Polar F11 Women's Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Pink Fizz)

by Polar

Product Features

• Keeps U Fit- personalized exercise program with feedback
• Wearlink Transmitter
• OwnCal- tracks your calories and % of fat burned Heart Touch- button free operation
• OwnZone automatically establishes your personal target heart rate zone
• OwnCode eliminates interference from other HRM's OwnIndex measures your fitness level and track improvements

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Polar F11 Heart Rate Monitor is the world's only heart rate monitor that creates a workout program to tell you how much, how hard and how long to exercise to reach your goals. This powerful wrist monitor provides a highly accurate gauge for getting the most from your exercise sessions. The Polar Keeps U Fit Workout Program gives you personal guidance--how often, how hard, and how long you need to exercise to reach your personal fitness goals. It also includes a free-of-charge online component.

The wristwatch-like monitor features a large display that includes 12/24-hour time of day, alarm, and stopwatch. The transmitter includes the Wearlink Coded function, which eliminates interference from other heart rate monitors. The transmitter's electrodes, which pick up the heart signals, are integrated right into the strap for added flexibility and comfort.

The OwnCal feature shows your energy expenditure during one exercise session as well as your accumulated kilocalories during several exercise sessions. It also allows you to set daily and weekly exercise goals in terms of calorie expenditure. The Fitness Bullets feature shows a bullet on the monitor's display for every 10 minutes spent exercising/training in your target heart rate zone. The Coded feature eliminates interference from other heart rate monitors. Other features include:

• Displays heart rate, exercise time, and average heart rate
• Manual and automatic heart rate limit settings
• Large easy-to-read display with backlighting and split screen
• Water resistant to 30 meters (100 feet)

Manufacturer's Warranty
The original purchaser of this heart rate monitor is backed by a limited warranty that states that this product that the product will be free from defects in material or workmanship for two years from the date of purchase.

Note:
Polar heart rate monitors are precision instruments; consumers are not advised to change their own battery. Polar recommends that all service be done by an authorized Polar Service Center which will include a warranty for 90 days on repairs and 6 months for batteries.

About Polar
The first EKG accurate wireless heart rate monitor was invented by Polar back in 1977 as a training tool for the Finnish National Cross Country Ski Team. The concept of "intensity training" by heart rate swept the athletic world in the eighties. By the 1990s, individuals were looking to heart rate monitors not only for performance training needs, but also for achieving everyday fitness goals. Today, the same concept of heart rate training is being used by world-class athletes as well as everyday people trying to lose weight. Polar is the leading brand among consumers, coaches, and personal trainers worldwide and the company is committed to not only producing the best products, but also being the leading educator on the benefits of heart rate based exercise.

Product Description

The world's only heart rate monitor that creates a workout program with how much, how hard and how long to exercise to reach your goals.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.5 x 2 inches ; 5.3 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000WP9ZOU
• Item model number: 90031434
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Just what I was missing!, July 2, 2008

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D. Seffinga "kaytmay" (virginia) - See all my reviews
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I just received my F11 yesterday and used it for the first time last night. I was originally intending to get an F6 that I saw at the gym because I was impressed by the timer/BPM/calories burned features, but instead I decided to do some research to find out if it was the best HRM for me. After reading about the features of several different monitors, I decided on the F11 because it had everything I originally wanted and more! I love that you enter all of your personal statistics to get the best readout possible. I love that there is a fitness test on this monitor that helps to make it even more personalized. I love the keeps u fit feature wherein the monitor provides you with a weeks worth of personalized workouts that you can then follow and repeat, or recreate for the next week based on a new fitness assessment. I also love that you can edit your workouts for time and/or heart rate range, or opt to do a basic workout without any preset heart rate goals.

As for last night... it was one of my 30+ min brisk walking nights (I alternate those with gym nights) Wearing my new monitor, I discovered that my usual workout was not doing it for me! I could not get into my proper moderate-hard heart rate zone, no matter how fast I tried to walk! I'm a little too heavy still to jog comfortably, so I skipped : D and it worked! I reached my target heart rate zone and even got to the high end before I would switch back to brisk walking and let my heart rate fall back to the lower end of moderate, then switch back to skipping again to let it rise... etc. I was doing about 2 mins of brisk walking to 1 min of skipping and back. I guess you could call that a form of HIIT (high intensity interval training). At the end of my workout, I had succeeded in all of my heart rate goals... 5 mins in low, 15 mins in moderate, and 10 mins in hard. I am so excited to finally have a tool that can help me reach my fitness goals! Although it takes a bit of perusing the manual to figure it out, I would definitely recommend this HRM.

Oh yeah, and I gave it four stars instead of five because it's a little on the large side for a female wrist, and It could have been made with better materials. As a matter of fact, I'd like to see if I can find a new wristband for it. The rubbery plastic one it comes with makes me clammy/sweaty underneath... but what it lacks in design, it makes up for in function.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It Really Improved My Workout., April 12, 2008

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T. Hall "twinglemom" (Orlando, fl) - See all my reviews
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I had bought this upon a suggestion from a friend of mine. IT really has improved my work out by helping me saty in my zone. I was over working my body before and once I learned to stay in my zone the pounds started to drop off.

I feel at lost when I go to the gym and I do not have it. I love knowing how many calories I have burned and the % of fat as well.

The band that goes around your chest does not bother me when I work out at all. Its adjustable. I bought this model because the transmitter can come off so you can wash the band. The transmitter is also a little softer than on the other models.

I would recommend this to anyone.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A few faults not a problem for me, but might be for others..., January 2, 2009

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Natacha Diosa "Natasha Kingston" (Manchester, CT) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Polar F11 Women's Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Pink Fizz) (Sports)

I just got this watch in the mail today and have been poring over the manual to make sure that it is programmed correctly. The watch is very attractive, has a large enough display for me to see pretty clearly, and the strap is very comfortable.

A couple of things were frustrating though; if you are not a "tech" person, who is used to cell-phones, texting, and other "smart" equipment that needs to be programmed, the manual is not of much help initially. It gives a general idea of how to do what you need to do in the very beginning. But it took me several minutes to figure out how to get to the main menu, and this is not described anywhere in the manual. I figured it out mostly from luck, and pressing every button several times.

Also, if you are attracted to this product because of the uplink to the web-based training software, be forewarned; you need a microphone on your computer in order for this to be an option. Your wrist unit communicates through the computer's mic by a series of electrical "chirps" and somehow the program decodes this and uploads your files. This is ostensibly how it should work, anyway. I was disappointed because that is not mentioned before purchase and my computer does not have a microphone. Also, the software is not compatible with a Mac, so that is another strike against it. So neither my computer nor my husband's worked; you'd think that with two between us, we would have success somewhere, but no.

I already have a training journal that I keep in writing, so the online one would have been just for kicks anyways. I just wanted to warn people about those few things, because if I had made this purchase and wasn't a tech person and was really going to rely on the software, I would have been pretty ticked off.

Other than those things, I am pretty impressed with how much you can customize all of your programs on here and tailor it to your specific desires. It reads your resting heart rate and calculates ideal levels to work out, and can give you a training schedule from 2 to 5 days a week, with more or less hours a day depending on what you want. I was pleased that since I work out 6 days a week, I was even able to go in and add a workout to the schedule they gave me, and shorten the hours put in on another day to compensate. To top it off, you can name each session, like, "Run", "Weights" or "Run/Walk". You are limited to 8 letters and it takes a while to do it, but I love that kind of stuff.

I think if you are fairly tech savvy and don't care about the training software, this watch is great...but I haven't had much time to see how durable it is so I will check back in a few months!