The Polar FT80 is the one heart rate monitor designed to help you, the dedicated athlete, achieve your maximum potential, and efficiency, in your training. The FT80 checks on your daily fitness level, and after taking into account your age and condition, guides you upwards towards your ideal training targets. It is vital to keep track of your heart rate, enabling you to train at a suitable level of intensity, improving your overall fitness status, and achieving your goals. Train too hard and you won't reach your excercise target, burning yourself out in the process. Take your training too easy, and, similarly you won't see any real benefits (let alone losing some weight). The FT80 takes all of these obstacles into account and maps out a reasonable, but complete, training road map.The Polar FT80 Heart Rate Monitor Watch features a Polar Star training program which is personalized to your workout patterns. The intelligent training computer on the FT80 sets up weekly training goals for you, providing you with real time feedback and helping you achieve your targets without pushing you past your limits. Heart rate data is displayed in a number of ways including beats per minute and percentage of maximum heart rate which are all aligned inside a graphical target zone indicator. This means, if your heart rate goes above or below this target zone, the watch will set off an alarm enabling you to get right back on track.Also very popular is the wide range of functions which are unique to Polar. These include:The ZonePointer - shows you audibly and visibly exactly where your heart rate is currently sitting with regard to your target heart rate zone.The Polar Strength Training mode - helps you get the most out of your weight and strength training by informing you (after checking out your heart rate) when your body is ready for that next set.The Polar OwnCal mode - shows you how much energy you have used up during your training session, how many kilocalories you have built up over a period of sessions and enabling you to set daily and weekly targets regarding how many calories you want to burn up, to reach your excercise goals, both in the short-term and in the long run.Other features of the Polar FT80:- Built-in fitness test which takes 5 minutes and instantly calculates your level of aerobic fitness- A Zonelock mode enables you to trigger a target zone, with the tap of a button, even if you are in the middle of an exercise session.- A Polar OwnZone mode customizes your target zone for separate training periods.- The OwnCode mode prevents interference from any other heart rate monitors in the immediate vicinity.- A recording mode tracks all your data (exercise time, average/ maximum heart rate, distance and calories expended) and stores it in an exercise file. (You can store up to 100 files).- The FT80 is water resistant (the depth depends on the model).- Clock (12/24 hour) with day/week indicator and snooze alarm.- Built-in backlight and low battery indicator.- Polar FlowLink connection enabling data transfer to a computer.About the Polar CompanyPolar invented the first accurate heart rate monitor (wireless) in 1977 to aid the Finnish National Cross Country Ski team in their training. The eighties saw the notion of training intensely by monitoring heart rate being welcomed, and by the nineties, heart rate monitors began serving consumers, not just for bettering training performance , but also for reaching normal fitness targets. These days, this same idea is being utilized by top-class athletes and ordinary consumers alike. Polar prides itself on manufacturing the finest products, educating people on the benefits of heart rate monitored training, and being the brand leader among everyday people, coaches, personal trainers and top athletes
Polar FT80 Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Black)