Polar Electro Vantage M User Manual page 20

Heart rate
Cardio Load Status looks at the relation between your short term training
load (Strain) and long term training load (Tolerance) and based on that tells
you whether you are in a detraining, maintaining, productive or overreaching
training load status.
In addition, when opening the details, you can see the numeric values for your
Cardio Load Status, Strain and Tolerance, and also a verbal description of your
Cardio load status.
The numeric value for your Cardio load status is Strain divided by
l
Tolerance.
Strain shows you how much you have strained yourself with train-
l
ing lately. It shows your average daily cardio load from the past 7
days.
Tolerance describes how prepared you are to endure cardio train-
l
ing. It shows your average daily cardio load from the past 28 days.
Verbal description of your Cardio load status.
l
For more information, see
You can quickly check your current heart rate without starting a training ses-
sion. Just tighten your wristband, choose this watch face, press OK and you'll
see your current heart rate in a moment.
Training Load Pro.
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