Polar FT60 Heart Rate Monitor

The Polar FT60 heart rate monitor is designed for those dedicated exercisers who want to know how much and how intensively to train.

Summary of Features:

STAR Training Program customizes an aerobic training program for you with weekly targets based on your personal goals. It becomes your coach/personal trainer.
Gives feedback on the effect of your training after your workout. How much fat you burned. Is your fitness improving.
Polar Fitness Test measures your aerobic fitness at rest and tells you your progress.
OwnCal® displays calories burned with fat percentage.
OwnZone® keeps you from Under Training or Over Training.
Compatible with S1 Foot Pod and G1 GPS Sensor to monitor distance and speed/pace. (Sold separately)
Upload and analyze training data to polarpersonaltrainer.com (FlowLink sold separately)

The Polar FT60 heart rate monitor has so many benefits it is if you have a coach right there with you at all times. The STAR Training Program tells you how long to train in each heart rate zone to meet your goals of fat loss or aerobic fitness. This is one of my favorite Polar heart rate monitors.

Of course you can buy cheaper heart rate monitors, but you also get what you pay for. A one hour personal training session can cost $90. This Polar FT60 heart rate monitor is like having a personal trainer with you at EVERY workout. Be sure and watch all the training videos below.

Polar FT60 Heart Rate Monitor Specifics

Body measurement features

Automatic age-based target zone – bpm / %

To help you train safely and effectively, the training computer automatically determines your heart rate target zone limits according to your age-based maximum heart rate (220 minus age). The limits are determined either in beats per minute (bpm) or as a percentage (%) of your maximum heart rate. See also Manual target zone.

Average and maximum heart rate of training

Heart rate – bpm / %

Heart rate is the measurement of the work your heart does. Heart rate can be expressed as the number of beats per minute (bpm) or as a percentage (%) of your maximum heart rate.

HR-based target zones with visual and audible alarm

You can define your target zones for a training session based on heart rate to help define the right intensity. When you are out of the preset zones, the training computer will give a visual and audible alarm.

HRmax (user set)

Manual target zone – bpm / %

This feature enables you to manually enter the target zone that is suitable for your training. You can set the target zone for your training as beats per minute (bpm) or as a percentage of your maximum heart rate.

Polar Fitness Test

Polar Fitness Test measures your aerobic fitness at rest in just five minutes. The result, Polar OwnIndex, evaluates your maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max). With the Polar Fitness Test you can measure your aerobic fitness by yourself, automatically and without any exertion. All you need is your training computer. The Polar Fitness Test is as accurate in predicting the VO2max as any sub maximal fitness test. The test is based on heart rate and heart rate variability at rest and personal information.

Polar OwnIndex (Fitness Test) Video

Polar OwnCal® – calorie expenditure with fat percentage

Polar OwnCal calculates the number of calories burned during training. This feature allows you to track the calories burned during one training session and cumulative calories burned during several training sessions. This feature also estimates the fat-burning percentage (fat% on display), that is, calories burned from fat during a workout which is expressed as a percentage of the total calories burned.

Polar OwnCal® Video

Polar OwnCode® (5kHz) – coded transmission

Coded heart rate transmission automatically locks in a code to transmit your heart rate to the training computer. The training computer picks up your heart rate from your transmitter only. Coding prevents interference from other training computers.

Polar OwnZone® – personal heart rate zone

Polar OwnZone® determines your personal heart rate limits for a training session. Depending on the day and time, your physical state may vary, for instance, if you are stressed or tired, or if you are not fully recovered from your latest training session, the Polar FT60 heart rate monitor can determine that information from your heart rate and guide you to your ideal training zone for that moment.

Polar OwnZone® Video

Polar STAR Training Program

The adaptive and personalized Polar STAR Training Program helps you reach your training targets. The training program gives you weekly targets, including intensity and duration, for your training. The Polar STAR Training Program is based on your fitness level, activity level, training goal and personal information (weight, height, age and sex).

Polar STAR Training Program Video

Training load – available via polarpersonaltrainer.com

This feature is available in Polar software. When you transfer training results from your Polar FT60 heart rate monitor training computer to polarpersonaltrainer.com, you can follow your training load and recovery in the training diary. Continuous monitoring of training load and recovery will help you recognize personal limits, avoid over- or undertraining, and adjust training intensity and duration according to your daily and weekly targets.

Data transfer

Compatible with Mac (Intel-based) – opt. with Polar FlowLink:
Compatible with polarpersonaltrainer.com – opt. with Polar FlowLink

Polarpersonaltrainer.com Video

G1 GPS sensor features

Distance – training and total

Distance (km, mi) can be set and measured in several ways. Training distance tells you the distance traveled during a training session. Total distance is the distance accumulated since the last reset.

Speed/Pace – current, average and maximum

Speed (km/h or mi/h) is measured with GPS, footpod, stride sensor or cycling speed sensor. Pace (expressed as min/kmor min/mile) stands for the rate of speed. Pace is usually used in running. By setting a target pace, you can follow how fast you need to run in order to reach a certain distance in a predefined time.

Recording features

Totals

Totals includes your training data starting from the last reset enabling you to follow your long-term training.
Training files (with summaries) – 100

Weekly history

Weekly history gathers your weekly training data. By selecting a week, you can review your training data for the week.

S1 footpod features

Distance – training and total

Distance (km, mi) can be set and measured in several ways. Training distance tells you the distance traveled during a training session. Total distance is the distance accumulated since the last reset.

Speed/Pace – current, average and maximum

Speed (km/h or mi/h) is measured with GPS, footpod, stride sensor or cycling speed sensor. Pace (expressed as min/kmor min/mile) stands for the rate of speed. Pace is usually used in running. By setting a target pace, you can follow how fast you need to run in order to reach a certain distance in a predefined time.

Training features

Graphical target zone indicator

This feature points out graphically on the display the zone you are in during a training session helping you to stay on the desired intensity zone.

HeartTouch – button-free operation of wrist unit

When HeartTouch is on, different training information during training can be accessed without pressing buttons, for instance, when gloves make pressing buttons difficult, by bringing your Polar FT60 heart rate monitor training computer close to your transmitter.

ZoneLock

ZoneLock feature helps you to accumulate certain intensity. You can either lock a zone before a training session or during it by pressing a button when you are on the desired zone.

ZonePointer

ZonePointer is a visible and moving symbol on the training computer display indicating whether you are inside the pre-set target zone. This feature helps you to reach the desired intensity/pace/speed/cadence targets.

Watch features

Backlight

Date and weekday indicator

Display text in English, German, Finnish, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian

Dual time zone

KeyLock