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Polar FT60 Women's Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Black) |  | Brand: Polar
Category: Sports
Department: unisex-adult
List Price: $239.95
Buy New: $186.99
as of 11/27/2009 15:29 CST details
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New (21) from $186.99
Seller: Good Deal electronics
Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 5409
Color: Black
Clothing Size: One Size
Size: Women's
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 5.1 x 3.1
MPN: FT60FBLK
Model: 90033469
UPC: 725882475653
EAN: 0725882475653
ASIN: B001F0PVN0
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Black women's heart rate monitor watch with several innovative training features | | • | Displays heart rate as percentage of maximum, bpm, and within target zone indicator | | • | Polar Star personalized training program delivers feedback and weekly training targets | | • | Polar OwnCal mode tracks energy expenditure for single and accumulated workouts | | • | Offers ZonePointer and Polar OwnZone modes; water-resistant to 30 meters; 2-year warranty |
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Amazon.com Product Description
The smartest way to better fitness, the Polar FT60 women's heart rate monitor watch helps you stay motivated and improve your conditioning. The FT60 works by first checking your daily condition, and then guiding you to the ideal training intensity for your age and fitness level. Knowing your heart rate not only helps you reach your personal fitness goal, but also improves your physical condition in general, as it's vitally important to train at the appropriate intensity level. If you exercise too hard, you may quit before you reach the real benefit, but if you work out too leisurely, you'll struggle to lose weight at all. The FT60 helps overcome these problems by encouraging you to map out a complete fitness routine. The FT60 is packed with innovative training features to help you toward your exercise goals. First off, the watch includes a Polar Star personalized training program that adapts to your workout habits. By giving you weekly training targets and providing constant feedback, the watch guides you without being too strict, helping you reach your goals more efficiently. The watch also displays heart rate info in several ways, including as a percentage of your maximum heart rate, as beats per minute, and within a graphical target zone indicator. And should your heart rate exceed or dip below your target zone, the FT60 will sound an alarm that helps you return to form. Users will also love the variety of proprietary Polar functions, including ZonePointer, Polar OwnZone, and Polar OwnCal modes. The ZonePointer is an audible and visual feature on the display of your FT60 that shows you where your current heart rate sits within your target heart rate zone. The Polar OwnZone mode, meanwhile, provides a customized target zone for individual exercise sessions. Finally, the Polar OwnCal mode shows your energy expenditure during one exercise session, as well as your accumulated kilocalories during several exercise sessions. You can also set daily and weekly exercise goals in terms of calorie expenditure, helping you achieve both short-term and long-term goals. Other features include support for the G1 GPS sensor (sold separately); a built-in fitness test that measures your aerobic fitness at rest in just five minutes; a ZoneLock mode that lets you activate a target zone in the midst of training with the press of a button; an OwnCode mode that prevents crosstalk from other heart rate monitors nearby; a recording mode that tracks your average and maximum heart rate, calorie expenditure, distance, and total exercise time, and then puts it in an exercise file (with 100 total files); water resistance to 30 meters; a 12/24-hour clock with a day/week indicator; a built-in backlight; an alarm with a snooze; a low battery indicator; and a Polar FlowLink connection for transferring data between the FT60 and a computer. Sporting an attractive black housing, the watch carries a two-year warranty. Manufacturer's Warranty
The original purchaser of this heart rate monitor is backed by a limited warranty that states that this product that the product will be free from defects in material or workmanship for two years from the date of purchase. 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.
Product Description
With the Polar® FT60F training computer, you can train to reach your fitness targets with the FT60's personalized training program. It sets new targets by adapting to your personal training habits, helping you stay motivated and carry on improving your fitness. The adaptive training program features weekly targets, feedback and guidance so you'll achieve your training targets more efficiently and effectively.
