Polar F55 Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Bronze Rock)
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List Price: $239.95
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Binding: Sports
Brand: Polar
Color: Bronze Rock
EAN: 0725882270197
Feature: Heart rate monitor designed to help you hit training and fitness goals
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Label: Polar
Manufacturer: Polar
Material Type: plastic
Model: 90027019
Publisher: Polar
Studio: Polar
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Features
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Heart rate monitor designed to help you hit training and fitness goals
Polar Body Workout feature provides basic guidance for muscular strength training
WearLink Coded transmitter made from a soft, fabric material, eliminates interference from other heart rate monitors
Keeps U Fit Workout Program gives you personal exercise guidance
Large easy-to-read, backlit display with split screen; water resistant to 30 meters
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Good monitor, poor case!
Comment: (Note: The item being reviewed is the "Bronze Rock" version. I have been using this product for slightly over a year.)
This is a very good and full-featured heartrate monitor, and has been great for helping me tailor my workouts and track my overall performance. However, it has NOT held up well when worn as an everyday watch. I only had mine for a few weeks when I bumped it against something and the chrome bezel that surrounds the watch face broke in half and scratched the face. Having invested this much, I was very disappointed. However, I mailed it to Polar (at my expense) and fortunately they replaced the crystal (which is NOT glass and feels like polycarbonate plastic) and the bezel.
I was again pleased for a while until a few more months went by. I had been VERY careful when wearing my watch/monitor and tried to remove it when I thought it might be in "danger". However, I managed to once again scratch the face... while putting up my Christmas tree! Since then, the chrome bezel has been bumped a time or two in the course of normal exercise (mainly cycling and weight lifting) and the chrome is now coming off. It is NOT an aluminum bezel, but "chromed plastic".
For the price of this watch, I think they could have used a REAL crystal face and an aluminum bezel, which would have significantly increased the durability and value of this watch/monitor without sacrificing much in terms of weight or production costs.
Edit: I also agree with the previous review by "Rene Briceno" with regard to the weaknesses of the fitness monitor product. If you are a SERIOUS weight lifter, you will quickly outgrow the workouts included on this watch. That said, I have had no problems with it from a functionality standpoint and do consult it regularly for tracking my performance.
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Summary: Gave this to my out of shape brother
Comment: I have the top of the line Polar. I gave thisone to my dentist brother who needs to workout. I gave it to him for his b-day in May. Never heard that he is even using it!
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Summary: LONG TIME USER REVIEW: FOUR MAJOR ISSUES.
Comment: I got this HRM after using several other versions of Polar in the past. So I am not new to HRMs. Have been using it for 2 years now.
There are four major problems with this product:
First issue is the chest band. It was simply created for people with chests below 38 inches. If you have a wide chest measurement like me (41 inches) the band will be so tight you will hardly be able to breathe. I make a clarification here: I am not overweight, I just happen to have a wide chest. The solution: stretch the band to its maximum for a couple of minutes before exercising, until you wear it and feel comfortable.
Second issue, and the most critical one, is that you are limited to the 17 body workout exercises that come preloaded on the unit. This is a major issue, considering the fact that any good fitness-trainer will have you do at least 4 movements for 1 single muscle group, sometimes combining two movements in 1 single series. Hence, forget about inputing your own body workout program in the unit. You can't, period. For me, this is a MAJOR design fault. Polar, if there are more than 1200 workout movements and each person adjusts different to each movement creating their own personal workout, why did you limit your customers to 17, yes, 17 movements? It is simply unacceptable. A good fix in future versions of this unit would be the possibility to create your own movements and store them in memory and even combine them to create combo-series of movements. In the meantime, my solution was to create a second, long aerobic exercise to record my whole workout for the day. Hence, the whole purpose of the unit was lost with this.
Third issue, and this is something you don't think about until you need it, is that you can't erase daily exercise records massively. Instead, you have to go on a day by day basis. This is annoying and if you want to erase any records bigger than two months, you are better off disconnecting the battery and re-programming the unit all over again. (About 20 minutes once you are used to doing this).
The final issue about the F55 is that the main button (center right button) is considerably bigger than all the rest. This is OK because this is the button we will push the most as users, but there is a problem here as well: if you wear the unit too close to your hand, the button will be pushed against it and the exercise recording will activate without you even knowing it, effecting all your exercise records. This also happens when you take the unit off and store it with the mentioned bigger button facing down.
So overall, a fairly good attempt to create a fitness-workout compatible HRM, but it is not worth the money for the mentioned limitations. Don't even bother looking for the F55al (Aluminum casing) for they are the exact same product.
Customer Rating:
Summary: F55 Heart Rate Monitor - new strap is not for those with 40" + chests
Comment: 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
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Summary: Motivates and help calorie counters like me. Keeps me Honest.
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I owned this HRM for a year. This is great for those who count calories. The time spent on cardio machine w/HRM's have a general idea what is burn. The Polar HRM is personalized to your Heart Rate so it shows the actual calories burnt for you. It kept me honest of the calories I should eat.
Of course, I love it when I use the Polar HRM during weights. Without the Polar HRM, I wouldn't have stay motivated to doing weights. Knowing the calories burnt during reps helped.
Also, I like the Workout Diary. Keeps track of the workout and sends you a message once a week if you have reached your workout goal.
PROs: Calorie Counter. Workout Diary.
CONs: Not meant to be used in a swimming pool.
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Editorial Reviews:
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The Polar F55 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 Body Workout and OwnRelax. Body Workout, 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. Polar Keeps U Fit - Own Workout Program Polar OwnRelax Polar Body Workout Target zones with visual alarm HR-based target zones with audible alarm Average heart rate of total exercise Exercise Date ZonePointer Transfer exercise data from wrist unit to Polar Personal Trainer web service via Polar WebLink (SonicLink/Infrared) Transfer logos from Polar web site to wrist unit (UpLink) Edit wrist unit settings with Polar UpLink Tool and transfer them to your Polar product (UpLink) Internal / external non-Polar IrDA port Time in target zone Target zone limits Average heart rate Maximum heart rate Last OwnIndex Heart rate (displayed as bpm) Heart rate (displayed as % of maximum heart rate) Visual and audible alarm in target zones HeartTouch, button-free operation of wrist unit Sound volume level setting Time of day (12/24h) with alarm Date and weekday indicator Automatic exercise reminder (visual) Exercise reminder (visual/alarm) Polar T31 coded transmitter Polar WearLink 31 coded transmitter (changeable battery) Polar T61 coded transmitter Keylock
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