Polar FT7 "fit test"

Eidajan
Eidajan Posts: 36 Member
edited September 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
I just got the Polar FT7 heart rate monitor and I must say it was very easy to set up for age, weight etc. I thought I read on one of the forums that you can do a "fit test" on the FT6 model and above, to give a more accurate calorie expenditure. Does anyone know how to do this?
Also I noticed that the calorie on the hrm was 100 calories below what my elliptical showed and much lower than that of mfp, at least by 250. Is the hrm the most accurate?

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  • chazspk
    chazspk Posts: 159 Member
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  • farmboyphotography
    farmboyphotography Posts: 181 Member
    Today was my first day with the Polar FT7 HRM. Turns out that MFP's calorie burn was too generous (says the HRM).

    Today's example: 105 minutes on the elliptical. MFP says 1529 calories. Polar HRM says 1209 calories.

    If, every day, I burn 300 calories less than I thought, that is over 2,000 extra calories I am carrying with me every week. Crikey!
  • CeleryStalker
    CeleryStalker Posts: 665 Member
    HRM's are funny. My Garmin HRM tells me I burn, on average, about 1,000 calories more than my Polar HRM does. This is when out on bike rides such as today. I don't trust the garmin. There are a lot of online tools to calculate caloric expenditure, and they usually come WAY closer to my Polar's output than the Garmin.

    Setting it up properly, with age, height, weight, and performing the fit test, will give you the most accurate results. On my Polar F6, it's simple. I just click the menu button and scroll down to 'test'. You have to read the manual. It tells you specifically what to do (or not to do) during and prior to the test.

    The Polar FT7, per the Polar user forum, does not have a fit test.
  • CeleryStalker
    CeleryStalker Posts: 665 Member
    Forgot to add....the fit test is just a 'sit down, relax, be quiet, wear your HRM' test and it is supposed to calculate your VO2 max. I have a hard time understanding how sitting completely still for 5 minutes or so is going to produce accurate results for the VO2 max when the sports program at a local college here has a way to calibrate it which involves hooking you up to machines that read your bio stuff while you are under GREAT physical exertion. But what do I know? I'm not on the R&D team for Polar, lol Course, even when I was only half way in shape and still way overweight, my Polar told me my fitness level was 'elite'. La tee dah LOL

    There was a link for VO2 max on the Polar forum which has several tests for calculating your VO2 max. Here is the link:

    http://www.brianmac.co.uk/vo2max.htm
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