View Your Recovery Feedback - Polar Electro Vantage V3 User Manual

which include your recovery question reminder. On days you have an Orthostatic test, the recovery questions pop up on
your watch straight after the test. Ideally, they should be answered about 30 minutes after waking up.
The questions are designed to help establish if anything is affecting your recovery. Some examples of factors affecting
recovery are excessive muscle fatigue, mental pressure or maybe just a bad night's sleep. See the recovery questions
below:
Are your muscles more sore than usual? No, Somewhat, Much more
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Are you feeling more strained than usual? No, Somewhat, Much more
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How did you sleep? Very well, Well, Okay, Poorly, Very poorly.
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View your Recovery feedback

Recovery feedback is viewed on your watch. You can conveniently see your daily training recommendation on the
Cardio Load status view on your watch face. Swipe left/right or scroll with the UP/ DOWN buttons until you reach it.
1. Press the display or press the OK button to see more details. First, you'll see your Cardio Load status (Detraining,
Maintaining, Productive or Overreaching), which is a part of Training Load Pro. When you've gathered enough
recovery data you'll see your daily training recommendation on this view.
2. Swipe or scroll down with the buttons to Recovery feedback. Tap More or press the OK button to view more
detailed recovery feedback. It's made up of:
An icon illustrating your readiness for cardio training today that reflects the daily training recommendation stating how
we advise you to train. An increased injury or illness alert icon replaces the training advice icon when your risk for injury
or illness is increased. The short training advice can be:
Daily feedback stating if your cardio system is recovered or not*, followed by your daily training recommendation based
on that day's Orthostatic test result, and if available, your recovery question answers and your history for these together
with your training data (Cardio Load) over a longer period of time. The recommendation can contain a warning about an
increased risk of overtraining, or it can alert you about an increased injury and illness risk.
*To know if your cardio system is recovered or not you need to perform the Orthostatic test on that day.
Feedback about your long-term training habits and recovery. This can contain information about how you're responding
to training, if you've been training more than or less than usual or if you're at risk to get injured or fall ill because you've
been training more than usual. It can also contain feedback if you seem to have too much stress from something else
than training. Your long-term feedback is based on:
Your average mood score of past of the seven days calculated from your perceived recovery question answers
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Your seven-day rolling average of your heart rate variability values measured with the Orthostatic test compared
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