Polar FT60 Best Price, Great Product.

Polar FT60 Best Price, Great Product.
My wife wanted a HRM for her birthday and after alot of research I ordered the FT40 for her. She loves it so much that I decided to get one for myself. I opted for the FT60 instead, since it has the option where it simulates a personal trainer telling how long to work out and at which intensity based on what you tell it you want to accomplish (weight loss, fitness improvement or Max fitness level). Set up is very easy and documentation is good. You enter your height, weight, age, etc and then your goals and it creates a profile for you based on that information.

I have only had the FT60 for a week, but I find myself working out longer and at the correct intensity for my goals. Before I had no real logic to my workouts, I would just break a good sweat. With this HRM I target certain levels of intensity to be more productive and accomplish my goals. After entering all the required data and doing the fitness test built into the watch, it gave me my goals for the first week. It included overall time to work out and how much time to spend in each of the 3 zones of intensity. It tracks your progress in data and bar graph form and is real easy to understand and keeps you motivated to accomplish all the goals they give you for the week. I am a person who is competitive and find myself working out more on days where I might not have simply b/c I want to meet the goals for the week.

The watch is a great size and actually can be worn outside of the gym as its quite attractive. The Chest strap is very comfortable being made of cloth instead of plastic,like some competitors versions. A very cool feature that was a suprise to me is that the equipment at my gym picks up your HR from the chest strap wirelessly and displays your HR, which matches the watches display. Much easier to look at that then to keep glancing at your watch. This works all the cardio equip in my gym (Life Fitness treadmills, Precor ellipticals, and the Stair Master).

I also ordered the FlowLink so I can upload the data to polars personal trainer website. It works great so far. You can join competitions on the website to "compete" against others in all kinds of categories (ie. Most calories burned in a month, most miles run in a week, most weight lost, etc. You can also create your own competitions).

All in all a great product and I highly recommend it. If you don't think you will want/use the built in "personal trainer" option, then save yourself $40 and get the FT40.

Polar FT60 Best Price, Works well, highly motivating.I've had the FT 60 for a week and find it easy to use, and highly motivating.
I'm already curious about what next week's training targets will be. I wouldn't want to work out without this monitor.

The Flowlink accessory works perfectly and there have been no problems with the Polarpersonaltrainer web site so far. I recommend this HRM to anyone who is serious about fitness and who understands the crucial role of heart rate in measuring intensity of exercise.