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Garmin FR60 Fitness Watch Bundle (Women's Black)--includes footpod.

Train Indoors or Out
In the gym or on the road, FR60 tracks all your workout data, including time, heart rate, calories burned, lap times and averages, and more. FR60 boasts modern training tools, such as training alarms and Virtual Partner, which lets you race versus a virtual training collaborator to improve your performance.

At the heart of it is success is FR60's wireless ANT+ technology, which allows it to connect to other ANT+ compatible devices, like the included heart rate monitor and foot pod, or even ANT+ compatible fitness equipment.

Go for Distance
With the ANT+ seamless wireless link, FR60 connects to the optional wireless foot pod, which tracks your distance and speed effortlessly, both indoors and out. Using innovative accelerometer technology, the foot pod collects and sends precise selective information with regards to your movements, gathering distance and speed info that is 98 percent accurate, right out of the box.

Listen to Your Heart
FR60 likewise connects wirelessly to a lightweight, flexible digital heart rate monitor, providing instant feedback with regards to how hard you're working. FR60 continuously tracks heart beats per minute and displays your heart rate zone, so you may monitor and improve your fitness level.

Cross-Train
When paired with an optional speed/cadence sensor, FR60 tracks the speed and distance of your cycling workouts. The wireless speed/cadence sensor attaches securely to your bike and measures your pedaling cadence and wheel speed as you ride. You may even use it to train indoors because the sensor attaches to your rear wheel.

Also available in Women's Lilac

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152 of 155 people found the following review helpful.
Garming FR60 GPS Not Really.. HRM Yes Sir.
By Timothy D. Powell
I Purchased the Garmin FR60 Bundle W/ Foot pod to Help me learn run pacing and for Triathlon Training. My old HRM just gave up but the chest strap works still works with most of the instrumentation at the gym without the watch. But there is no need since I have the FR60 but there are a heap of "Issues" to deal with first. The Look and function is very good. However since I'm new to Garmin the menu's took a little getting employed to and programing was a little bit difficult, but from what I've heard this is typical. Once you do get the menus down it's very intuitive and similar to other models they offer. The other reason I picked the Garmin unit is the Manufactures of other HRM's in this price range had non replaceable batteries. IE you had to send them back to the factory to be replaced. This is something I genuinely wasn't fond of since I use mine daily. This unit fits nicely on the wrist and may be used as a "Sport Watch" and no-one would recognise you a Workoutaholic if they didn't know you.

Packaged in the box were the Owners manual and Watch, Foot-pod, HRM-Strap, USB Ant+ stick. There is no software to speak of since it's self loading on the Ant+ Stick. You likewise need to set up an account with Garmin to download your data and make an analyzation of it. BEWARE: Firmware Updates will erase your selective information and settings on the watch and they need to be set back up!!! There is no Off-line option to review your info . This means you upload your data to Garmin then re-download it in Excel or TCX format then upload it into a training internetsite like Training Peaks(Online) or Sport Tracs(Stand Alone Runs Offline). Granted it takes only a few minutes to do but is a little bit of a pain. Also when uploading you have the option to leave the info on your watch for you to review or when the download is finished the workout date is erased. It takes a little bit of faith to let your selective information go. When setting up your account you may set up your Heart Rate zones based on age and resting Heart Rate. You may add as a lot of zones as you see fit. For Simplicity I just use 5, now when you look at your info altho the amount of time in each zone is not displayed on the website on your HR Graph. The graph look in truth good but the only data given is Avg HR, Max HR. It would be nice if the time in each Zone was given as well. My old HRM(Which was $40) displayed these with times and % in zones on the watch and didn't need to upload the data. Other data that is Give is Workout Time, Avg Speed/Pace, Max Speed/Pace, Avg Cadence, Max Cadence. All good Data that is necessary for training/racing purposes.

For Running the Foot Pod Sensor tracks steps, pacing and speed very accurately out of the box. Pick a spot on your shoes to mount the sensor and pair the device with your FR60, I did a test run at the track and it was spot on after a 1 mile test run. You may either adjust the stride length mechanically or manual adjust. There are supposed to be shoe on the market that the Foot-pod will mound directly into the sole under the shoe insert. I believe Nike makes one. Mounting in the laces are just fine for me. The vantage the FR60 has is It may be applied indoors without a GPS signal. The combining of the Foot-Pod and HRM gives you very exact Calorie data when running of a treadmill. I have found that most treadmills are off speed wise to the FR60, for example I warm-up at 10:00 indicated pace on the treadmill and my FR60 shows anyplace from a 9:20-9:35. No a huge deal since I'm logging the info for later retrieval.

Since I Cycle I use the GSC-10 Speed and Cadence Sensor for my Bicycle. Same setup as the Foot-Pod with regard to pairing. This may be used indoors as well for the duration of winter months on Stationary Fluid Trainer or Rollers to track speed and distance. The downside is NO FREAKING Odometer!!!!!!! what was Garmin Thinking. You get everything else, Distance, Current Speed, Calories, Avg/Max Speed, Avg/Max Cadence, Time, Lap/Distance/Time/AvgSpeed/MaxSpeed/LapCalories, blah blah blah... I had to add my old Speed sensor back to the front wheel to capture Overall ODO distance.

Functionality: The FR60 is beauteous easy to set up once you figure out the page layout and logic. You get your data input(AGE, HEIGHT, WEIGHT, ACTIVITY Class(read the manual for this one) into the devise beneath SETTINGS/USER. After pairing your footpod and Speed/Cadence sensor, You may then set up your "TRAINING PAGES" This is where the FR60 in truth shines. You may take all the data assembled from either your Run/Bike/Other and display up to 3 pieces of info on the screen and have 5 pages to display the data. You may have one screen for Time only and another for Distance and Pace then another for Heart Rate, HR Zone, Calories and so one. If only One line of data is displayed it fits closely the entire screen and gets littler from there. the Dot Matrix LCD Screen is somewhat easy to read at a glace either running or biking.

