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Polar FA20
User Manual
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ENGLISH Contents 1. THE BENEFITS OF YOUR POLAR FA20™...... 3 5. SETTINGS.....................................20 Watch, Time and Date .......................20 Training Settings.............................20 2. GET STARTED.................................. 4 User Information .............................20 FA20 Buttons .................................. 4 General Settings .............................21 Basic Settings................................. 5 Menu Structure.............................
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ENGLISH 1. THE BENEFITS OF YOUR POLAR FA20™ The Benefits of Your Polar FA20™ 3
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ENGLISH 2. GET STARTED FA20 Buttons UP: Move through menu and selection lists, and adjust values. OK: Enter the menu and confirm selections. In Time mode start recording a training session by pressing it twice or with one long press. DOWN: Move through menu and selection lists, and adjust values. BACK: Exit menu and return to previous level. Cancel selection and leave setting unchanged. Press and hold to return to Time mode from any mode. LIGHT: Activate backlight. • QUICK MENU in Time mode: Pre
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ENGLISH 9. Day of birth: Enter your date of birth. Basic Settings 10. Sex: Select Male or Female. Before taking the Polar FA20 in use, you need to 11. Settings OK? is displayed. Select with UP and personalize it. For activity feedback to be DOWN.YES: settings are accepted and saved. accurate, all user information must be correct. The display returns to Time mode. NO: Basic settings can still be changed. Press BACK to 1. To activate your FA20, press any button for one return to the data you want
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ENGLISH Menu Structure Time mode: Displays current date and time. Activity log: See your daily active time and the number of burnt calories, and receive feedback on your activity level. Training: Record and receive advanced feedback on your training sessions. Settings: Change settings and operate watch functions, i.e. set alarm, time and date. 6 Get Started
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ENGLISH 3. YOUR DAILY ACTIVITY Activity Wear the FA20 on your wrist to measure your physical activity continuously 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. All you need to do is wear it, no button presses required. The FA20 gives you continuous feedback on your daily activity, and makes monitoring your activity level easy. To promote and maintain health, regular physical activity - such as brisk walking - should be performed at least 30 minutes every day or most days of the week. The health benefits are,
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ENGLISH Activity Log During the course of the day, you can check the log for immediate feedback on activity level and burnt calories. If it says Lazy day, this means you need to be more active for it to be beneficial to your health. Check your Activity log by pressing UP in time mode and enter the log with OK. Choose the date you want to observe. Activity log Review the activity information. Date Select the date of the activity log with UP/DOWN and enter the file with OK. + -mark above the activ
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ENGLISH Active Your active time. Calories Calories you have burnt today. Counted calories do not include those required to keep your body functioning (i.e. basal metabolic rate). The FA20 gives you feedback: Lazy day You have been active for less than 30 minutes. You need to be more active to reach the required amount of health beneficial daily active time. Easy day. Nice! You have been active 30 to 60 minutes. Just 30 minutes of physical activity at moderate intensity every day or most days of
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ENGLISH Active day. Well done! You have been active 60 to 75 minutes. This brings you more health benefits and if you keep up the same intensity, it will increase your calorie burn. Intensive day. Excellent! You have been active more than 75 minutes. This brings you even more health benefits, and if you keep up the same intensity, the amount of burned calories will increase further. 10 Your Daily Activity
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ENGLISH 4. TRAINING To maximize your use of the FA20, record your training? is displayed. Select YES or NO by training sessions to learn more about the way your pressing UP or DOWN and confirm with OK. Start the training session. body responds, and to keep motivated. Adjust training sounds Start Training Training sounds can be set Off, Soft, Loud or Very In Time mode press OK twice or long-press once loud. when you want to start recording your training session. • In Time mode press OKand then DO
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ENGLISH During Training View the following information during training: TO TARGET (Displayed only if target set) Calories left to burn or kilometers/miles to go before target is reached. EFFECT Training in low intensities brings you Health benefits. Training in higher intesities brings you Fitness benefits. CALORIES Number of calories burnt during training. 12 Training
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ENGLISH DISTANCE Distance covered on foot. The measurement is most accurate for walking-type activities. ACT. STEPS Instead of counting single steps, Polar FA20 counts steps based on the continuous motion of the whole body. Active steps improve fitness more efficiently than low intensity steps. ACTIVE The total duration of truly active body movement of the current day. This consists of all the active time that benefits your health during the day, automatically excluding the time periods spent st
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ENGLISH TIME Time of day. Training time. During training the FA20 gives you feedback on your activity. This includes all the active time during the day: 30 minutes active time. Nice! You have been active for 30 minutes. 60 minutes active time. Well done! You have been active for 60 minutes. 14 Training
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ENGLISH 75 minutes active time. Excellent! You have been active for 75 minutes. If you activate the training target, you will receive relevant feedback during training sessions: Half-way point! You have reached the half-way point of your target (distance/calories). Target reached! You have reached your target (km/mi or kcal/Cal). Stop the session, or continue training. Training 15
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ENGLISH Stop Training To pause your training session, press BACK. • To continue recording press OK. • To stop recording, press DOWN and OK. • To adjust the training sounds press DOWN twice and OK. Set the sound Off, Soft, Loud or Very loud and confirm with OK. To stop the training session quickly, press BACK twice and Stopped is displayed. The FA20 will automatically display the training data once you stop the session, if the session has lasted more than one minute. Scroll DOWN to see the data o
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ENGLISH After Training Check your training results in the Activity log. 1. In Time mode press UP once and Activity log is displayed. 2. Enter the log by pressing OK. Your activity dates are displayed as bars. Browse the dates with UP and DOWN and select the date you want to review. Enter the file with OK. 3. Press DOWN until TRAIN. FILE (Training file) is displayed and enter it with OK. Browse the information with UP and DOWN: TRAIN. FILE Starting time of your training session. Training 17
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ENGLISH CALORIES Number of calories (kcal/Cal) burned. DISTANCE Distance covered (km/mi). HEALTH/FITNESS Training time spent on health beneficial intensity level. Training time spent on fitness beneficial intensity level. ACT. STEPS Number of active steps accumulated during the training session. Instead of counting single steps, Polar FA20 only counts the steps that are based on the continuous motion of the whole body. Active steps improve fitness more efficiently than low intensity steps. 18 Tr
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ENGLISH Transfer Data How to transfer data from your FA20 to polarpersonaltrainer.com For long-term follow-up, transfer your training files effortlessly from your Polar FA20 to polarpersonaltrainer.com with the Polar FlowLink accessory*. There your training data (calories, distance, active steps and training time) is saved in a diary and converted into graphs. 1. Register in polarpersonaltrainer.com 2. Follow the instructions to download and install the Polar WebSync data transfer software onto
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ENGLISH 5. SETTINGS Watch, Time and Date Training Settings In Time mode press DOWN to select Settings > • Training target: Set the training target Off, Distance or Calories. Set the target in Watch, time and date Distance (km/mi) or in Calories (kcal/Cal). • Alarm: Set the alarm Off, or on by selecting • Training sounds: Select OFF, Soft, Loud or Once. Then set the time. Press BACK to stop the Very loud alarm or UP/DOWN to snooze for 10 minutes. The alarm cannot be used during training. User Inf
