Polar F55 Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Bronze Rock)
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Description of Polar F55 Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Bronze Rock)
The Polar F55 Red Velvet provides you with the ultimate fitness experience. Because cardiovascular exercise, strength-training, and relaxation are essential to maximum well being, the Polar F55 gives the modern fitness enthusiast a complete exercise session by adding new features like BodyWorkout and OwnRelax. BodyWorkout, a muscular strength-training guide can be adjusted according to the exerciser's progress, provides basic guidance for strength-training. The new OwnRelax feature, checks the body's state of relaxation, and helps exercisers 'listen' to their bodies, an essential component of fitness. The F55 Red Velvet is the women's version of the F55 and it is sized for a woman's wrist.Because cardiovascular exercise, strength training, and relaxation are essential to maximum well being, the Polar F55 heart rate monitor gives you a complete exercise session by adding new features like BodyWorkout and OwnRelax. 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.
The Polar Body Workout feature provides basic guidance for muscular strength training, with recommendations for strength training movements, count of sets, repetitions, and weights. It can be edited according to your development. The OwnRelax feature helps to track and improve overall well being with a 5-minute relaxation session based on heart rate and heart rate variability.
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 OwnZone feature guides you through an appropriate warm-up routine and automatically determines a safe and effective exercise heart rate. 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. 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 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.
Sports reviews of Polar F55 Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Bronze Rock)
Customer Review: Okay
Sport shop rating: 4 Stars
Works faster and better than previous models but still very complicated to use. I have it up and running but only the basics. You still need a PHD to run the more advanced program. So far so good. The strap adjusts fine. Good quality.Customer Review: Monitor
Sport shop rating: 4 Stars
Heart rate monitor works great but the body workout aspect is not very useful if you know what your doing in the gymCustomer Review: F55 Heart Rate Monitor - new strap is not for those with 40" + chests
Sport shop rating: 3 Stars
The strap that is included is different than my previous Polar heart rate monitor that this replaced. For whatever reason Polar chose, the strap is not replaceable as prior versions were; the battery pack snaps onto the strap, which does not allow a different strap to connect to it (the front is sewn into the part of the strap that goes around you).
Although the fact that is is nice to see that the battery on the chest strap could be replaced, the strap, although indicating that it adjusts from M-XXL, was loosened it to the maximum size and it was still snug. I have a 40" chest and if that is XXL, they won't sell many of these units with that chest strap.
Watch = 5 stars
Strap = 1 star
Customer Review: Defective
Sport shop rating: 3 Stars
Nice watch, easy to use.
However the weight training part is very limited and has not enough exercises.
Plus the web link is only good with pc and cannot be used with a mac.
Mine started getting the inside of the glass foggy after showering about 4 months after buying it.
It then stopped working 5 months later.
I will make the claim and see how the guarantee works.
Depending on the result my rating may dramatically change.
Customer Review: F55 HR Monitor Watch
Sport shop rating: 3 Stars
Good quality, works well in the pool and river. Lots of features. Disappointed with the preset programs. They are not changeable, so you are stuck with them. But you can work around it. Watch does not record all five HR zones, just Z2,Z3,Z4.
For quailty I would buy Polar again, for triathlon training, I would get another style of Polar or other brand.