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Polar FT60 Women's Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Purple) |  | Brand: Polar
Category: Sports
Department: Bike Electronics & Lighting
List Price: $239.95
Buy New: $184.99
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Seller: Jomashop
Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 2523
Color: Purple
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Watch Movement Type: Quartz
Size: Women's
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
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: 90033473
Model: 90033473
UPC: 725882475691
EAN: 0725882475691
ASIN: B001F0PVNA
Release Date: September 1, 2008
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Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Purple 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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Product Description
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.
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 purple 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.
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 Exquisitely Efficient & Easy to Use Fitness Tracker January 19, 2009
P.Broadnax
80 out of 80 found this review helpful
Since there are now only two brief comments, these details underlying my conclusion may assist potential FT60 buyers ...
--- What Prompted the Purchase ---
A winter surprise: my Garmin Forerunner 305 yields only heart rate data when exercising indoors. Further, user comments reveal that its associated Foot Pod does nadda unless your feet are moving forward on a treadmill or the like.
Initially, it seemed the Polar F11 would be just fine for indoor tracking. While it performs well, trying to get to the data proved profoundly frustrating. As for pushing the F11's data to the Polar website (free), lotsa luck. The watch needs to chirp/talk to a microphone on your PC. Short version: the thing was a complete pain to actually use, in virtually all respects. I quickly returned it to Amazon, did more research, then grabbed this FT60. Lightyears in blissful difference!
--- Operational Details / The Watch (& Polar's Customer Service) ---
1) Setting up the watch was very intuitive. But the printed manual is indeed useful, if needed.
2) Customer service is marvelous! I encountered one setup snafu -- it seemed the setup routine died midway through. I called Polar (number at the website); quickly encountered a human; he gave me step-by-step "hard reset" instructions, which immediately cured the watch's apparent headache. No questions other than "How may I help you, M'am?" From dial-up to completion took just about five minutes, if that long.
3a) It's incredibly easy to review the data on the watch both during and after a training/exercise session. During the session, just tap the larger middle button on the right to signal you're ready to start. Tap again to get it going. To change screens, tap the up and down buttons on the right. To pause, hit the lower left button. To stop completely/end the session, tap the lower left button again. To turn on the backlight, tap the upper left button. May sound complicated, but it all feels quite natural in terms of actual usage, so it's really *NOT* about struggling to memorize anything.
3b) Reviewing data on the watch: During session, a few taps on the right buttons yield heart rate avg/max, calories burned, % of fat burned, & session duration. Ditto when the session is over; there's even a blurb teling you how you're progressing in overall fitness.
4) Once you input your particulars, the FT60 provides an accurate tailored-for-your-specs calorie count for everything, whether a Wii Boxing/ Running/ etc session (academic studies yield calorie counts per minute; Google/ as a doublecheck), spinning on an indoor bike, using a step machine, etc.
5) The heart rate strap (in the box) is so comfortable that I forget I have it on (something I can't say about the Garmin strap). Just moisten the (obvious) sensors and you're good to go.
6) Unlike the F11, the battery in BOTH the watch AND the strap are user replaceable. There's even an obvious indentation on the back of each, for the screwdriver.
7) Nice touch: you can easily remove/unclip the "power" part of the strap, saving battery life.
8) Great extras, in terms of setting up tailored programs in the watch itself. The manual explains it all.
--- The Free PolarPersonalTrainer.com Website (PPT) ---
Finally, there's the matter of pushing the data to the freebie PPT website (you can set up your account while awaiting FT60 delivery). The bad news: you'll need a $55 add-on, Flow Link, which I ordered from Pa.-based Heart Rate Monitors (free shipping) via Amazon Marketplace. Ordered on a Thursday night; USPS delivery in NC the following Monday; comes in a bubble wrapped 8.5x11 inch envelope, fitting in mailbox -- track via your Open Orders page at Amazon.
The good news: the Flow Link cradle personifies no-fuss. Download the free "WebLink" software from Polar and install. Reboot (a must, trust me.) Attach the Flow Link's USB cradle. Set your FT60 face down onto the curcular center of the Flow Link device. Polar's software springs into action, pushing the data to your PPT account as expected. (Vista Ultimate / 32-bit laptop.)
