Polar FT40 Heart Rate Monitor

Polar FT40 calculates your fat burning heart rate zone and is ideal for weight loss. Simplifies exercise at the optimum heart rate to reach your goals. EnergyPointer feature graphically displays your exertion in 1 of 2 zones—either your optimum fat burning zone or fitness improvement zone

Polar FT40 Heart Rate Monitor Features

• Designed for gym exercise, weight loss, joggers, and people who want to exercise efficiently and get fit
• Polar Fitness Test finds your fitness level & predicts VO2max
• Shows calories burned, duration and time spent in each zone (fat burning or fitness)
• Stores 50 workout files and 16 weekly training summaries
• WearLink™ coded transmitter
• Uploads data to PolarPersonalTrainer.com to track progress and goals

Body Measurement Features

• Average and maximum heart rate of training

• Heart rate – bpm / %

  Heart rate is the measurement of the work your heart does. Heart rate can be expressed as the number of beats per minute (bpm) or as a percentage (%) of your maximum heart rate.

• HR-based target zones with visual and audible alarm

  You can define your target zones for a training session based on heart rate to help define the right intensity. When you are out of the preset zones, the training computer will give a visual and audible alarm.
• HRmax (user set)

• Manual target zone – bpm (upper limit)

  This feature enables you to define the upper limit for your target zone. You can set the upper limit for your training as beats per minute (bpm).

• Polar EnergyPointer

  EnergyPointer is an easy-to-use feature which tells you during a training session if the main effect of your training is fat burning or fitness improvement. EnergyPointer visually indicates the center point between these two training effects, so when you are below that point, you are improving fat burning, and above that point, you are improving your aerobic fitness.

• Polar Fitness Test

  Polar Fitness Test measures your aerobic fitness at rest in just five minutes. The result, Polar OwnIndex, evaluates your maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max). With the Polar Fitness Test you can measure your aerobic fitness by yourself, automatically and without any exertion. All you need is your training computer. The Polar Fitness Test is as accurate in predicting the VO2max as any sub maximal fitness test. The test is based on heart rate and heart rate variability at rest and personal information.

• Polar OwnCal® – calorie expenditure with fat percentage

  Polar OwnCal calculates the number of calories burned during training. This feature allows you to track the calories burned during one training session and cumulative calories burned during several training sessions. This feature also estimates the fat-burning percentage (fat% on display), that is, calories burned from fat during a workout which is expressed as a percentage of the total calories burned.

• Polar OwnCode® (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.

• Training load – available via polarpersonaltrainer.com

  This feature is available in Polar software. When you transfer training results from your training computer to polarpersonaltrainer.com, you can follow your training load and recovery in the training diary. Continuous monitoring of training load and recovery will help you recognize personal limits, avoid over- or undertraining, and adjust training intensity and duration according to your daily and weekly targets

Data Transfer

• Compatible with Mac (Intel-based) – opt. with Polar FlowLink:
• Compatible with polarpersonaltrainer.com – opt. with Polar FlowLink

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) – 50

• Weekly history

  Weekly history gathers your weekly training data. By selecting a week, you can review your training data for the week.

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.

• ZoneLock

  ZoneLock feature helps you to accumulate certain intensity. You can either lock a zone before a training session or during it by pressing a button when you are on the desired zone.

• ZonePointer

  ZonePointer is a visible and moving symbol on the training computer display indicating whether you are inside the pre-set target zone. This feature helps you to reach the desired intensity/pace/speed/cadence targets.

Watch Features

• Backlight
• Date and weekday indicator
• Display text in English, German, Spanish, and Italian
• Dual time zone

• KeyLock

  By activating KeyLock, training computer buttons are locked, and accidental presses do not cause problems, for instance, during training.
• Low battery indicator
• Time of day (12/24h) with alarm and snooze
• User replaceable battery
• Water resistant – 30m