Impact Sports Technologies introduces the world's first armband heart rate monitor and calorimeter, the ePulse™. Until now dynamic heart rate monitors required an uncomfortable chest strap and special watch practically restricting their use to serious athletes. ePulse, the "People's Fitness Monitor," now makes it practical and convenient for anyone who exercises or is interested in tracking calories burned to obtain the benefits of heart rate monitoring while conducting literally any type of activity from running to walking or simply doing daily chores.

• Continuous Heart Rate For All Types of Activities
• Calories Burned Feature Supports Weight Management
• Tracks Exercise and Activity Time For Those On-the-Go
• Fat Burn/Cardio Alerts Keep Exercise on Target
• Easily Cleaned and Hand Rinseable

Your heart rate provides a window to overall fitness. It is an indicator of intensity and efficiency of exercise including calories burned. The ePulse™ continuously acquires and shows your current exercise heart rate and calculates and displays calories burned based on your heart rate and personal profile. If you use the ePulse™ several times a day it automatically adds your calories burned into a grand daily total.

The ePulse™, allows you to determine how many calories you burn in the course of any activity that elevates your heart rate, from intense aerobic activity to routine daily activities such as moving around the office or doing work around the house.

This function takes your BMR, which is a prediction of how many calories you will burn based on your personal data input, and adds the Daily Exercise Calories Burned to show you your total caloric burn for a day. This complements the Exercise Calories Burned Per Hour feature of the ePulse™ by showing an estimate of the total calories you would burn daily. This is particularly useful for those trying to count calories and lose weight through a program of diet and exercise. As you exercise, the ePulse™ will automatically add the calories you burn to your daily total so you can see the cumulative results of your efforts.

The ePulse displays the elapsed exercise time. This allows you to plan your work out time and exercise regimen effectively.

The Average Heart Rate feature displays your average heart rate over time. Average heart rate is an overall indicator of your fitness. Typically, a lower heart rate is indicative of a healthier heart. One measure of an exercise program's effectiveness is a decrease in average heart rate as your fitness improves. The Average Heart Rate feature can also provide an indication of "over exercise" if your heart rate measurement is 5-10 beats above your average heart rate for an extended period of time.

The Minimum Heart Rate feature displays your minimum heart rate before each reset of the ePulse monitor. As you see improvements in your cardio and fitness levels, you should see your minimum heart rate decrease over time.

The Maximum Heart Rate feature displays your maximum heart rate before each reset of the ePulse monitor.

Based on your personal data, the ePulse monitor will automatically calculate optimal heart rate exercise zones for you in order for you to achieve the maximum health benefits from your activities. The ePulse illuminates a green LED to alert you that you are in your selected target exercise zone:

Fat Burning Zones Provided as a target low and high range for your heart rate to optimize fat burning during exercise or other activities that elevate your heart rate into these zones.

Cardio Conditioning Provided as a high and low range for your heart rate to optimize cardio conditioning during exercise or other activity that elevates your heart rate into these zones.

Q. How does the ePulse™ differ from the chest strap heart rate monitors that are on the market today?
A. The difference is convenience! Impact Sports Technologies has used proprietary technology to place the sensor that captures heart rate in an easily worn armband instead of on an uncomfortable chest strap. The ePulse™ is self-contained and displays your fitness data right on the back of the armband.

Q. Is the ePulse only for athletes?
A. Absolutely not! The ePulse has been designed to monitor heart rate and calories burned for all types of activity ranging from intense aerobics such as running or dancing, to racquet sports such as tennis and everyday activity such as walking around the block or simply going up and down the stairs. The ePulse™ makes it possible for the first time for anyone to conveniently monitor their activity levels and obtain instant feedback on the benefits.

Q. I am having trouble getting to the personal data entry menu.
A. Since this menu is generally used only one time, it is slightly difficult to get into to prevent you from accidentally entering the menu and deleting or misconfiguring your personal data. To get to the personal data entry menu you must quickly double click the right hand data button. Try using your fingernail for two rapid clicks. Or you may take off your ePulse, turn it on and hold it in your hand to double click the data button and complete the personal data entry.

Q. Does the ePulse tell time or have a stopwatch function?
A. No. ePulse will track and display your exercise time. It is not designed to be a timepiece, but to complement your favorite sports watch.

Q. Can ePulse be worn on either arm?
A. Yes, typically a right handed person will wear it on their left arm and vice versa.

Q. Can I clean my ePulse?
A. Yes. Your ePulse is designed to be cleaned with soap and water. It is not designed to be fully immersed in water however.

Q. What is the battery life?
A. Standard alkaline AAA batteries will last 17 continuous hours and lithium AAA batteries will last 70 continuous hours.

Q. Why is it useful to know my heart rate?
A. Your heart rate provides a useful measure of the intensity of your activity during exercise and can be used to calculate your calories burned. By monitoring your heart rate with the ePulse during daily activities or exercise you will receive immediate feedback on the quality and intensity of your activity.

Q. What are the benefits of activity that elevates my heart rate?
A. The benefits are many to include increased fat and calorie burning, more efficient cardio vascular system, reduced blood pressure, decreased risk of diabetes and heart disease.

Q. How high should my heart rate be to begin achieving benefits?
A. Typically, once you elevate your heart rate above 100 beats per minute (bpm) you will increase caloric burn. Your ePulse uses your personal profile to allow you to see and monitor the types of activity that bring your heart rate to the 100 bpm level as well as to more intense exercise levels for fat burning and maximum cardio conditioning. The ePulse also shows you the caloric burn for your activity based on your heart rate measurements.

Q. What is the advantage of the ePulse over the heart rate monitors that are on the handgrips of most exercise equipment at my fitness club?
A. The ePulse offers several unique advantages over heart rate monitors found on exercise equipment. First, the calculations from the ePulse are personally tailored to you and your physiology, making the caloric burn calculations very accurate. Second, the convenience of the ePulse permits you to wear it during your entire workout as you move from station to station or exercise to exercise, giving you a more dynamic and comprehensive picture of the total effectiveness of your activity.

Q. Can the ePulse tell me if I am over training?
A. Since the ePulse will allow you to become familiar with your heart rate during all types of activity, including your resting heart rate, you will be able to see a typical sign of over training if your resting heart rate is 5-10 beats higher than normal.

Q. Can I use the ePulse during weight training?
A. Yes. The ePulse can be particularly useful if you are monitoring your heart rate between sets. For instance if you are power lifting you may want to see your heart rate move back to resting level between sets, while if you are moving quickly from station to station for aerobic or endurance training the ePulse will help you keep your heart rate elevated with constant feedback.

The ePulse™ brings the benefits of heart rate monitoring to everyone with its ease of use and convenience. This is accomplishment via sophisticated integration of light-sensor and micro-chip technology (like that used in hospital heart rate monitors) that allows the ePulse to accurately read the pulse from the forearm. The ePulse is lightweight, incorporates an easily read day/night LED display and is powered by AAA batteries. It requires no programming to immediately display heart rate and with a simple input of personal data, it will also calculate calories burned and target exercise zones.

ePulse works equally well for both men and women. This innovative product addresses the prevailing issue other heart rate monitors struggle to overcome...the wearing of a chest strap! At best, chest straps are an annoyance, and at worst, are so uncomfortable that they alienate many people from utilizing this type of valuable training and fitness tool. In particular, women seem very sensitive to chest straps and many won't use heart rate monitors due to this physical requirement. Now, ePulse comfortably conveys heart rate (and other important data) allowing anyone to easily regulate their workout intensity and better attain specific fitness or weight management goals.