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Keeps me training!!! November 27, 2009
Reddust (Eagle Point, Or)
The first watch that I bought was an f4. I enjoyed the watching my calories rack up. After three years, I still loved the watch but my fitness goals have changed. I have went from dabbling in running to finishing a 10k. Ten years ago at age 23 I could not run 20 feet. I can now run 7 miles. I was at this time last year running a 12 minute mile. Yesterday I ran a 9:30 average for my two mile. I have not even tapped into the potential of my new watch, I am logging miles and calories. I like that you can lock a zone. It also tells you what health benefits you gained in that training session. Such as "Fat burning improved" or "Maximum fitness improved" "train less in zone 3". It beeps to let you know if you are too slow of too fast. I have realized I always train on the high end (zone 3) and I need to slow my pace for distance running. The watch even tells you to rest if you have not properly recovered. I bought the watch with the gps. I like it but it seems off compared to my friends footpod. I will be buying a footpod since the pace seems more accurate. My pace always says I am 2 minutes slower. I don't know if it is due to a lag in data transfer. Also you have to stand still and wait for the gps to find the satelites. I am not a super high tech gadgit loving girl but I can work this. I still have to play aroung with the gps a bit more as i have only had it a few weeks. I would like an accurate pace for my tempo and pace training. Other than that I love it. It is much easier to set up than the garmin. I set my friends up. I did get this watch on sale. It is a steep price to pay, but I like the benefits. Looks great too! A bit bulkier than the f4. Still sleek enough to wear as a woman.
Helpful but has Issues. November 27, 2009
David Munson (Mid Illinois, United States)
I've owned my watch seven months. I hardly worked out at first. After replacing my elliptical, I logged over 200 hours, averaging 4-7 hours per week. I had to replace the batteries in the watch and strap after a few weeks (bad batteries). Walmart carries the batteries. Be careful when replacing the battery in the strap: the plastic is extremely mailable, easily damaged and provides poor tool traction. Bad design issue number 1. Be careful in replacing the battery on the watch, the design is so you can easily break something when replacing the battery. The strap broke soon after the battery replacement. The fabric folds over and provides a loop to secure the belt on your chest. The stitching to hold this was done improperly and the fabric tore at the stitching. Bad design issue number 2. I contacted Polar about the strap and explained what happened they shipped me a replacement strap. Actually nice customer service. I lost a week of workout in this and it bothered me so much that I ordered a backup strap.
The chest strap is comfortable. It does not distract me from my workout or slip. The watch is too small to fit comfortable on my wrist. I do not have this problem with watches and do not know what they were thinking. Big watch, relatively small strap. Bad design issue number 3. I place the watch on the elliptical rail and don't usually wear it.
I have seen complaints about the watch not picking up heartbeat and have had a couple of issues (all solved). What I have learned to do to get a reliable connection is to use a bit of hand-gel on my chest and wet the strap where the pickup connections are. I also had to disable my elliptical's HRM functions because of some issue where it would prevent this watch to work with the wearlink.
The watch is ugly. I don't know who's idea it was to use those electronic symbols but they deserve to be slapped. It's a $200 HRM and looks stupid. The LCD display looks cheap. I understand about the power load but feel that Polar could do a better job. I had a time when power went out at night. Since my elliptical runs off my power I did a nice workout while waiting for the power to return. While I don't think this watch was ever designed to work in almost total darkness, it will. Poorly. Very poorly. Bad design issue number 4.
The watch stores the last 100 workouts. It tells you date, time, average and max MHR, calories, fat calories and time in zones. (((Yo Polar. It would be nice to allow me to add data like 'miles' to this))). The watch will also tell you one of four opinions it has (nothing, fitness improving, fat burn improving and max performance improving or combinations of those). You choose the program and the watch makes recommendations on how many minutes per week you should spend in the three zones. Also note that Polar / The HRM believes that 60-69% MHR is ideal to loose weight. Most of the experts today seem to not believe that and go for Interval Training. I use both styles and found the watch when set to fat burning a royal pain telling me to not work so hard. The programming is basic and limited in functionality. I think I have it set to improve fitness and do what I please (which includes fat burning low MHR sessions, HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training), long straight cardio sessions, et.al.) Anyway, the point is the watch has a bad weight loss program. Lacking in flexibility.
I also would like 4 cardio zones and not three (55-65, 65-75, 75-85 and 85+). The 4 zones work better with interval training than 3.
The Polar Fitness Test (if it is truly VO2max) is a extremely valuable item to the watch. Track this with your weight weekly. I don't have enough data to track this yet but understand the importance (it provides a number to your fitness).
