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: Good Heart Rate Monitor
Sport shop rating: 3 Stars
Keep in mind that I am a new user, and am still experimenting with the functions, especially trying to get the correct tightness adjustment on the chest-strap transmitter. This unit might deserve 4 stars if I was more proficient in using all of its features.
I purchased this heart rate monitor so that I could improve on the results of the cardio portions of my regular workouts (a lot of this is on a treadmill). I wanted a Polar brand because the 2 gyms that I use have "Polar-Ready" equipment, which means that the heart rate measured by this monitor will transmit and display on the treadmills, elipticals, and other machines so that you don't have to keep looking at the watch. I have had varying results on this, mostly positive.
I belong to 2 gyms. One is a very large gym (Bally's) that has a large quantity of Polar-Ready machines. I have found that the heart rate display on the treadmills that I use jump in and out somewhat, and that the readings on the treadmills don't always match what is being displayed on the heart-rate monitor wristwatch. There is often a delay where one of the devices changes, then the other one matches it in a few seconds, however. Occasionally, it stops reading my heart rate altogether, but always resumes in a short period of time. I am not sure what causes that to happen. It still works relatively well, however. Since I know my own body, I am certain that when the readings disagree, that the fault is on the gym equipment; the heart rate monitor is reading correctly. Even on the worst day, this monitor outperforms the "handrail" use of the treadmills, which rarely ever functions properly.
In the small gym, which has only 6 machines that are Polar-ready (and they are all right next to each other in a line), the readings are much more stable. In most cases, the readings between the Polar wristwatch and the displays on the machine match almost perfectly (at least with a few seconds between number changes). One interesting note: In the small gym, there are 3 identical treadmills right next to each other (the other 3 machines mentioned are eliptial machines). On one occasion, I was using the treadmill in the middle, and the other two were also in use. My heart rate displayed on the machine I was using, and was also showing up on the machine to my left. It was not displaying on the machine to my right, and all were identical machines. I never did figure that one out! One added note: I also own another wristwatch heart-rate monitor that does not use a chest strap. It does not give continuous monitoring; you must hold down 3 buttons for several seconds to get a reading. I have tried using both at the same time to compare the readings. Result: They were almost dead on, so I have GREAT confidence in the accuracy of the readings.
It is important to mositen the chest band before beginning your exercise, and to make sure that the chest band is on tight enough. The unit has a LOT of great features, including the option to set your desired heart rate range. It will then keep track of how many minutes & seconds that your heart rate was within those limits. I really like that feature.
I AM STILL LEARNING TO USE THIS DEVICE, so I might be more critical than I need to be. I DO recommend this product.
Customer Review: HRM good, uplink of data to computer bad
Sport shop rating: 3 Stars
The first HRM I've owned, so nothing to compare it to. The HRM itself seems to work well - it's been great to be able to monitor my heart rate zones during my workout. (Note that the wrist unit lets you set a max and a minimum which you can view as actual HR or as %of max HR... but you cannot define multiple subzones within that max/min range - ie, you can't set limits that show you when you are in zone 2, 3, 4, or 5 - you must remember in your head what your personal zone limits are.)
The big problem I am having is trying to upload my workout data to the polarpersonaltrainer.com website. This has NOT been easy, and after 4-5 hours of working and trying 2 different microphones on my computer, still has been unsuccessful. Altho' Polar's instruction manual claims to provide "detailed information" on its website for uploading, it does not. The information is there, yes, but apparently the software itself is quite 'flaky' and finnicky as to uploading the data from the wrist unit. There are quite a few posts to Polar's discussion forum regarding this problem, but Polar's posted answers simply refer back to the information that is already online and which many of the users - like myself - have already read and followed, without success.
I haven't yet decided whether to make more attempts at uploading data. If uploading all of your data is important to you, buyer be forewarned. I don't have experience w/other HRMs, so I don't know if this is a common flaw or not.
Customer Review: Great when it works!
Sport shop rating: 3 Stars
This item is a wonderful tool to have as long as it works. I started experiencing problems after 9 months and mailed it back to Polar. They have had the product for three weeks and still have not contacted me to tell me a status. I enjoyed the product when it worked right but it is a real pain to get serviced, and Polar's communication is horrific.Customer Review: Great technology. Poor transmitter.
Sport shop rating: 3 Stars
The monitor has great features. Probably the best in the market. My transmitter though only lasted for 64 hours of training. In spite of the good care I took of it after I used it. I had to replace it because you can't replace the batteries.Customer Review: Technology is not well developed
Sport shop rating: 2 Stars
The SonicLink technology that allows you to synchronize the watch with you computer is not well developed. You will usually need to try more than 10 times each time you want to sync the watch and your computer. So I just stopped the sync altogether. Also the numbers in the display are a bit small, and hard to see, specially if you are running outdoors at night (the back light won't help you either). Finally, what bothers me most is that when you hit the stop button after your exercise, the screen goes immediately to a different window, so you are unable to see your time and heart rate right there; instead you have to press several buttons to go back where you can see how long did you exercise and what was your heart rate.
In short, I would recommend buying something cheaper in a different brand.