You can’t say that we aren’t good to you, we promised you a review of the SE200 a pink heart rate monitor watch, priced at £30 from Oregon Scientific, and the review you will now have.

However, before we continue we just want to say that on doing this review we were made to haul our, uh, backsides off the chair and into the gym - see what we do for you.

It was an extremely cold and windy night when we donned our brand new running shoes (we had been saving them for an occasion such as this), strapped the heart monitor around our chest – it was a bit fiddly so we recommend enlisting the help from another half, and strapped on the watch before grudgingly trekking to the gym.

The watch itself is stylish and comes with a big screen, with optional backlight. It also has a skinny fitting option for those who have been blessed with small bones - and is also big enough to cover a baby elephant’s leg.

The four buttons around the face also give different options. There is a stopwatch, clock with date and time, alarm and also the ‘mode’ button which lets you easily select and use the heart rate option.

The heart rate part of the watch works wirelessly with the chest belt and monitors your heart beat as you run, or even when you argue with someone - yes we had a bit of a barny over the machines. If you go over or under a healthy heart rate, the watch beeps at you thus letting you know if you are overexerting yourself.

This is all well and good if you're not listening to an mp3 player, otherwise the beeps quite literally fall on deaf ears. In a neat touch though, the heart monitor also connects wirelessly with the machines at the gym, meaning our pounding heart was literally on display - perfect for us but not so good for the watch, as we were left wondering why we needed it.

It is saved from relegation because, of course, if running in the park it would come in handy.

Verdict: 3 (Brad Pitts)
After tiring ourselves out endlessly we have deduced that the SE200 is a nice piece of kit which gives you a fair and easy way to see if you are overexerting yourself. However, a chart detailing our weight and the heart rate pace needed to burn those pesky calories would have been good.

Now you have seen what we have done for you, the least you guys can do is exercise you mouths or fingers and let us know what you think.