Heart Rate Monitors Item ID: #227Polar FT7 Men’s Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Black / Silver)
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Item DescriptionFor those who want to know if they’re improving their fitness or burning fat. So if you want clear training guidance and an easy start to heart rate based training, you got it with the FT7. Item Reviews5 Responses to “Polar FT7 Men’s Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Black / Silver)”Leave a Reply |
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My first HM was wrist watch only and it was a pain the neck using it. I gave it away and purchased this polar after my wife purchased one. I propably did not want to spend $100 bucks at first, but ended up spending $170 on both. I really like this HM. Easy to use, east to understand and if you want to swim it can still be used. Most others won’t work in the water.
Seems to work well so far. A nice inexpensive option to the Garmin watches.
The Polar FT7 has been a good purchase for me. I use it 3 times a week to track my cardio workouts and have not had any problems. The watch is pretty self explanatory to use during your workout and after if you want to log your workout data. The chest strap stays on well as long as you make sure it is snug on you. I would recommend this heart rate monitor to anyone that is looking for their first purchase. Its not too expensive and has all the basic features, plus you can change the battery yourself.
Lee
The product worked well at recording information, and transmitting it to exercise equipment that is able to receive heart rate information.
You can fiddle with it and figure out how to get information entered, and data out, but better documentation is needed. For instance, it does not tell you where the breaking point is between fat burning and cardio. It does not let you set the lower limit, as far as I can find. I do not know if you can view the heart rate monitor in large letters during your work out.
My Polar FT7 has been in use one month now and I love it. I have owned other Polars and a few other brands and frankly, they have all been pretty much disposable. The Garmin I had lasted all of five days and the last Polar had the strap with the non-replaceble battery. This unit uses a removable module on the strap and seems to be of better quality all around. The biggest peeve I have is the absolute lack of any real manual. On page 11 of the manual, right after instructions for initial setup, you are directed to further directions on the internet on a site that is frequently down. I had to watch a youtube video on how to set some of the other functions. The so-called manual also barely mentions the fact that the strap has contacts that must be wet before you place the strap on your chest. I also got that information on youtube. Other than the issues with the manual the monitor has proven utterly reliable and spot on accurate. The training function even accurately tracks calories burned and seems to match the actual dietician sourced calculators 100%. BTW, those calorie calcs your dietician prescribes can usually be found on ebay dirt cheap. Besides, this monitor serves that function very well, at least as far as keeping track of burned callories. I’m not sure how durable the finish is on the watch face as some of the paint seems to me rubbing off right at the Polar logo but the display seems OK and the strap is very good. I highly recommend the Polar FT7.