Measuring And Recording With Your Outdoor Computer; Action Sub Mode; Why Monitor Your Heart Rate When Engaging In Outdoor Sports; Putting Your Transmitter On - Polar Electro AXN500 User Manual

3. MEASURING AND RECORDING WITH YOUR OUTDOOR COMPUTER

3.1 ACTION SUB MODE

3.1.1 WHY MONITOR YOUR HEART RATE WHEN ENGAGING IN OUTDOOR SPORTS?

There are many reasons to monitor your heart rate during outdoor activities:
Planning - You can use heart rate in planning your training for various activities.
Intensity - Your heart rate is an accurate measure of the intensity of the activity – you will know how hard you are
working.
Pace - You can use heart rate to set a pace that you will be able to maintain.
Progress - Your heart rate allows you to objectively measure improvements in your fitness level. For a particular speed
and time or journey, your heart rate should decrease due to improvements in your fitness.
Safety - Monitor your heart rate during and after activity to keep yourself from pushing too hard or overtraining.
Adaptation - Your heart rate responds to internal and external factors acting on your body (for example, altitude,
temperature and humidity).

3.1.2 PUTTING YOUR TRANSMITTER ON

Although you can use your wrist unit as a watch and record performance and environmental data without wearing the
transmitter, wear the transmitter when you want to measure and record your heart rate and calorie expenditure.
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