Mission Statement
Heart Rate Inc. is dedicated to create, develop
and provide superior innovative products and services that
benefit and improve health, fitness, conditioning and rehabilitation
where emphasis on product quality, customer satisfication
and employee team work guarantee the well-being of the coporation
and its customers.
Company History
Heart Rate Inc. has played an integral role in transforming
the way people exercise with its 30 year history of innovations.
Few other companies can claim as many fitness equipment firsts-including
inventing total-body training-that have become expectations
for exercise today. Plus, Heart Rate Inc. offers much more than
its highly regarded vertical trainers, including a full line
of heart rate monitors, the unprecedented VersaPulley resistance
using patented MV2 technology and the now ExerVibe vertical climbers
and steppers with Whole Body Vibration.
Heart Rate Monitor Pioneers
Incorporated in October 1978, Heart Rate Inc. had the foresight
to know that heart rate could be a valuable tool to gauge
the intensity of exercise-for beginning exercisers up to elite
athletes. In 1980, the company completed the design and a
functional prototype of a heart rate wristwatch and then was
awarded an exclusive patent to further develop the capacitive
electrode used in the NASA space program. This sensor was
designed to acquire high quality ECG signals during space
flights. Unfortunately, at that time, many wristwatch, medical
and sports equipment companies were not convinced that heart
rate monitoring promised to be a viable business, so they
declined to provide funding. Faced with a lack of financial
backing, Dick Charnitski, the president of Heart Rate Inc.
and a mechanical engineer, then turned his attention to developing
a total-body exercise machine. The birth of total-body exercise.
The Birth of the VersaClimber
Recognizing that no equipment had brought climbing indoors-as
well as understanding the tremendous value of total-body exercise
in comparison to workouts such as running and cycling-Charnitski
created the first VersaClimber in his own garage, in 1981.
The result was the VersaClimber. Later heart
rate monitoring was incorporated into the VersaClimber making
it the first commercial exercise machine that used heart rate
as a speedometer of exercise.
Nothing like it existed anywhere, and since
its debut, VersaClimber has been the No. 1 total-body vertical
trainer. A time line that spans nearly 30 years.
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