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• 1 Talley

  I have owned my unit for 2 years now and have loved it. If you want to do the work outs that come with it after you put in your stats, you can do that, it is very helpful and keeps you on task & motivated. If you don’t want to do those, you can silence the beeping and do whatever workout you choose and it still records your stats. I think some people who are saying it was giving strange readings or none at all don’t realize that you have to moisten the sensory pads BEFORE you put it on and some times have to move it to the right spot on your lower chest area. It is extremely easy to adjust the chest strapm, I am not sure what that review was about. I had one time where it kept giving me a strange heart beat reading, I simply took off the strap, ran it under the faucet again, and restarted my workout on the watch and didn’t have another problem. Sending it in to get the battery replaced is a pain, but you can take it to a local jeweler if you don’t care about the waterproofing of the watch. The one feature I wish this watch had was a GPS unit to track your distance. Other than that, I wear this watch/strap for my daily work outs of running, lifting, riding and everything in between and love it.

• 2 Sakai

  I lost 60 lbs and have kept it off for 2 years using this F11 Heart rate monitor. The built in trainer is very motivating to me. It lets you know when you need to pick up the pace, and also lets you know when you can back it off a bit and “stride it out.” I love the fact that when you get tired and want to quit you look down at the watch and it looks back at you and says come on man, 6 more min. or 85 more calories. You can do it.
  Best tool I have ever bought for myself![[
  ASIN:B0009HN5Y2 Polar F11 Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Grey Pepper)]]

• 3 Beckman

  I purchased this on the advice of a well respected personal trainer with many years of experience. It is JUST GREAT! The belt that I wasn’t excited about having to wear is very comfortable and even works when I swim. I can come home and load my information onto my computer with little effort and this helps motivate me more than I realized. When I meet my goals for the week I even get a trophy to look at for the entire week that follows.
  Be sure you look at the functions and those of the higher end and more expensive models to make sure you choose the one suited for your needs. The computer program has the ability for me to add in distances and modes of exercise even though it idoes not track distance itself. You can even add in your medical information such as BP, HDL and LDL levels, as well as any particular personal information of your own choosing to track with the computer.

• 4 Leighton

  I chose this heart rate monitor for 3 reasons:

  1. It has a chest strap transmitter – far superior to the type where you need to pause from a work out and put your fingers on a watch unit to get your HR. With this unit your HR is shown constantly. Depending on the mode you choose you can also see HR and calories burned at the same time.

  2. The battery can be replaced in this unit – that alone ensures a long life for this product !

  3. It blocks interference from other heart rate monitor signals. I take a spinning class with 30 people where heart rate monitors are required. I wanted to make sure not to have a problem with interference from someone else’s unit.

  This unit works perfectly. Constantly transmitts accurately. I have never had a problem with it. It’s comfortable to wear, and the readout is large and clear. It’s got lots of other functions, and was fairly simple to set up.

  The ONLY reason I did not give this HR monitor 5 stars was due to it’s price. I think $160 is too steep a price for any HR monitor.

• 5 Eisenberg

  I should have paid attention to the bad reviews. But the idea of a HRM that keeps track of workout and calorie burn was too tempting, so I have this a try. Geesh, where do I start. First of all, the belt is poorly designed (and by the way the old transmitter works just fine–I tried them both and it makes no difference). Secondly, the instructions are poorly written, which is true of most electronics anyway. What’s worse, the part about workout (zone, etc) is completely uninformative, because you get a series of symbols with no clue as to what they mean. I will make a long story short and not get into all the frustration that this thingy caused in one evening: it does NOT measure your heart rate, period. After a hour long strenuous workout, spent mostly in the 75%-85% zone I stop. In a minute or so, according to fancy-schmancy Mr. Polar, my heart rate is down to 50bpm. 50??? Are you kidding me? This thing goes back in the box, pronto. At least it NEVER worked, thus sparing me the frustration of dealing with Polar’s nonexistent customer service. Back to guessing how many calories I am burning, then.

