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Polar Heart Rate Monitor | One for Every Body

by admin on January 29, 2010

Polar A5 Heart Rate Monitor
Image by IvyMike via Flickr

Polar has really taken heart rate monitors to the next level. No matter what your fitness level is, Polar has several heart rate monitors to match. They have their watches broken down into 3 fitness categories.

Polar Heart Rate Monitors

Get Active is for those new to exercise and training.

Improve Fitness is for those moving to a higher level.

Maximize Performance for those serious about training and competition.

In each of these fitness categories, Polar has heart rate monitors for 3 different types of athletes:

Fitness and Crosstraining

Running and Multisport

Cycling

Get Active -  Heart Rate Monitor

Polar has watches that teach you about fat burning vs. improving fitness. They have watches that measure calories burned or simply tell you to work out easier or harder than the day before. There are also heart rate monitor watches for beginning runners and cyclers in this category.

Improve Fitness -  Heart Rate Monitor

The heart rate monitors in this category take your fitness to a new level. Some of these watches include training programs. The watch will tell you how often to train and how hard. They have watches for strength trainers advising how long to rest between sets.

And there are monitors that will keep track of your last 16 training sessions along with the last 16 weeks of training.

Some cycling watches in this category can be wrist or helmet mounted and measure current, average and maximum speed. And they can also can connect to your online training diary at polarpersonaltrainer.com.

Maximize Performance – Heart Rate Monitor

The monitors in this category focus on Running, Multisport, and Cycling. They all come with ProTrainer 5 software. Your watch connects to the software and uploads information to the program. The program then downloads training sessions to your watch so you can train more efficiently and effectively.

There are watches that will track the mileage on your shoes as well as your cadence and stride length. One even can stores your route data and uploads it to your ProTrainer software.

The cycling watches in this category stores bike settings for up to 3 bikes. They can also measure altitude, barometer, external temperature, cadence and incline with all kinds of audible and visual alarms.

Polar has been the pioneer in this field for 30 years and they continue to be passionate and innovative in their research of the heart rate monitor field. So get your Polar heart rate monitor today, and watch your fitness and race times improve.

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