| FITNESS & CROSS TRAINING MODELS |
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Calorie Features:
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Records calorie expenditure
Counts calories burned during exercise, and will show total. Doesn't show % of fat.
( more info - click here)
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Polar OwnCal®
Polar OwnCal calculates the number of kilocalories expended during training. Will display % of fat.
( more info - click here)
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Training target
Calories or distance
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Heart Rate Features:
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Records Maximum Heart Rate of training
The highest number of heart beats per minute (bpm) during maximum physical exertion.
For a rough estimate of your maximum heart rate, subtract your age from 220.
HRmax is a useful tool for determining the intensity of training as intensity zones can be defined using HRmax.
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Displayed as % of maximum
A measurement of the work your heart does, expressed as % of your maximum heart rate.
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Displayed as bpm
A measurement of the work your heart does, expressed as the number of beats per minute (bpm).
(more info - click here)
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Polar OwnZone®
Determines your personal heart rate limits for a training session.
Depending on the day and time, your physical state may vary, for instance, if you are stressed or tired, or if you are not fully recovered from your latest training session,
Polar can determine that information from your heart rate and guide you to your ideal training zone for that moment.
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Polar Strength Training Guidance
Helps you to optimize your strength training by reading your heart rate and informing when your body is ready for the next set.
It guides you how long to rest between each set in order to get the optimal impact.
You can also download max. three strength training workouts to your training computer from polarpersonaltrainer.com.
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Heart Rate Sets
Pre-program favorite exercise settings
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OwnRelax
A feature that tells quickly and easily how relaxed your body is. During a five-minute relaxation session, your heart rate and heart rate variability are measured. It helps to track and improve overall well-being. Daily relaxation session can be done anywhere, anytime, lying down, or sitting comfortably with no talk or disturbing noises.
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Target Zone Features:
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Automatic age based
To help you train safely and effectively, the training computer determines your heart rate target zone limits automatically according to your age-based maximum heart rate (220 minus age).
The limits are determined either in beats per minute (bpm), as a percentage (%) of your maximum heart rate, or as a heart rate reserve (% HRR).
See also Maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max) and Manual target zone.
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Graphical indicator
This feature points out graphically on the display the zone you are in during a training session helping you to stay on the desired intensity zone.
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Manual
This feature enables you to define the target zone as you want and is suitable for your training.
You can set the target zone for your training as beats per minute (bpm), as a percentage of your maximum heart rate, or as a percentage of your heart rate reserve (HRR%).
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Visual and audible alarm
A feature informing you every time your heart rate and/or speed/pace exceeds the upper limit or falls below the lower limit of your target zone during a training session.
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Fitness Bullets
A feature showing a bullet on the display of your heart rate monitor for every 10 minutes spent exercising/training in your target heart rate zone.
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HR-based with audible alarm and visual alarm
You can define your target zones for a training session based on heart rate to help define the right intensity.
When you are out of the preset zones, the training computer will give a visual and audible alarm.
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ZonePointer
A visible and moving symbol on the training computer display indicating whether you are inside the pre-set target zone.
This feature helps you to reach the desired intensity/pace/speed/cadence targets.
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Records target zone limits
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Records time in target zone
The Time in Target Zone feature calculates the amount of total training time spent in your personal target zone.
You can use this feature together with the Total Exercise Time to determine the effectiveness of your training program.
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ZoneLock
ZoneLock feature helps you to accumulate certain intensity.
You can either lock a zone before a training session or during it by pressing a button when you are on the desired zone.
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Polar STAR Training Program
The training program gives you weekly targets, including intensity and duration, for your training.
It is based on your fitness level, activity level, training goal and personal information (weight, height, age and sex).
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Weekly history
Weekly history gathers your weekly training data. By selecting a week, you can review your training data for the week.
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EnergyPointer
An easy-to-use feature which tells you during a training session if the main effect of your training is fat burning or fitness improvement.
It visually indicates the center point between these two training effects, so when you are below that point, you are improving fat burning, and above that point, you are improving your aerobic fitness.
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Record totals
Totals includes your training data starting from the last reset enabling you to follow your long-term training.
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Exercise Date
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Records Exercise Time
The time you have trained with the stopwatch running.
The Total Exercise Time feature keeps track of your cumulative training time since last resetting the counter.
This feature gives you yet another way to set daily or weekly training goals for yourself.
