Heart Rate: Hrmax, Hrsit; Maximal Oxygen Intake: Vo2Max; General Settings; Sound - Polar Electro CS600X User Manual

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• Top: You participate in heavy physical exercise at least 5 times a week, or you exercise to improve
performance for competitive purposes.
• High: You participate at least 3 times a week in heavy physical exercise, e.g. you cycle 2-4 hours (40-120
km / 25-75 miles) per week or spend that time in comparable physical activity.
• Moderate: You participate regularly in recreational sports, e.g. you cycle 1/2-2 hours (15-40 km / 3-25
miles) per week or spend that time in comparable physical activity, or your work requires modest physical
activity.
• Low: You do not participate regularly in recreational sport or heavy physical activity, e.g. you exercise hard
enough to cause heavy breathing or perspiration only occasionally.
In the cycling computer, these values are used to calculate your energy expenditure.
Heart Rate: HR , HR
max
HR (Maximum heart rate): Your age-predicted HR
max
HR manually if your maximum heart rate has been determined in a lab, if you have performed the
max
Fitness test with the Polar CS600X cycling computer, or if you have tested your maximum heart rate in the
field yourself.
HR (Heart rate value in a sitting position): Your age-predicted HR
sit
HR value if you have determined it according to the instructions. For instructions, see Heart Rate Value
sit
in a Sitting Position (page 59) in Background Information.
Maximal Oxygen Intake: VO
VO is your body's maximum capacity for oxygen consumption during maximum exertion. The most
2max
accurate way of determining VO
exact clinically-tested VO
value, OwnIndex, by taking the Polar Fitness Test™. For further information, see Polar Fitness Test™
(page 47).
If changes are made to the user settings,
You can enter and edit user settings by using the Polar ProTrainer 5 software. For further information,
consult software help.

General Settings

Sound

Select
Settings > General > Sound

Volume

Select
Settings > General > Sound > Volume > On / Off
Volume settings control button sounds and activity sounds during exercise. This does not affect the watch
or target zone alarms (TZ Alarm).

TZ Alarm (Target Zone Alarm)

You can set the TZ Alarm On/ Off:
Select
Settings > General > Sound > TZ Alarm > On /Off
If the target zone alarm is deactivated, the heart rate reading will flash when you are outside the target
zone.

Keylock

To define keylock settings
40 Settings
sit
2max
is to perform a maximal stress test in a laboratory. If you know your
2max
, set the value in the cycling computer. Otherwise, measure a comparable
2max
User settings updated
value (220 - age) is used as a default. Set your
max
value is used as a default. Set your
sit
is displayed.