Polar FA20 Fitness Monitor Review

The Polar FA20 Fitness Monitor is for those that want an activity monitor with a watch. Allows you to save your activity 24/7 and upload to PolarPersonalTrainer Website.

The Polar FA20 is manufactured by the Finland based Polar- a leading brand in the world of HRMs. The FA20 is designed to improve health and fitness by measuring the impact of the user's daily activities. The user's daily movements can have beneficial effects on their health, which is tracked by the FA20 giving proof that physical activity has an impact on the overall fitness. The FA20 is innovative, easy-to-use and is ideal for monitoring calorie and fitness improvements, guiding towards a more fit and active lifestyle.

The Polar FA20 Fitness monitor, one of the newer Polar monitors, has a rather plain style and design. It can be considered as a portable training computer on your wrists making it the ideal training and workout aide. It monitors training, including rest activity, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The FA20 is not a HRM as it monitors the daily activity of the user based on movement and is more suited for walking, jogging or running. It displays the amount of calories burned, distance covered, activity duration during and after a training session and active steps.

Polar FA20 Women's Activity Computer Watch (White)

The FA20 monitors the 24/7 activity of the user. For example: active steps (active pedometer-number of steps taken, distance covered), active time (cumulative duration of time of beneficial body movement that contributes to health and fitness) and activity trend (activity trend stores the user's daily activities, thereby, aiding the user to follow their long-term activity). The FA20 can be set to track body measurement in terms of calories or distance covered.

The user can transfer data via the Polar FlowLink, a USB connection, between the wrist unit and PolarPersonalTrainer Website. Note that the FA20 package does not contain the FlowLink accessory and the user has to opt to buy it separately. The FA20 records activity logs which monitors if the user has been active enough during the day and can hold a maximum of 100 Training files, summaries included.

The Polar FA20 fitness monitor comes in 2 color variants- a black (mens) and a white (womens). The FA20 watch features a backlight, KeyLock, a date and weekday indicator, low battery indicator and time of the day in 12/24 hour format with an alarm and snooze function. It also allows for dual time zones and supports display in English, German, French, Spanish and Italian. The watch is water resistant up to a maximum depth of 30m. The battery used in the FA20 is CR2025 (it has a battery life of 1.5 years) and can be easily replaced by the user.