Product Description

For disappearing calories. Feel the burn and say goodbye to calories. Shows the total calories burnt and percent fat. Now you can tone up your body and see how the intensity of your workout affects your heart rate.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #29 in Sports & Outdoors
• Brand: Polar
• Dimensions: .2 pounds

Features

• Time of day
• Polar OwnCal - Counts and displays calorie expenditure
• Coded transmitter
• Zone pointer - A visible and moving symbol on the display of your Polar product indicating that you are inside the pre-set target zone
• Wireless ECG accurate heart rate
• Automatic determination of your age-based heart rate target zone limits
• Target zones with visual and audible alarm
• Average heart rate of total exercise
• Maximum heart rate of total exercise
• Exercise date
• Exercise time (total)

Manufacturer's Description
POLAR F4 Male Fitness heart rate monitor.
For effective calorie burning. Reach your goals by monitoring your calorie consumption and using other essential training information.

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Customer Reviews

Good value Heart rate monitor
I have had this product for a few months now and it does just what I want it to. It is Polar branded and thus compatible with a lot of gym equipment and it tailors its results to the user based on sex, age and weight.
Got quite a few features but I am just interested in how my heart rate is and max and min readings during a session plus the totals at the end. Easy to set up and would recommend it for most amateur keep fit and training.

Perfect first HRM
This was the first HRM I owned, and it is perfect for beginners. Everything is very simple to understand, and set up. The unit is attractive looking, and highly accurate (you can see your HR rise the moment you start moving), with enough real features to keep you motivated, and actually put it to good use either in the gym or on the road.

One thing I've since discovered, is that Polar HRM's are much easier to use than some other models (check a few manuals online to see for yourself). The F4 is very simple: simply enter some initial data (age, sex, weight), and then put the strap on (wet the reverse with some tap water) and you're ready. Click the start button. The unit has useful exercise views (duration, time in zone, calories, avg heart rate, max heart rate) which you can cycle through with a button press as you work out. Once finished, you view an exercise summary screen, which displays all this information. The data is then added to a totals file (which can be reset at will -- ie: at the end of the week).

All in all, this is perfect for a beginner. It does enough for it to be useful for a couple of years, before you will want to move onto something more complicated. Don't spend £150+ on a HRM first time; try something like this and make sure you need extra features. This worked like a dream for me, and I'd recommend it to anyone looking for a simple (but effective) heart rate monitor.

ok for use in the gym but not great for anything else
the F4 comes with easy to use functions such as the ability to give you ur heart rate as a percentage of ur maximum which is good if ur trying to maintain a level if intensity. such as when you want to do a low level workout to burn fat, or if ur wanting to do a cardio workout and push urself harder, then you can see direclty on the face what percentage ur at.

i use it for workouts in the gym because it gives a more accurate calorie expenditure than the gym equiptment. plus many of the cardio machines are polar ready at my gym. so no need to look at my wrist just check out the machine i'm using.

when i have taken it for a run outside on some occasions it has failed to register my heart rate, and i wasn't even working too hard for it too do that.

the belt can slip a bit aswell over time, when doing a longer exercise workout.

overall it is a good investment for the beginer in heart rate training, but as you progress you will want more functions, so if you have a litttle extra cash then pay a little more and get the F11 or the RS 800