The Polar FT80 Heart Rate Watch for All-Round Fitness Buffs and Multi-Sport Athletes

The Polar FT80 heart rate watch can really mix it up meaning athletes that blend together endurance days, lifting days, resistance days, and everything else imaginable. This heart rate monitor comes equipped with very good features for both aerobic and weight work outs, while further being capable to connect to GPS and running sensors.

Some of the more interesting product specs of the Polar FT80 are as follows:

Outdoor devices are available for the Polar FT80 heart rate watch such as options like:
1.) A G1 GPS sensor that computes speed and distance (no mapping).
2.) A specialized foot pod that accurately measures running speed and distance. These added accessories truly make it versatile as a cross-training watch that can supply you with an enormous breadth of data, especially if you have a Flowlink device for uploading your workout data.

The Polar FT80 is a tremendous heart rate watch for gymnasium exercise routines and lifting exercise routines but the FT80 truly at its best with the graphical screen display that allows you to establish a lower recovery heart rate range. This recovery line lets you know precisely when to begin your next routine and insures you get the most from your strength training. This characteristic is the one of the most desirable features of the Polar FT80 heart rate watch and it was something we used more than any other feature in the gym.

We further found the fitness test useful but being able to compare week over week results with Polar's software was especially useful in seeing improvement over the week and the month and made a big motivational difference.

The custom graphic of recuperation period, identified as graph feedback makes this heart rate watch first-rate for repetition based exercise. Perfecting recuperation periods sandwiched between repetitions is critical to realizing the most benefit from your weight exercise and the Polar FT80 is outstanding in this regard. Not one other manufacturer provides this attribute and it yields substantial usefulness in your exercise routines. Knowing specifically at what time to start in on your subsequent series to acquire the greatest benefit is a huge feature to improving fitness and performance.

Training Star is an additional impressive characteristic that gives you weekly work out goals based upon your earlier exercise routines. New exercises are available to download on Polar's website. This is just part of the package that makes the Polar FT80 heart rate watch such an invaluable training companion.

The chest strap works well and helps keep your monitor from picking up the data of other fitness enthusiasts, this is critical because this is where we know the FT80 truly excels. We advocate the FT80 strongly for competitive health club fanatics. The improvement in chest strap comfort in the past few years has been truly astounding and gone are the days of stiff plastic fronts.

The chest belt is additionally one of the best chest belts that we have tried and being able to remove the sensor to wash down the band is a true plus. If you would like to get liberated of your chest belt completely the sensors work with NuMetrex pulse-sensing muscle shirts and athletic bras. These unique pieces of clothing contain heart-sensing clothe and you can attach the transmitter directly to the garment and presto, you lose the strap.