Technical Details
- Full-feature sports watch displays your heart rate, exercise time, and average heart rate
- OwnCode transmitter eliminates interference from other heart rate monitors
- Polar OwnZone helps determine an individual exercise zone; calorie counter and goal management
- OwnCal feature shows your energy expenditure during one exercise session and accumulated expenditure
- Zone Pointer displays your target heart rate zone and where your current heart rate is within that zone
Product Description
The Polar F6 heart rate monitor has all of the essential functions required by the fitness enthusiast who wants to train in "zones" maximising their training. With "crosstalk coding", percentage of fat burn calories, an exercise diary and automatic training zone calculation. It uses Polar's OwnZone feature to automatically calculate your training zones, calculates calorie expenditure and incorporates an exercise diary, making it an ideal introduction to improved fitness and weight management. Polar F6 Features: Own zone - Automatic calculation of training zone with visible/audible alarm. OwnCal - calorie expenditure with % fat burn. Own Code - coded transmission. Backlight - for ease of use in low light conditions. Exercise Diary. Soniclink transfer of data to web service. Zone Pointer: visual guidance to target zone. Fitness Points (every 10 min. in target zone). Display of current heart rate, percentage of maximum heart rate and training time. Storage of previous workout, including date, average and maximum heart rate, time spent in target zone, training time and calories burned. Storage of cumulative training time and calories burned, as well as total number of workouts and average workout frequency. Integrated clock with date, weekday and alarm. UpLink function: transmittion of training settings to pulse watch. Audible and visible alarm on exceeding or falling below the target zone. Water resistant to 30 m. Easy-to-read display. Simple operation with two buttons.
Amazon.com Product Description
The Polar F6 heart rate monitor is a great choice for using in large groups where other exercisers might be using wireless training gear that could interfere with your own signal. The F6's coded transmission prevents crosstalk with other monitors so you'll get a personalized workout--even in a class environment. It's packed with innovative training features to help you toward your exercise goals, including:
 The F6 displays your heart rate, exercise time, and average heart rate. |
- Zone Pointer: A visible and audible feature on the display of your heart rate monitor showing your target heart rate zone and where your current heart rate is within that zone.
- Polar OwnCal: This feature shows your energy expenditure during one exercise session as well as your accumulated kilocalories during several exercise sessions. You can set daily and weekly exercise goals in terms of calorie expenditure with the OwnCal feature. Because the OwnCal tracks both the energy expenditure during one exercise session and the accumulated kilocalories during a longer time e.g. one week, it helps in achieving both short term and long term goals.
- Polar OwnZone: This feature guides you through an appropriate warm-up routine and automatically determines a safe and effective exercise heart rate zone--your OwnZone--while taking into account your current physical condition.
- Polar OwnCode: This technology blocks unwanted signals from other heart rate monitors, ensuring disturbance-free transmission of your heart rate data.
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 Time in Target Zone feature calculates the amount of total exercise time spent in your personal target zone. You can use this feature together with the Total Exercise Time to determine the effectiveness of your exercise program. You can also better assess your training data using the included Polar Precision Performance (PPP) 4.0 software and the SonicLink feature, which wirelessly uploads exercise settings to the software or to Polar's web service.
Other features include:
- Display of heart rate, exercise time and average heart rate
- 24-hour clock with day/week indicator and stopwatch
- Large easy-to-read display with split screen
- One-year average battery life
- 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.
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
By Sonya Meyers (Florida)
I bought this watch as a tool to help me through my long runs. I was very happy, a nice looking watch to monitor my heart rate, and it came with free shipping.
What I didn't like is that about 33 days into ownership of the watch, it became unreliable. It worked sporadically, and was inaccurate giving me readings that were completely off. I contacted amazon about a return, but I was outside of the 30 days and they sent me to the manufacturer (rightfully so). I had to send it to the manufacturer and wait 2 solid weeks.
On the return, the manufacturer stated that the battery was flat (dead), and that the transmitter had low conductivity of electrodes (aka: didn't work). I would say this was a "lemon" but I have heard and read that this has happened to others, I didn't think it would happen to mine.
They fixed it and were fine to work with, but I was discouraged that my "free ship" really was not a free ship after all, I had to pay to ship the watch to the manufacturer. My thought is you might want to learn how long your watch has been sitting in the box before receiving it. The only place to fix this watch is thru the manufacturer.
