Exercise Settings; Selecting Exercise Type; Setting Exercise Sets - Polar Electro S720i User Manual

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Exercise Settings

When you start setting your exercise preferences your first choice is to select
whether you want to set your personal exercise set or to exercise with
BasicUse option. If you select to start setting the exercise sets, your second
choice is whether you want to select BasicSet or an Interval Training Set.

Selecting Exercise Type

BasicUse (E0)
BasicUse is a simple mode for
exercising. You do not have to do any
settings before exercising with this
Exercise mode. While exercising, you
can see the following optional values:
• current heart rate or average
heart rate of the exercise
• stopwatch
• time of day
• split- and lap times
Additionally, you can follow calories
of your exercise session, percentage
of your maximum heart rate and
cycling infromation, if you have set
all the user information and turned
the functions on.
Exercise Set (E1-E5)
During exercising with this mode you
can see the same optional values as
in the BasicUse mode. Additionally,
the exercise set will guide you
through an exercise according to the
settings you have made. You can also
name the exercise sets Ex. after an
exercise type.
You can set following exercise
guiding functions:
• 3 heart rate limits
• 3 countdown timers
• interval function
• recovery calculation
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Setting Exercise Sets

Preset exercise sets ready for five exercise sets; when you start exercising,
just select one of the sets.
Interval Training Set
If you choose interval on, you can
set 3 different exercise phases for
each exercise set in following order:
Warm-up phase
• countdown timer 1
On/OFF
• heart rate limits 1
On/OFF
Interval phase
• interval calculation type: manual,
time-based, heart-rate-based or
distance-based interval
• number of repeated interval
phases
• heart rate limits 2
On/OFF
• recovery calculation
On/OFF
Cool-down phase
• countdown timer 3
On/OFF
• heart rate limits 3
On/OFF
If you set the countdown timers of
the phase off, you have to manually
stop the phase.
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BasicSet
If you choose interval off, you can
set the following functions to your
exercise:
• timer 1
On/OFF
• timer 2
On/OFF
• timer 3
On/OFF
• heart rate limits 1
On/OFF
• heart rate limits 2
On/OFF
• heart rate limits 3
On/OFF
• recovery calculation
On/OFF
You should select the timers on
sequentially. Ex. you cannot set
timer 2 on if timer 1 is off.

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