Polar F6 Women’s Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Pink Coral)
Posted on Jan 09, 2010 with Comments 5
Polar F6 Women’s Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Pink Coral)
- Full-feature sports watch displays your heart rate, exercise time, and average heart rate
- OwnCode transmitter eliminates interference from other heart rate monitors
- Polar OwnZone helps determine an individual exercise zone; calorie counter and goal management
- OwnCal feature shows your energy expenditure during one exercise session and accumulated expenditure
- Zone Pointer displays your target heart rate zone and where your current heart rate is within that zone
Depending on your body’s daily condition, you might benefit from either a low or high intensity training session. This monitor checks your daily condition, and guides you to a suitable intensity.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 envi
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Review by WordGirl for Polar F6 Women’s Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Pink Coral)
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Easy to set up, accurate, user friendly. Just took it for a test drive this morning. Shipping was fast and friendly. Nice user manual. Very explanatory.
Put in your vitals, adjust the strap around your chest and put the pedal to the metal.
I burned 511 calories — 45% from fat. For 49:51 minutes of work, I spent 14:46 minutes in the 144-160 beats per minute range; with my heart rate topping out at 178 (93% of my maximum for the “moderate training zone”). My average heart rate was 151 for the duration (79% of my maximum). The alarm cued me when to step it up and also when to back it down so I could keep on a better training track.
Apparently, I’ve been working too hard in the past. Because just as the HRM was yelling at me to back down, I was thinking, “Geez, touchy thingie! I can go way harder and higher than this!” But if it improves my stamina, all the better.
I would recommend reviewing the product manual and setting up your customizations the night before if you are an early morning exerciser. Setup and familiarization with the product/material takes about an hour.
Review by S. P. Billeaud for Polar F6 Women’s Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Pink Coral)
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This is the first heart rate monitor I have used during my workouts. I started walking at least one mile a day several months ago, but didn’t seem to make any progress in conditioning. Since I began using the F6 last month, however, I have noticed a pronounced increase in my stamina and strength.
I think the change is that with the F6 I began working in my cardio zone instead of above it. In effect, I had been working out “too hard.” By backing off a bit, I am now experiencing a reduction in heart rate and can now increase the difficulty of my workout gradually as my body requires.
In general, the F6 system is easy to use and comfortable to wear. There are only two issues that I have had with the system:
First, the chest strap sometimes takes a while to begin transmitting after I first put it on. The first time it happened (after I had used it for weeks), I thought the battery was dead. I found, however, that if I moisten the electrodes a bit, the monitor begins transmitting immediately. Also, the chest strap is surprisingly confortable for an inch wide piece of plastic. Although it can be a bit cold when you first the strap on, I soon forget I am wearing it.
The second issue concerns the watch. I believe that the exercise menu could be laid out a little better. When I am in the process of exercising and want to change my Heart Rate Limit from Light to Moderate or Moderate to Hard, the first menu item the cursor brings me to is the “HR Alarm”, not “HR Limits.”
At that point, I have to fiddle with the up and down arrows to arrive at the proper menu line and sometime in my haste, I overshoot the “Limits” line and have to repear the process. I don’t know why anyone would want to change the “Alarm” in mid-workout, but that’s what the designers have made the default selection. Perhaps there is an easier way to change the HR Limits in mid-workout, but I haven’t yet found it.
All in all, for about $100, I think that the F6 has all of the features I want and has improved the quality of my workouts making real, quantifiable progress possible for me, for the first time.
Review by milohyellow for Polar F6 Women’s Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Pink Coral)
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I can’t exercise without this thing. I’ve had it for over a year now and the batteries have not died yet. It tracks all calorie expenditure and heart rate activity. It not only gives you your high and low heart rates during an exercise, but the average you were at for the duration as well. Before I got this HRM, I didn’t realize how off I was on my exercises. I wasn’t exerting myself enough. This thing tracks where you are at no matter how you feel and tells you if you need to increase or decrease your intensity. I haven’t had a problem with it and I’ve dropped it several times on accident. It’s waterproof so you can soap it up and wash your sweat off of it. I love this thing! Can’t say enough about it.
Review by Thehunt85 for Polar F6 Women’s Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Pink Coral)
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I purchased this HRM back in Aug 06. Terrific features and fairly easy to use. However, over the past past two months or so, it has been stopping cold, sometimes reflects an off the charts heart rate or takes 3 mins or so to detect my HR. There are two other girls at my gym that have also purchased it and they are having the same problem.
When it’s working properly (which is most of the time) it’s an awesome piece of equipment to help keep you from slacking off.
Review by H. Murphy for Polar F6 Women’s Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Pink Coral)
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I use this to run and also at the gym. The Polar transmitter belt works with most treadmills, ellipticals, stair steppers and bikes at the gym so that is really nice to have your heart rate displayed on their screens. I like to be able to set target zones for my heart and it beeps once I’ve reached that. Helps me to know where I am and how hard I’m pushing myself. The color of the band is not my favorite pink shade and it’s not as feminine of a shape as I would like (Nike makes one that looks better, but it doens’t work w/ gym equip), but to me the look isn’t what’s important. It displays the calories burned, avg heart rate, max heart rate, and time of exercise and the end of your workout. Very handy for the workouts!