The Polar FT60 heart rate monitor watch helps you improve your fitness and keep you motivated. The Polar FT60 heart rate monitor checks your daily condition and then picks the ideal training intensity based on your fitness level and age.

Polar FT60 Heart Rate Monitor Details

  • Polar Star personalized training program
  • Polar ZonePointer
  • Polar OwnCal
  • Polar OwnZone
  • Water resistant to 30m
  • Alarm when you go out of your target heart rate zone

Polar Star Personalized Training Program

The Polar FT60 heart rate monitor comes with a training program that adapts to your work out habits. The training program gives you weekly targets and constant feedback so you can reach your goas quickly and efficiently.

Polar ZonePointer

The Polar FT60 comes with the Polar ZonePointer function that is a visual and audible feature on the FT60 display screen which shows you where your current heart rate is within your target heart rate zone.

Polar OwnZone

The Polar OwnZone function will give you a customized heart rate target zone for your training.

Polar OwnCal

The Polar FT60 also comes with the Polar OwnCal function that keeps track of your energy expenditure during a workout session. It also shows your accumulated energy expenditure over several training sessions too. The OwnCal function also helps you set daily and/or weekly targets for burning calories giving you the option to create short or long time goals based on your preference.

Polar OwnCode

Polar OwnCode prevents crosstalk from other heart rate devices. This is great to have particularly if you train in a club and other runner’s/athletes are using heart rate monitors too.

ZoneLock Mode

The Polar FT60 watch has a ZoneLock mode that lets you activate a target zone in the middle of a workout with the press of the button. A great option if you are feeling worn out that day or feeling like you could be pushing yourself more.

Water Resistant

The Polar FT60 heart rate monitor is water resistant up to 30 meters.

Other Features

  • The FT60 displays heart rate as a percentage of your maxmimum heart rate, as beats per minute and within a graphical target zone indicator.
  • Gives an alarm when you go out of your heart rate zone.
  • Fitness test that measures aerobic fitness at rest in 5 minutes.
  • Tracks average and maxmimum heart rate, distance, calories burned, total exericse time.

Watch Features

The Polar FT60 heart rate monitor also has some typical watch features including:

  • 12/24 hour clock with day/week indicator
  • Backlighting
  • Alarm with snooze
  • Low battery indicator

Compatible with G1 GPS Sensor

If you want to get more out of your training and track your distance/speed more efficiently/accurately, the Polar FT60 heart rate monitor is compatible with the Polar G1 GPS Sensor. This can be bought separately.

Compatible with Polar FlowLink

If you want to get your training information on the computer, the Polar FT60 is compatible with Polar FlowLink, a device that makes doing this very easy.

Price

The Polar FT60 heart rate monitor watch can be found for around $150. Amazon is a great place to buy the Polar FT60 as Amazon can save you around 35%.

What Customers Say

The Polar FT60 has been given an average rating of 4.5 out of 5. Customers loved the personalized fitness program, the ease of use and the overal functionality of the heart rate monitor. They also liked the fact they could change the batter themselves as opposed to having to send it off to do so.

Customer comments included:

  • “I absolutely love my Polar FT60! This is actually my first and only HRM (Heart Rate Monitor), so I can only give you my opinions from this one item. I do love it though!”
  • “All in all a great product and I highly recommend it.”
  • “I love it! Its pretty big of course, but it has so much functionality; it has set up my workout goals and when I finish each workout it tells me “Fitness Level Improving,” or “Train more in zone 2″, etc to give me an idea of what to do. And then if I meet my goals it congratulates me with a starburst and a picture of a trophy. It may be silly, but that trophy was what got me to do a workout last night when I didn’t feel like it!”
  • “I’m very glad I finally decided on purchasing the FT60 vs another Polar model I had been considering. I use it daily for my walks/workouts and it keeps me motivated. Very easy to understand and the band across the chest fits very comfortably (I tend to forget I have it on). I would definitely recommend it. I thank the people who wrote their reviews because that helped me take the plunge and purchase it.”

Complaints

Some customers didn’t like the fact that the Polar FT60 doesn’t have a stopwatch or have lap function. Some customers also found the display screen difficult to read in certain light. Although a lot of customers loved the personalized training program, some customers were disappointed with it.

Overall the Polar FT60 heart rate monitor is an easy to use and functional heart rate monitor. It may be perfect for the beginner as opposed to those who are more advanced or who have used a heart rate monitor before. However despite some disappointment in it, most customers were extremely happy with the Polar FT60 heart rate monitor and this indicated that it is a good heart rate monitor to buy.