HRM

Just bought a Polar FT4 after doing research for 2 months. There's the Polar FT7 too which is more expensive and has a few extra features, but for a basic starting HRM I'd recommend the FT4! I love mine so far. Does everything I need it to.

I have a Polar F6 and love it, however they are now discontinued. I think the equiv to that is an FT6, or the next one up is an FT7. My SIL has an FT7 and it's massive compared to my F6, which is fine for her as she's big boned, however my wrists and hands are tiny and it would feel far to clunky for me. Hers supposedly does more stuff too, however we only ever use the same functions so that wouldn't make a difference for us. I pretty much just record calorie burn and that's it, nothing else. It works fantastically for that and I have no issues with it or the wearlink strap.

Just picked up a polar ft7 for about 75 @ amazon. I choose it because it uses a number of perimeters (height, weight, age, max heart rate) to calculate calories burned which I feel is a more accurate estimate. It works well and the calculated calories aren't outrageous (my wife has a timex that was reporting up to 1200 calories burned for 30 mins on a recumbent and 2k rowing for me). It stores 99 prior workouts and breaks everything down by workout or by the last week. Plus if u feel like it later u can put $50 down for a polar flow link which will upload ur data to polar. Hope that helps.