Fr60, Heart Rate Monitor, Usb Ant St

I have owned several heart rate monitors over the years. I have recently begun working with a trainer on my strength and fitness. I was looking for a watch that would easily let me see how my pulse had varied throughout our workouts. All the watches show your current heart rate, but with this one, you can download the data into your computer and see a graph of exactly how your heart rate varied throughout the activity.
For me this watch with its accompanying strap and ANT stick is exactly what I was looking for.

Initial set-up of the watch was easy. With only a few buttons, all of these watches require that you read the instructions, but once you have done so, it is relatively simple. I am a Mac user, and was able to download the Garmin ANT Agent, and Garmin Training Center and install them without any problems.
The watch was immediately recognized and transferred the data across.

The software shows a graph of heart rate versus time, and will even let you set markers at points on the graph and display the times, time interval and pulse rate difference between them. This is really neat if you are interested in seeing how your heart rate recovery is. Just set one point on the peak heart rate, and then put the second one 60 seconds later and you get an immediate read out of the number of beats per minute your heart rate has dropped in that minute. So much better to be able to go back and do this at your leisure than worrying about it in the middle of a workout.

I need glasses to read, but the display is large enough that I have no difficulty in reading the pulse rate on the display while working out.

As others have said, being able to change the batteries in the strap yourself is a big plus over some other models.

I don't know about the more sophisticated functions like zones and pacing as I am not interested in using them, but for what I want the watch for, it is fantastic. Sharing the graphs with my trainer has given him a new way of looking at how he structures the workouts.

Fr60, Heart Rate Monitor, Usb Ant St Features

• Log every mile and every minute with FR60, a sleek fitness watch plus workout tool that tracks your
• When bundled with the wireless foot pod, FR60 also tracks speed and distance, indoors or out
• Then, FR60 wirelessly sends your workout data to your computer for later analysis
• FR60's wireless ANT+ technology, which allows it to connect to other ANT+ compatible devices

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Price : $129.00



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115137 Features: Log every mile and every minute with this workout tool that tracks your time, distance, cadence and calories to indoors or out to and connects wirelessly to a lightweight, flexible digital heart rate monitor to provide instant feedback and to an optional Foot Pod for pace and distance analysis Stay aware of your levels with training alarms, and push yourself when necessary with Virtual Partner which lets you race against a virtual training partner to improve your If you have to pause, or begin a new lap, you don't have to spend time resetting everything to the Auto Pause and Auto Lap features take care of that for you Auto Scroll allows you to see data pages without fumbling with the device and Multi Sport lets you change sport mode with one button Record up to 100 laps worth of lap history and customize your workouts, with multi-sport, advanced, and simple workout schemes to track your energy output Workout data is loaded to your computer wirelessly with the automatic sync technology, and you can share your data online too as it's Garmin Connect compatible and cam be hooked up with Garmin Training Center; or automatically download it to your computer with the USB ANT Stick Take this one straight into the pool, with water-resistance to 50 meters it doesn't leak during your lap routines Functions as a sports watch as well with 12- and 24-hour clock functionality, dual time zones, calendar and daily alarm Specifications: Weight to dimensions: 16 ounces to 22 x 15 x 06 inches Display size to display resolution: 08 x 11 inches to 56 x 31 pixels Battery to battery life: coin cell battery (CR2032) to 1 year Waterproof: water resistant to 50 metersComes with: FR60, USB ANT Stick, Heart rate monitor, Quick Start Manual

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Customer Review

love it - K. Brown - NY
I just purchased the FR60 in lilac for myself (and the men's version for my husband). Currently we are using them for high intensity interval training. The set-up was a breeze. After researching several watches I chose these based on features, price, and brand. A must for us was to be able to upload the data to our computer and graph our heart rates for the intervals. Once we set up this feature using the ANT stick (which was a three step process completely outlined on the garmin website), we were able to do this. It's awesome. After a workout I just walk into our office and within 30 seconds a box pops up on my computer asking if i'd like to see the data online.

We chose these Garmin watches over similarly functioning and priced Polar watches due to the wireless capability. For the polar watches you have to buy an additional module that you physically have to place the watch on to upload the data. I know it sounds lazy, but I prefer to just leave my sweaty watch on my wrist!

Lastly, I was concerned if the watch would fit me correctly since i have rather petite wrists. No problems there. Yes, it's bigger than my normal day-to-day watch, but i like having the larger screen to glance on while I workout.

Great fitness watch! - C. Fox -
This is my first heart rate monitor, and as someone who has struggled with using lap/split features and storing workouts in my regular digital watch, I was very happy with how user friendly this watch is. Set up was easy to do with the quick start manual, and the directtions in the online manual were very helpful. The modes are easily to navigate, and the screen is easy to read during workouts. I primarily use this for triathlon training workouts and am very happy with it. I recently purchased the foot pod, which makes this watch far more useful during workouts. I would recommend this watch for someone looking for a basic training tool.

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