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Polar FT60 Men’s Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Black with Red Display) Review

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.

Polar FT60 Men’s Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Black with Red Display) Feature

• 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

Polar FT60 Men’s Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Black with Red Display) Overview

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

Polar FT60 Men’s Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Black with Red Display) Specifications

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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Customer Reviews

Great Workout Motivator! – Erin A. Breland – Los Angeles
I started looking for a heartrate monitor only and th eFT60 was continually recommended but I continued to search through all brands as well as all of Polar’s other watches. I ended up back at the FT60 and have been working out with it now for about 3 weeks. I have no problems whatsoever with the watch and love all of the functions for tracking your progress and getting motivation. After setting a weekly goal and then exceeding it the watch sent me a message on the first day of the next week congratulating me on my Excellent work and recapping all of my goals and actual stats for the previous week. It even sent me a little trophy. Positive reinforcement from a watch! Now if I could only find a toaster to tell me I’m pretty I would be very happy!

great for heart monitoring, cheap construction – Richard E. Slifkin – NYC
The Polar FT60 is a great heart rate monitor and has some excellent features. It will auto adjust a program for you based on your exercise habits and track your progress. My biggest qualm with the product is that after owning it for only a few months, the wrist strap broke. Something so simple rendered the watch almost completely useless.

Great buy to improve training. – Isaac Salas – Costa Rica
I got two of these, one for my Dad and the other one for myself, I started looking for a HR monitor about two months ago, when I realized that the training I had been doing and the way it was done was not the “correct” way for me, with this HR, set up takes about 10min the first time, it ask for your age, weight and height then you NEED to calibrate the clock so that it knows your rested HR and it can calculate what your training zones are. Once I did this and set up a training program its been working perfectly for the past 2 months, We train together everyday and never had any interference issues.

The HR will tell you exactly in which zone are you and how many minutes you need to exercise in the zones depending on what program you choose (weight loss, improve performance etc…), it does this by day and week total, it also keeps tracks of the previous training results so you can monitor it as well, This is my doctor favorite feature since he can take the watch and check all the trainings I have done and what was my HR.

Our model is the one with White display and Blue lights. The white display works great is light and low light situations, When you use the blue light its perfect, just the right amount of glow and makes everything readable in no light situations.
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