Polar FT7 HRM Help!!!!

Charlea1981
Charlea1981 Posts: 72 Member
edited September 26 in Fitness and Exercise
Hey everyone, I finally received my Polar FT7 today yayyyyy but I need help, the instructions are very poor, read them in ten minutes, the set up was easy, but I would like to know how do I find out my heart rate?, resting heart rate? and what my target heart rate should be?

Also what does Upper training limit mean?

I have not used it to work out yet but will do tomorrow, sorry if these are stupid questions, it is my first HRM and I am a bit technically Challenged LOL.

I would really appreciate your help, I am going to later Google some of these questions too but I just thought you guys are so knowledgeable that I would ask my MFP Family first.

Thank you

Charlea xx

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  • kimberlyAjohnson
    kimberlyAjohnson Posts: 136 Member
    I have the ft4, but the instructions were useless haha. Here is a link to the user manual for the ft7:

    http://www.polarusa.com/us-en/support/product_support?product=22998&category=User+Manuals&documenttitle= User+manual+for+Polar+FT7+in+English&document=/gip/PEUS1kb-public.nsf/web_cat/85256F470048B0BC8525769C004D2918?openDocument
  • alison2429
    alison2429 Posts: 236 Member
    Hi there
    I have this HRM too.
    I don't know the answers to these questions - sorry! But I would like to. I have only been using it for a few weeks and I am still bonding with it! I tend to set my own rate i.e 140 - 160 when running outdoors at 11 min mile pace. I am 5ft 11" and weigh 189lbs. I agree it is easy to set up but I'm not sure I want to have any more detailed info than calories, HR. It also tells you how much of your training is fitness improving and how much is fat burning; I've only ever managed to get to about 5 mins fat burning in a 1hr 20 min run!!
    Hope you find out what you want - I will keep an eye on this message thread to see if you get any more helpful replies.

    Good luck

    Alison
  • anubis609
    anubis609 Posts: 3,966 Member
    Well, I guess there's no need for me to use lmgtfy.. Haha.

    Once you have the strap on [hehe..strap on], hit the middle button on the right side of the watch. It will find your HR. To use it to start counting calories, hit the right middle button again. While it's in "calorie burn mode," you can use the top right and bottom right buttons to cycle through displays of bpm, calories burned, duration of time, and the last one is a HR average target line or something.

    Once you're done, press the bottom left button to pause it, then press it again to exit out and give you a summary of what you just did for that particular session. Again, use the top and bottom right buttons to cycle through displays of calories burned in length of time, average and max HR hit during that session, and one more to display "Fat Burning Zone" and "Fitness Zone" [those really don't matter, unless you just like logging it into polarpersonaltrainer.com reports, like I do]. The "Fitness Zone" is supposed to be the calculated bpm that your HR hits to maximize the most amount of calories burned per minute if it means anything." But for all intents and purposes of logging it into MFP, just the amount of calories burned per length of time should suffice.

    That should about cover it. If you do more than one session back to back, and you wanna look at past recorded sessions, on the main display [showing the time], use top right or bottom right buttons to cycle to "Data" > press the middle right button to go into it > cycle to "Training files" > middle button to select > then use the top right or bottom right buttons to navigate to the date and time of the previous sessions that were saved to see the data summary of that particular one.

    That's about as simplified as I can describe it.
  • david081
    david081 Posts: 489 Member
    The best HR zone for training is between 75-85% of max heart rate which is 220 minus your age - your upper limit will be 85% max HR, at least that's what I have on my FT4. On mine the middle right button is depressed twice to start training. When the bottom right button is pressed you get 4 different screens showing Heart rate/calories burned/duration and time/upper & lower zones...

    Have you managed to programme in your details? Age sex weight etc...
  • healthyjen342
    healthyjen342 Posts: 1,435 Member
    Well, I guess there's no need for me to use lmgtfy.. Haha.

    Once you have the strap on [hehe..strap on], hit the middle button on the right side of the watch. It will find your HR. To use it to start counting calories, hit the right middle button again. While it's in "calorie burn mode," you can use the top right and bottom right buttons to cycle through displays of bpm, calories burned, duration of time, and the last one is a HR average target line or something.

    Once you're done, press the bottom left button to pause it, then press it again to exit out and give you a summary of what you just did for that particular session. Again, use the top and bottom right buttons to cycle through displays of calories burned in length of time, average and max HR hit during that session, and one more to display "Fat Burning Zone" and "Fitness Zone" [those really don't matter, unless you just like logging it into polarpersonaltrainer.com reports, like I do]. The "Fitness Zone" is supposed to be the calculated bpm that your HR hits to maximize the most amount of calories burned per minute if it means anything." But for all intents and purposes of logging it into MFP, just the amount of calories burned per length of time should suffice.

    That should about cover it. If you do more than one session back to back, and you wanna look at past recorded sessions, on the main display [showing the time], use top right or bottom right buttons to cycle to "Data" > press the middle right button to go into it > cycle to "Training files" > middle button to select > then use the top right or bottom right buttons to navigate to the date and time of the previous sessions that were saved to see the data summary of that particular one.

    That's about as simplified as I can describe it.

    ^^^^ What he said....Also, the manual their website is MUCH better..it answered a lot of questions I had.
  • Charlea1981
    Charlea1981 Posts: 72 Member
    Thanks everyone, I will check out the online manual, David I have not managed to set up weight, age etc I didnt know it could do that, I will try now!! Thanks again. C
  • anchorbaygal
    anchorbaygal Posts: 2
    I have one too, and your answer was very helpful. But my older Polar had me 'test' to get my resting heart rate. is that not neeed for the FT7? Just want to make sure my calories are calculated accuratly. :) thanks for the help!
  • lriedel7
    lriedel7 Posts: 1 Member
    The fat burning zone is actually achieved at a lesser intensity than the aerobic fitness zone. So even though you "only" achieved 5 minutes of fat burning it just means that you are exercising at a higher intensity for more time than you were at a lesser intensity. Check out the energypointer video on polar's website: http://www.polarusa.com/us-en/products/get_active/fitness_crosstraining/FT7
  • FirecrackerJess
    FirecrackerJess Posts: 276 Member
    I know this is an old thread, but I was searching about this exact thing. I just got a FT7 and I got it because of the burn zones, it was 10 more than the FT4. Did I just throw away $10 if it does not matter? I made it a point yesterday when using it for the first time to stay in the Fat Burn zone (which meant less of a workout, since i had to stay under 124).

    If I am looking to lose more "fat" should I do the Fat Zone more? Will doing a interval thing, some time above some below be good?
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