Suunto t6 Quick Manual page 25

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10.3. Finding your personal level
To evaluate your starting point, Suunto Training Manager asks you to fill in your
personal parameters during installation. Based on these parameters, the program
calculates your personal Training Effect levels and the default values for your
maximum HR and some other physiological values.
If you have had any of these values measured before, you should use these
values instead of the ones calculated by Suunto Training Manager. Note that
especially the maximum HR is very individual and it may differ considerably from the
value suggested by Training Manager. Using the correct personal maximum HR
value will improve the Training Effect calculation.
The maximum performance capacity measured in a laboratory test is sometimes
given as ml/kg/min (VO2max). If you want to compare the maximum performance
value calculated by the program in Metabolic Equivalents (METs) to your measured
VO max, use the relation 1 MET = 3.5 ml/min/kg.
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When you start training regularly, your physical condition will improve quickly.
Because of this it is important that you check your personal parameters on the
Personal page once a month and update them if necessary. This helps the software
to adjust to your training and adapt the Training Effect levels to your physical
condition. This will ensure that you will train at an optimal level and you will reach
the desired training effect in the best possible way.
When your condition improves and you update your personal parameters, the
EPOC levels representing your training level will rise. This means that you will have
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