Polar F6 Men’s Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Black Coal, New Design)
Posted on May 26, 2011 with Comments 2
Polar F6 Men's Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Black Coal, New Design)
- Prevents crosstalk with other monitors
- Packed with innovative training features
- Includes display of heart rate, exercise time and average heart rate
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The F6 Completely Changed The Way I Exercise,
The Polar F6 is a fine piece of equipment and there is no doubt about it. It’s so useful, giving you access to a host of physical statistics and it’s incredibly easy to use. Will the F6 help you with your fitness goals? You bet it will. There is no doubt that it will add a new dynamic to your workouts.
In short, you will wonder why you ever waited so long to get one!
**BTW, the battery is a snap to change and I’ll tell you how in a minute.
After you have entered your personal stat’s like height, age, etc. your F6 will tell you how long you have exercised, heart rate, calories you have burned and how many your are burning per hour, how many calories you have burned for the entire week of exercises or however many sessions you choose to total. You can also review stored exercise sessions individually all via the Diary function.
The F6 can calculate varying BPM zones for you to work within via the OwnZone function or you can set them yourself. The F6 monitors your BPM and Alarms and arrows go off when you are too high or low.
Here is the part I love. You can use the sonic Uplink to transmit all of your diary information from the wrist unit, through your PC mic, to the website [...] and monitor your progress over time, set up goals and see how well you are achieving them. There is a lot more you can do there as well. Have a look at the site.
**I’ve read some of the bad press on here concerning changing the batteries in the wrist unit. I changed mine, no problem, and I feel confident that it is still water proof and I’ll tell you why. Just a quick note though that for me it doesn’t matter because I don’t use the unit while in the water.
Purchase a CR 2032 3V battery. Take the four screws out of the back using a tiny phillips head screwdriver created for this type of thing. Once you take the back plate off you will notice a little gasket that sits inside a groove that runs just inside the circumfrence of the back of the watch.
When you have replaced the battery you will want to be very sure and carefully push this gasket into that groove to retain the water proofing. Could it still leak? Maybe, but that is your best bet if you are going to change the battery yourself. I feel pretty confident that, so long as the gasket is in good condition and it is pushed into it’s groove, then it will not leak.
With the back off, you will notice that the battery is visible and a small metal arm is holding it in place with an even smaller bent metal piece that fits over a plastic bump. The metal slips down over the plastic bump and clips into place. Use you’re your screwdriver (I use a tiney straight edged screwdriver for this) to lift the metal piece over the plastic bump. Once the arm is released the battery should slip out of it’s housing.
Slip the new battery in, + side up, and reverse the previous steps.
You’re done. It even has your old information still saved.
I love this thing. I’m very happy with it’s performance and use it all the time.
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|Lousey Battery Life of Chest Strap,
After a year of moderate use, heart rate readings became erratic or zero. Polar changed the t31 coded chest transmitter due to a low battery and was covered under warranty. (Did not cover shipping costs.) Another year later and now out or warranty, the same thing happened. A replacement will cost about $50.
The battery in the chest strap seems to only last about a year and is sealed in the case. You cannot replace it. I would avoid any model that doesn’t allow the batteries in both the watch and the chest strap to be replaced by the owner.
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