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- Heart rate monitor designed to help you hit training and fitness goals
- Keeps U Fit Workout Program gives you personal exercise guidance
- WearLink Coded transmitter made from a soft, fabric material, eliminates interference from other heart rate monitors
- OwnCal feature shows your energy expenditure during one exercise session
- Large easy-to-read, backlit display with split screen; water resistant to 30 meters
Product Description
The F11™ Blue Glow Women’s Heart Rate Monitor from Polar® features the Polar Keeps U Fit™ – Own Workout Program that offers personal guidance with suggestions on how often, how hard, and how long you need to exercise to reach your personal fitness goals. Additional features, including OwnIndex®, OwnCal® and OwnZone®, help track your progress, while providing motivation and monitoring your improvement and heart rate.Amazon.com Product Description
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Polar F11 Women’s Heart Rate Monitor Watch
October 18, 2009 at 7:15 am
Very difficult to read, not what I was looking for, unable to return, never again I will buy anything on Amazon.
Not happy with the product
Rating: 1 / 5
October 18, 2009 at 9:19 am
Polar F11: A cheap piece of junk, with a jewelry price tag.
The Polar F11 is reputed to be one of the better heart rate monitors. If that is true, I shudder to think what the lesser models must be like.
The biggest problem is the “wrist unit”, as Polar calls it, and the built-in receiver in particular. The signal sent by the transmitter on the chest strap is received just fine by most types of fitness equipment; yet the F11 is having a good day if it picks the signal up a third of the time. What remains is an ugly wristwatch for $150 — and not a very good watch, either.
A single drop onto a sharp corner will destroy the F11 wrist unit; Polar, probably knowing the utter absence of any sort of robustness, expressly excludes this condition from the warranty.
But even if it is not broken _and_ having a good day, the F11 is loaded with junk. The “OwnZone” feature purporting to determine your optimal exercise intensity? You are better off listening to your breathing. The “FitTest”, claiming to produce a number comparable to your VO2max? Laughable. Even the backlight is ridiculous: You might as well buy a can of black spray paint and give the display a few good coats of paint; just as readable, and henceforth you won’t have to press any buttons.
The transmitter and its chest strap are usable. Well, mostly.
Summing it up, the most obvious relationship between the F11 and your heart rate is that the price and crappiness of the former will raise the latter, even though the contraption won’t be able to measure that.
The best I can say about the Polar F11 is that you don’t have to buy one.
Rating: 2 / 5
October 18, 2009 at 10:45 am
Watch is O/S, NO instructions on how to reset calories after work out even the MFR didn`t know how.
Rating: 3 / 5
October 18, 2009 at 1:22 pm
The Polar F11 is reputed to be one of the better heart rate monitors. If that is true, I shudder to think what the lesser models must be like.
The biggest problem is the “wrist unit”, as Polar calls it, and the built-in receiver in particular. The signal sent by the transmitter on the chest strap is received just fine by most types of fitness equipment; yet the F11 is having a good day if it picks the signal up a third of the time. What remains is an ugly wristwatch for $150 — and not a very good watch, either.
A single drop onto a sharp corner will destroy the F11 wrist unit; Polar, probably knowing the utter absence of any sort of robustness, expressly excludes this condition from the warranty.
But even if it is not broken _and_ having a good day, the F11 is loaded with junk. The “OwnZone” feature purporting to determine your optimal exercise intensity? You are better off listening to your breathing. The “FitTest”, claiming to produce a number comparable to your VO2max? Laughable. Even the backlight is ridiculous: You might as well buy a can of black spray paint and give the display a few good coats of paint; just as readable, and henceforth you won’t have to press any buttons.
The transmitter and its chest strap are usable. Well, mostly.
Summing it up, the most obvious relationship between the F11 and your heart rate is that the price and crappiness of the former will raise the latter, even though the contraption won’t be able to measure that.
The best I can say about the Polar F11 is that you don’t have to buy one.
Rating: 2 / 5
October 18, 2009 at 4:12 pm
I wasn’t until I started using this watch that I realized that I was doing all my exercise wrong. Now with this watch I know I’m doing the right amount of exercise.
Rating: 5 / 5