Polar F6 Men's Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Black Coal, New Design)
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Description of Polar F6 Men's Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Black Coal, New Design)
The F6 is a stylish model with advanced features previously found on products over $150.The Polar F6 heart rate monitor is a great choice for using in large groups where other exercisers might be using wireless training gear that could interfere with your own signal. The F6's coded transmission prevents crosstalk with other monitors so you'll get a personalized workout--even in a class environment. It's packed with innovative training features to help you toward your exercise goals, including:
- Zone Pointer: A visible and audible feature on the display of your heart rate monitor showing your target heart rate zone and where your current heart rate is within that zone.
- Polar OwnCal: This feature shows your energy expenditure during one exercise session as well as your accumulated kilocalories during several exercise sessions. You can set daily and weekly exercise goals in terms of calorie expenditure with the OwnCal feature. Because the OwnCal tracks both the energy expenditure during one exercise session and the accumulated kilocalories during a longer time e.g. one week, it helps in achieving both short term and long term goals.
- Polar OwnZone: This feature guides you through an appropriate warm-up routine and automatically determines a safe and effective exercise heart rate zone--your OwnZone--while taking into account your current physical condition.
- Polar OwnCode: This technology blocks unwanted signals from other heart rate monitors, ensuring disturbance-free transmission of your heart rate data.
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 Time in Target Zone feature calculates the amount of total exercise time spent in your personal target zone. You can use this feature together with the Total Exercise Time to determine the effectiveness of your exercise program. You can also better assess your training data using the included Polar Precision Performance (PPP) 4.0 software and the SonicLink feature, which wirelessly uploads exercise settings to the software or to Polar's web service.
Other features include:
- Display of heart rate, exercise time and average heart rate
- 24-hour clock with day/week indicator and stopwatch
- Large easy-to-read display with split screen
- One-year average battery life
- 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.
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 F6 Men's Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Black Coal, New Design)
Customer Review: Polar F6
Sport shop rating: 5 Stars
Great product. Data is uploadable to the Polar web site to track the workouts. Very accurate and functional.Customer Review: It's awesome!
Sport shop rating: 5 Stars
We love this heart rate monitor. You can even go in the water with it! It's definitely a great investment.Customer Review: Polar F6 Men's Heart Rate Monitor Watch Review
Sport shop rating: 5 Stars
The product was shipped in time . Also, the quality was as described on the package.Customer Review: maybe the best available -but- designed by a nonexerciser
Sport shop rating: 4 Stars
This works fine and is compatible with the monitor on my precor elliptical.
But I am surprised and unhappy at one property. It should be no secret to the Polar folks that I bought this to monitor my heart rate. Imagine my surprise that the Polar designers chose to make that difficult! The heart rate number is difficult to see.
With a couple button presses (wearing the band), the heart rate does come on. Okay that is fine. The numerals could be larger, especially since the dark gray numbers on the light gray background are tough to read in less than ideal/bright light or while you're busy exercising. Here I've increased my rating to 4 stars and revised my review as I did not at first understand a setting which was not explained in the manual: The feature for which this device should have been designed: a couple more button presses, and it is supposed to display and measure for an exercise period the elapsed time and the heart rate. NOW the heart rate *B L I N K S* off and on....... What? Why? okay, my failure to figure out the solution which was suggested by a couple helpful commenters, the blinking can be stopped by setting one's target heart zone or training zone so that you are ALWAYS in the target zone. If you are in the target zone, the heart rate number will not blink, but will stay on. The manual explains the training zone & beep alarm, but never mentions the "blinking"/"nonblinking" of the heart rate; I figured this out by pure accident. I didn't experiment with this as I wan't using the training zone feature in my bike rides. My bad I guess ;-)
When I'm riding my bike thru the park, especially in the afternoon, under the trees---it is not particularly easy to glance at an LCD watch and read the small numbers. But it is even more difficult if--you're not in your set training zone--and the number you want to check is blinking off...and...on. Mostly when I glance it appears to be OFF. I finally figured out that I have to set the target range to e.g. 80-160 so that the heartrate shows constantly. That's the number I want to see mainly. If it is flashing, instead of a brief glance of a second or less, it may take me 3 or 4 seconds to actually read the heart rate! Okay, this seems innocuous, but even traveling my modest 5-25 mph, I am sharing a narrow trail with random fallen nuts, leaves, sticks, dirt, occasional pedestrians, other bikers, baby strollers, and a couple times even a deers have run across the trail in front of me.
Reading the blinking number--and using the training zone range feature effectively--is easier in bright or medium indoor lights, when I'm able to concentrate mainly on that task (as I suppose the Polar engineers must have been doing when choosing this behavior). But even when I'm inside lifting weights, I don't want to take several seconds to fully read the pulse number.
I don't use the weblink system, but I find that the "file" feature is handy for periodic review & transcription of exercise time/heartrate/calories numbers to one's records.
Customer Review: Good first-time purchase for a HRM
Sport shop rating: 4 Stars
I haven't owned a HRM before, and decided to purchase one to make improvements in my bicycling goals. It's a recommended purchase. Since purchasing it, I've noticed very quick improvements once I based my training on suggested heart rates that I monitored with this HRM.
The unit comes with a chest transmitter that has a strap for a "medium" chest. I have a 48" chest, and after extending its buckle to the maximum it fits just right. If you have a chest diameter of more than this (where it is attached to the chest) you will need to purchase a larger strap. I've seen the straps for sale and they are less than $10. The strap seems to stay in place for most of my exercises, although I've had to adjust it a couple of times when it began to "ride down" my chest.
I've also discovered the T31 transmitter that comes with this unit also works with a lot of cardio machines you find in gyms. So this is very handy... you don't have to look at the HRM itself all the time, but you can keep an eye on what is reported on the cardio machine equipment. That was a nice "extra" I didn't expect.
The HRM unit itself had all the basic features I was looking for. I think it's a great "first monitor" if you've never had one before. It's enough to accomplish any immediate goals you have and will make you think about other features you may want in more expensive HRMs. I've found it sufficient for my purposes.
The menus take a little time to learn, but within a day you'll have it. One thing I have wished for on the HRM is that it seems you can only be monitoring for a single "zone" during an exercise session. I have 3 zones I want to include in my exercise program, so I have to manually change the zone limits each time I want to train in a different zone. That's a hassle for me... how many of you can remember all your zone limits?
One one thing I have wished for on this HRM is the ability to delete old logs. They stay until they finally fall out of a time range. When I first purchased the HRM, I had 3 "play sessions" to learn how it works. Later I accidentally turned on the HRM when I was going to the gym. This created 4 "fake training sessions" that I cannot remove in the history log. Whenever I upload my training sessions to Polar's personal trainer web site, these "fake sessions" show up each time and I have to manually delete them. It would be great to be able to remove these directly from the HRM itself and not have to do this each time.
Anyway -- I still recommend it. It's a great first purchase of a HRM.