• 6 Pedder

  I should have paid attention to the bad reviews. But the idea of a HRM that keeps track of workout and calorie burn was too tempting, so I have this a try. Geesh, where do I start. First of all, the belt is poorly designed (and by the way the old transmitter works just fine–I tried them both and it makes no difference). Secondly, the instructions are poorly written, which is true of most electronics anyway. What’s worse, the part about workout (zone, etc) is completely uninformative, because you get a series of symbols with no clue as to what they mean. I will make a long story short and not get into all the frustration that this thingy caused in one evening: it does NOT measure your heart rate, period. After a hour long strenuous workout, spent mostly in the 75%-85% zone I stop. In a minute or so, according to fancy-schmancy Mr. Polar, my heart rate is down to 50bpm. 50??? Are you kidding me? This thing goes back in the box, pronto. At least it NEVER worked, thus sparing me the frustration of dealing with Polar’s nonexistent customer service. Back to guessing how many calories I am burning, then.

• 7 Gloria

  I have owned my unit for 2 years now and have loved it. If you want to do the work outs that come with it after you put in your stats, you can do that, it is very helpful and keeps you on task & motivated. If you don’t want to do those, you can silence the beeping and do whatever workout you choose and it still records your stats. I think some people who are saying it was giving strange readings or none at all don’t realize that you have to moisten the sensory pads BEFORE you put it on and some times have to move it to the right spot on your lower chest area. It is extremely easy to adjust the chest strapm, I am not sure what that review was about. I had one time where it kept giving me a strange heart beat reading, I simply took off the strap, ran it under the faucet again, and restarted my workout on the watch and didn’t have another problem. Sending it in to get the battery replaced is a pain, but you can take it to a local jeweler if you don’t care about the waterproofing of the watch. The one feature I wish this watch had was a GPS unit to track your distance. Other than that, I wear this watch/strap for my daily work outs of running, lifting, riding and everything in between and love it.

• 8 O'Malley

  I chose this heart rate monitor for 3 reasons:

  1. It has a chest strap transmitter – far superior to the type where you need to pause from a work out and put your fingers on a watch unit to get your HR. With this unit your HR is shown constantly. Depending on the mode you choose you can also see HR and calories burned at the same time.

  2. The battery can be replaced in this unit – that alone ensures a long life for this product !

  3. It blocks interference from other heart rate monitor signals. I take a spinning class with 30 people where heart rate monitors are required. I wanted to make sure not to have a problem with interference from someone else’s unit.

  This unit works perfectly. Constantly transmitts accurately. I have never had a problem with it. It’s comfortable to wear, and the readout is large and clear. It’s got lots of other functions, and was fairly simple to set up.

  The ONLY reason I did not give this HR monitor 5 stars was due to it’s price. I think $160 is too steep a price for any HR monitor.

• 9 Dean

  I purchased this on the advice of a well respected personal trainer with many years of experience. It is JUST GREAT! The belt that I wasn’t excited about having to wear is very comfortable and even works when I swim. I can come home and load my information onto my computer with little effort and this helps motivate me more than I realized. When I meet my goals for the week I even get a trophy to look at for the entire week that follows.
  Be sure you look at the functions and those of the higher end and more expensive models to make sure you choose the one suited for your needs. The computer program has the ability for me to add in distances and modes of exercise even though it idoes not track distance itself. You can even add in your medical information such as BP, HDL and LDL levels, as well as any particular personal information of your own choosing to track with the computer.

