Polar A4 Pulse Heart Rate Monitor Watch
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Description of Polar A4 Pulse Heart Rate Monitor Watch
Measures your Pulse from your fingertips! Just press and hold the silver contact button and display your pulse rate in seconds flat . Purchased separately , you can add any Polar transmitter and the A4 becomes a continously displaying Heart Rate Monitor just like the other famous Polar models . Watch , Owners manual ,and warranty card ,come packaged in a black nylon zippered carrying case . Check your pulse while sitting or standing , or buy a Polar transmitter separately, to see continuous display of Heart Rate while excercising . Other features such as caloric counting and excercise file record, available when using a chest strap transmitter (not included.)Stay within your ideal training and intensity range while jogging or working out with the Polar A4 pulse monitor watch. The strapless watch is easy to use: just press and hold the silver contact button with your fingertips and you're set.
 Just press and hold the silver contact button with your fingertips for your heart rate with the A4. |
By itself, the A4 makes a good training aid, but it's particularly valuable when paired with any Polar transmitter, as the two together offer continuous heart rate monitoring. As a result, you'll know what your heart rate is throughout your workout, rather than only when you press the button. Plus, the A4 offers all the standard sports watch functions, including an alarm, calendar, stopwatch, backlight, and target zone alarms. The watch also offers a calorie counting function and exercise file record when combined with a chest strap transmitter (not included). Finally, the watch comes with a zippered black nylon carrying case for protection.
About Polar
The first EKG accurate wireless heart rate monitor was invented by Polar back in 1977 as a training tool for the Finnish National Cross Country Ski Team. The concept of "intensity training" by heart rate swept the athletic world in the eighties. By the 1990s, individuals were looking to heart rate monitors not only for performance training needs, but also for achieving everyday fitness goals. Today, the same concept of heart rate training is being used by world-class athletes as well as everyday people trying to lose weight. Polar is the leading brand among consumers, coaches, and personal trainers worldwide and the company is committed to not only producing the best products, but also being the leading educator on the benefits of heart rate based exercise.
Sports reviews of Polar A4 Pulse Heart Rate Monitor Watch
Customer Review: Tooooo hard
Sport shop rating: 2 Stars
I thought I would like the " no strap" thing but I cant seem to get a good reading with this watch only type monitor. Been trying to see about buying a transmitter to convert to strap type monitor but they cost more than this watch. Live and learn I guess, but I havent totally given up yet.Customer Review: No Chest Belt
Sport shop rating: 2 Stars
It's a great quality monitor, just be aware it does not ship with a chest belt - apparently that's an accessory. Kind of like selling a car without tires!
Customer Review: Polar A4 Pulse Heart Rate Monitor
Sport shop rating: 1 Stars
I am not happy with this product. The instructions are not clear, and the pulse monitor doesn't work right. Today I was on the treadmill. It went to 124 (oky) later as I stayed on the treadmill, it went to 114 (down with longer workout-no way), then it went to 35. So the longer Istayed on the treadmill, the lower it showed my rate just the opposite of what actually occured. I check my pulse using my neck pulse. Also, often when I try to check my pulse, it takes a long to time booting up, then it says "repress" After doing this three or four times, I fianlly give up and take my neck pulse. This is a bad buy!Customer Review: Useless piece of junk
Sport shop rating: 1 Stars
I bought this watch reading all the reviews and thinking, it couldnt be so bad as some of the reviews have described it. And I was right, it was not nearly as bad as people described, it was much worse. The heart rate monitor is so unreliable. It works one in ten times. Other nine times it will show absurd values like 12, 23 etc.
I thought, ok I will use it as a watch but then the watch died within 4 months of my buying it. I dont knnow if it is the battery or the watch itself is dead. I cant find out how to open the watch to replace the battery. Absolute waste of 50$.
Customer Review: Disappointing
Sport shop rating: 1 Stars
I purchased only the heart rate monitor watch and not the entire assembly which includes a chest strap monitor. The price was extraordinary, and the watch part works fine. Unfortunately, the heart rate mechanism is awkward to use and doesn't give accurate readings. I was very disappointed.