Product Description
Today, polar is the number one choice among consumers, coaches and personal trainers worldwide. They are committed to not only producing the best products, but also being the leading educator on the benefits of heart rate based exercise.
Amazon.com Product Description
The smartest way to better fitness, the Polar FT60G1 women's heart rate monitor watch helps you stay motivated and improve your conditioning. The FT60G1--which comes with a G1 GPS sensor that measures your speed and distance during outdoor sports--works by first checking your daily condition, and then guiding you to the ideal training intensity for your age and fitness level. Knowing your heart rate not only helps you reach your personal fitness goal, but also improves your physical condition in general, as it's vitally important to train at the appropriate intensity level. If you exercise too hard, you may quit before you reach the real benefit, but if you work out too leisurely, you'll struggle to lose weight at all. The FT60G1 helps overcome these problems by encouraging you to map out a complete fitness routine.
The FT60G1 is packed with innovative training features to help you toward your exercise goals. First off, the watch includes a Polar Star personalized training program that adapts to your workout habits. By giving you weekly training targets and providing constant feedback, the watch guides you without being too strict, helping you reach your goals more efficiently. The watch also displays heart rate info in several ways, including as a percentage of your maximum heart rate, as beats per minute, and within a graphical target zone indicator. And should your heart rate exceed or dip below your target zone, the FT60G1 will sound an alarm that helps you return to form.
Users will also love the variety of proprietary Polar functions, including ZonePointer, Polar OwnZone, and Polar OwnCal modes. The ZonePointer is an audible and visual feature on the display of your FT60G1 that shows you where your current heart rate sits within your target heart rate zone. The Polar OwnZone mode, meanwhile, provides a customized target zone for individual exercise sessions. Finally, the Polar OwnCal mode shows your energy expenditure during one exercise session, as well as your accumulated kilocalories during several exercise sessions. You can also set daily and weekly exercise goals in terms of calorie expenditure, helping you achieve both short-term and long-term goals.
It's the G1 GPS sensor that really helps the FT60G1 stand out in a crowd, however. The sensor, which includes a SIRF-III chipset, not only makes it easy to measure your speed and distance, but also offers support for the WAAS system, thereby improving position accuracy to within 3 meters. The shock-resistant G1 runs for up to 10 hours with a pair of AA batteries, or up to 30 hours with an optional lithium battery.
Other watch features include a built-in fitness test that measures your aerobic fitness at rest in just five minutes; a ZoneLock mode that lets you activate a target zone in the midst of training with the press of a button; an OwnCode mode that prevents crosstalk from other heart rate monitors nearby; a recording mode that tracks your average and maximum heart rate, calorie expenditure, distance, and total exercise time, and then puts it in an exercise file (with 100 total files); water resistance to 30 meters; a 12/24-hour clock with a day/week indicator; a built-in backlight; an alarm with a snooze; a low battery indicator; and a Polar FlowLink connection for transferring data between the FT60G1 and a computer. Sporting an attractive purple housing, the watch carries a two-year warranty.
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.
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.
- Purple women's heart rate monitor watch with several innovative training features
- Displays heart rate as percentage of maximum, bpm, and within target zone indicator
- Polar Star personalized training program delivers feedback and weekly training targets
- Includes G1 GPS sensor for measuring speed and distance during outdoor sports
- Offers ZonePointer and Polar OwnZone modes; water-resistant to 30 meters; 2-year warranty
Polar FT60G1 Women's Heart Rate Monitor Watch with G1 GPS Sensor (Purple) Reviews
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful 
Great Product!, January 11, 2011 Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: Polar FT60G1 Women's Heart Rate Monitor Watch with G1 GPS Sensor (Purple) (Sports) Easy to use, stylish, good relevant data. my girlfriend loves that she is able to keep track of all her workouts (aerobics, cycling, running) with this device. GPS requires some patience and not always accurate with distance and speed.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful 
GPS Doesn't Work, February 10, 2011 Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: Polar FT60G1 Women's Heart Rate Monitor Watch with G1 GPS Sensor (Purple) (Sports) I bought this watch as a gift a while back. Expectedly, people don't like telling you when gifts don't work quite right. I found out recently that the GPS never really worked right. Instructions were followed, the watch and the GPS units were powered down and back up - batteries were even changed and it still doesn't work.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful 
It's a great motivator, April 6, 2012 By Nicole (Omaha, NE United States) - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: Polar FT60G1 Women's Heart Rate Monitor Watch with G1 GPS Sensor (Purple) (Sports) I have been using this watch for over a year, and it has served as a great motivational tool! The programs set goals for you (e.g. lose weight, improve fitness) and it does get me exercising more often to try to meet the goals. The watch typically works great, and on long runs it is nice to be distracted by flipping through the different screens, or by watching your speed. It's also great during races - I've had people wonder how far we were in a 5k, and I've been able to flip to a new screen and tell them how many miles in we were.
The two downsides are that occasionally it has a difficult time reading your heart rate (be sure the strap is wet) and the GPS can give you some issues (takes a long time to find a signal and uses the battery up fast).
Overall, I definitely recommend this product.
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| 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful Great Product!, Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: Polar FT60G1 Women's Heart Rate Monitor Watch with G1 GPS Sensor (Purple) (Sports) Easy to use, stylish, good relevant data. my girlfriend loves that she is able to keep track of all her workouts (aerobics, cycling, running) with this device. GPS requires some patience and not always accurate with distance and speed. 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful GPS Doesn't Work, Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: Polar FT60G1 Women's Heart Rate Monitor Watch with G1 GPS Sensor (Purple) (Sports) I bought this watch as a gift a while back. Expectedly, people don't like telling you when gifts don't work quite right. I found out recently that the GPS never really worked right. Instructions were followed, the watch and the GPS units were powered down and back up - batteries were even changed and it still doesn't work. 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful It's a great motivator, By Nicole (Omaha, NE United States) - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: Polar FT60G1 Women's Heart Rate Monitor Watch with G1 GPS Sensor (Purple) (Sports) I have been using this watch for over a year, and it has served as a great motivational tool! The programs set goals for you (e.g. lose weight, improve fitness) and it does get me exercising more often to try to meet the goals. The watch typically works great, and on long runs it is nice to be distracted by flipping through the different screens, or by watching your speed. It's also great during races - I've had people wonder how far we were in a 5k, and I've been able to flip to a new screen and tell them how many miles in we were.The two downsides are that occasionally it has a difficult time reading your heart rate (be sure the strap is wet) and the GPS can give you some issues (takes a long time to find a signal and uses the battery up fast). Overall, I definitely recommend this product. |
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