Polar FT60 Heart Rate Monitor Product Description

The Polar FT60 heart rate monitor helps you improve your conditioning and stay motivated during your training sessions. The Polar FT60 reads your current fitness condition and adapts the ideal training for your fitness level, age, sex and goals.

Ever since the heart rate targetting system evolution from the 90s, knowing your heart rate has become vital to improve your physical condition and to reach your goals, it allows you to do intensity training within your target zone. The Polar FT60 heart rate monitor is more than a watch, it includes a complete personalized training program that matches your workout habits giving you weekly targets and precise feedback of your training. Keeping your heart rate within your target zone is important, and the FT60 heart rate monitor will sound an alarm when you are no longer within your limits. The Polar FT60 comes with a variety of reading to help you monitor your heart rate at different situations including Polar OwnZone, Polar OwnCal and ZonePointer (all of them explained below). You can also set daily and weekly workout goals in terms of calories burning.

Add-ons like the G1 GPS sensor and footpod provide even more complete measurements like distance and speed when riding a bike or running on an outside trail. And the FlowLink will allow you to transfer all this data to your computer and personal training page.

Body Measurement & Target Zones

The Polar FT60 is more than a heart rate monitor and includes many measurements that will help you achieve and keep your target zone and laser-focus your training accordingly. Some of the body measurements are:

1. Automatic Age-Based Target Zone (bpm/%): Is very important to keep your training within safe boundaries, the FT60 determines your heart rate target zone limits according to your age-based maximum heart rate. These limits are defined in beats per minute (bpm), as a heart rate reserve (%HRR) or as a percentage (%) of your maximum heart rate.
2. Heart Rate: The Polar FT60 measures your heart rate as the number of beats per minute (bpm) or as a percentage of your max heart rate (%).
3. Hear Rate Target Zones: You will be able to define your target zones based on heart rate with visual and audible alarms.
4. Manual Target Zone: At any moment, the Polar FT60 will allow you to set a target zone suitable for the training you are having.
5. Polar Fitness Test: With the FT60 fitness test you can measure your own aerobic fitness, automatically and at rest. This test is based on your heart rate and the heart rate variability without exertion (at rest) and your personal information.
6. Polar OwnCal®: Polar FT60′s calculation of the number of calories burned during training. You will be able to follow the amount of calories burned per session and during various sessions of training.
7. Polar OwnZone®: Your physical state changes during the day, the Polar FT60 can determine your heart rate limits based on this information and present you with the best training target zone for you at any moment. Determining OwnZone limits take aproximately 5 minutes.
8. Polar STAR Training Program: Personalized training to help you reach your training target zones. The training programs provides the user with weekly targets that include intensity and duration. The Polar STAR training takes into account your activity and fitness levels, your training goals, your weight, height, sex and age.

Polar FT60 Target Zones

The Polar FT60 heart rate monitor is setup with 3 target zones:

1. Zone 1 (60-70%): This zone is recommended for everybody and helps improve basic endurance and body recovery. This target zone feels like easy breathing, low loading for muscles and light sweating.
2. Zone 2 (70-80%): Recommended for training sessions with moderate length. Improves your aerobic fitness and typically shows moderate sweating.
3. Zone 3 (80-90%): Recommended for fir users doing short training workouts. Increases your maximum performance and feels like heavy breathing and tiredness in muscles

Chest Strap:

• The FT60 heart rate monitor includes a very comfortable strap, just moisten the sensors and you are ready to go. The complete transmitter unit consists of a connector and the strap.
• The WearLink unit transmits the heart rate signal to the watch.
• Detach the connector from the strap when not in use to extend the transmitter lifetime.

Data Transfer

Data transfer is compatible with Mac and Windows using a Polar FT60′s special add-on called FlowLink (sold separately).

Unit Recording

You can review your training data totals, which includes all your data from the last reset and your weekly history.

Training

• The Polar FT60 displays the target zone you are in during your training. You can easily view your current target zone and stay on your desired target zone requiere to achieve your results.
• One of the features of the Polar FT60 heart rate monitor is called HeartTouch and is veryu important because it allows you to view different training information and bio-measurements without touching any buttons.
• Zone Lock allows you to lock a target zone and make it easy to keep that intensity during your whole workout.
• ZonePointer is a visible icon that indicates whether you are inside one of the preset target zones.