• 10 Peale

  I lost 60 lbs and have kept it off for 2 years using this F11 Heart rate monitor. The built in trainer is very motivating to me. It lets you know when you need to pick up the pace, and also lets you know when you can back it off a bit and “stride it out.” I love the fact that when you get tired and want to quit you look down at the watch and it looks back at you and says come on man, 6 more min. or 85 more calories. You can do it.
  Best tool I have ever bought for myself![[
  ASIN:B0009HN5Y2 Polar F11 Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Grey Pepper)]]

• 11 Adrian

  I lost 60 lbs and have kept it off for 2 years using this F11 Heart rate monitor. The built in trainer is very motivating to me. It lets you know when you need to pick up the pace, and also lets you know when you can back it off a bit and “stride it out.” I love the fact that when you get tired and want to quit you look down at the watch and it looks back at you and says come on man, 6 more min. or 85 more calories. You can do it.
  Best tool I have ever bought for myself![[
  ASIN:B0009HN5Y2 Polar F11 Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Grey Pepper)]]

• 12 Pepe

  I have owned my unit for 2 years now and have loved it. If you want to do the work outs that come with it after you put in your stats, you can do that, it is very helpful and keeps you on task & motivated. If you don’t want to do those, you can silence the beeping and do whatever workout you choose and it still records your stats. I think some people who are saying it was giving strange readings or none at all don’t realize that you have to moisten the sensory pads BEFORE you put it on and some times have to move it to the right spot on your lower chest area. It is extremely easy to adjust the chest strapm, I am not sure what that review was about. I had one time where it kept giving me a strange heart beat reading, I simply took off the strap, ran it under the faucet again, and restarted my workout on the watch and didn’t have another problem. Sending it in to get the battery replaced is a pain, but you can take it to a local jeweler if you don’t care about the waterproofing of the watch. The one feature I wish this watch had was a GPS unit to track your distance. Other than that, I wear this watch/strap for my daily work outs of running, lifting, riding and everything in between and love it.

• 13 Nim

  I purchased this on the advice of a well respected personal trainer with many years of experience. It is JUST GREAT! The belt that I wasn’t excited about having to wear is very comfortable and even works when I swim. I can come home and load my information onto my computer with little effort and this helps motivate me more than I realized. When I meet my goals for the week I even get a trophy to look at for the entire week that follows.
  Be sure you look at the functions and those of the higher end and more expensive models to make sure you choose the one suited for your needs. The computer program has the ability for me to add in distances and modes of exercise even though it idoes not track distance itself. You can even add in your medical information such as BP, HDL and LDL levels, as well as any particular personal information of your own choosing to track with the computer.

• 14 Duran

  I should have paid attention to the bad reviews. But the idea of a HRM that keeps track of workout and calorie burn was too tempting, so I have this a try. Geesh, where do I start. First of all, the belt is poorly designed (and by the way the old transmitter works just fine–I tried them both and it makes no difference). Secondly, the instructions are poorly written, which is true of most electronics anyway. What’s worse, the part about workout (zone, etc) is completely uninformative, because you get a series of symbols with no clue as to what they mean. I will make a long story short and not get into all the frustration that this thingy caused in one evening: it does NOT measure your heart rate, period. After a hour long strenuous workout, spent mostly in the 75%-85% zone I stop. In a minute or so, according to fancy-schmancy Mr. Polar, my heart rate is down to 50bpm. 50??? Are you kidding me? This thing goes back in the box, pronto. At least it NEVER worked, thus sparing me the frustration of dealing with Polar’s nonexistent customer service. Back to guessing how many calories I am burning, then.

• 15 Ibsen

  I chose this heart rate monitor for 3 reasons:

  1. It has a chest strap transmitter – far superior to the type where you need to pause from a work out and put your fingers on a watch unit to get your HR. With this unit your HR is shown constantly. Depending on the mode you choose you can also see HR and calories burned at the same time.

  2. The battery can be replaced in this unit – that alone ensures a long life for this product !

  3. It blocks interference from other heart rate monitor signals. I take a spinning class with 30 people where heart rate monitors are required. I wanted to make sure not to have a problem with interference from someone else’s unit.

  This unit works perfectly. Constantly transmitts accurately. I have never had a problem with it. It’s comfortable to wear, and the readout is large and clear. It’s got lots of other functions, and was fairly simple to set up.

  The ONLY reason I did not give this HR monitor 5 stars was due to it’s price. I think $160 is too steep a price for any HR monitor.

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