POLAR COACH User Manual
Page 5
6
7
FEATURES
Your Polar Coach offers you the following features:
Watch functions:
•
Time
•
Alarm
•
Date
•
12 hour or 24 hour time mode
Basic functions:
•
wireless, continuous, and ECG accurate heart rate measurements
•
coded transmission of your heart rate to avoid interference caused
by other users of heart rate monitors
•
stopwatch with split and lap-time indicators
•
three adjustable target zone limits with blinking and sound alarms
•
43 split and lap times with average heart rates of each lap
•
two adjustable, alternating timers
•
time or heart rate based recovery calculation
•
display alternatives during the Heart Rate Measurement mode:
time of day, total exercising time or lap time
•
Polar Heart Touch for activating the backlight and checking the
secondary measurement display during an exercise session
•
backlight
•
water resistant to 20 meters
Freely programmable interval training functions:
•
ability to set 99 intervals (28 are recorded, the use of lap functions
during warm-up reduces the amount)
•
countdown timer
•
three target zones
•
recovery calculation
Recording functions:
•
maximum and average heart rate for the complete exercise session
•
date and starting time of the exercise session
•
number of laps and the total time of the exercise session
•
time spent above, within and below each target zone
•
last recovery value (time or heart rate based)
•
lap and split times with average and ending heart rates
•
ability to recall the recorded information on the Polar Coach wrist
receiver display
Data download:
•
automatic and dynamic recording of average heart rate on sampling
rate (60 samples): 30 s, 1 min, 2 min, 4 min and 8 min, max. 8 hours
(PC Coach Light™ software required)
•
ability to download recorded training information onto a computer for
detailed analysis by SonicLink (PC Coach Light™ software required)
•
also interfaceable to Polar Training Advisor software Version 1.1
onwards and Polar Precision Performance software Version 2.1
onwards via Polar Interface unit
Other:
•
shortcuts for advanced users
PARTS
The Polar Coach Heart Rate Monitor
consists of three parts:
3. Polar Coach wrist receiver
1. Polar Coded Transmitter
Grooved electrode areas.
2. Elastic strap
Coach man.USA
22.1.1999, 08:39
6-7