The FR60, HR Chest Sensor, Foot-pod are all waterproof to 3 Meters so they may be worn for the duration of the swim portion of Triathlons or for the duration of off road runs that cross creeks or for the duration of Steeplechase events. I've worn mine for the duration of the swim of a sprint Triathlon. For Triathlon the F60 is not Tri Friendly meaning you cannot change sports easy. I just set it up in Other and Just Press Lap for the duration of transitions in and out. Since I'm only concerned with overall time and HR. The FR60 may be set up to scan for Pods so it will pick up either sensor when you press the lap button for the duration of T1 or T2. If your set on sport specific Timing press and hold the MODE button and you may then alter sports.

79 of 81 humans found the following review helpful.
Just plain AWESOME !
By Kayo
I have been using this watch/footpod/HR monitor now for regarding 6 months and I perfectly love it. It is like having a coach. I am a somewhat new runner and finished a half marathon this past spring and loved it. I decisive to get more severe regarding my training and run a fall marathon. The longer runs were in truth a pain because I'd have to get in my car and drive the route each time....and then do not forget them as I ran . And of course if an unpredicted problem came up (angry dog, distrustful person, etc) I couldn't in truth deviate without blowing the run and not knowing how far I'd gone . And also......my paces were off. I was running my recovery runs and easy runs WAY too fast. And then at the time I was using an old treadmill that was altogether off pace, so my more immediate runs---well, who knows how consistent they were. I necessitated aid !

And I got it. Everything fell exclusively into place after getting the watch. It basically sets ITSELF up,too. So easy to use. The Garmin web site is awesome. I comprehend they had bugs at first, but I have came across none of that. I may look at a run and see my heart rate and pace on a graph. I may likewise see reports on mileage, etc. And the capacity to see cadence per mile is cool,too. I have learned so much by having all this data. It has made me a much better runner. I compensate attention to heart rate now,too.

And of course it is terrifi to be competent to track my distance and pace as I run outdoors. I may just take whatsoever direction I want now....I feel totally free and spontaneous out there. And I use it on the treadmill,too. Way more precise than the treadmill as far as pace is concerned.
I also run in a lot of trees, which is why I averted the GPS version. The footpod works everyplace and GPS will lose way points in heavy trees or in a city with tall buildings.

It coached me to a 4:14:01 firstborn marathon finish this past October. It is in truth exact and I have never calibrated it. Although I plan to go to an indoor track this week and do that this week before I start out training gravely again (I wore it in the marathon and it tracked the the distance as 26.58---not bad over that a great deal of miles with no further and added calibration, but still.....).

I highly commend this product to anybody who would like to be capable to monitor their training. It is all they say and a lot more. I plan to undertake to qualify for Boston this spring and I recognise my chances are much bettered with my Garmin FR60 (yes, all my friends are unquestionably tired of hearing how much I love the watch!).

22 of 22 persons found the following review helpful.
Amazing!
By Pearson
I thought when it comes to this a lot. I read probably 100 reviews of all the GPS trainers and this watch. I am fantastically happy. I run and I row. I wanted an precise pace and heart rate for zone training. This watch has been perfect. The calibration was crucial for me. I ran un-calibrated and it was probably 30 meters off over 800. Not bad but after calibration it is scary accurate. Over a mile it was within 3 feet. You may also find a lot of outstanding data from dcrainmakers blog but he did a 7 mile cross country run and the 310xt and fr60 had the precise same distance. So I don't know why persons had troubles with accuracy. I think it might be they didn't calibrate or didn't do it correctly. I could also be that the pod was not in the laces tight enough. I don't think I lost any accuracy from not getting the GPS watch or if I did the capacity to use a treadmill is ample compensation. Ok so I thought when it comes to how cool it would be to see where I went on the map from a GPS watch, but I don't actually care. I'm looking to improve my run from the data. I'm not going to show my kids one day that I ran down the same beach a thousand times. Who cares. The other big gain is realtime pace. It seams spot on. I actually need to recognise how fast I'm going so I may predict what is going to occur to my HR. From using this I've actually been capable to see things and train in ways I never could have before.

The heartrate functions are what you would expect. They plainly work. No surprise there.

The Ant stick is awesome. I walk up to my computer the watch beeps and a few seconds later my info is up. Much better than having to type it or even syncing an Ipod sorry Nike but your web site sucks. Its slow, the basi page shows and closely useless graph. Garmin's web site is all business. Its easy to use. Is it perfect? Of course not, but I haven't been frustrated once using it. I would commend you follow the directions for the ant stick and have a workout in the watch and the software downloaded before you plug it in. I use a mac and it worked great.

The watch is actually normal looking. You would never know it was a training watch. It's water resistant. You may hop in the shower and not have to worry. You may even go in the pool but your not supposed to use the buttons underwater.

Ease of use... Well it is easy if you read the manual, and watch the videos. If you think your going to take full vantage of the watch just by fiddling with it your probably wrong. It may do so numerous things that it has a somewhat huge set of menus but they are very logically laid out.

For rowing I use the General mode and just gather heart data. It works perfectly. Don't be scared of this watch. If you are looking for a normal aspect watch that you may wear all day and train with when time allows and not have to worry if you charged it or left it at home. This watch is great. I leave it on work, workout, live life and don't think with regards to it. Its just there at the end of my arm and my info is always altered on my computer.

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