At the website, you can change the string of default-named "Training Session"s to Spinning, Wii:Boxing, Stepping, HHA (HipHopAbs), Yoga, whatever at your "My Sports" tab. If your indoor bike gives you speed and distance, that can be added to the corresponding PPT session as well.
--- Tip ---
Google SPORTTRACKS for a free and incredibly useful Win app, wherein you can (manually) log all your Polar data. Extra work, but it's so inherently motivating. Who wants to see empty days when ya sluffed off your fitness routines?! Allows you to keep track of ALL your fitness activities, whether indoors or outside.
--- Bottom-Line ---
All in all, a best-bang-4-da-bucks purchase. The premium price over the F11 has paid for itself in saved time/tears via eliminated data-retrieval woes. Watch is comfortable, and looks decent enough to wear sans exercising. For all of these reasons, I highly recommend the FT60, without any reservations whatsoever.
The best thing is that you can change battery April 12, 2010
Anne (Portland, OR)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
A HR Monitor Watch is one of those things that when you get your first one you wonder how you ever could live without one... They are addicting and take your excerice to new levels, whether you use them for hardcore workouts or just want to use them for walks. I can't imagine working out anymore not having my HR on me.
I had a Polar F6 before this one, and to be honest I did like that one very much. It was a basic, good qualitve HR monitor from, according to me, the best manufacturer in the business (Polar) that gave me all the information I needed (heart rate, calories burned). The biggest drawback with F6 is that you can't change battery yourself, and considering that the battery life seems to be around 10 months with about 2 hours use/day (Polar says 1-2 years with a 1-2 hours use each day) it gets pretty annoying not being able to change the battery yourself.
So... I wanted to upgrade a bit, but not too much. My need is still a pretty simple HR monintor with some basic features like the ones F6 has. But most importantly, I wanted a HR that has a user friendly battery change so you can do it yourself (which FT60 has). FT60 is a basic HR monitor, but it DOES have some more cool features than the most basic ones (like F6), so it's certianly an upgrade for me being used to the F6. After using this for about two months now I only have the best to say.
If you're thinking about F6 or FT60, I'd say put down the extra money and go for the FT60. Being able to change battery yourself is sooo much worth it.
Great product! March 28, 2010
FlipH
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I am thrilled with my recent purchase of the Polar FT60 Women's Heart Rate Monitor Watch (I've been using this for a little over one month). I am a runner that covers around 25 miles per week, and I also enjoy group classes at my local gym. I use the monitor for both, and find it extremely user friendly and comfortable, even on my longer run days. I am very petite, 5'1" and about 110 lbs, and was worried that the strap would be too big, but it ended up fitting me perfectly. There is also plenty of room to adjust for a larger frame. The thing I love most about the Polar FT60 is the training programs that are available. It is very motivating to get updates after each workout, and also weekly, regarding the improvement to your level of fitness. Since there are varied programs, almost anyone could find one that applies to their individual goals. Overall, I'm very happy with this purchase.
I love this even more than my last one! February 14, 2010
Natacha Diosa (Manchester, CT)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I used to have the Polar F11 in Pink Fizz, which was also great, but I lost it during a vacation and had to get a new one. :( I was researching other watches and this new model got great reviews. At first I thought it was too expensive, but when I saw that this one was only 50 dollars more (on eBay!) I decided to go for it.
I love it! Its pretty big of course, but it has so much functionality; it has set up my workout goals and when I finish each workout it tells me "Fitness Level Improving," or "Train more in zone 2", etc to give me an idea of what to do. And then if I meet my goals it congratulates me with a starburst and a picture of a trophy. It may be silly, but that trophy was what got me to do a workout last night when I didn't feel like it!
I really want to get the foot pod (I don't go far enough to worry about gps) but for right now it's been very helpful in it's own, and I definitely am glad I got it.
Greatest Polar Watch Ever Owned! April 28, 2010
Laura Waszczuk
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I worked for an Athletic Club and have access to numerous heart rate monitors, but this is simply the best heart rate monitor on the market. I loved it so much - I ordered one for my Mom for Mother's Day! It gives far more information than the standard Polar watches do and is actually cute and non-masculine! If you are looking for a heart rate monitor then this is the watch for you. Spend the extra money! It is worth the cost!
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