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Polar F7 Women's Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Silver)

Polar F7 Women's Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Silver)Brand: Polar
Category: Sports
Department: Hiking & Camping Gear

List Price: $129.95
Buy New: $115.88
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Seller: Good Deal electronics
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 29 reviews
Sales Rank: 627

Color: Silver
Size: Women's
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 5.1 x 3

MPN: 90033739
Model: 90033739
UPC: 725882479187
EAN: 0725882479187
ASIN: B001F0PVEE

Release Date: September 1, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Features:
  • Stylish heart rate monitor watch for monitoring your workout progress
  • Measures HR in bpm and percentage of max; built-in Fitness Exercise Diary
  • Own Cal function tracks your energy during single sessions and throughout week
  • SonicLink and UpLink ports for uploading fitness data to PC or Polar's web service
  • Water-resistant to 50 feet; 24-hour clock with date; 2-year warranty

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Amazon.com Product Description
Packed with a number of innovative training features to help you toward your exercise goals, the Polar F7 heart rate monitor watch is stylish and ultra-reliable. The F7's most important function is to check your body's daily condition and guide you to a suitably intense workout, as people benefit from different workouts on different days. However, that's certainly not the watch's only major function. The F7 also includes a Zone Pointer, a visible and audible feature on the display of your heart rate monitor that shows your target heart rate zone and where your current heart rate sits within that zone. The Polar Own Cal function, meanwhile, tracks your energy expenditure during a single exercise session as well as your accumulated kilocalories throughout the week. As you progress, you can set daily and weekly exercise goals in terms of calorie expenditure, helping you achieve both short- and long-term goals.

The company also included two other Polar-exclusive features: OwnZone, which guides you through an appropriate warm-up routine and automatically determines a safe and effective exercise heart rate zone; and OwnCode, a technology that blocks unwanted crosstalk signals from other heart rate monitors nearby, ensuring your heart rate data is transmitted clearly. The latter feature is particularly helpful when exercising with other people, such as in aerobic or spinning classes.

The F7 offers most of the traditional fitness watch functions as well, including measuring your heart rate in both bpm and as a percentage of your maximum heart rate, gauging your average heart rate, calculating the number of kilocalories you've expended over several exercise sessions, tracking your cumulative training time during a week, and determining your total time in your target zone. Plus, you can use the built-in Fitness Exercise Diary to track the rest of your weekly training progress. The diary function monitors the weekly frequency, total time, total training count, and amount of calories burned during each training session. It also displays the intensities of your weekly workout sessions.

Other details include a Fitness Bullets feature that shows a bullet on the monitor's display for every 10 minutes you spend exercising/training in your target heart rate zone; SonicLink and UpLink ports, which let you upload exercise settings to your PC or Polar's web service and edit wrist unit settings respectively; HeartTouch button-free operation; a 24-hour clock with a day/week indicator; visual and audible target zone alarms; and a low battery indicator. Water-resistant to 50 feet, the Polar F7 carries a two-year warranty.

About Polar
Polar invented the first EKG accurate wireless heart rate monitor back in 1977 as a training tool for the Finnish National Cross Country Ski Team. The concept of "intensity training" by heart rate swept the athletic world in the '80s. By the 1990s, individuals were looking to heart rate monitors not only for performance training needs, but also for achieving everyday fitness goals. Today, heart rate training is employed by world-class athletes as well as everyday people trying to lose weight, and Polar is the leading heart rate monitor brand among consumers, coaches, and personal trainers worldwide. The company is committed to not only producing the best products, but also being the leading educator on the benefits of heart rate based exercise.



Product Description
The Polar® F7F training computer is designed for fitness enthusiasts, gym goers, spin cyclists, joggers, and active individuals who want to train at the right intensity. It checks your daily condition, guides you to a suitable intensity, and features an all-around training computer that tracks calories for exercising smart and staying motivated.


Customer Reviews:
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5 out of 5 stars Love it!   November 24, 2009
Margaret
I got this HRM to use while running and other fitness activities. So far it works great and was exactly what I expected. The strap is cloth, so it is pretty comfortable. The online workout tracker is great because you can upload your watch data and keep track of all of your exercise. I highly recommend this one!


5 out of 5 stars Great heart rate monitor   November 2, 2009
B. Russo
This is another great Polar monitor. This is the 3rd or 4th Polar I have had. It has great features, primarily it let's you input your informtion such as gender (which makes a difference), weight, height and age, and it calculates your calories burned and target heart rate. I would not work out without a heart rate monitor and this one gives you the info you need without too much complexity and at a great price. What more can you ask for? The only negative is that the instruction booklet is not the most intuitive, and some of the instructions are hard to remember. But overall a really good buy.


4 out of 5 stars So far so good, except in water (only one time)   September 15, 2009
L. Blalock (FL)
This heart rate monitor is working beautifully, except the one time I wore it in a pool, it just showed my heart rate as 00 the whole time, but I didn't have time to mess with it and try to get it working properly, so it may work just fine.... Otherwise, it is great. I love wearing it on a run or anywhere, it seems very accurate. At the gym, the calories burned are almost right on with what the machines say, so I that is a good sign, I guess. The strap is totally unnoticable, although it does rub me in one little spot, but I have thought of just putting a band aid there before putting the strap on to prevent the chaffing, so far I haven't done that, so obviously it's not that bad. Overall a great watch, although I haven't figured out how to see the time of day while in Exercise mode, maybe I just need to read the manual! :)



5 out of 5 stars Loving it!   September 3, 2009
D. Keith (Charlotte, NC USA)
This has really helped me get my workouts where they need to be! I love knowing when I'm in my zone, and am thrilled at how easy this monitor has been to use - I'm not as much of a "techie" as I'd like to be =) I definitely would recommend this product to anyone interested in getting fit!


1 out of 5 stars Calorie counter doesn't work   August 25, 2009
L. Macdonald (Los Angeles, CA United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

I purchased this watch twice and returned it both times. I figured that the first watch that I receieved must have been defective, but unfortunately - it must just be the F7 model.

I am an avid runner, and recently wore out an older Polar watch that I was using on my daily runs to monitor my heart rate and log my calories burned. My older Polar watch had worked flawlessly for years, always matching the heart rate readout on cardio machines at the gym and generally producing the same amount of calories burned per workout on cardio machines. I purchased the F7 as the replacement watch. My heart rate read out was significantly lower on the watch than on various cardio machines at the gym, and my calories burned was vastly lower (100-150 calories) per workout. I returned the first F7 watch after several workouts and exchanged it for another F7, only to have the same problems. I did some online research and found that this is a common compliant. I'm hesitant, but I think I'll be ordering the F6 next. So disappointing.


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