Polar F7F Silver Heart Rate Monitor
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Customer Reviews
Not worth it
Well,Im 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 dont 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 havent 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.
Dont like having to wash the strap after every session or having to put it in the washing machine every three weeks.
Dont 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 couldnt locate one - and I live near the centre of Birmingham!
Records the HR and calories well enough, but if I were you, Id save my money and buy a cheaper more practical product - like my 7 year old Reebok for example.
K. R. Fellows
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 doesnt 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 Garmins 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.
L. Thomas
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!
Herbie
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.
Ally Bally G
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