Polar Heart Rate Monitor 179336GBRA User Manual

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How to Put Your Heart Rate Monitor On  
1.  
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.  
4.  
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  
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.  
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  
5.  
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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