Polar FT60 Mens Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Black with Red Display)
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 13:28
Binding : Sports
ProductGroup : Sports
Manufacturer : Polar
Brand : Polar
Label : Polar
Publisher : Polar
Model : 90032301
Studio : Polar
Color : Black with Red Display
ReleaseDate : 2008-09-01
Lowest Used Price: USD $155.00
Lowest New Price: USD $166.99
- 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
Helps improve fitness and keeps users motivated with the new Polar STAR training program, which adapts to the user's personal exercise habits, providing weekly feedback and updated goals
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.
love, love, love this watch (2010-03-12)
i work out 5 days a week, varying intensity, but was getting stuck in ruts. this watch has helped look at how hard and how long i was really training and gave me(hopefully:) an accurate measure of my caloric expenditure. i am very OCD with my numbers when working out and this watch was a revelation. easy to use, intuitive displays, and very well designed. i did a lot of research before buying this watch and this was money well spent. i am not a runner, but a home gym rat, so i can't speak to how well it would do for runners. for hard core work out fanatics, this can take you to another level and act as a virtual trainer. LOVE IT!!
just works (2010-02-28)
I use this watch nearly every day of the week during cardio. I really have no complaints. In general, it just works. Once in a while it will lose track of my heart beat. It makes a particular sound so you'll know when it happens. I usually just pull the band sideways slightly so it makes a better or different contact with my skin. This seems to happen more if you don't follow the instructions about washing the band. Salt seemingly builds up in the band and likely is effectively how easy it is to follow your heart rate. This seems to happen even if you rinse the band after each workout. Wash the band in a laundry bag with your workout clothes and you'll be happy. :)
I love this even more than my last one! (2010-02-14)
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.
It's OK, but not what I expected (2010-02-10)
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.
It does everything! (2010-02-09)
This device is fantastic. It has a large, easy to read display. It tracks heart rate, calories, distance, etc. as you would expect. It also sets goals for you that correspond to your objectives and tracks your progress. It's easy to use and it looks good too!
