aqua Pulse HRM using the new Bone Conduction and Infrared Sensor technologies brings an entirely new level of experience to swimmers. Now users are able to understand their specific heart rate while in the middle of the pool, giving consistent feedback during the swim. No cumbersome chest straps or watches are needed! All the audible settings on the Aqua Pulse are adjustable and the unit is completely submergible and waterproof.