Customer Reviews

Polar F5 Heart Rate Monitor Watch

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Can't say enough about it. All the functions work great and I am able to tell exactly how many calories I am burning.

This watch is perfect for my needs. It tell all the basic vital information. I usually bike alone or without other heart rate monitors around so I don't get interference. This model is now discontinued.

Very light and easy to wear. This is my first running watch, so i can't bring more information, but it's nice to wear and motivate to running thanks to the sounds emited by.

Polar F5 Heart Rate Monitor Watch

I am very pleased with this product. This comes with a strap which you wrap around your mid section. This monitors your heart rate by sending signals to the watch. In other words its hands free. It also has a sound option. You hear beeping unless your in your heart rate zone (either below or above your zone) Without looking at the watch you can tell if your in your zone! Very easy to program all your information in also.

Great product!

Wrist band is the size of an young adult or woman. This is not made for a man although the product review does not tell you that.

I'll start off by saying I'm kind of a picky person, recently in the movie "Hulk" I saw that the main character uses a Polar F5 to monitor his rate with a snazzy alarm so off I go to get the same. As far as the heart rate monitor it is accurate enough and updates actively (per beat). The quality of the watch I would say is about the same as a 20 dollar pharmacy watch, not as good as a cheap namebrand watch but not as bad as a 10 dollar corner store kids watch. The big letdown is that this watch isn't all you need, you have to wear a chest strap on your bare skin to use the Heart Rate Monitor freature and it isn't comfortable since it has to be tight to get a good reading. The movie was misleading because of how they show you only need the watch but I believe from looking at the website that the $120+ models all seem to be completely wireless and gadget free though I could be wrong. All in all I can't really complain though I don't recomend you get this for "all day" wear, this is definately an item for wearing at the gym only since it feels very delicate (cheap/flimsy) and I'm sure daily wear would break it quick.