Polar Watch F55 Review

The Polar Watch F55 heart rate monitor includes the Polar fitness personal guidance that tells you how often and how long you should exercise to reach your fitness goals, based on monitoring your optimal heart rate in an exercise training program. Many of the cardiovascular fitness routines involve keeping your heart rate in a specific target range for a particular amount of time. This Polar Watch F55 heart rate monitor is feature packed and looks attractive, too.

About the Manufacturer-Polar Fitness Heart Rate Monitors:

Polar came up with the first wireless ECG wireless heart rate monitor in 1977 for the cardio exercise and training fad of the athletic world. In the 90’s, individuals started wanting a heart rate monitor to track their everyday fitness goals, and Polar came out with models for different types of sports, athletes and training features. Polar has become a leading brand in heart rate monitors because of their commitment to offer the best products in the market.

Polar Watch F55 Pros:

• The Polar fitness body workout feature on the Polar Watch F55 provides recommendations for repetitions, training moves and weights. You can edit it to fit your own pace of development.
• It also has OwnRelax that tracks when you should take a 5 minute relaxation break based on your heart rate and variability.
• The OwnCal feature shows how many calories you have expended during your sessions, so it is easy to set daily and weekly goals.
• The OwnZone guides you through warm-up and determines the safe exercise heart rate.
• The Polar fitness bullets show on the heart rate monitor every 10 minutes spent in your target heart zone.
• It has large easy to read displays of average heart rate with back lighting
• It is water resistant to 100 feet
• It comes with two years warranty from the manufacturer
• The WearLink transmitter is made from soft fabric and eliminates interference from other heart monitors, which comes in handy in the gym

Polar Fitness Watch F55 Cons:

• The Polar Watch usually runs over $150, but under $200
• The product weight is 1 pound, and there are heart rate monitors that are much lighter, weighing only a few ounces
• It is a general exercise watch, that does not track vertical slopes and vertical speeds like similar models made for mountain biking, skiing and cycling, so another model might be preferable for individual sports that involve movement, especially in a vertical situation.

Conclusion:

Overall, the Polar Watch F55 is a good, all around exercise heart rate monitor, that has quite a few features and is an attractive watch, as well. While there are more specialized models on the market for certain sports, such as vertical uphill and downhill heart rate monitoring, it serves the purpose in a general exercise and training program. Made by one of the leading heart rate monitor manufacturers, Polar’s fitness watch comes with a two year warranty and is water resistant, so it could be used in water aerobics or swimming.