Another question on HRMs

Alee4nia

Hi All,

I have been searching the boards regarding these, but couldn't find the info thus another question on the topic. I looked into the Polar FT4 and FT7....what is the difference between the two. Is Polar the best company for HRM? My basic need is to know heart rate, accurate calories burned and if there any feature that allows you to differentiate between calories burned from more than one activity. For example, I do cardio and then strength training...how can I tell the calories burned from cardio and the calories burned from strength training?

Are the men's and women's HRMs the same except for the color?

Thanks All!

Alee4nia

bump...any help would be great, thanks!

beckkotsch

On my HRM, I can save up to 9 different workouts. So, if I lift weights first I'll save that workout and move on to cardio and then save that workout. Then I can refer back to them when I need to. Mine is made by New Balance. Not sure what kind of quality it is but it seems to work well and I like it. Hope that helped some.

megz85g

i'm on my 2nd Polar and i love it.
i think the mens and womens ones are just a different shape for the different shaped wrists. other than that they should be the same, you set up the data for either male/female

dad106

Why do the calories burned from strength training vs cardio matter? Either way you are burning calories and then have to do the extra work of adding both numbers together at the end, when you could just let it run and track everything at once.

I personally have a Polar FT7 which I love. Easy to use/set up.. and its accurate at estimating calories... and notice I said estimating. Nothing is going to give you an accurate calorie burn, only accurate estimations since nothing can accurately measure calories burned.