POLAR FT40M Heart Rate Monitor

For active exercisers who are serious about training hard, the FT40 offers clear guidance to monitor fitness levels and help you to maximise your training.

The Polar FT40 is packed with features to enhance your training including an EnergyPointer that determines if the main effect of your training is fitness improvement or fat burning. The Polar Fitness test measures your aerobic fitness at rest and tells you your progress and also displays the calories you've burned.

Comes with comfortable textile transmitter and coded heart rate transmission to avoid cross-talk as well as visual and audible alarms when you're pushing too hard.

Delve deeper into the features:

Measure your heart rate and define target zones suited to your training. In Polar software or during strength training, heart rate can be displayed as a graphical trend, visually indicating the measurement of the work your heart does throughout exercise. Achieve the optimum intensity by setting targets based on your heart rate; when you're pushing too hard and are out of your preset zones, the training computer gives you a visual and audible alarm. You can set the target zone for your training as beats per minute (bpm), as a percentage of your maximum heart rate, or as a percentage of your heart rate reserve (HRR%).

EnergyPointer is an easy-to-use feature that allows you to achieve the optimum balance between improving fitness and burning fat. 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.

Once you're race ready, you can also put yourself to the test by taking the Polar Fitness Test that measures your aerobic fitness at rest in just five minutes. The test is based on heart rate and heart rate variability at rest combined with personal information and the results can be broken down to give you total control.

Other essentials while exercising include Polar OwnCal, which calculates the number of kilocalories expended during training and Polar OwnCode, a coded transmission that picks up your heart rate from your transmitter only and prevents interference from other training computers.

The Polar FT40 keeps all of your training in memory helping you towards your long-term goals. A weekly history gathers your weekly training data while all of this information can be aggregated to keep you on track during the workout.

Once you hit your peak, the press of a button locks you to that zone and combines with the ZonePointer to monitor and alert you when you're falling short or exceeding it. HeartTouch is also incorporated for button free operation of wrist unit, leaving you to concentrate on reaching your goals.

Essential features:

• Backlight
• Date and weekday indicator
• Display text in English, German, Spanish and Italian
• Dual time zone
• KeyLock
• Low battery indicator
• Time of day (12/24h) with alarm and snooze
• User replaceable battery
• Water resistant - 30m

Technical spec:

• 1 year battery life (based on 1 hour per day, 7 days a week of exercise)
• CR2025 battery type
• Water resistance of 30m

What's in the box:

• Polar FT40 training computer
• Polar WearLink + transmitter
• Manual