The company Polar, is the leader in heart rate monitors, make a rate monitoring system called the Polar Team 2. The system complete package includes: base station, transmitter charger, 20 transmitters with TEAM² Wear Link+ straps, USB port and software for PCs and PDAs. The total price for the complete system is $7565heart. This system is the cutting edge and used by over 300 NCAA Division I athletic programs as well as the US men’s and woman’s national soccer teams. My athletic budget isn’t extensive enough to cover the cost and I found that our local hospital as well as our PTA and booster will not help fund the system. I’m looking into implementing the system in my soccer program and will have to dip into our fundraising funds to help purchase the system.

I use them weekly at our school. The money came through a grant. The bad part is that they are expensive. The good part is that they last a long time. We have the polar e600 and we have used them for about 8'Years. We would like to purchase the new f4 by polar but it is about a $100 per unit. But the neat thing is that a one wearing one, it will sync with your iPad and you can monitor all students. Could also project it on the wall for students to see. Very cool technology for pe. Grants are a lot of work so I would begin with your PTO.

We have heart rate monitors in our district, and at the high school. It's great for our seniors who sign up for the PE class that is for our low competitive course.
They walk for a period sometimes, and to grade them we use heart rate monitors to show progression.
We got ours from our yearly budget for PE. We have around 40 monitors because we really only use them for one class at a time which works.
I would look into your town community to see if someone will donate money to help your district purchase them for your classroom or, like you said, through a grant.

We do not have heart rate monitors and there currently is not money not budget for them but the high school will allow us to borrow their set for a week or two each year which is nice because it provides an introduction to them. So many check to see if you could borrow some just for a bit. Even just a few would be a great start.

When our program was implemented 10 years ago, we were able to purchase 40 Polar Heart Rate monitors. The major reason we were able to purchase these was because we repackaged our program. We combined our Physical Education and Health classes into a holistic program called Wellness. During this change over we were able to put in a resistance training facility and get some fantastic non-traditional exercise equipment along with technology (HR Monitors).

Our program was extremely lucky, but we did have to sell our content area hard. If you want it, you will have to look for some type of grant money. The great thing is that HR monitors have become much cheaper. Some just read HR's and others download an entire workout. For the grant, we had to determine how student learning would improve.

One thing that I definitely noticed is that a teacher can definitely determine the level of effort a student is demonstrating by tracking a student's work out. Students love using them and are constantly looking to see if they are in their THRZ. If I had the money, I'd lend it to you.

Hope is works out: All the best!!!

We were able to purchase Heart Rate Monitor system (Polar Cardio GX) through the PEP Grant that we won. It is a pretty school concept...each student gets their own heart rate monitor (strap). There is a projected screen of what everyone is doing. This holds them accountable to actually working out. It shows if they are green, yellow or red. Can be easily emailed to parents who are concerned over their child's participation grade. Biggest problem we have faced was cleaning the straps/monitors between classes.