| Customer Reviews: Average Rating:  Rating : - Just what I was missing! I just received my F11 yesterday and used it for the first time last night. I was originally intending to get an F6 that I saw at the gym because I was impressed by the timer/BPM/calories burned features, but instead I decided to do some research to find out if it was the best HRM for me. After reading about the features of several different monitors, I decided on the F11 because it had everything I originally wanted and more! I love that you enter all of your personal statistics to get the best readout possible. I love that there is a fitness test on this monitor that helps to make it even more personalized. I love the keeps u fit feature wherein the monitor provides you with a weeks worth of personalized workouts that you can then follow and repeat, or recreate for the next week based on a new fitness assessment. I also love that you can edit your workouts for time and/or heart rate range, or opt to do a basic workout without any preset heart rate goals.
As for last night... it was one of my 30+ min brisk walking nights (I alternate those with gym nights) Wearing my new monitor, I discovered that my usual workout was not doing it for me! I could not get into my proper moderate-hard heart rate zone, no matter how fast I tried to walk! I'm a little too heavy still to jog comfortably, so I skipped : D and it worked! I reached my target heart rate zone and even got to the high end before I would switch back to brisk walking and let my heart rate fall back to the lower end of moderate, then switch back to skipping again to let it rise... etc. I was doing about 2 mins of brisk walking to 1 min of skipping and back. I guess you could call that a form of HIIT (high intensity interval training). At the end of my workout, I had succeeded in all of my heart rate goals... 5 mins in low, 15 mins in moderate, and 10 mins in hard. I am so excited to finally have a tool that can help me reach my fitness goals! Although it takes a bit of perusing the manual to figure it out, I would definitely recommend this HRM.
Oh yeah, and I gave it four stars instead of five because it's a little on the large side for a female wrist, and It could have been made with better materials. As a matter of fact, I'd like to see if I can find a new wristband for it. The rubbery plastic one it comes with makes me clammy/sweaty underneath... but what it lacks in design, it makes up for in function. + See Full Customer Review |  |