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

• Colour: Red
• Brand: Polar
• Model: F4

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

Customer Reviews

Good budget model
This is my 4th Polar HRM and I have always found the Polar range to be good value and the best in the market for similar products.

My old HRM needed replacing and I decided to downsize to a model with less features than previous. This is a great price point and the watch is more petite, more of a ladies sized watch, than other Polar models. The deisgn is light weight and comfortable to wear.

Features wise now I am used to it I quite like seeing what percentage of my maximal HR I am working to, rather than seeing the actual figures. This might not suit some people, but having worked extensively on HR and intensity levels I am aware enough of where my boundaries lie and can gauge fairly accurately whereabouts I am during training.

The summary features work well and tell you calories, average and maximal HR, total time within training zone, time etc. The display is clear to read and the functions are easy to use and follow.

Definitely worth buying if you are wanting a HRM to Polars usual high standard, but either want a smaller range of functions, or perhaps a good starting point if you are new to training with HRM.A good bargain buy.

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

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.