Home > Consumer Reviews > Polar F4 (Berry Color) (Small Transmitter 28-40 Inch Chest) Heart Rate Monitor for Women. Great for Exercise and Fitness.

Polar is the best HRM watch one can get. However, when time comes for the battery replacement, this is where this company will get you. To replace the battery in the watch and the trasmitter, the owner of this watch must send the watch and the transmitter to the authorized dealer to do so to ensure water proofing and the cost for the battery replacement is approximately $75.00. For the transmitter, instead of replacing the battery, the company will just replace your transmitter with the refurbished transmitter and they charged about $40.00. When you are choosing the hrm watch, you should consider this point before buying.

This is a great HRM for most amateur and weekend athletes. I wear it to swim, bike and run plus I have worn it (just for fun) while shoveling snow after a big storm. It helps tremendously to track times and effort of my training workouts. I just purchased a second monitor for my mom for mother's day, she mostly walks but this is a great for that as well. In hind sight I think I might have purchased the f11 as it would give me even more zone information and more tracking capabilities, but this is a great monitor. I have owned other Polar HRMs and I won't buy any other brand.

I bought this heart rate monitor about a month ago and have been very pleased with its performance. I use it to swim, I swim for an hour each day and love to see the amount of calories I burn each time. Usually around 300 calories. I have left it on for an entire day and found out I burn about 4000 calories in one day. WOW. The only thing is if you use it to swim, you need to take 18 points off your heart rate in deep water and 8 in shallow water. So I adjusted my target rates and it is just fine. I would recommend this product to any one looking for a heart rate moniter that is simple to use.

I absolutely love this HRM!!! I bought it 5 months ago after months of researching all the HRM on the market. My husband bought a Sunnto model 2 months prior to my purchase and it was fine, but the watch itself was bigger and had lots of buttons and just seemed to "gadget-ie" to me. Not to mention I hated the thought of spending hundreds of dollars on a HRM, he paid almost $200 for his Sunnto. I wasn't sure that this HRM would give me what I needed because of the great price($89), but I was pleasantly surprised after my first use!
I was looking for a model that was easy to use that gave me an accurate HR reading, workout timer, calorie counter, workout log and this Polar F4 has it all. Super easy to use and easy to read display make this a 10 in my book. If you are worried about the chest strap being uncomfortable it really isn't bad. Took me a couple workouts to get used to it, but now I forget that its even there.
I found that in the first month I was exercising on average 1 extra time per week and about 10-20 mins longer per workout than before buying this HRM. I'm sure its because I tell myself things like..."Only 30 more calories to 400" it keeps me working longer and harder.
This is a must for anyone who is looking to make a fitness plan for the New Year.
Enjoy!

this watch works just as advertised. i use it for every workout. it helps me push harder and I have talked 3 other coworkers into buying one since I purchased mine. It's great.