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Polar FT60 User Manual
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ENGLISH CONTENTS 1. GET STARTED...................................................................................................................... 3 Get to Know Your Polar FT60 ................................................................................................... 3 Start With Basic Settings........................................................................................................ 3 Buttons and Menu Structure ...........................................................
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ENGLISH 1. GET STARTED Get to Know Your Polar FT60 The Polar FT60 training computer records and displays your heart rate and other data during training. The Polar H1 heart rate sensor transmits the heart rate signal to the training computer. The heart rate sensor consists of a connector and a strap. The latest version of this user manual can be downloaded at www.polar.com/support. Register your Polar product at http://register.polar.fi, and help us improve our products and services to better mee
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ENGLISH Buttons and Menu Structure UP: Enter the menu and move through selection lists, adjust values OK: Confirm selections, select training type or training settings DOWN: Enter the menu and move through selection lists, adjust values BACK: • Exit the menu • Return to the previous level • Cancel selection • Leave settings unchanged • With a long press, return to Time view LIGHT: • Illuminate the display • With a long press, enter quick menu in Time view (to lock buttons, set alarm or select ti
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ENGLISH 2. BEFORE TRAINING Activate Your Polar Star Training Program The adaptive, personalized and in-built Polar Star Training Program gives you the optimal intensity and time targets for your training. The training computer gives feedback on your performance after each training session and once a week. The Polar FT60 creates a training program based on your user information (weight, height, age, sex), fitness level, activity level, and training goal. By analyzing your weekly training results
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ENGLISH Zone 1 60-70% • Benefits: Improves basic endurance and helps recovery • Feels like: Comfortable, easy breathing, low loading for muscles, light sweating • Recommended for: Everybody Troubleshooting • User information missing is displayed > Enter the missing user information. • Fitness test result required is displayed > You need to perform the Fitness Test. Read more about training in Training Articles at http://articles.polar.fi. Change/End your program • To change your fitness goal, cr
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ENGLISH 2. In Time mode, select Menu > Applications > Fitness test > Start test. The fitness test begins instantly once the FT60 has located your heart rate. 3. About 5 minutes later, a beep will indicate the end of the test, and your test result will appear on the display. 4. Press OK. UPDATE VO ? is displayed. 2max 5. Select Yes to save the test result in your User information and OwnIndex results. If you know your laboratory measured VO2max value and have entered it in User information, selec
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ENGLISH 3. TRAINING Wear the Heart Rate Sensor Wear the heart rate sensor to measure heart rate. 1. Moisten the electrode area of the strap. 2. Attach the connector to the strap. 3. Tie the strap around your chest, just below the chest muscles, and attach the hook to the other end of the strap. 4. Adjust the strap length to fit tightly but comfortably. Check that the moist electrode areas are firmly against your skin and that the Polar logo of the connector is in a central and upright position.
