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Getting your pulse taken only once a year at the doctor's office is a thing of the past. Nowadays, the best heart rate monitors are cheap, comfortable, and ubiquitous. You don’t have to spend a lot of money, or even leave your home, to check your heart rate during exercise or at rest. Even the cheapest f

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