Polar - FT7 Men's Heart Rate Monitor - Black/Silver

This product is perfect to wear during my workouts the chest strap is comfortable and easy to adjust. Set up was super simple. You just enter your weight, height and age. Using your heart rate to calculate calories burned and letting you how many minutes you were in the fat burning zone. This is helpful when managing the intensity of your workouts. Love that it tracks workouts that are non walking related. The price is so reasonable compared to the products that take your HR through your wrist. And from the research I did the chest strap is much for accurate. Very happy with my purchase.

I wanted a Polar because I've heard they are one of the most accurate heart rate monitors. I wanted something simple just to use for working out since I already have a Fitbit Charge HR to count my steps, monitor sleep, etc. This model is easy to use. The watch and chest strap are comfortable. I like that it's waterproof. I also like that it keeps a log of your workouts. I would say the cons are: 1. You have to wear the chest strap to get your heart rate. The watch will not detect your heart rate without the chest strap on., 2. The chest strap monitor sometimes moves/stops while I'm running and needs to be readjusted so the watch will start again.

I didn't want to pay hundreds of dollar for a fitness heart rate monitor. I spent about 1/2 hour in the store reading the back of boxes. This had exactly with I needed & price was within my budget. Works like a charm.

I love this HeartRate Monitor because it is very easy to use and it gives accurate information about your workouts! It can tell you how long you burned fat from your workout in addition to how many calories you burned! It also syncs automatically with most cardio equipment to put your reading right on screen to give you accurate tracking of your cardio session.

Does what it says! Water resistant so it's good for swimming and daily use. Heart rate monitor started out working fine at the beginning but the last two times it's been off a bit. It's effective for what I use it for but next time I'm going for the Bluetooth H7 Smart Heart Rate Sensor so that it syncs with the Polar app on my smartphone.

I bought this watch on my new found road to fitness and I have to say it's helped a lot. Now I want to go out and be a little bit more active just to see how much calories I will burn or if my fitness is improving. Found out that the machines at the gym are very incorrect (100-300 calories higher). Though I am female, I bought the men's watch because I do not like the colors offered for women.

I bought this Polar (I am a woman) because I wanted it in black. This is my second Polar, and my first, the FT4 lasted for over 3 years. There is nothing on this earth more accurate than a Polar Heart Rate Monitor with a chest strap. I spent hours and days researching the newer technology and tried both the iPhone and a Garmin to be let down immensely with both and then returning them to go back to the Polar. I loved the idea of finally getting rid of the sweaty chest-strap, but NOTHING is more accurate than the Polar F7 or other models, NOTHING! I am a fitness enthusiast and accuracy and precision are VERY, VERY important to me. I love everything about the Polar F7, and honestly, after returning both of the other products mentioned above, it was back to good old faithful, the Polar F7, because I knew I 1,000% could rely on its accuracy and precision of tracking my workouts. Unfortunately, the technology is just not there yet for other wrist-based heart rate monitors. There is nothing more accurate than a Polar, distance wise, calories burned wise, or fitness test wise. It stores all of your data, and typically the only time it needs anything is a quick battery change. I know they recommend doing it an authorized retailer, but I usually google the battery type, buy it at Walmart and then change it myself. I have never had any problems. My dream of all dreams would be for Polar to come out with the technology to track one's heart rate as accurately as with a chest strap, but on the wrist, but we are just simply not there yet. However, in the interim, I am more than happy with the abundant accuracy of this product, it has never let me down! Thank you Polar!

I wanted to get a HRM to see how many calories I was burning during my morning workouts (P90X3 and then Insanity Max 30). The watch always syncs with the chest strap with no issues, and seems to give accurate results based on the duration and intensity of each workout. The chest strap can be annoying and uncomfortable at times, but I knew that going in so I can't knock the product for that. The watch interface feels a little dated but all the information you could want is there. It gives you weekly averages, daily summaries, duration of activity in both fat burning and aerobic heart rate zones, etc. It would be cool if it could sync via bluetooth to a phone app, but downloading any data requires a separate cable and I didn't feel the added cost was worth it. Overall, it's a solid heart rate monitor and does everything it advertises well.