Polar F55 HRM - Overview
A
very new and innovative concept from Polar
- The Polar F55 with Keep U Fit (Cardio Vascular
Fitness as found on the Polar F11) and Body Workout (Weights
/ Resistance workout) programmes. The Polar F55 can prescribe
a total body fitness programme (CV and muscle toning) for the user.
Altenratively, if required, just a Cardio Vascular programme, or just
a Resistance workout programme.
Polar F55 Female - OBSOLETE - sorry
Polar F55 Heart Rate
Monitors
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Polar F55 Male
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Polar
Body Workout
Guidance
in muscular strength training always with you. Polar body workout
gives basic guidance for muscular strength training. Body workout
provides strength training movements, count of sets, repetitions,
and weights recommendations.
The workout can be easily performed
by following the guidance given by the Polar F55 Fitness Heart
Rate Monitor. Body workout can be edited according to your development. |
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Polar
Own Relax
Follow
your body’s state of relaxation. OwnRelax is the result of a relaxation
session, which is an easy and quick way to test how relaxed you
body is. The 5-minute relaxation session is based on heart rate
and heart rate variability and can be measured with the Polar
F55 Fitness Heart Rate Monitor.
OwnRelax helps to track and improve overall well being. Daily
relaxation session can be done anywhere, anytime, lying down,
or sitting comfortably with no talk or disturbing noises. |
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Polar
/ Nokia mobile connectivity
Review,
store, and send your training data with your Nokia 5140 / 5140i
mobile phone. |
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Polar
Keep U Fit Programme
Guides you to reach your personal fitness goals.
The Polar Keeps U Fit - Own Workout Program gives you personal
guidance - how often, how hard, and how long you need to exercise
to reach your personal fitness goals.
The feature is included in the Polar F11 and F55 Fitness Heart
Rate Monitors. In addition, the program can be used free of charge
in Polar Fitness Trainer web service. |
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Polar
Own Index Fitness Test
Measures
your fitness level in 5 minutes. A fitness test that measures
your aerobic/cardiovascular fitness at rest in just five minutes.
The result, Polar OwnIndex, predicts your maximal oxygen uptake
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Polar
Own Calorie
Counts and displays calorie expenditure.
The Polar OwnCal 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. |
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Polar
Own Code
Prevents
cross-talk from other heart rate monitors. As more and more people
use heart rate monitors today, preventing cross talk from other
devices in group situations at the gym or when jogging with a
friend becomes essential. The unique coded technology blocks unwanted
signals from other heart rate monitors, ensuring disturbance-free
transmission of your heart rate data. |
Next
model down is the Polar
F11 or Polar F11F (female).
The Polar F11 does NOT have the Body Workout programme.
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FREE
HRM GUIDE WITH EVERY HEARTMONITOR
An
invaluable 16 page guide to help you get the most from your new
HRM
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Polar F55 Heart Monitor
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to competitors / webmasters - ALL the copy on this website is
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With
the Keep U Fit programme the watch may prescribe, for example;
3 x sessions - 1 x long, low-medium intensity, 1 x medium duration,
medium intensity, 1 x hard and short. The watch will allow you to
select which one of these 3 you perform, or just a free, personally
controlled, exercise session. After 3 weeks of following the exercise
programme the unit will ask you to re-test your Fitness level and
then recalculate your next three weeks programme. It is an ongoing
cycle of exercise, monitor, test, prescribe, exercise, monitor, test
prescribe...... a great motivator.
With
the Body Workout programme the watch prescribes a body toning
programme with 10 x exercise movements, see below for a selection
of available movements. There are 17 different movements that the
user can add or remove to this programme at will. The maximum number
of movements per workout is 14 and you can only use a movement
once per workout (each movement can be repeated 1 - 3 times per set,
see below for definition of "a set")
The
programme does NOT allow the user to set more than 3 sets per
movement. The programme will select weights based on the users age,
sex and weight. The user can overwrite these weights. The programme
will generally recommend between 8 - 12 repetitions per movement per
set, the user can NOT change this setting.
A
SET ? = a number of repitions per movement i.e 10 x biceps curls
repeated three times is 3 SETS of 10 REPETITIONS
17
x Available Movements
used to make up a Workout (14 maximum per workout)
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LEGS
- squats - lunges - calfraises
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CHEST
- bench press - flyes
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DELTOIDS
- shoulder press - upright row
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BACK
- bent over row - dumbbel row - back extension - seated row -
good morning
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ARMS
- biceps curl - overhead extension - kickback
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ABS
- sit ups - crunches
POLAR - Heart Rate Monitors range
All NEW models (opens in new window)
Comes
with Wearlink chest strap
- Time of day
with hours minutes and seconds
- Day date
- Personally
prescribed Total Body Workout plan
- Heart rate
training zones with audible heart rate alarm. You may choose to
set your own HR zone if you wish in manual mode. To help get the optimum
zone you can use the OwnZone, see below
- Polar
OwnCal - calorie expenditure with % of fat burn calories.
- Polar
OwnIndex, resting heart rate test giving an approximate VO2
max figure and indication of fitness. The Polar RS200SD includes a
Fitness test trend graph, this can show, graphically, improvements
in you Fitness score over time
- Polar
OwnZone - automatic calculation of training zone intensity
with audible and visual alarms - The Polar F55 allows you to let the
heart rate monitor set your training zone for you. This is generally
about 65-85% of Max HR. The training zone is determined by the watch
following a 5 minute walking / jogging test. You may choose to accept
this zone or use your own manually prescribed ones.
- Realtime, while
exercising, "time in target zone" indicator. This is useful
when specifically trying to achieve, for example, 35 minutes in cardio
improvement zone.
- Realtime, while
exercising, display of calories burnt. Similar to the "time in
zone" indicator this is another good target to aim for.
- Comes with the
new WearLink strap with self change batteries. Watch unit is return
to Polar UK for battery service (about every 2 - 3 years)
- Exercise Diary
- the last weeks worth of exercise data can be reviewed to show calories
burnt, how many times you've exercised, exercise time and time in
light, moderate and hard exercise zones.
- Recall of training
data through - "files" menu. The Polar F55 has an extensive
recall system giving access to the last 26 exercise sessions. Data
recalled includes duration, calories burnt and % of fat calories,
maximum heart rate, average heart rate and time in training zone.
There is also a Weekly File giving summary data for the last 26 weeks.
- Uses Infra Red
to send training information to/from Polar fitness trainer website
(requires the use of the IrWave IrDa device, may not work with other
Ir Da devices)
- Stopwatch - exercise
duration
- Fitness bullets
- a fitness bullet will appear on the top line of the display, one
for every 10 minutes spent inside your training zone
- Total Exercise
time with summary of average heart rate
- Split display,
giving you what "you want" to see
- Water Resistant
to 30m
- Daily Alarm
- Back Light
- Free,
exclusively to heartratemonitor.co.uk, our 16 page heart rate monitor
training guide, helping you get the most from your new HRM
- Wrist size
: SMALL RED (female) or MIDSIZED BLACK (unisex / male)
User
is able to manage an online training diary on Polar's own fitness
training website. Summary data is stored per session, i.e max, min,
time in zones, distance etc. It is not a full time versus heart rate
graph like you get with the S625x or S610i, neither does it store
data locally on your PC. Visit www.polar.fi for details. Download
interface is IrDa, either built IrDa port on your local PC (generally
works, but cannot be guaranteed), or via a USB IrDa adaptor. PLEASE
NOTE>> These units do NOT work with the old Polar USB IR port,
they only work with new Ir Wave IrDa devices.
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