Polar FT4 Heart Rate Monitor (blue)

The Polar FT4 heart rate monitor in blue has basic heart rate monitoring features to keep their fitness training simple.  Just grab it with you, put on the comfortable textile Polar heart rate transmitter belt, and the Polar FT4 heart rate monitor lets you know if you’re improving your fitness. The Polar FT4 heart rate monitor is the next model up from the Polar FT2 with the addition of calories burnt. The calories burnt calculation is based on your age, sex and weight.

If you are looking for a heart rate monitor with live and ECG accurate heart rate, heart rate training zone alarms and calories burnt, then the Polar FT4 could well be for you. The Polar FT4 comes with a Polar Wearlink heart rate monitor chest strap with self change batteries. The Polar FT4 heart rate monitor is available in several colours and a unisex / male size and a slightly smaller female size

Key Features of Polar FT4

• The Polar FT4 shows when you’re improving fitness based on your heart rate.
• The Polar FT4 displays realtime calories burned based on exercising heart rate
• The Polar FT4 comes with comfortable textile transmitter with coded heart rate transmission to avoid cross-talk
• All self change batteries within the Polar FT4 heart rate monitor

Basic features of Polar FT4:

• Automatic age-based target zone - % / bpm
• Automatic/Manual target zone (% / bpm / HRR%)
• Backlight
• Graphical target heart rate zone indicator
• Heart rate (displayed as % of maximum heart rate)
• Heart rate (displayed as bpm)
• HeartTouch™, button-free operation of wrist unit
• KeyLock - stops accidental button presses on the Polar FT4
• Manual target zone - % / bpm
• Visual and audible alarm in target zones
• The Polar FT4 heart rate monitor is Water resistant - 50m

Language features of Polar FT4: The Polar FT4 displays text in English, German, Finnish, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian

Polar FT4  exercise features:

• Average heart rate of total exercise
• Exercise Date
• HR-based target zone with audible alarm
• HR-based target zone with visual alarm
• Maximum heart rate of total exercise
• Polar OwnCal® - the Polar FT4 tells you live and post session Calories Burnt
• Polar OwnCode® (5kHz) - the Polar FT4 has a crosstalk avoidance system
• Wireless ECG accurate heart rate

Recording features of Polar FT4 heart rate monitor:

• Average heart rate
• Calorie expenditure
• Exercise Time (total)
• Exercise file info page with date and time
• Maximum heart rate - the Polar FT4 keeps a track of your maximum heart rate
• Number of exercise files (with summaries) = 10
• Target zone limit
• Time in target zone - the Polar FT4 tells you how long you've spent in your desired HR zone

FT4 Watch features

• Alarm with snooze
• Date and weekday indicator
• Dual time zone
• Low battery indicator
• The Polar FT4 is a regular watch with Time of day (12/24h) with alarm
• User replaceable battery

What's In The Box?

• Polar FT4 heart rate monitor in BLUE
• Polar WearLink®+ transmitter
• Polar FT4 Getting Started Guide
  

Next heart rate monitor model up?

Is either the Polar FT7 heart rate monitor or the Polar FT40 heart rate monitor. The Polar FT7 has Polar ZONE POINTER that tells you when you are moving between FAT BURNING and FITNESS IMPROVING heart rate zones. The Polar FT40 also has this ZONE POINTER plus the Polar Own Index feature, a resting heart rate test that shows if your fitness is improving

Next heart rate monitor model down?

Is the Polar FT2 heart rate monitor -  the Polar FT2 does NOT have calories burnt.

However, if you are mainly a runner / jogger you may well benefit from the Polar RCX3 running computer / heart rate monitor. It provides; calories burnt, stopwatch with laps and splits, 3 line display, 5 x HR training zone, coded transmission to prevent crosstalk and Polar Training Benefit.

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