Product Description

The Polar F7 Heart Rate Monitor is one of the most versatile and personalised heart rate monitors available, and comes in a range of colours to suit every individual. With the intensity measurement on this product, the individuality is taken to the next level! Also packed with a range of useful training tools, computer connectivity for online monitoring, and a host of recording features, you can really be sure that with the F7 you are getting all the feedback you could desire to keep you at your training peak.

Product Details

• Colour: Silver
• Brand: Polar

Features

• Time of day
• Wearlink+ textile transmitter belt
• Polar OwnZone user definable OwnZone function determines personal heart rate limits for an exercise session
• Polar OwnCal counts and displays calorie expenditure
• Polar OwnCode prevents cross talk from other heart rate monitors
• Wireless ECG accurate heart rate
• Target zones with visual and audible alarm
• Average heart rate of total exercise

Manufacturer's Description
For training your way. Need some motivation when training? Not anymore. The great looking F7 is all the encouragement you need. Thanks to the unique OwnZone function it tells you how hard to train to get optimal results based on your current physical condition. You can check the calories you’ve burned, too.

Customer Reviews

Polar heart monitor
The Polar F7F is the F7 designed for the female. The watch is less bulky than the equivalent unisex heart monitor and fits the smaller female wrist. I can vouch for this as my wrist is very small and this fits well.
The transmitter strap is also sized for a smaller chest. The transmitter is coded so as not to have interference with other heart mobitors at the gym. The transmitter can be taken off the strap and the strap put in the washing machine or hand washed.
Once the heart monitor is set up for the user it is simple to use. You can set it to work at different heart rate zones ( light, moderate, hard) and the alarms ( these can be switched off) can help keep you within a set zone.
In the first few minutes of exercising the monitor works out where your heart rate should be if you want to keep within a certain zone.
After your training session it will give your exercise time, average and max heart rate as bpm and percentage and the calories burnt.
The data from the monitor can be downloaded via the polar web-site. Unfortunately they do not support pre leopard Mac users.
A heart monitor is useful for cycling, running, and working out in the gym...you may be surprised by how little you were doing or how much you were exagerating before.

Polar F7F heart rate monitor
Excellent product.

The heart rate settings are very easy to use and it is simple to select manual limits, automatic limits or OwnZone for each exercise session.

The Wearlink fabric chest strap transmitter is very comfortable and a lot more comfortable than the plastic chest strap on my old heart rate monitor.

The daily and weekly files store details of mutliple exercise sessions. You also get a reminder on the heart rate monitor once a week with details of how much exercise you have done in that period, which I find helps to motivate me to do more exercise!

Polar F7 vs Forerunner 305
I purchased the Polar F7 some time ago . My first impression was very good, although I found some features not convenient to use.
1) The communication with the PC is really strange through the microfone and the software doesn't support Mac OS!!!!!!
2) It is not programmable to keep you in certain HR Zones or to set up a training program. It only warn you for the lowest/highest HR rate. Such a frustration.

Although is very good to use it indoors when doing step, or treadmill-elliptics. Comparing to Garmin's Forerunner 305 is better to use it indoors, but outdoors Forerunner really rocks as you can set up the duration of your exersice-HR levels-routes-gps available!

Overall Polar F7 is a very good product, with excellent quality. It only lays the fact to conclude which one is closer to your needs.