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Lets look at the optical heart rate monitor found on the Apple Watch. This eliminates the need to wear the chest strap during your workouts.
The main difference is that the chest strap measures your EKG signals and is fairly quick to provide you with a number. The optical heart rate monitor on the Apple Watch, and for the others for that matter, uses a combination of infrared & LED lights and a sensor to measure your blood flow.
You see blood reflects infrared light, the lights strobe very quickly and the sensor measures how much of the light is reflected back. From that it can figure out our heart beats. The main disadvantage is that it's slower to provide a number and is prone to give your odd numbers if you don't wear the watch properly.
That being said, the chest strap can also provide spikes or dips if not worn correctly.
If you still want to use a chest strap, you can simply pair a bluetooth chest strap but going into the Apple Watch SETTINGS | then select BLUETOOTH. You'll see a HEALTH SENSOR section. Put on your chest strap. Within a few seconds, it should detect it.
One thing you might want to do is under the APPLE WATCH app on your iPhone, go into the WORKOUT app settings and ENABLE POWER SAVE MODE. That will turn off the optical HR when you are using the workout app for a walk or run.
NOTE - If you prefer using an iPhone app to record your workout, you should keep the chest strap paired with your phone.
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