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ENGLISH • Walk fast for 1 min. • Jog for 1 min. • Run for 1 min. • Speed up. 3. At some point during OwnZone determination, New limits in use is displayed. Proceed normally with your training. Troubleshooting • If OwnZone determination fails, and you have determined your OwnZone limits earlier, Previous limits in use is displayed. If you have not determined your OwnZone limits, Age-based limits in use is displayed. The OwnZone determination fails if the heart rate rises too fast during the OwnZo
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ENGLISH Time of day Lock a zone: Depending on your goal for a training session, you can lock zone 1, 2 or 3 during the session. When you are training in a desired zone, lock it by pressing OK for one second. For instance, when you have achieved your weekly target for zones 2 and 3, you can lock zone 1. The zone alarm helps you stay inside the locked zone. For example, zone 2 is locked in this image. Quick Menu: Long pressing LIGHT during recording brings you to Quick menu. The Quick menu is a sh
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ENGLISH 4. AFTER TRAINING Training Feedback The training computer provides you with the following feedback after a training session. Effect Training effect feedback. See Table 1 for more information. Intensity Time spent in zones 1, 2, and 3. Zone limits OwnZone limits (displayed if OwnZone in use). Calories Expended calories during the session, and fat percentage. Average /Maximum Average and maximum heart rate during training session. Average /Maximum* Average and maximum speed of training ses
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ENGLISH Results Excellent! / Well done! / Nice! / Fitness maintained / Incomplete training week / Good recovery week / Excellent recovery week If your result is excellent, the FT60 rewards you with a trophy. The trophy appears in the time mode display. Achieved/Week target Achieved training duration vs. week target duration Achieved/Week target Expended calories vs. week target Sessions The number of training sessions achieved this week (also displayed without a program). Achieved time per zone
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ENGLISH Program Update Polar FT60 continuously analyzes your progress and adjusts by increasing or decreasing weekly targets. An envelope appears on the display to notify you when the program has been updated. Press UP to open the envelope. 1. Program has been updated is displayed: the FT60 has analyzed your progress and adapted your program targets accordingly. 2. Time for a recovery week is displayed: To optimize your training, you need to have an ideal balance between training and recovery. R
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ENGLISH Each bar represents one training session. Select a training session you wish to view. Upper row: Date and time of day when the file was created Lower row: Training time When Training files becomes full, the oldest training file is replaced by the most recent one. If you want to save the file for a longer period, transfer it to Polar web service on www.polarpersonaltrainer.com. For further information, see Transfer Data. To delete a training file, select Data > Delete files and the file y
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ENGLISH 5. SETTINGS Watch Settings Select the value you want to change and press OK. Adjust the values with UP/DOWN and accept with OK. Select Settings > Watch, time and date. • Alarm: Set the alarm to go on Once, from Monday to Friday, Every day, or turn it Off. Press BACK to stop the alarm or UP/DOWN to snooze for 10 minutes. The alarm cannot be used during training. • Time: Select Time 1 and set the time format, hours and minutes. Select Time 2 to set time for another time zone by adding or s
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ENGLISH or 3-6 miles per week or spend 1-3 hours per week in comparable physical activity, or your work requires modest physical activity. 4. LOW (0-1 hours per week): You do not participate regularly in programmed recreational sport or heavy physical activity, e.g. you walk only for pleasure, or exercise hard enough to cause heavy breathing or perspiration only occasionally. • OwnIndex (VO ): When you perform the Polar Fitness Test, your OwnIndex value is shown as a default. 2max Change the def
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ENGLISH 6. IMPORTANT INFORMATION Caring for Your Product Like any electronic device, the Polar training computer should be treated with care. The suggestions below will help you fulfill guarantee obligations and enjoy this product for many years to come. Connector: Detach the connector from the strap after every use and dry the connector with a soft towel. Clean the connector with a mild soap and water solution when needed. Never use alcohol or any abrasive material (eg. steel wool or cleaning c
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ENGLISH Open the battery cover with a coin by turning it from 1. CLOSE to OPEN. Remove the battery cover and lift the battery out 2. carefully with a suitable sized small rigid stick or bar, such as a toothpick. A non-metal tool is preferable. Be careful not to damage the metal sound element (*) or the grooves. Insert a new battery with the positive (+) side outwards. Replace the old sealing ring with a new one (if 3. available), fitting it snugly in the cover groove to ensure water resistance.
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ENGLISH Minimizing Risks When Training Training may include some risk. Before beginning a regular training program, answer the following questions concerning your health status. If you answer yes to any of these questions, consult a physician before starting any training program. • Have you been physically inactive for the past 5 years? • Do you have high blood pressure or high blood cholesterol? • Are you taking any blood pressure or heart medication? • Do you have a history of breathing proble
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ENGLISH Marking on case back Water resistant characteristics Water resistant Protected against wash splashes, sweat, raindrops etc. Not suitable for swimming. Water resistant 30 m/50 m Suitable for bathing and swimming Water resistant 100 m Suitable for swimming and snorkeling (without air tanks) Troubleshooting If you don't know where you are in the menu, press and hold BACK until the time of day is displayed. If there are no reactions to any buttons or the training computer displays unusual re
