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How to Put Your Heart Rate Monitor On
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Contents
1. How to Put Your Heart Rate Monitor On
The Polar A5™
wrist receiver
Functions and Modes of Polar A5
2.
displays your heart rate
during exercise.
3. How to Start and Stop
4. Functions During Exercise
5. After Exercising
Attach the transmitter to the elastic strap.
2. Adjust the strap length to fit snugly and
comfortably. Secure the strap around your
chest, just below the chest muscles, and
buckle it.
1.
How to Recall File Stored in Memory
Settings
6.
7.
The T31™ transmitter
detects your heart rate
continuously and transmits
it to the wrist receiver.
Heart Rate Monitor
8. Target Heart Rate Zone
Self Walk Test by Polar and UKK Institute
9.
10. Resetting
Minimising Possible Risks in Exercising
The elastic strap
holds the transmitter in
the correct position.
11.
User’s Manual
GBR
with Heart Rate Monitor
12. Technical Specifications
Keep the wrist receiver within 1 metre/3 feet of your
transmitter. Check that you are not near other people
with heart rate monitors or any source of electromagnetic
disturbance.
13. Limited Polar Warranty
3.
Lift the transmitter off your chest and
moisten the two grooved electrode areas
on the back.
Check that the wet electrode areas are firmly
against your skin and the Polar logo is
in a central, upright position.
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14.
Disclaimer
2. Functions and Modes of Polar A5
How to Start and Stop
3.
Time of day display
Press Up
FILE
How to operate the set buttons
How to Set up Your New Polar A5 Receiver
How to Start
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To move forward or back, use Up or
Down button.
To choose the value to begin adjusting,
press OK. It will begin blinking.
Press Up or Down button to adjust the
value (The digits run faster if you press
and hold the button).
Wherever you are in the settings, you can
return to the Time of day display by pressing
and holding OK.
Up
1. Press any of the four buttons twice to activate
the receiver. Unit is displayed. LBS/INCH is
flashing.
1. In the Time of day display press OK.
Press OK
Your heart rate appears
Moves to the
following
mode or
increases the
selected value.
Press
twice
in a few seconds.
Heart rate measuring
Press Up SETTING
Reset
If reset,
settings will
return to the
default values.
2. Once awakened, the receiver will guide you
2. Press OK again. The stopwatch
starts running and you can
through the necessary settings.
Press OK
start exercising. The exercise
data will only be stored if you
have turned the stopwatch on.
Scroll up or down to set the right values.
Press OK to lock your selection.
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Exercise recording
WALK TEST
Press Up
Set the following:
Measuring units – kg/cm or lbs/inch
24h or 12h time mode
Time of day
Date
Time of day display mode
• Starting point for all functions
• Shows date and time
File mode
How to Stop
Weight
• Shows the data recorded during the exercise
Down
Height
Sex
Birthday
1. Press OK to stop the stopwatch.
Returns to the
previous mode
or decreases
the selected
value.
Setting mode
• Set different values
QUIT and paused stopwatch
Press and hold OK to return to the Time of day
display, wherever you are in the Settings or File
recalling cycle.
Press
once
Signal/Light
Alarm on or off.
Backlight on.
appear. Measurement is paused.
Exercise is no longer recorded.
- unit measurement; weight, height, time
- user data
- target heart rate limits
- watch functions; alarm, time, date
After setting your birthday, your target heart
rate zone based on your age is automatically
calculated.
When the alarm is turned on, the symbol
OK
2. Press Up or Down button to
appears on the Time of day display. When the alarm
comes on it will sound for one minute or you can
turn it off by pressing any of the four buttons.
exit the Exercise mode.
Starts measuring
heart rate. Starts and
stops the stopwatch.
Enters the displayed
mode. Locks in your
selection.
After the settings are complete, the receiver
automatically goes to the Time of day display.
Heart Touch function
The receiver shows the Time of
day display within 5 minutes if
you forget to quit the heart rate
measurement mode when you
stopped the stopwatch and
removed the transmitter from
your chest.
Walk Test mode
• Based on 2 km/1,24 miles brisk walk
• Measures cardiorespiratory fitness
Bring the wrist receiver
up to the Polar logo
on the transmitter
during exercise and
you can check the time
of day.
You can cancel the setting by pressing and
holding OK, but you can not start measuring
the heart rate before you have completed
the settings.
Exercise recording mode
• In the Exercise mode you measure your heart
rate and record your exercise information
in a file
• You can view different information while
the heart rate monitor is measuring heart rate
Functions During Exercise
After Exercising
6. How to Recall File Stored in Memory
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4.
Time of day
display
Press Up
1. Press Signal/Light to turn the light on.
5. Scroll down to select what you want to view
FILE
1. Carefully wash the transmitter with a mild soap
in the lower row of the display.
and water solution.
Press OK
EXE. TIME
2. Press and hold Signal/Light to turn the zone
1. Heart rate in beats
per minute.
2. Rinse it with pure water.
alarm sound on or off.
Press Up
AVERAGE HR
3. Dry the transmitter carefully with a soft towel.
3. Check the time of day by bringing the wrist
receiver up to the Polar logo on the transmitter.
4. Keep the wrist receiver clean and wipe off
Press Up
IN ZONE
Press Up
Press Up
Press Up
any moisture.
2. Heart rate as a % of your
maximum heart rate.
1. While in the Time of day display
mode press Up or Down until FILE
is displayed.
4. Scroll up to select what values you want to
view in the upper row of the display during
exercise.
KCAL
BMI
W INDEX
5. Store the heart rate monitor in a clean and dry
place. Dirt impairs the elasticity and functioning
of the transmitter. Sweat and moisture can keep
the electrodes wet and the transmitter activated,
which shortens battery life.
2. Press OK.
3. Scroll up or down to recall the exercise
1. Heart rate in the target zone
is displayed
a) as absolute heart rate
3. Exercise time
4. Time of day
information:
EXE. TIME Total exercise time
AVERAGE HR Average heart rate of the exercise
IN ZONE Time spent in target zone
KCAL Calories expended during the exercise
BMI Body mass index
W INDEX WalkIndex, the result of the walking test
or
b) as a % of maximum heart rate
BMI
Interpretation
< 18.5
Underweight
according to your
lower row selection.
18.5 - 24.9
25.0 - 29.9
≥ 30.0
Normal weight
Overweight
Obesity
2. Fitness bullets
The training information is saved if the stopwatch
has been on for more than one minute.
6. You can pause the stopwatch by pressing OK.
Reference: World Health Organization. Obesity: preventing and managing the
global epidemic. Report of a WHO Consultation on Obesity. Geneva: World
Health Organization, 1998.
Repressing OK will restart the stopwatch.
For every 10 minutes in TZ,
The most convenient way to determine whether a
person is overweight is to use the Body Mass Index,
BMI. The body mass index does not describe the
amount of fat tissue but merely serves as a means for
comparing adult persons in terms of overweight of
underweight.
a
appears.
After restart you will see heart rate in the
lower row.
The BMI value does not distinguish between muscular
and fat tissue. Thus, a weight-lifter may have a BMI
value which indicates obesity although the person only
has large muscles and little fat tissue.
3. Calorie expenditure
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