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Polar F7 Men's Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Blue)

Polar F7 Men's Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Blue)Brand: Polar
Category: Sports

List Price: $129.95
Buy New: $98.00
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Seller: Jomashop
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 29 reviews
Sales Rank: 6131

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

MPN: F7MBL
Model: 90033734
UPC: 725882479132
EAN: 0725882479132
ASIN: B001F0PVEY

Release Date: September 1, 2008
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Features:
  • Blue men's heart rate monitor watch with several innovative training features
  • Displays heart rate as percentage of maximum, bpm, and within target zone indicator
  • Audible and visual target zone alarms; 24-hour clock with day/week indicator
  • Polar OwnCal mode tracks energy expenditure for single and accumulated workouts
  • Water-resistant to 50 meters; includes SonicLink and UpLink connections; 2-year warranty

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Product Description
The Polar® F7M 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.

Amazon.com Product Description
Stay within your ideal training and intensity range while jogging or working out with the Polar F7 men's heart rate monitor watch. The F7 works by first checking your daily condition, and then guiding you to a suitable intensity for your age and fitness level. Knowing your heart rate not only helps you reach your personal fitness goal, but also improves your physical condition in general, as it's vitally important to train at the appropriate intensity level. If you exercise too hard, you may quit before you reach the real benefit, but if you work out too leisurely, you'll struggle to lose weight at all. The F7 helps overcome these problems by encouraging you to map out a complete fitness routine.

The F7 is packed with innovative training features to help you toward your exercise goals. First off, the watch displays heart rate info in several ways, including as a percentage of your maximum heart rate, as beats per minute, and within a graphical target zone indicator. The watch also offers a visual and audible alarm for when you exceed or underperform your target zone--a great way to stay motivated while on the track. And users will love the ZonePointer and Polar OwnCal modes. The ZonePointer is an audible and visual feature on the display of your F7 that shows you where your current heart rate sits within your target heart rate zone. The Polar OwnCal mode, meanwhile, shows your energy expenditure during one exercise session, as well as your accumulated kilocalories during several exercise sessions. You can also set daily and weekly exercise goals in terms of calorie expenditure, helping you achieve both short-term and long-term goals. And once you settle into a routine, you can synch your watch with www.polarpersonaltrainer.com, an online exercise journal and community that provides guidance, tracks progress and goals, and lets users challenge their friends.

Other features include a Fitness Bullet feature that shows a bullet on the monitor's display for every 10 minutes spent exercising/training in your target heart zone; an OwnZone mode that provides a customized target zone for individual exercise sessions; an OwnCode mode that prevents crosstalk from other heart rate monitors nearby; a recording mode that tracks your average and maximum heart rate, calorie expenditure, distance, and total exercise time, and then puts it in an exercise file or fitness diary; water resistance to 50 meters; a 24-hour clock with a day/week indicator; a built-in backlight, a KeyLock; a low battery indicator; and both SonicLink and UpLink connections for transferring data between the F7 and a computer. Sporting an attractive blue housing, the watch carries a two-year warranty.

Note:
Polar heart rate monitors are precision instruments; consumers are not advised to change their own battery. Polar recommends that all service be done by an authorized Polar Service Center which will include a warranty for 90 days on repairs and 6 months for batteries.

About Polar
The first EKG accurate wireless heart rate monitor was invented by Polar 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 eighties. By the 1990s, individuals were looking to heart rate monitors not only for performance training needs, but also for achieving everyday fitness goals. Today, the same concept of heart rate training is being used by world-class athletes as well as everyday people trying to lose weight. Polar is the leading brand among consumers, coaches, and personal trainers worldwide and 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.




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5 out of 5 stars Love it!   November 24, 2009
Margaret
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

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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