Estimating Your Fitness Level - Suunto M5 User Manual

● date
● personal settings: year of birth, sex, weight, height, (calculated BMI), fitness
level
NOTE: BMI (Body Mass Index) is a number calculated from your weight and
height. It indicates whether your weight is within healthy limits. However, if you
are very muscular, your calculated BMI may be higher than expected, because the
BMI ranges are based on average body types.
NOTE: Once you have entered your year of birth, your device automatically
sets the maximum heart rate (max. HR) using the formula 207 (0.7 x AGE)
published by the American College of Sports Medicine. If you know your real max.
HR, you should adjust the automatically given value to the known value.
For information about adjusting the settings at a later time, see Chapter 14
Adjusting settings on page 32.
TIP: Press
target, date and seconds with the time. The display returns to show only the time
to save battery life, if you do not press

5.1 Estimating your fitness level

To get guidance during exercise, you need to estimate your current fitness
level in the initial settings.
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in the time view to view the status of your current day exercise
again after 2 minutes.