When the watch works, it's great. I am hoping to build confidence now on the reliability of this watch.
By Staci Gadacz (Indiana)
I received the women's Polar F6 in black about a week ago. I've only used it twice, but so far am very pleased with the ease of use and also the ease of set up. I feel as though it gives a pretty accurate read out on heart rate and calories burned, based on what I've read and seen. The watch face is a little big for my liking, but it's manageable. I used it on my run this morning and it was the motivation I needed to push myself a little harder, but still in my safe heart rate zone, for a better work out. I haven't used it in the pool yet, but supposedly it is safe to do so. Overall, would recommend this product. I'm not a complete die hard athlete, but it is more than enough of a "gadget" for someone who runs and uses it for spin classes!
By Alyssa Lindsey
I got the F6 in June for my birthday and I love it. Since then I used it for running, cardio, weight lifting, etc. I have been in very crowded classes and it never got interference from other HRMs. The watch is very comfortable and does not get in the way too much, although when doing squats and clean and presses it can dig into your wrist. I use it basically to keep track of my heart rate, time my workouts, and monitor calories burned, so it is perfect for these tasks. My only complaint is the chest strap. I recently got a Garmin forerunner for Hanukkah and when I started using that for running I realized the difference. Their chest strap is so much more comfortable and secure. The F6 often slides down as I get sweaty, even though I have it on the tightest setting, so I don't know what those smaller than me would do. It even fell off while I was running a half marathon. However, as I said, that's my only complaint - I would still recommend this product.
By Marz (Oregon)
The Polar F6 is a fine piece of equipment and there is no doubt about it. It's so useful, giving you access to a host of physical statistics and it's incredibly easy to use. Will the F6 help you with your fitness goals? You bet it will. There is no doubt that it will add a new dynamic to your workouts.
In short, you will wonder why you ever waited so long to get one!
**BTW, the battery is a snap to change and I'll tell you how in a minute.
After you have entered your personal stat's like height, age, etc. your F6 will tell you how long you have exercised, heart rate, calories you have burned and how many your are burning per hour, how many calories you have burned for the entire week of exercises or however many sessions you choose to total. You can also review stored exercise sessions individually all via the Diary function.
The F6 can calculate varying BPM zones for you to work within via the OwnZone function or you can set them yourself. The F6 monitors your BPM and Alarms and arrows go off when you are too high or low.
Here is the part I love. You can use the sonic Uplink to transmit all of your diary information from the wrist unit, through your PC mic, to the website [...] and monitor your progress over time, set up goals and see how well you are achieving them. There is a lot more you can do there as well. Have a look at the site.
**I've read some of the bad press on here concerning changing the batteries in the wrist unit. I changed mine, no problem, and I feel confident that it is still water proof and I'll tell you why. Just a quick note though that for me it doesn't matter because I don't use the unit while in the water.
Purchase a CR 2032 3V battery. Take the four screws out of the back using a tiny phillips head screwdriver created for this type of thing. Once you take the back plate off you will notice a little gasket that sits inside a groove that runs just inside the circumfrence of the back of the watch.
When you have replaced the battery you will want to be very sure and carefully push this gasket into that groove to retain the water proofing. Could it still leak? Maybe, but that is your best bet if you are going to change the battery yourself. I feel pretty confident that, so long as the gasket is in good condition and it is pushed into it's groove, then it will not leak.
With the back off, you will notice that the battery is visible and a small metal arm is holding it in place with an even smaller bent metal piece that fits over a plastic bump. The metal slips down over the plastic bump and clips into place. Use you're your screwdriver (I use a tiney straight edged screwdriver for this) to lift the metal piece over the plastic bump. Once the arm is released the battery should slip out of it's housing.
Slip the new battery in, + side up, and reverse the previous steps.
You're done. It even has your old information still saved.
I love this thing. I'm very happy with it's performance and use it all the time.
By Fernando (Costa Rica, Central America)
So far so good with this Polar. The only issue right now is that the belt got dirty the very first day. A sweater that hasn't stained any other watch or accessory, stained the Polar belt. My wife is really disappointed with that. We tried everything to get the stain out with no success. Other than that, it's a good product.
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