Re: michelle:f4 HRM

[Guest guest]

hi michelle - well, ive found something that i dont like about this

polar f4 HRM.... my weight fluctuates alot so, now, before each

workout, im weighing myself and then want to set my HRM to the right

poundage. this morning i wanted to set the poundage on it down by 3

pounds and i had to push that little button on the side about a

million times to get there...argh! it had to go all the way up to,

like, 400 pounds before it would start over and then i had to keep

going from there to get up to the proper number. i wish the watch

had a way to put this setting back by just a few pounds instead of

going through all of that. i guess that i will just have to set the

poundage once a week and leave it at that... it took me a good 5 mins

to get the watch set this morning!

:*carolyn.

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In a message dated 2/22/2006 11:01:23 P.M. US Eastern Standard Time, pvisser@... writes:

hi michelle - well, ive found something that i dont like about this polar f4 HRM....

Hi Carolyn,

I noticed that too when I was setting mine, kind of annoying. I just can't figure out why it says I burn more calories then my old HRM. I know when it did work it was working right. If the numbers are right then I'm thrilled, but some of the high calorie burns lately just seems to high for me. I don't know, maybe it's how I have my limits set up? I have no clue.

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[Guest guest]

I'm clueless too . Too bad we didn't live closer and we could all swap monitors to see if they vary much..LOL..

Darcy

On 2/23/06, fitgrl222@... <fitgrl222@...> wrote:

In a message dated 2/22/2006 11:01:23 P.M. US Eastern Standard Time, pvisser@... writes:

hi michelle - well, ive found something that i dont like about this polar f4 HRM....

Hi Carolyn,

I noticed that too when I was setting mine, kind of annoying. I just can't figure out why it says I burn more calories then my old HRM. I know when it did work it was working right. If the numbers are right then I'm thrilled, but some of the high calorie burns lately just seems to high for me. I don't know, maybe it's how I have my limits set up? I have no clue.

~Mi

chel

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fitgrl222@... wrote:

> I don't know, maybe it's how I have my limits set up?

> I have no clue.

do you have your age and height entered in properly? you also have

to set the units of measurement... so make sure that the watch is set

to feet/inches and also to pounds.

i dont think that the limits that you specify matters when it comes

to the overall number of cals burned. the limits are just for the

alarms and to measure how long you are in whatever range you

designate as your target (personally i just use 60%-90% as my target

range but i expect that you would want to use a higher and smaller

range).

:*carolyn.