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Exercise file info page with date and time
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Fitness Exercise Diary
Monitors the weekly frequency, the total time, total training count and amount of calories burned during the training sessions.
The intensities of the weekly workout sessions are also displayed.
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Records number of exercise files (with summaries)
The number of exercise files stored in your heart rate monitor.
An exercise file includes total exercise time, time in target zone and average heart rate.
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HeartTouch™, button-free operation of wrist unit
This function enables button free operation of certain main functions, e.g. when gloves make pressing buttons difficult.
Acitivate the HeartTouch funtion by bringing your wrist unit close to the Polar logo on your tranmitter. The HeartTouch function operates only when wearing the transmitter.
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Polar Fitness Test
Measures your aerobic fitness at rest in just five minutes.
(more info - click here)
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24/7 Activity Measurement
Registers your physical activity that is beneficial to your health continuously 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 24/7 activity measurement shows active time, calories, active steps, and distance. 24/7 activity measurement is most suitable for walking, jogging, and running type of activities.
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Active steps
Taken during active time, with the right intensity to improve health and fitness.
Quantifying the level of health and fitness beneficial activity in steps allows for very simple targeting of daily activity.
Basic recommendation: aim for 7000 steps or more a day.
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Active time
Tells you the cumulative time of health and fitness beneficial body movement.
Basic recommendation: aim for 30 minutes or more a day. Also records calories in active time.
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Activity Zones
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Activity Log
Tells you the active time during the day. This helps you monitor if you are active enough during the day.
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COMPARISONS:
FA20
An activity monitor featuring calorie during active time, Activity measurements, Watch features, Backlight, KeyLock,
No heart rate, or target zones arei offered in this model
Difference between FS1, FS2c, FS3c
FS1 is a basic model featuring heart rate, target zone with alarms, time of day and stopwatch
Stopwatch - FS1
FS2c/FS3c has additional features - OwnCode, Backlight, HeartTouch, Max. HR, Records exercise files with summaries (1),
Target zone - FS1 (target zone), FS2c (HR based target zone), FS3c (HR and Age based target zone)
Transmitter - FS1 (T31 non-coded) and FS2c (T31 coded) and FS3c (T31 coded)
Difference between F4 and F6
Calories expenditure - F4 (exe. total) F6 (exe. week fat %)
Records exercise files with summaries - F4 (1) and F6 (12)
Transmitter - F4 (T31 non-coded) and F6 (T31 coded)
F6 has additional features - OwnZone, Heart Rate Sets (1), Exercise file info page with date and time stamp, Transfers logos from Polar web site to wrist unit, SonicLink, UpLink, Backlight, Sound volume level setting, OwnCode and Polar Personal Trainer.
Difference between F6 and F7
Transmitter - F6 (T31 coded) and F7 (Wearlink coded)
F6 has additional features - Heart Rate Sets (1)
Difference between FS3c and FT4
Transmitter - FS3c (T31 coded) and FT4 (Wearlink coded)
FT4 has additional features - OwnCal, Totals of training data, Records exercise files with summaries (10), Target zone graphical indicator, Dual time zone, KeyLock, Low battery indicator, Stopwatch, Time of day with alarm and snooze
Difference between FT4 and FT7
Records exercise files with summaries - FT4 (10) and FT7 (99)
FT7 has additional features - Weekly history
Difference between FT7 and FT40
Records exercise files with summaries - FT7 (99) and FT40 (50)
Water resistant - FT7 (50m) and FT40 (30m)
Target zone - FT7 (HR and Age based target zone), FT40 (HR based target zone
FT7 has additional features - Target zone graphical indicator, Stopwatch, HeartTouch
FT40 has additional features - Fitness test, Calorie expenditure with fat%
Difference between FT40 and FT60
Records exercise files with summaries - FT40 (50) and FT60 (100)
FT40 has additional features - EnergyPointer
FT60 has additional features - OwnZone, Age based target zone, Target zone graphical indicator, ZonePointer, ZoneLock, STAR Training program, HeartTouch, Optional S1 Foot Pod or Optional G1 GPS Sensor
Difference between FT60 and FT60G1
FT60G1 has additional features -Distance training and total, Speed and Pace
Difference between FT60 and FT80
FT80 has additional features -HR display with graphical trend, Stopwatch, Strength Training Guidance, OwnRelax, includes FlowLink
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