Polar FT4 Heart Rate Monitor
For those who want basic heart rate-based features to keep their fitness training simple.
Key Features for indicating fitness improvement:
- Shows when you're improving fitness based on your heart rate
- Displays calories burned
- Comes with comfortable textile transmitter and coded heart rate transmission to avoid cross-talk
Oct 2011 - New Colours
- Red
- Purple
NB: older colour options still available
FEATURE LIST for Polar FT4
Body measurement features
- Automatic age-based target zone - bpm / %
- Average and maximum heart rate of training
- Heart rate - bpm / %
- HR-based target zones with visual and audible alarm
- Manual target zone - bpm / %
- Polar OwnCalŽ - calorie expenditure
♥Polar OwnCal calculates the number of kilocalories expended during training. This feature allows you to follow the kilocalories expended during one training session and cumulative kilocalories expended during several training sessions. Some Polar products also estimate the fat-burning percentage (fat% on display), that is, kilocalories expended from fat during a workout which is expressed as a percentage of the total kilocalories burned.
- Polar OwnCodeŽ (5kHz) - coded transmission
♥Coded heart rate transmission automatically locks in a code to transmit your heart rate to the training computer. The training computer picks up your heart rate from your transmitter only. Coding prevents interference from other training computers.
Recording features
- Totals
♥Totals includes your training data starting from the last reset enabling you to follow your long-term training.
- Training files (with summaries) - 10
Training features
- Graphical target zone indicator
♥This feature points out graphically on the display the zone you are in during a training session helping you to stay on the desired intensity zone.
- HeartTouch - button-free operation of wrist unit
♥When HeartTouch is on, different training information during training can be accessed without pressing buttons, for instance, when gloves make pressing buttons difficult, by bringing your training computer close to your transmitter.
Watch features
- Backlight
- Date and weekday indicator
- Display text in English, German, Finnish, Swedish, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian
- Dual time zone
- KeyLock
♥By activating KeyLock, training computer buttons are locked, and accidentally presses do not cause problems, for instance, during training.
- Low battery indicator
- StopWatch
♥Stopwatch can be used for timing, for instance, recording lap times. In some products, StopWatch tells the total training time.
- Time of day (12/24h) with alarm and snooze
- User replaceable battery
- Water resistant - 50m
New polar model FT4 is the new replacement the F4 model, with very similar features. The main difference is new styling to the watch face.
 