I do not have the polar flowlink device. Two reasons: The flowlink is a pos (read the reviews here and at the polar web) and also the watch only records a few data points per session. I built a spreadsheet that records and evaluates over time my workouts. I tried to use the program at the polar web site but the interface to input data is the worst bit of programming I have seen these last 20 years. Who ever built that interface should also be slapped. Hard. It is almost like they made it as hard as possible to input data so you would be forced to buy that pos flowlink. Polar, you need a new programmer.
Through all this, I still rate the watch four stars. It was 3 stars plus the fitness test. It works consistent most times keeping in mind that the $50 straps fall apart and there are some serious mechanical, electronic and programming design flaws. The biggest benefit I got in the beginning is that I was able to limit my workout until I was fit enough to go the distance. The watch provides almost enough critical information that is extremely beneficial to anyone's plan. It needs improvement.
Very good HRM October 16, 2009
Constanza Ehrenhaus
I gave this to my husband for his birthday, ever since he has improved his work outs and increased his cardiovascular capacity, plus he is less prone to get injured and he has lost over 10 pounds in 2 months! The Polar FT60 will coach you to fulfill different programs, as increasing your fitness and others, and will make a training program specific for you.
The red display can be hard to read in dim lights, but it is not in bright lights (day) or darkness, so it is not really too bad, especially considering that this color goes for much cheaper. The one problem we had was that the data erased itself once, when it should have not. But that problem has not been repeated.
 Fantastic Workout Tool September 9, 2009
Ryan P. Stivers
My first heart rate monitor and well worth the money. It is comfortable, not unsightly, packed with features and appears to take a decent amount of abuse. The strap is easy to wash and fits well around all sizes. The weight loss program is simple but great at making you realize just how hard you actually need to work out. (I would guess that without a heart rate monitor most people don't realize how they are not working in their zones at all) with diet and this little tool I have so far lost about 20lbs. Display was easy to read, and while intimidating, it is not complex despite all it can do. The weight graph is fantastic!
 Not what one would expect... August 22, 2009
P. Fouliras (Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have Polar FT60 for a few weeks. My experience with HRMs is limited to this and OMRON HR-100c. I was impressed by the personaltrainer site, the reviews I read about the product and the fact that the batteries are user-replaceable.
Well, things unfortunately are not as they seem. The watch is supposed to have the STAR training feature which (based on the data entered by the user, plus measurements) plays the role of a personal trainer with three possible goals (weight loss, fitness improve/maximize).
Problems:
1. The weekly plan produced is vague: It states only how many minutes one should spend in each of the 3 training zones. Should I do it in 2 sessions? 3, 4, 5? It doesn't tell you. As a contrast check the (much more impressive) programs created by the respective site: They give you specific days (depending on a reasonable choice you have made in terms of the number of desired training sessions) and specific time duration for successive sub-sessions. E.g., try 20' in zone 1, then 10' in zone 2 and 10' in zone 1.
2. If I want to follow a session as suggested above, I cannot do it: No timer(s) available to inform me that the first sub-session has ended, so that I should go to the following one!
3. Suppose I must train x minutes in Zone 1 and y minutes in Zone 2 and no minutes in the highest Zone. There is NO way to lock the first 2 zones so that I do not overtrain!
4. The training alarm does not work unless I specifically lock a PARTICULAR zone. What if I forgot myself in the 'warming-up' and my heart-rate is below Zone 1? NO SOUND unless I have locked Zone 1! What if I do not lock any particular zone and my BMP is either below Zone 1 (or above Zone 3)? NO SOUND! And I have tested that with the training sound level at various levels before writing this.
The OMRON HR-100C is much better at this. Its sound is stronger (one level but a decent one) and once you set the low and high BMP values, it will beep if you under- or over-train. The display is also clearer and the figures larger and crisper.
6. The Polar strap is supposed to be upto XXL, but it is short a few cm. I had to go to a tailor and put a little extension (4-5cm) to make it fit. The OMRON was OK from the beginning.
7. The OMRON came with a zippered storage case and a mounting bracket. The much more expensive Polar FT60 with none of these...
8. The batteries are user-replaceable, BUT the Polar manual specifically states that once you change the battery, you must also replace the sealing ring on the watch, or else...
9. The calories burned, etc. feature is nice, but its accuracy disputed in the relevant forum.
Final remark: Unfortunately the rule "you get what you pay for" is not the case here. For the features offered FT60 is not what I would expect, but it is too late now.
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