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Polar FT60 Men's Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Black with Red Display) |  | Brand: Polar
Category: Sports
Department: Bike Electronics & Lighting
List Price: $239.95
Buy New: $99.98
as of 9/10/2010 18:04 PDT details
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Seller: pawnworld
Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 8255
Color: Black with Red Display
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Bezel Material: Fixed
Case Material: Purple
Dial Color: Digital
Watch Movement Type: Quartz
Size: Men's
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 5.1 x 3
Legal Disclaimer: Disclaimer: This Heart Rate Monitor Watch is not a medical device, or intended for use in any medical, or patient monitoring application. This Heart Rate Monitor Watch is not intended of use in any commercial application. Always consult a physician before starting any physical activity.
MPN: 725882449654
Model: 90032301
UPC: 725882449654
EAN: 0725882516790
ASIN: B001F0PVNU
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Black men'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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Product Description
The new Polar STAR training program is included.
Check out these new training features:
Provides weekly training targets to help reach fitness goals
Adapts to your training habits to guide you without being too
strict and allows flexibility during the week
Provides feedback after each training session and once a week
The smartest way to better fitness
Now you can train as you want and 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.
New Polar STAR training program gives you weekly training targets, adapts to your training habits to guide you without being too strict and allows you flexibility during the week
Fitness test measures your aerobic fitness at rest in just five minutes
FT60 also shows you the calories burned
Amazon.com Product Description
The smartest way to better fitness, the Polar FT60 men'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 with a red display, 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.
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 It's All True September 7, 2010
Ed Perkins (Maitland, FL)
I read all of the reviews before I made my purchase. I use a HRM at least once a day for over 10 years now. This is probably my 6th hrm (I had to return a couple). I also collect watches.
I've found that Polar seems to be the only company that makes hrm's that give me consistent readouts, as opposed to I'm jogging and getting a reading of 250 bpm. The hrm's seems to last a year or so, then quit receiving or something. Changing batteries helps sometimes for a bit, but I always know when it is almost time for a new one. They usually look goofy and you have to pay $140+ to get ones that do the personal training stuff I like.
This model appealed to me because it looked very different and even now, I'll wear this watch as a sport watch. It is kind of retro-funky, almost Russian-made or something. I definitely have nothing else like it.
It works just like the other models I've appreciated, like the F11 and looks a lot better.
The bad news: It is just like the other reviewers have said, in some light it is very hard to read....although I would say there were times like (early evening) when I would run outdoors with my F11 and had a hard time reading it. Too dark for the regular display and not dark enough for the lighted display.
That was not a deal-breaker for me, but it must have been for a lot of people, because the FT60 I got today was not pristine new...and I was not pleased. The ad should clearly state it when you are buying returned merchandise. A call to Amazon and the problem was solved within 5 minutes and I am very happy...but just realize you are paying a lot of money for something somebody else hated enough to send it right back.
So the good news is that you're doing business with Amazon and they will make it right, but be prepared for an opened box with the parts tossed in.
It's OK, but not what I expected February 10, 2010
C. Wiegand (Tucson, AZ)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have now had the FT60 for about a month and have used it quite a lot, a least 4 or 5 times per week for training/jogging/exercise sessions. It general, it's a decent all-purpose HRM, but I have found a few issues with it -
1) the red-on-black face is difficult to read unless you're in very good light.
2) the 'night' light is not a night light, press the button and the text color changes from red to green, which is only visible in near total darkness.
3) there is no timer, count-down timer or stop watch functions (even the cheapest watches available have these features).
4) the new HRM needs a software upgrade, and the only way to do that is to ship it to Polar.
5) the text/numbers sizes are rather odd - text, ie Pause or Start, is large, while at the same time the numbers for the HR are too small and difficult to read. This is a HRM so the HR should be the biggest text, after all, that is why we buy one of these, right?
6) for as much as this unit costs I would expect it to have 5 HR zones, but it has only 3, which for my use is not enough.
For general use, by an unconditioned person, this HRM would probably be fine. For use by an athletic/conditioned person, this unit is probably not what you are looking for.
 Great heart rate monitor February 2, 2010
Hibbie (Denver)
Purchased this to replace a basic monitor. This is great! The training program is very motivational and has helped improve my workouts.
Helpful but has Issues. November 27, 2009
David Munson (Mid Illinois, United States)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
August 2010. Dropped a star due to new failure of the transmitter. Durability is questionable. Are all HRM's cheap crap or just this one?
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.
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