The Polar FT40 heart rate monitor is an easy to use heart rate monitor that gives ylou clear guidance on how to improve your fitness levels and get the most out of your workouts.

Polar FT40 Heart Rate Monitor Details

  • Textile transmitter
  • Coded heart rate transmission
  • Polar EnergyPointer – fat burning or fitness improvement
  • Polar ZonePointer
  • Polar OwnCal – energy ependiture
  • Hearttouch – button free operation of wrist unit
  • ZoneLock – lets you change target zones in the middle of a workout.
  • Polar Fitness test
  • Water resistant to 30m
  • audible/visual target zone alarms

Textile Transmitter

The Polar FT40 heart rate monitor comes with a comfortabel textile strap

Coded Transmission

The Polar FT40 watch comes with coded transmission to avoid crosstalk with other heart rate monitor devices. This is handy if you intend on using the Polar FT40 in a group (e.g running group) or at the gym where others may be using their heart rate monitor devices too.

Polar Fitness Test

The Polar FT40 heart rate monitor comes with a fitness test that measures your aerobic fitness at less, giving you an indication of where you are before you even starting working out. Checking your aerobic fitness at rest after completing a training regime will let you see how far you have progressed. The Polar FT30 watch also will display your progress on your watch, so you don’t have to refer back to previous tests and shuffle through things.

Polar EnergyPointer

The Polar FT40 comes with the Polar EnergyPointer which tells you if your training’s main effect is fat burning or fitness improvement.

Polar ZonePointer

The ZonePointer function is an audible, as well as visual feature, that shows you where your current heart rate sits within your target heart rate zone. This can help you stay in it and avoid falling behind or going too hard at your workout.

Polar OwnCal

Polar OwnCal shows your energy expenditure during a workout and also the accumulated total over several sessions. It lets you set short and long term goals for how many calories you want to burn.

Polar OwnIndex

The Polar FT40 heart rate monitor also comes with the Polar OwnIndex function which evaluates your VO2 max – your maximum volume uptake.

Polar ZoneLock

The ZoneLock function lets you activate a target zone while you are in the middle of a workout. It makes it easy to change target zones if you aren’t feeling comfortable or aren’t being pushed and need to change things quickly.

Polar HeartTouch

The Polar FT40 comes with Polar HeartTouch functionality. Polar HeartTouch allows you to access different pieces of information on your watch without pressing buttons. All you have to do is bring the watch up to your chest.

Compatible with Polar FlowLink

If you want to transfer your training files to your computer, the Polar FT40 watch is compatible with the Polar Flowlink – a device that makes transferring training files to computer quick and easy. It can be bought separately.

Other Features

The Polar FT40 watch has a lot of features and below are listed some more!

  • Heart rate based target zones with alarms.
  • Manual target zone beats per minute.
  • Measures average and maximum heart rate of your training
  • Displays calories burned with fat percentage
  • Graphical target zone indicator
  • Water resistant to 30m

Price

The Polar FT40 can be found for around $120 and if bought on Amazon you can save up to 30% of its retail price of $180.

What Customers Say

The Polar FT40 has an average rating of 4 out of 5. Customers loved the various functions that the FT40 had and the ease of use. Customer comments included:

  • “I highly recommend the FT40 because it provides total calories AND percent calories from fat, which is very helpful in weight loss training program design. It also provides total duration of workout and time spent in one’s “Fat Burning” Zone (50-65% of MHR) and “Fitness Zone” (65-80% of MHR). Also provides V02 testing. The watch is very user friendly and a favorite of my clients. Price point is also good. No stopwatch feature, but thats why they made stopwatches :) I prefer the FT40 over the companion and higher priced FT60.”
  • “I have loved this heart rate monitor. It has inspired me to kick up my fitness routine a notch or two. It is easy to configure, easy to use, automatically works with equipment at the gym as well as in various hotels and looks good. I highly recommend this item. “
  • “This watch has changed the way and method that I work out! A must-have for someone that works out a lot!  “

Complaints

Complaints of the Polar FT40 heart rate monitor seemed to be related to faulty watches that were faulty from the outset. Some customers didn’t like the fact that in order to change the battery you have to send it off to Polar. If you would prefer to be able to change the battery yourself, try the Polar FT60 instead.

Overall the Polar FT40 heart rate monitor is a great heart rate monitor with lots of functions for you to play with to get the best workout.