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Polar F6
User Manual
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ENGLISH Contents 1. GETTING STARTED ............................ 3 Data Transfer.................................17 Get to Know Your Polar F6.................... 3 Enter Basic Settings .......................... 4 5. SETTINGS.....................................18 Exercise Settings.............................18 2. BEFORE EXERCISE............................. 5 OwnZone......................................19 Wear the Transmitter ......................... 5 Other Settings ........................
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ENGLISH 1. GETTING STARTED Get to Know Your Polar F6 Wrist Unit displays and records your heart rate and other exercise data during exercise. Buttons: UP/DOWN: Move thru menu and selection lists, and adjust values. OK: Enter menu and confirm selections. LIGHT: Illuminate display. BACK: Exit menu and return to previous level. Cancel selection and leave setting unchanged. Transmitter sends the heart rate signal to the wrist unit. The transmitter consists of a connector and strap. Getting Started 3
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ENGLISH 7. Weight: Enter your weight. To change units, Enter Basic Settings press and hold LIGHT. 1. To activate your Polar F6, press OK twice. Once 8. Height: Enter your height. In LB/FT format, first activated, it cannot be switched off! enter feet then inches. 2. WELCOME TO POLAR FITNESS WORLD is displayed. 9. Birthday: Enter your date of birth; dd = day, Press OK. mm = month, yy = year. 3. START WITH BASIC SETTINGS is displayed. Press 10. Sex: Select MALE or FEMALE. OK. 11. SETTINGS OK? is d
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ENGLISH 2. BEFORE EXERCISE Wear the Transmitter Wear the transmitter to measure heart rate. 1. Attach one end of the transmitter to the elastic strap. 2. Adjust the transmitter’s strap length to fit snugly and comfortably. Secure the strap around your chest, just below the chest muscles, and buckle the strap to the transmitter. 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 that t
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ENGLISH 3. DURING EXERCISE Troubleshooting: Record Your Exercise • Your exercise information is saved only if the 1. Wear the transmitter and wrist unit. Start heart stopwatch has been on for more than one rate measurement by pressing OK. Preferably, minute. there should be no other heart rate monitors • OwnZone > Your heart rate monitor has started nearby (within 1m / 3ft) to avoid interference. to determine your target heart rate zone automatically. Skip the process by pressing OK. 2. Within 1
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ENGLISH Buttons During Exercise LIGHT • Press once and the display will light up with every button press. • Press and hold to lock or unlock buttons. BACK • Pause / exit exercise recording. UP / DOWN Bring the wrist unit neart • Change exercise mode view. the transmitter to see the • Press and hold UP to customize Exercise and Calories views. time of day in Exercise Choose the upper row information from Time of day, mode. Calories/Stopwatch and Fitness bullets. A fitness bullet appears for every
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ENGLISH Views During Exercise View combinations of exercise data. Switch displays with UP/DOWN. Exercise Stopwatch Heart rate Calories The calories expended Heart rate InZone view is only displayed when you have set heart rate limits active. InZone symbol and time spent in zone* Lower / upper limit values and Zone Pointer Heart rate *Smiley face means that OwnZone determination was succesful. 8 During Exercise
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ENGLISH Stop Recording and View Summary Press BACK to pause exercise recording. Select EXIT to stop recording and to view a Summary of your exercise session: Summary Exercise duration (hh.mm.ss) Calories burned during exercise (Cal/kcal) The maximum (max) and average (avg) heart rate of the exercise session (bpm/%HR ) alternate max For more facts and know-how to enhance your training, visit Polar Article Library. http://articles.polar.fi During Exercise 9
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ENGLISH 4. AFTER EXERCISE Diary In the Diary, you can compare achieved exercise duration, quantity and calories in different intensity zones to your target values. Diary contains data for the current calendar week only, and records exercise data only if the session lasts at least ten minutes. To enter Diary, on Time display, press UP. Diary The three bars stand for exercise count (#), exercise time (Ø) and expended calories (c). Press OK and UP/DOWN to examine more details. Exe.Count / Exe.Time