Polar FT60 Women’s Watch

The Polar FT60 women’s watch is one advance measurement device but it doesn’t neglects any of the watch features found in other heart rate monitor watches like:

• Comfortable and easy to adjust. You have the option to buy separate straps.
• Date and weekday indicator.
• Backlight.
• Dual time-zone.
• Indicator for low battery.
• Time of day (either 12 or 24h) with alarm and snooze.
• Water resistant up to 30m, but to maintain water resistance you should not press any buttons while under water.
• Supports other languages (English, Spanish, German, Finnish, Portuguese, Italian and French).
• You are able to replace the batteries for both the strap and the watch. Is not always like that with other models.

G1 GPS Sensor

The Polar FT60 heart rate monitor includes support for the G1 GPS sensor (this accessory is sold separetely), with it you can:

1. Measure your training distance (distance traveled) from the latest trip reset or the distance of one lap (Lap Distance). The odometer tells you the total distance and cannot be resetted.
2. You can also see your speed in kilometers or miles per hour. A calculation for your Pace is also available and displays your rate of speed used during a running session.

S1 Footpod

Use of the additional accessory S1 Footpod (sold separately) allows you to see your distance measurements during a training session (much like the G1 GPS Sensor) and your speed and pace.

Additional Features

• PolarPersonalTrainer.com (free): To be able to push your data to your personal account you will need the extra add-on Flow Link. PolarPersonalTrainer displays graphs and your training data to get a better understanding of your training and your goals.
• No complicated sequence of buttons to access any functionality, everything is within a one button reach.
• Purple women's heart rate monitor watch with several innovative training features
• Displays heart rate as percentage of maximum, bpm, and within target zone indicator
• Polar Star personalized training program delivers feedback and weekly training targets
• Polar OwnCal mode tracks energy expenditure for single and accumulated workouts
• Offers ZonePointer and Polar OwnZone modes; water-resistant to 30 meters; 2-year warranty

Polar FT60 After Training Feedback

The watch provides you with the following feedback after your workout:

1. Effect: Training effect feedback (below).
2. Intensity: Time spent in zones 1, 2, and 3.
3. Zone Limits: If you are using OwnZone it will display these limits.
4. Calories: Calories burned during workout and fat percentage.
5. Average and maximum heart rate.
6. Average and maximum speed (if optional footpod or GPS is in use).
7. Distance and duration (if optional footpod or GPS is in use).
8. This Week: Accumulative data for the current week.

Polar FT60 Effect Feedback can be

1. Fat burn improving, displayed when your body is improving its fat burning process.
2. Fitness improving, training at moderate intensity to improve your fitness level.
3. Maximal Performance Improving, training at hard intensity to improve your endurance level.

There are also combinations of the above mentioned effects:

1. Fat burn and fitness improving
2. Fitness and fat burn improving
3. Max performance and fitness improving.

Cleaning and Care

You should follow all the cleaning recommendations and special care detailed in the FT60′s manual, but here are some important tips:

• Clean the wrist unit with mild soap and water solution, dry with towel.
• Detach the transmitter connector from the strap and you can rinse the strap under running water after every use. It is recommended to wash the strap every fifth use in a washing machine to extend the life span of the transmitter.

Included in the Box

1. Polar FT60 Training Computer
2. Polar WearLink(R)+ Transmitter
3. Polar FT60 Getting Started Guide

Warranty

Polar offers a limited warranty that ensures the product (Polar FT60) will be free from defects in workmanship and material for 2 years from the date of purchase.

Product Dimensions

The Polar FT60 is 6 x 6 x 6 inches and weights 1 pound.

Polar FT60 Reviews and Ratings:

The Polar FT60 has over 65 reviews with an average of 4.5 out of 5 stars. Most of the customers expressed their happiness with their choice to purchase the Polar FT60 heart rate monitor as an upgrade to an older heart rate monitor unit or a first time purchase of such a device.

Conclusion: The Polar FT60 Heart Rate Monitor

The Polar FT60 is more than a heart rate monitor in a watch, it is a complete training system that will find your best training zone for whichever goal you have and make sure that you are on the right track every single time. The Polar FT60 Heart Rate Monitor is without a doubt a great purchase with lots of value and most importantly, it will help you achieve your goals.