Before The Test; Performing The Test; Test Results - Polar Electro M400 User Manual

You can perform the test anywhere - at home, at the office, at a health club - provided the testing envir-
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onment is peaceful. There should be no disturbing noises (e.g. television, radio, or telephone) and no
other people talking to you.
Always take the test in the same environment and at the same hour.
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Avoid eating a heavy meal or smoking 2-3 hours prior to testing.
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Avoid heavy physical exertion, alcohol, and pharmaceutical stimulants on the test day and the pre-
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vious day.
You should be relaxed and calm. Lie down and relax for 1-3 minutes before starting the test.
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BEFORE THE TEST

Wear your heart rate sensor. For more information, see
Before starting the test, make sure your physical settings including training background are accurate in
tings > Physical settings

PERFORMING THE TEST

To perform the fitness test, go
Searching for heart rate
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rate and Lie down & relax
munication with other people.
You can interrupt the test in any phase by pressing BACK.
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If M400 cannot receive your heart rate signal, the message
should check that the heart rate sensor electrodes are wet and that the textile strap fits snugly.

TEST RESULTS

When the test is over, you hear two beeps along with a description of your fitness test result and your estim-
ated VO is displayed.
2max
Update to VO2max to physical settings?
Select Yes to save the value to your
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Select No only if you know your recently measured VO
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ness level class from the result.
Your latest test result is shown in
test result is shown.
For a visual analysis of your Fitness test results, go to the Flow web service and select the test from your
Diary to view details from it.
toTests > Fitness Test > Relax and start the
is displayed. When heart rate is found, a heart rate graph, your current heart
is shown on the display. Stay relaxed and limit body movements and com-
is displayed.
Physical
Tests > Fitness test > Latest
Wear Heart Rate Sensor.
Test canceled
Test failed is displayed. In which case, you
settings.
value, and if it differs more than one fit-
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result. Only your most recently performed
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test.
is displayed.
Set-