Just in time for last month’s New York Fashion Week Polar has introduced new and vibrant color palette for its RCX5, FT4, FT2 and FT1 training computers. While all of these Polar products provide trusted and accurate heart rate based training data, offering clear guidance, feedback and easy-to-use features, the RCX5 includes a slew of new features to meet the demand of today’s triathletes who require the best in training intelligence and tracking capabilities.
Polar also recently announced that the Heart Rate Watch Company, a leading national online fitness electronics retailer, has crowned the Polar FT4 as its top heart rate monitor under $100 for 2011. Citing unique features and fit as the primary reasons for the award the company cited Polar’s four decade commitment to working with personal trainers, gyms and athletes as primary factors for the award.
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Style and functionality are coming together, and this is notable with the new red RCX5, which makes a fashion-forward statement for swimming, cycling, or running. Unveiled earlier this year, the RCX5 is aimed at endurance athletes who want precise coaching to perfect their training. It was released earlier this year in black and is now available in red.
The new Fitness & Cross-training product colors are available through authorized Polar retailers and health club partners, and will be available online later this year. The FT1 is available for a suggested retail price of $69.95. The FT2 is available for a suggested retail price of $89.95. The FT4 is available for a suggested retail price of $99.95. The RCX5 will be available in the new red color design later this fall for a suggested retail price of $349.95 (with additional sport-specific bundlings).
“With Polar, people can get easy guidance while training based on personal heart rate data, pushing themselves effectively toward optimal fitness,” explained Tony Bass, Vice President of Sales, Polar USA. “Now, in addition to helping users train smarter and get fitter, faster, the new colors enable users to up their style quotient as well.”
In October Polar is bringing two exciting new colors into the FT4 family – purple and pink to the women and also black with orange for the guys. If all these brand-new styles are too racy for you then you can definitely return for the original silver and black for guys in addition to bronze for women.
“The foregoing was a relatively easy decision since there are actually no other fitness watches that supply this level of features for under $100,” said Rusty Squire , President of the Heart Rate Watch Company. Patented heart detecting fabric technology used in the strap significantly increases the comfort, heart touch technology permits end users to change display screens without the need of ever pushing buttons and absolutely no other company will be as effectively incorporated with the gym equipment producers.
Style and affordable, what’s not to like about the Polar FT4.