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!

Not worth it
Well,I'm not overly impressed.

The instruction manual that came with it is for the Polar F6. It might be the same as for the F7, I don't know, but at least they could have put a correcting sticker or something on it. I tried to download the F7 manual off the website without success.

I haven't been able to get the Own Zone HR assessment to work.

The settings buttons seem to have a mind of their own - not helped incidentally by some less than clear instructions in my F6 manual.

Don't like having to wash the strap after every session or having to put it in the washing machine every three weeks.

Don't like the fact that I have to take the watch to a service centre if the battery in the watch or the transmitter fails. I tried to locate a service centre from the web site and they said they couldn't locate one - and I live near the centre of Birmingham!

Records the HR and calories well enough, but if I were you, I'd save my money and buy a cheaper more practical product - like my 7 year old Reebok for example.