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: Good watch but not worth the full price
Sport shop rating: 3 Stars
I purchased this watch 2 months ago. I had another polar before and although I paid almost the same amount of money for both of them the functionality on the F55 are too complex to use unless you really dedicate time to it. If you are a gym freak then it is the product for you. If not buy something simpler to use.Customer Review: Moving on
Sport shop rating: 2 Stars
I am not a fan of the F55. I have owned a Polar HRM on and off for 10 years, but I am moving on. This was the worst of the bunch. The controls are fidgety and unintuitive. The watch stopped working in about 1.5 years, and no its not the battery and not under warranty. I will look into other brands.Customer Review: Defective design. Not up to Polar's historic standards.
Sport shop rating: 1 Stars
I purchased this watch in February 2008 and the wristband broke off, after normal use, in October 2008. I sent it in for repair and paid $20 to have them replace the chrome-plastic bezel and plastic lens (within only 8 months they had seriously scratched). So I received the watch back in like new condition only to have the same defects happen 8 months later. I sent it in for repair and they replaced the band but did not fix the scratches or bezel. When I attempted to put the watch on the wristband broke off again. I had to threaten litigation to get them to do something about it (in this case, offer a credit towards a newer model that is designed better). I still had to pay $95 for a new hrm. Polar used to be a company one could rely on but they have become obsessed with profits and production cuts. I guess their CEOs need more money to live more extravagant lifestyles. Before Polar was a worldwide name, their watches were made with the best materials known to man; now that they have built their reputation, they can let production quality slide a bit. Buyer beware.Customer Review: All that hard work and can't use it.
Sport shop rating: 1 Stars
I've owned my F55 for about a year now and have been happy using it as an aid to keep me in the zone for my runs.. but that is about all this Polar unit is good for. If you start to advance and want to get all the hard earned data out of this device your stuck with Polar's anemic PolarPersonalTrainer web site.. It is NOT supported by the overly expensive ProTrainer5 software and to add insult to injury you cannot create .HRM files to import into more advanced training software (i.e. Training peaks, etc). The other problem I've had with this HRM is the band; it's difficult to put on and take off and doesn't have the ability to be replaced with a quick Velcro band.. All in all after a year of using this HRM and not being able to access my data I've finally given up on Polar, I'm going to move on to Garmin or Suunto. (Yes I'm willing to pay more to have a well engineered "solution" over pretty websites and fancy marketing buzz words.)Customer Review: Not recommended
Sport shop rating: 1 Stars
The documentation was not appropriate to the product version. The product is unecessarily complicated and filled with silly features, for example, customized exercise routines. To measure heart rate, you have to wear a belt with transponder to get your pulse into the machine, and the belt that you have to wear you have to douse is water periodically. The installation and use of the belt are not documented. Readout is in a bizarre font. Amazon, of course, took it right back for full credit.