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FEATURES
SMART COACHING
Whether it’s assessing your day-to-day fitness levels, creating individual training plans, working out at the right intensity
or receiving instant feedback, Smart Coaching offers a choice of unique, easy-to-use features, personalized to your needs
and designed for maximum enjoyment and motivation when training.
Your watch includes the following Polar Smart Coaching features:
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Nightly Recharge™ recovery measurement
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Sleep Plus Stages™ sleep tracking
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Serene™ guided breathing exercise
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Fitness Test with wrist-based heart rate
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FitSpark™ daily training guide
TRAINING LOAD PRO
The new Training Load Pro™ feature measures how your training sessions strain your body and helps to understand how
it impacts your performance. The Training Load Pro gives you a training load level for your cardiovascular system
Cardio
Load
, and with
Perceived Load
you can rate how strained you feel. If you're using a separate
with your watch, the Training Load Pro will also give you a training load level for your musculoskeletal system
(
Muscle Load
). When you know how strained each body system is, you can optimize your training by working the right
system at the right time.
Cardio Load
Cardio Load is based on training impulse calculation (TRIMP), a commonly accepted and scientifically proven method to
quantify training load. Your Cardio Load value tells you how much strain your training session put on your cardiovascular
system. The higher the Cardio Load, the more strenuous the training session was for the cardiovascular system. Cardio
Load is calculated after every workout from your heart rate data and session duration.
Perceived Load
Your subjective feeling is one useful method of estimating training load for all sports. The
Perceived Load
is a value that
takes into account your own subjective experience of how demanding your training session was and the duration of your
