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Featuring a new, slim design, the F4 is packed with innovative training features to help you toward your exercise goals, including:
- Zone Pointer: A visible and audible feature on the display of your heart rate monitor showing your target heart rate zone and where your current heart rate is within that zone.
- Polar OwnCal: Shows your energy expenditure during one exercise session as well as your accumulated kilocalories during several exercise sessions. You can set daily and weekly exercise goals in terms of calorie expenditure with the OwnCal feature. Because the OwnCal tracks both the energy expenditure during one exercise session and the accumulated kilocalories during a longer time (e.g. one week), it helps in achieving both short-term and long-term goals.
- Fitness Bullets: Shows a bullet on the monitor's display for every 10 minutes spent exercising/training in your target heart rate zone. The Time in Target Zone feature calculates the amount of total exercise time spent in your personal target zone. You can use this feature together with the Total Exercise Time to determine the effectiveness of your exercise program.
Key Features:
- Display of heart rate, exercise time, and average heart rate
- 24-hour clock with day/week indicator and stopwatch
- Large easy-to-read display with split screen
- One-year average battery life
- Water resistant to 30 meters (100 feet)
Manufacturer's Warranty
The original purchaser of this heart rate monitor is backed by a limited warranty that states that this product that the product will be free from defects in material or workmanship for two years from the date of purchase.
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.
Product Description
The F4™ Black Thunder heart rate monitor from Polar® combines all the necessary heart rate features with a new, slim design. It includes the popular Zone Pointer feature that helps keep you in your Target Zone and OwnCal® to track the calories you burn during your exercise. With a stopwatch and convenient button-free operation, the F4™ is a valuable fitness tool. A T31 Non CodedTM transmitter is included.
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Read the manual. One reviewer complained that it beeps constantly - she should have reset her target zone. I lamented that it kept reading too high, or became stuck on one heart rate even if I sprinted or stopped, or it displayed just zero zero. I discovered (by reading the directions)that I needed to turn my Blackberry off. It works fine if my phone is off!
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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I use it about 3 to 4 times a week and it does what I need it to do. If you are looking for more bells and whistles, you may want to look at another model. If you want a good standard model that will give you heart rate, calorie burn and summarize your information as you continue to do workouts, this is it. For the price...I think it's a great product.
16 of 20 people found the following review helpful
First, if you buy one of these be aware that it's extremely easy to accidently wipe out all the personal and cardio info it stores. There isn't any way to lock this monitor to protect such loss.
I sent this monitor in for repair. They emailed me to tell me they received the monitor. They emailed me to tell me they replaced the circuit board. They had my monitor over a month. I got this monitor back and it works exactly the same as before I sent it in. They did nothing to it. Yes I know how to read and I always read the manuals for everything I buy. This monitor does not display the time when brought to the transmitter belt like it say's it will in the manual. There isn't any way for me to have this display the time while it is monitoring.
Update. It takes Polar apr. 4 days to reply to an email sent to them. The last email they sent me was to inform me that the F4 instruction manual is for the European market and it needs a coded transmitter in order to check the time of day while it's monitoring the heart. It was either pay $45 for a coded transmitter or follow their suggestion and upgrade to the F6 which I ended up doing but would have preferred not to. I just need something to monitor my heart and tell me what time it is. To upgrade I called their customer service and waited on the line for over 15 minutes. Note, if you upgrade they will only credit you with 30% of the F4 price. They have terrible customer support. And to put the icing on the cake they didn't even spell my first name right or include my apartment number on the package with the F6.
I sent this monitor in for repair. They emailed me to tell me they received the monitor. They emailed me to tell me they replaced the circuit board. They had my monitor over a month. I got this monitor back and it works exactly the same as before I sent it in. They did nothing to it. Yes I know how to read and I always read the manuals for everything I buy. This monitor does not display the time when brought to the transmitter belt like it say's it will in the manual. There isn't any way for me to have this display the time while it is monitoring.
Update. It takes Polar apr. 4 days to reply to an email sent to them. The last email they sent me was to inform me that the F4 instruction manual is for the European market and it needs a coded transmitter in order to check the time of day while it's monitoring the heart. It was either pay $45 for a coded transmitter or follow their suggestion and upgrade to the F6 which I ended up doing but would have preferred not to. I just need something to monitor my heart and tell me what time it is. To upgrade I called their customer service and waited on the line for over 15 minutes. Note, if you upgrade they will only credit you with 30% of the F4 price. They have terrible customer support. And to put the icing on the cake they didn't even spell my first name right or include my apartment number on the package with the F6.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Has all basic functions
I'm really enjoying my F4. It has all basic and important monitoring functions you will need. It is so light that I some times forget that I'm using it.
Published 4 months ago by MenezesEd
Excellent, basic heart rate monitor
I've had this heart rate monitor in ice blue for 2yrs and it has always served me well. For Christmas, I bought this black one for a friend. Read more
Published 16 months ago by ToneStar
Exactly what I needed
I am in the middle of the Couch to 5K running program and am using SparkPeople.com to track fitness and food information. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Stephanie Beck Borden
Stopped working after 6 months
I have been using heart rate monitors for a while and I have used a good number of polar products which is why I was surpised when this watched started to have problems at first it... Read more
Published 18 months ago by T.Deandreas
It's very good but...
I use it a lot for jogging and while I play tennis. It's pretty good, I've had it for almost two years now and haven't had any issues. Read more
Published 19 months ago by DOUGLAS S. FRASER H.
My son, says it's great
I bought this for my adult son for his birthday. He uses it when he bikes. He says he loves it and knows what he needs to work on to make his "numbers" what they need to be as he... Read more
Published 21 months ago by G. shackelford
really great product!
this item is great! back light? if you put the watch up to the transmitter "heart touch", a back light goes on but only when you're exercising/transmitting. Read more
Published 22 months ago by elvis
Just Right!
This item was just what I was looking for. It gives me a constant readout of my heart rate when I am working out, tells me when I need to pick it up or take it down and even keeps... Read more
Published 24 months ago by Christopher Walton
Great Monitor
This is the second F4 I've purchased so I'm clearly happy with them. Got this one so I don't have to share mine. Very simple and straightforward to set up and use. Read more
Published on April 19, 2010 by Kari Hatch
Great product as advertised!
The product works as advertised and is extremely simple to set up and begin using. Definitely recommended!
Published on April 17, 2010 by Royce
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