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| Polar F55 Women's Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Red Velvet) | 
 enlarge | Brand: Polar
Category: Sports
List Price: $239.95
Buy New: $166.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (19 reviews)
Sales Rank: 10781
Color: Red Velvet
Media: Sports
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.1 x 2.9
MPN: F-55
Model: 90023395
UPC: 725882233956
EAN: 0725882233956
ASIN: B000F6BZCG
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Heart rate monitor designed to help you hit training and fitness goals | | • | Polar Body Workout feature provides basic guidance for muscular strength training | | • | WearLink Coded transmitter made from a soft, fabric material, eliminates interference from other heart rate monitors | | • | Keeps U Fit Workout Program gives you personal exercise guidance | | • | Large easy-to-read, backlit display with split screen; water resistant to 30 meters |
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Product Description
A very new and innovative concept from Polar - The Polar F55 with Keep U Fit (Cardio Vascular Fitness as found on the Polar F11) and Body Workout (Weights / Resistance workout) programs. The Polar F55 can prescribe a total body fitness program (CV and muscle toning) for the user. Alternatively, if required, just a Cardio Vascular program, or just a Resistance workout program. With the Keep U Fit program the watch may prescribe, for example; 3 x sessions - 1 x long, low-medium intensity, 1 x medium duration, medium intensity, 1 x hard and short. The watch will allow you to select which one of these 3 you perform, or just a free, personally controlled, exercise session. After 3 weeks of following the exercise program the unit will ask you to re-test your Fitness level and then recalculate your next three weeks program. It is an ongoing cycle of exercise, monitor, test, prescribe, exercise, monitor, test prescribe... a great motivator.
Amazon.com Product Description
Because cardiovascular exercise, strength training, and relaxation are essential to maximum well being, the Polar F55 heart rate monitor gives you a complete exercise session by adding new features like BodyWorkout and OwnRelax. 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. The Polar Body Workout feature provides basic guidance for muscular strength training, with recommendations for strength training movements, count of sets, repetitions, and weights. It can be edited according to your development. The OwnRelax feature helps to track and improve overall well being with a 5-minute relaxation session based on heart rate and heart rate variability. 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 OwnZone feature guides you through an appropriate warm-up routine and automatically determines a safe and effective exercise heart rate. 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. 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 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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 14 more reviews...
Okay November 22, 2008
Works faster and better than previous models but still very complicated to use. I have it up and running but only the basics. You still need a PHD to run the more advanced program. So far so good. The strap adjusts fine. Good quality.
 Good monitor, poor case! July 17, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
(Note: The item being reviewed is the "Bronze Rock" version. I have been using this product for slightly over a year.)
This is a very good and full-featured heartrate monitor, and has been great for helping me tailor my workouts and track my overall performance. However, it has NOT held up well when worn as an everyday watch. I only had mine for a few weeks when I bumped it against something and the chrome bezel that surrounds the watch face broke in half and scratched the face. Having invested this much, I was very disappointed. However, I mailed it to Polar (at my expense) and fortunately they replaced the crystal (which is NOT glass and feels like polycarbonate plastic) and the bezel.
I was again pleased for a while until a few more months went by. I had been VERY careful when wearing my watch/monitor and tried to remove it when I thought it might be in "danger". However, I managed to once again scratch the face... while putting up my Christmas tree! Since then, the chrome bezel has been bumped a time or two in the course of normal exercise (mainly cycling and weight lifting) and the chrome is now coming off. It is NOT an aluminum bezel, but "chromed plastic".
For the price of this watch, I think they could have used a REAL crystal face and an aluminum bezel, which would have significantly increased the durability and value of this watch/monitor without sacrificing much in terms of weight or production costs.
Edit: I also agree with the previous review by "Rene Briceno" with regard to the weaknesses of the fitness monitor product. If you are a SERIOUS weight lifter, you will quickly outgrow the workouts included on this watch. That said, I have had no problems with it from a functionality standpoint and do consult it regularly for tracking my performance.
 Gave this to my out of shape brother July 10, 2008
0 out of 8 found this review helpful
I have the top of the line Polar. I gave thisone to my dentist brother who needs to workout. I gave it to him for his b-day in May. Never heard that he is even using it!
 LONG TIME USER REVIEW: FOUR MAJOR ISSUES. June 18, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I got this HRM after using several other versions of Polar in the past. So I am not new to HRMs. Have been using it for 2 years now.
There are four major problems with this product:
First issue is the chest band. It was simply created for people with chests below 38 inches. If you have a wide chest measurement like me (41 inches) the band will be so tight you will hardly be able to breathe. I make a clarification here: I am not overweight, I just happen to have a wide chest. The solution: stretch the band to its maximum for a couple of minutes before exercising, until you wear it and feel comfortable.
Second issue, and the most critical one, is that you are limited to the 17 body workout exercises that come preloaded on the unit. This is a major issue, considering the fact that any good fitness-trainer will have you do at least 4 movements for 1 single muscle group, sometimes combining two movements in 1 single series. Hence, forget about inputing your own body workout program in the unit. You can't, period. For me, this is a MAJOR design fault. Polar, if there are more than 1200 workout movements and each person adjusts different to each movement creating their own personal workout, why did you limit your customers to 17, yes, 17 movements? It is simply unacceptable. A good fix in future versions of this unit would be the possibility to create your own movements and store them in memory and even combine them to create combo-series of movements. In the meantime, my solution was to create a second, long aerobic exercise to record my whole workout for the day. Hence, the whole purpose of the unit was lost with this.
Third issue, and this is something you don't think about until you need it, is that you can't erase daily exercise records massively. Instead, you have to go on a day by day basis. This is annoying and if you want to erase any records bigger than two months, you are better off disconnecting the battery and re-programming the unit all over again. (About 20 minutes once you are used to doing this).
The final issue about the F55 is that the main button (center right button) is considerably bigger than all the rest. This is OK because this is the button we will push the most as users, but there is a problem here as well: if you wear the unit too close to your hand, the button will be pushed against it and the exercise recording will activate without you even knowing it, effecting all your exercise records. This also happens when you take the unit off and store it with the mentioned bigger button facing down.
So overall, a fairly good attempt to create a fitness-workout compatible HRM, but it is not worth the money for the mentioned limitations. Don't even bother looking for the F55al (Aluminum casing) for they are the exact same product.
F55 Heart Rate Monitor - new strap is not for those with 40" + chests January 18, 2008
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
The strap that is included is different than my previous Polar heart rate monitor that this replaced. For whatever reason Polar chose, the strap is not replaceable as prior versions were; the battery pack snaps onto the strap, which does not allow a different strap to connect to it (the front is sewn into the part of the strap that goes around you).
Although the fact that is is nice to see that the battery on the chest strap could be replaced, the strap, although indicating that it adjusts from M-XXL, was loosened it to the maximum size and it was still snug. I have a 40" chest and if that is XXL, they won't sell many of these units with that chest strap.
Watch = 5 stars
Strap = 1 star
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