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Polar F7 User Manual

Polar F7
User Manual
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Contents
1. GETTING STARTED . ..... ... ........ ........ ... 3
Get to Know Your Polar F6... ... ........ ...... 3
2. BEFORE EXERCISE....... ... ..... ... ........ ... 5
Wear the Transmitter .. ... ........ ........ ... . 5
3. DURING EXERCISE...... ... ..... ... ........ ... . 6
Record Your Exercise.. ..... ... ........ ....... 6
Views During Exercise ... ... ..... ... ........ .. 8
Stop Recording and View Summary .... ... ... 9
4. AFTER EXERCISE ........ ... ..... ... ........ ..10
Data Transfer. ... ..... ... ..... ... ........ ... ..17
5. SETTINGS. ........ ... ..... ... ........ ........ . 18
6. CUSTOMER SERVICE INFORMATION ... ...... 24
Caring for Your Heart Rate Monitor ........ . 24
Troubleshooting.... ........ ... ..... ... .......29
Technical Specification ........ ... ..... ... ..30
1. GETTING STARTED
Get to Know Your Polar F6
Wrist Unit displays and records your heart rate and other exercise data during exercise. Buttons:
UP/DOWN: Move thru menu and selection lists, and adjust values.
OK: Enter menu and confirm selections.
LIGHT: Illuminate display.
BACK: Exit menu and return to previous level. Cancel selection and leave setting unchanged.
Transmitter sends the heart rate signal to the wrist unit. The transmitter consists of a connector and strap.
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Enter Basic Settings
1. To activate your Polar F6, press OK twice. Once activated, it cannot be switched off!
2. WELCOME TO POLAR FITNESS WORLD is displayed. Press OK.
3. START WITH BASIC SETTINGS is displayed. Press OK.
4. Time: Select either 12 H or 24 H.
5. Date: Enter date; dd = day, mm = month, yy = year.
6. Units: metric (KG/CM) or imperial (LB/FT). By selecting LB/FT, calories are displayed as Cal, otherwise they are shown as kcal.
4 Getting Started
7. Weight: Enter your weight. To change units,
press and hold LIGHT.
8. Height: Enter your height. In LB/FT format, first
enter feet then inches.
9. Birthday: Enter your date of birth; dd = day,
mm = month, yy = year.
10. Sex: Select MALE or FEMALE.
11. SETTINGS OK? is displayed. YES: settings are
accepted and saved. The display returns to Time mode. NO: Basic settings can still be changed.
Press BACK to return to the data you want to change.
After saving the basic settings, the F6 enters Time mode.
2. BEFORE EXERCISE
Wear the Transmitter
Wear the transmitter to measure heart rate.
1. Attach one end of the transmitter to the elastic strap.
2. Adjust the transmitter’s strap length to fit snugly and comfortably. Secure the strap around your chest, just below the chest muscles, and buckle the strap to the transmitter.
3. Lift the transmitter off your chest and moisten the two grooved electrode areas on the back. Check that the wet electrode areas are firmly against your skin and that the Polar logo is in a central, upright position.
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Before Exercise 5
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3. DURING EXERCISE
Record Your Exercise
1. Wear the transmitter and wrist unit. Start heart rate measurement by pressing OK. Preferably, there should be no other heart rate monitors nearby (within 1m / 3ft) to avoid interference.
2. Within 15 seconds, your heart rate appears on the display.
3. Press OK. Record the exercise session by selecting START and pressing OK. You can adjust Exercise settings by selecting
SETTINGS. For more information, see page 18.
4. Press BACK to stop recording. Select EXIT to view an exercise summary.
6 During Exercise
Troubleshooting:
• Your exercise information is saved only if the stopwatch has been on for more than one minute.
• OwnZone > Your heart rate monitor has started to determine your target heart rate zone automatically. Skip the process by pressing OK. In this case, if you have not determined your OwnZone before, your age-based heart rate limits are used. For more information on determing OwnZone, see page 19.
• START WITH BASIC SETTINGS > Press OK to complete your Basic settings.
Buttons During Exercise
LIGHT
• Press once and the display will light up with every button press.
• Press and hold to lock or unlock buttons.
BACK
• Pause / exit exercise recording.
UP / DOWN
• Change exercise mode view.
• Press and hold UP to customize Exercise and Calories views. Choose the upper row information from Time of day, Calories/Stopwatch and Fitness bullets. A fitness bullet appears for every 10 minutes in the target zone equaling one hour in total if all the bullets appear.
OK
• Press and hold to change exercise settings without pausing the exercise recording.
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Bring the wrist unit neart the transmitter to see the time of day in Exercise mode.
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Views During Exercise
View combinations of exercise data. Switch displays with UP/DOWN.
Exercise
Stopwatch Heart rate
Calories
The calories expended Heart rate
InZone view is only displayed when you have set heart rate limits active. InZone symbol and time spent in zone* Lower / upper limit values and Zone Pointer Heart rate
*Smiley face means that OwnZone determination was succesful.
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Stop Recording and View Summary
Press BACK to pause exercise recording. Select EXIT to stop recording and to view a Summary of your exercise session:
Summary
Exercise duration (hh.mm.ss) Calories burned during exercise (Cal/kcal) The maximum (max) and average (avg) heart rate of the exercise session (bpm/%HR
For more facts and know-how to enhance your training, visit Polar Article Library. http://articles.polar.fi
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4. AFTER EXERCISE
Diary
In the Diary, you can compare achieved exercise duration, quantity and calories in different intensity zones to your target values. Diary contains data for the current calendar week only, and records exercise data only if the session lasts at least ten minutes.
To enter Diary, on Time display, press UP.
Diary
The three bars stand for exercise count (#), exercise time (Ø) and expended calories (c). Press OK and UP/DOWN to examine more details.
Exe.Count / Exe.Time / Calories
Weekly target exercise count/duration/calories (The relevant bar is highlighted.) The total exercise count/duration/expended calories you have achieved Press BACK to return the Diary view. Press DOWN to enter the HR zones view.
10 After Exercise
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