Its the H10. I clocked that you had to disconnect it but after a while I also noticed you’d bizarrely got more out of the battery by storing it studs up :-/
Oddly I’ve actually become rather fond of the verity sense.
Probably not hugely aero, but I’m just sick of HRMs that turn on automatically (and don’t turn off, or don’t turn on when they need to).
Also, almost certainly placebo, but you really notice the lack of restriction to your breathing.
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I felt that way when I first started using it, now I feel naked without it on ha!
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I’ve got the Polar H10. No complaints, also one of the few certified to be precise enough to measure HRV effectively
This is what led me to get my H10. For example the tickrs are completely unusable for HRV. (maybe the new rechargeable one is better?)
That said it seems the early hype for in-workout HRV being actionable hasn’t panned out, and so at least for me I don’t care about that as much now. I also think the Garmin does well for HRV as well, but the Android app I was using only supports Polar, so I’m not able to do direct comparisons.
I now mostly use the Garmin.
I have the Garmin HRM-Pro Plus, and new, the strap was like a fabric covered snake, there was a fabric texture on it, and it felt solid, no loose fabric. Now? It feels like a snake in a sleeping bag, the fabric has decided to loosen up to the point where it can be bunched up, and feels very loose. Not sure if that means it’s near death, but with that strap, the ‘smarts’ are permanently attached to it, so if the strap fails, it’s everything but the plastic battery door and rubber-ish retainer. I haven’t look at any other brands, but imagine it might be similar. Oh, and you can’t ‘launder’ the strap, so there’s that too.
It does sometimes connect to Garmin Connect to download some data as it apparently can log some data (runner stats?). I mean it’s a good strap, but it’s also all-in-one. No easy inexpensive parts swap. I can’t remember when I got it, so it seems to have lasted quite a while. 
I had the Garmin HRM dual for 3 years when it started getting finicky (at least when paired with my wahoo trainer), so I got an H10 earlier this year. Worked for about 3 months, and then it didn’t. Was so aggravating, so I checked to see how the HRM was, and what do you know, it works perfectly fine now. Still getting a warranty replacement for the H10. In terms of wearability, I supposed the polar strap is a bit more comfy but I don’t notice any real difference.
I’ve had 3 or 4 H10 replaced over the last 2 years.
So far the Garmin HRM-Pro-plus hasn’t given me any issues.
Polar all the way
I have 3 broken Wahoo HR straps, onto my 4th Garmin HRM Pro (the straps keep coming unglued)
I would go POLAR H10
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Just ordered a Coospo tonight….we’ll see.
Joe
It would be so nice if the apple watch could be a HRM and send the data to my head unit. But until this dream will come true my hrm of choice is the H10 with the Pro Strap.
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A watch can never ever measure heart rate, that physically impossible, they can only measure your pulse rate
The new Wahoo Trackr HRM with its rechargeable battery sounds promising. Most HRM’s start having issues after the first battery change, so the new Trackr should be better in that sense.
I have been using the Wahoo TICKR Fit for over five years now…
Never had any issues with it, much prefer the strap round my forearm than one round my chest.
Many are overpriced right now. I had issues with all known brands until someone shared this to me:
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/B07D4J5VDK?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title
2 years without a glitch. Haven’t looked back
The distinction seems silly. I researched the difference and got this authoritative opinion:
First off, the heart rate is the number of times per minute that the heart contracts, and is thus measured in beats per minute.
On the other hand, the pulse rate is the “mechanical pulse of blood flow through the capillaries cause by the contractions of the heart per minute”. When it comes down to it, although these are technically two different things, your pulse is your heart rate. Your pulse rate is also how many times per minute your heart beats.
And got lost on the last sentence: ‘Your pulse rate is also how many times per minute your heart beats’. So it’s the same thing, but ‘rate’ signifies changes over time, where ‘pulse’ is the actual event. And my Apple Watch seems to disagree that watches can’t measure ‘heart rate’. I imagine Garmin would argue that point too.
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If you measure 10-15 you will probably notice you will have a few more heartbeats than pulse beats but in eg the case of atrial flutter/fibrillation most heartbeats will not result in a pulse beat…
Are there any chest straps that allow you to manually turn on and off like my verity sense arm band?
And yet the Apple Watch can detect afib and warn the wearer they are experiencing that irregularity.
It seems heart rate v pulse rate is a distinction without much of a difference.