Comments for Best Heart Rate Monitor Watch

Comment on Polar A4 Pulse Heart Rate Monitor Watch by Kris Retzlaff

Kris Retzlaff — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:19:10 +0000

I thought I would like the ” no strap” thing but I cant seem to get a good reading with this watch only type monitor. Been trying to see about buying a transmitter to convert to strap type monitor but they cost more than this watch. Live and learn I guess, but I havent totally given up yet.
Rating: 2 / 5

Comment on Polar A4 Pulse Heart Rate Monitor Watch by Luis Gonzalez

Luis Gonzalez — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:48:12 +0000

i find it that whyle runing the product dosnt give an accurate hr, it fluctuates a lot
Rating: 3 / 5

Comment on Polar A4 Pulse Heart Rate Monitor Watch by Robert Weber

Robert Weber — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:37:11 +0000

I am not happy with this product. The instructions are not clear, and the pulse monitor doesn’t work right. Today I was on the treadmill. It went to 124 (oky) later as I stayed on the treadmill, it went to 114 (down with longer workout-no way), then it went to 35. So the longer Istayed on the treadmill, the lower it showed my rate just the opposite of what actually occured. I check my pulse using my neck pulse. Also, often when I try to check my pulse, it takes a long to time booting up, then it says “repress” After doing this three or four times, I fianlly give up and take my neck pulse. This is a bad buy!
Rating: 1 / 5

Comment on Polar A4 Pulse Heart Rate Monitor Watch by Tony N

Tony N — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:05:44 +0000

It’s a great quality monitor, just be aware it does not ship with a chest belt – apparently that’s an accessory. Kind of like selling a car without tires!

Rating: 2 / 5

Comment on Polar A4 Pulse Heart Rate Monitor Watch by Pop-Up Fan

Pop-Up Fan — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:27:14 +0000

I’m usually the one in my family that others come to for advice on all things electronic. So I’ll give you the advice I’d give them on this watch – - if you are a bit dim when it comes to learning the intricacies of getting complicated electronics up and running, then don’t expect the instructions that accompany this doodad to enlighten you. I didn’t return mine because I hate to admit defeat, but you just might, so save yourself the trouble and just learn to take your pulse the old-fashioned way; you know, the way the nurses do every time you go to the doc’s office? Using a watch with a sweeping second hand and the ability to count!
Rating: 2 / 5

Comment on Polar F11 Women’s Heart Rate Monitor Watch by Alejandro

Alejandro — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:12:57 +0000

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

Comment on Polar F11 Women’s Heart Rate Monitor Watch by Felix Kasza

Felix Kasza — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:22:09 +0000

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

Comment on Polar F11 Women’s Heart Rate Monitor Watch by Ted Arestad

Ted Arestad — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:45:23 +0000

Watch is O/S, NO instructions on how to reset calories after work out even the MFR didn`t know how.
Rating: 3 / 5

Comment on Polar F11 Women’s Heart Rate Monitor Watch by Felix Kasza

Felix Kasza — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:19:09 +0000

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

Comment on Polar F11 Women’s Heart Rate Monitor Watch by Nestor M. Nieves

Nestor M. Nieves — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 07:15:51 +0000

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