I recently was able to purchase a used heart rate monitor
and I was really excited to get it. (well, I don’t have it yet, but I
will soon) I was telling a friend who rides, but doesn’t do distance riding,
about the new monitor and she asked why I needed it, why I couldn’t just
take my horse’s pulse as I would a person. She’s a paramedic and
she thought it sounded like an incredible waste of money. I told her that it
must not be that easy to get an accurate pulse reading without a monitor or
stethoscope or plenty of people would be doing it. She really thinks I’m
just being lazy and promised to research it and get back to me. I figured I’d
do my own research.
So, tell me why it’s a good or bad purchase and how
you would just take the pulse of a horse without getting off and using a
stethoscope? If you’re taking pulse with a finger and a wrist watch where
do you do that?
