Polar FT7 – Heart Rate Monitor

Heart rate monitors are becoming more popular day by day as they are perfect tools to reach your fitness goals. These gadgets inspire us to improve our workout sessions and set long-term fitness goals.

Polar FT7 is one of the best heart rate monitors available in the market now and it looks fashionable, unlike other heart rate monitors. Polar FT7 heart rate monitor is easy to use and provides accurate results. In fact Polar FT7 is much more than a heart rate monitor as it has many outstanding features. It is a perfect companion for fitness freaks.

Best of Polar FT7 Features

• Body measurement

This monitors your average and maximum heart rates. This feature also allows you to set target zones based on your personal regimens like beats per minute, maximum heart rate percentage and heart rate reserve percentage.

• Polar Energy Pointer

This feature informs you whether you are burning calories or fat during your workout sessions. This feature will help you to adjust your exercise sessions accordingly by either increasing or decreasing your aerobic and fat burning activity.

• Polar OwnCal

This is a feature which calculates the calories burnt in each workout session. The calculation is made using your heart rate, height, weight, gender, age and intensity of physical activity.

• Training Diary

This is a feature in the polar software that helps you to track your workout sessions in a week or a month along with the summary.

• Training Program

Polar personal trainer.com has training programs for everything including outdoor games. It also gives you tips for your general fitness.

• Storage

The device is capable of storing about 99 training files and weekly workout history.

• Watch features

The display shows time and date. You can set alarm along with snooze option. It also has a stopwatch. It can also display text in English, German, Finnish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Swedish.

• Training Load

This is a feature present in polar software which helps you to identify whether you are exercising more than your capability or carrying out workouts with less intensity than what your body requires.

• Polar OwnCode

This is a specialized code to check that only your heart rate is transmitted to your training computer.

• Water Resistant

Polar FT7 is water resistant up to 30 meters hence, can be used while swimming. However, it is not capable of measuring your laps.

• Heart Touch

When you bring your watch near the transmitter you can see the current time and other readings very quickly.

• Graphic Target Indicator

This is a feature by which you can identify whether you are working within your target zone and to carry out exercise in the desired intensity. If you are working out below or above your target zone it will notify you with an alarm.

• Colors

It is available in red/silver, black/red, black/gold and black/silver colors. You can choose the one matching you.

• Chest strap

The monitor comes with polar wear link chest strap.

Chest strap is made of soft fabric and hence, comfortable to wear. You don’t even sense that you have worn something around your chest. You can hand wash the strap very easily after removing the module.

The monitor comes with M–XXL chest strap which usually fits all people. However, if you require a chest strap size of small or extra small, you need to buy them separately.

• Battery

The battery is replaceable by the user.

Polar FT7 is a great device for those who are looking for a fitness tracker with all the basic features. It monitors all its basic features with great accuracy. It finds how much calories and fat you burn and also keeps an eye on your heart rate and reminds you whenever your targeted workout intensity goes up or down.

Frequently Asked Questions on Polar FT7 Heart Rate Monitor