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HEIGHT
Set your height in centimeters (metric) or in feet and inches (imperial).
DATE OF BIRTH
Set your birthday. The order in which the date settings are depends on which time and date format you have
chosen (24h: day - month - year / 12h: month - day - year).
SEX
Select
Male
or Female.
TRAINING BACKGROUND
Training background is an assessment of your long-term physical activity level. Select the alternative that
best describes the overall amount and intensity of your physical activity during the past three months.
Occasional
(0-1h/week): You do not participate regularly in programmed recreational sport or heavy
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physical activity, e.g. you walk only for pleasure or exercise hard enough to cause heavy breathing or
perspiration only occasionally.
Regular
(1-3h/week): You participate regularly in recreational sports, e.g. you run 5-10 km or 3-6 miles
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per week or spend 1-3 hours per week in comparable physical activity, or your work requires modest
physical activity.
Frequent
(3-5h/week): You participate at least 3 times a week in heavy physical exercise, e.g. you run
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20-50 km/12-31 miles per week or spend 3-5 hours per week in comparable physical activity.
Heavy
(5-8h/week): You participate in heavy physical exercise at least 5 times a week, and you may
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sometimes take part in mass sports events.
Semi-pro
(8-12h/week): You participate in heavy physical exercise almost daily, and you exercise to
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improve performance for competitive purposes.
Pro
(>12h/week): You are an endurance athlete. You participate in heavy physical exercise to improve
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your performance for competitive purposes.
MAXIMUM HEART RATE
Set your maximum heart rate, if you know your current maximum heart rate value. Your age-predicted
maximum heart rate value (220-age) is displayed as a default setting when you set this value for the first time.
HR
is used to estimate energy expenditure. HR
max
maximum physical exertion.The most accurate method for determining your individual HR
maximal exercise stress test in a laboratory. HR
individual and depends on age and hereditary factors.
is the highest number of heartbeats per minute during
max
is also crucial when determining training intensity. It is
max
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