Customer Reviews for Polar F11 Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Grey Pepper)

Polar F11 Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Grey Pepper)

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Description of Polar F11 Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Grey Pepper)

The world's only heart rate monitor that creates a workout program with how much, how hard and how long to exercise to reach your goals.

The Polar F11 Heart Rate Monitor is the world's only heart rate monitor that creates a workout program to tell you how much, how hard and how long to exercise to reach your goals. This powerful wrist monitor provides a highly accurate gauge for getting the most from your exercise sessions. The Polar Keeps U Fit Workout Program gives you personal guidance--how often, how hard, and how long you need to exercise to reach your personal fitness goals. It also includes a free-of-charge online component.

The wristwatch-like monitor features a large display that includes 12/24-hour time of day, alarm, and stopwatch. The transmitter includes the Wearlink Coded function, which eliminates interference from other heart rate monitors. The transmitter's electrodes, which pick up the heart signals, are integrated right into the strap for added flexibility and comfort.

The OwnCal feature shows your energy expenditure during one exercise session as well as your accumulated kilocalories during several exercise sessions. It also allows you to set daily and weekly exercise goals in terms of calorie expenditure. The Fitness Bullets feature shows a bullet on the monitor's display for every 10 minutes spent exercising/training in your target heart rate zone. The Coded feature eliminates interference from other heart rate monitors. Other features include:

Displays heart rate, exercise time, and average heart rate
Manual and automatic heart rate limit settings
Large easy-to-read display with backlighting and split screen
Water resistant to 30 meters (100 feet)

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.

Note:
Polar heart rate monitors are precision instruments; consumers are not advised to change their own battery. Polar recommends that all service be done by an authorized Polar Service Center which will include a warranty for 90 days on repairs and 6 months for batteries.

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.

Sports reviews of Polar F11 Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Grey Pepper)

Customer Review: The problem is with the heart rate monitor, not the receiver
Sport shop rating: 4 Stars

I purchased the F11 for use in monitoring my workouts while deployed in Iraq. The grey color for this model made it a perfect fit with the grey in color uniforms I wear. After a short while I began to expereience some of the same problems that other users have reported experiencing. The heart rate would go up to 220 beats per minute or it would not register anything at all. I have another Polar watch that I use for hiking that also has a heart rate monitor with it that has worked perfectly. That receiver used the T31 Coded monitor. When I went home on leave I tried the F11 using the T31 Coded Heart Rate Monitor. The F11 worked perfectly. I have been using the F11 with the T31 for 3 months now and I haven't had any problems with it since changing out the heart rate monitor. I like the features of the F11 and the size of it. The fact that the heart rate monitor is faulty led me to give this 4 stars instead of five. The T31 Coded Monitor can be purchased individually through Amazon.com. It is much cheaper to go through them than to purchase one from Polar directly.

Customer Review: Nice HRM and Fitness Buddy
Sport shop rating: 4 Stars

I purchased this to get in better shape. First time using a HRM. It took some getting used to and fiddling with the workout programs to really make it worth while. After 3 months I am very happy with this item.
I would give it 5 stars however the watch face scratches too easily. I would have expected a stronger crystal (or perhaps saphire) for an item that is to go with you to the gym. I see the life expectancy for this reason to be at about a year or so.

Customer Review: Polar F11 - it's super!...
Sport shop rating: 4 Stars

This is my second HRM and I am quite astonished with its features, especially the ability to create an exercise program to suit individual, based on his/her personal data. It is a superb piece of engineering design for fitness conscious person. Unfortunately, it doesn't support more than one user, a feature I'd like to have. I would have given 5 stars, if that would be the case...

Customer Review: good deal for the price
Sport shop rating: 4 Stars

Very nice watch/monitor... not bulky at all ... easy to use ... features easy to understand and manipulate ... only con' is the communication with any computer to download information.