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ENGLISH HR zones The three bars stand for Light, Moderate and Hard heart rate zone. Press OK and UP/DOWN to examine more details. Light / Moderate / Hard Your target exercise duration in concerned zone The relevant bar is highlighted The exercise duration in zone Note: When you press BACK to return to the Diary or HR zones view, the value you last viewed will be set as a default value on the bottom row of the Diary or HR zones view. After Exercise 11
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ENGLISH Follow-Up Every Sunday at midnight, your Polar F6 automatically reviews your progress, resets the Diary and Heart Rate Zone views, saves Diary data to Weekly File and reminds you to check your Diary with an envelope symbol. To open the reminder, press UP and OK. Result Total exercise count of the last week Total exercise duration Total calories burned while exercising (Cal/kcal) 12 After Exercise
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ENGLISH Files Daily File Select File > DAILY In the Daily File, view detailed exercise information from your 12 most recent exercise sessions. When the File becomes full, the oldest information is replaced by the most recent. To save the exercise data for a longer period, transfer the file to the polarpersonaltrainer.com web service. For more information, see page 17. Exercise Each bar represents a session. The higher the bar the longer the exercise. Date of the exercise After Exercise 13
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ENGLISH Select an exercise you wish to view with UP/DOWN and OK. Duration Time session started Exercise duration (hh.mm.ss) Calories Calories expended while exercising (Cal/kcal) Fat percentage of the burned calories 14 After Exercise
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ENGLISH Heart Rate Maximum (Max) and average (Avg) heart rate in beats per minute alternate with the percentage of maximum heart rate reading Time in Zone view is only displayed if HR limits were set on. Heart rate limits Exercise duration between heart rate limits To delete a Daily File, press and hold LIGHT in Duration view until DELETE FILE? is displayed. Select YES. ARE YOU SURE? is displayed. Confirm deletion with YES. After Exercise 15
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ENGLISH Weekly File and Totals File Select File > WEEKLY or TOTALS In the Weekly and Totals Files, you can view exercise count, duration, and burned calories from the last 12 weeks or starting from the previous reset. Weekly File EXE.COUNT / EXE.TIME / CALOREIS / HR ZONES The last Sunday of the selected week The height of a bar indicates the week's total exercises / exercise time / expended calories / time spent in target zones Cumulative count for the week's total exercises / exercise time / ex
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ENGLISH Data Transfer Your Polar F6 offers two means of data communication with a PC: • Send data with Polar WebLink™: Transfer data to the polarpersonaltrainer.com web service using Polar WebLink software. For this you need to register for polarpersonaltrainer.com web service. You will find detailed instructions on how to send data at Polar WebLink's Help file. • Receive data with Polar UpLink™ Tool: Edit settings and upload logos from a PC to your wrist unit using Polar UpLink Tool software. F
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ENGLISH 5. SETTINGS • HR VIEW: Select HR to display your heart rate in Exercise Settings beats per minute (bpm) or HR% to view a Select Exercise > SETTINGS percentage of maximum heart rate. • HR ALARM: Adjust the target zone alarm sound volume. Choose your OwnZone or Automatic heart rate limits from four exercise intensities: • HR LIMITS: You can choose to exercise from four different heart rate limits: • HARD (80-90% HR ) is for a relatively short max 1. OWNZONE: The wrist unit determines your
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ENGLISH OwnZone OwnZone has been developed for healthy persons. Some health conditions may cause heart rate Your Polar F6 automatically determines your variability-based OwnZone determination to fail, individual and safe exercise intensity zone, your e.g. high blood pressure, certain cardiac OwnZone. The function guides you through arrhythmias, and some medication. In such cases, warm-up. Your OwnZone limits may vary daily, your age-based limits will be used for OwnZone depending on your physica
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ENGLISH • OZ>>>>Jog at a slow pace for 1 min. Smoothly Determining Your OwnZone increase your heart rate about 10 bpm/ 5% Find your OwnZone limits in 1-5 minutes during HRmax. warm-up by walking, jogging, or doing some other • OZ>>>>>Jog at brisk pace or run for 1 min. sport. Before you start, make sure that your User settings are correct and the OwnZone function is 2. When you hear two, consecutive beeps, your activated. OwnZone has been determined. OwnZone Updated alternates with the heart rat
