Polar F11 Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Grey Pepper) | 
| Brand: Polar
Category: Sports
Department: Unisex-adult
List Price: $179.95
Buy New: $146.75
You Save: $33.20 (18%)
New (17) Used (1) from $125.00
Rating:  100 reviews
Sales Rank: 1128
Color: Grey Pepper - Unisex
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6 x 0.5 x 2
MPN: 90032174
Model: 90023381
UPC: 725882233819
EAN: 0725882233819
ASIN: B0009HN5Y2
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| 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 |
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Product Description
The F11 is an exerciser's dream come true. It's 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. The new, revolutionary Keeps U Fit - Workout Program guides you to your personal goals. OwnIndex? will determine your fitness level, track your improvements, and provide motivation. The OwnCal? feature counts the calories and fat that you burn and the OwnZone? feature will automatically determine each day's target zone. The F11 also features the WearLink? Coded transmitter made from a soft, fabric material. The electrodes, which pick up the heart signals, are integrated right into the strap for added flexibility and comfort. The Coded feature eliminates interference from other heart rate monitors. The F11 is the closest thing to having your own personal trainer.
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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 95 more reviews...
 Reliability issues November 11, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've owned this product for over two years.
The functionality is nice but reliability is a major issue.
I really like the fitness program. You can set your weekly goals and at the end of the week if you have met your goals you get a trophee displayed on the watche's "home page" (the default time display). This is a nice motivator.
When I exercise I want to see in one screen the %beat rate (%BPM), the time (clock) and the calories spent so far and you do have this option, although you do need to fiddle with the watch using a rather non-intuitive combination of button punching.
After a year or so I found out that you can lock the buttons and that's very handy since the buttons got pressed often in my gymbag, getting me into all kind of weird modes. I'm sure it says so in the manual but hey, who reads manuals...
I have never used the computer interface so I cannot comment about this.
There are a few negatives:
1. The watch looks very cheap. For this price I would have expected a watch I can use outside of the gym and this is not the case.
2. The strap's inside is made out of fabric that you need to profusely wet to get it to register your heart rate. The major issue here is that at the end of the workout you have some wet fabric that will end up stinking of sweat, and of mold if you don't dry it up in open air. Perhaps you can wash it (I have never tried) but it's a real nuisance. I've owned watches from other brands before and they were all-rubber and had no problems registering the BPM.
3. The biggest problem by far is reliability. I've had quite a few cases where the watch stopped registering the heart rate or provided blatantly wrong readings. The issue seems to be with the strap as the same wrong or missing BPM shows up on the treadmill as well. This typically happens mid session and the sensors conductivity doesn't seem to be the issue since I'm all wet from sweat + I am drenching the sensors before exercising. This is a bummer as I am losing track of effort level, calories etc. for this session. I have tried replacing batteries but that did not help. A separate issue is that I have had the watch freeze on a couple of occasions. The only way to reset it was to open the back, remove the battery and put it back in place (kind of a Ctrl-Alt-Del for watches...)
I am now looking for a new watch as the reliabiilty problem is a showstopper for me.
One request from the maker: Add an "Auto-on" feature where the watch turns on the exercise mode automatically when it registers a BPM above, say, 100 or so. I've had cases where I found out after a few minutes I have forgotten to turn it on.
Bad one in the batch October 31, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I read reviews to find the best heart rate monitor on the market. They all said "buy the Polar F11" so I did. In 18 months I replaced the battery in the watch three times and in the chest strap four times. I experienced eratic readings more than anything else -heart rates from 0 for most of a long run or 220+ when I was running easy. It would hop from low to extremely high to about right and then go to zero. When I sent it back to Polar along with a letter to tell them the problems I had with it, they sent me a bill for $50 and all they had done was replace the batteries... again. I was really disappointed with my experience especially after reading the reviews.
 A great value for a fitness and health watch October 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is my second Polar heart rate monitor (HRM) watch. I bought it because it has more features than my old F6, and since I exercise daily, I wanted a watch that did its job on the trail and looked good in the office. There are so many features that it is mind boggling, and the price is moderate for an HRM. It can be configured in many different ways, -- maybe too many? -- recording exercise data is easy and you can program it to match your personal needs. A bonus is that you can upload the data by transmitting them via a microphone to the Polar Personal Trainer site (polarpersonaltrainer.com) -- it sounds awful -- and keep a diary of your exercise sessions, progress toward a goal, weight loss, etc. Because it's a really good, reasonably priced HRM and because you can upload data, I highly recommend it.
A Very Impressive Heart Rate Monitor, Polar F11 October 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In the past I have used several Polar Heart Rate Monitors (HRMs). However, it has been almost 8 years since I last used one and have recently re-started my running program after 8 years away from it.
I am always concerned about beginning a challenging sports regemine and prefer to do it in a heart-friendly way: HRMs are the key for me.
Looking at all of the options from Polar (I have always had great experiences with Polar products, unlike a few others which have been sort of hit-n-miss in terms of quality and reliability). I didn't want to spend a lot of money; but wanted to be sure it had a logging capability. I chose the F11 because it seemed to be the best combination of relatively low cost with good features.
I have been using it now for almost 4 weeks and have found it to be well worth every penny. The logging capabilitly has proven to be just fine (I had used one, in the past, that logged heart rate every minute or so which provided a great history of how I handled different terrain; but the cost of such monitors was much more than I wanted to spend at this point) and it is very easy to use.
The only challenge that I had was trying to figure out how to upload the workouts to the Polar Web sites fitness tracking web site. The challenge was figuring out that there is a "SEND" option on the "FILES" setting...but you have to scroll down to get to it.
It wasn't in the Polar user's manual at all...in fact, my experience, is that the User's Guide is pretty poor...just good enough to get started. I have figured out most of it on my own; but I'm a bit of a computer geek so it wasn't that challenging...for someone who is not so Info Technology literate, I think it would be hard (or not possible) to figure out. It took a lot of research on the Polar Web site to finally find what was needed.
I find the Polar Website to be adequate for logging purposes. It has a lot of features that look pretty nice at first; but I think it isn't really all that powerful. I like the logging; but the rest (the "partners", the "workouts", etc.) just don't measure up and are more fluff (in my opinion) than of real value.
As I said, however, I do like the basic logging capability. There is also some good "Calculators" that you can use and that I like pretty well (e.g., for figuring out Pace from Time and Distance). All could be done with a simple hand calculator; but I like having them available on-line while at their web site.
Overall, I really like this HRM. It does what I need; it has nice extra features over the truly basic HRMs and it lives up, in my estimation, to the excellent experiences I have always had with Polar HRMs.
I would definitely recomend this product to others who are similarly looking for a upper low to low mid-range (in terms of cost and features) HRM.
 You are not allowed to enter the target heart rates directly October 14, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
You can't simply enter what heart rate targets you want - it only gives you ones it makes up on its own. You even must enter what DAY you were born, before you can use it - preventing others from using it without loads of set-up time. If the watch strap breaks, you must BUY A NEW WATCH because the strap is unusual. Many of the features can't be used without additional software and trouble.
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