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Apprenez à vous ravitailler avec l’assistant de ravitaillement personnalisé FuelWise™

Pendant une course d’endurance ou une sortie longue, il est crucial de maintenir des niveaux d’énergie et d’hydratation adéquats. L’assistant de ravitaillement personnalisé FuelWise vous aide à trouver le meilleur moyen de faire le plein d’énergie au cours des séances de longue durée, pour vous permettre d’aller de l’avant et donner le meilleur de vous-même.

ÉVITEZ L’ÉPUISEMENT

Vous avez tendance à oublier de vous ravitailler en cours de route ? Le rappel de ravitaillement personnalisé vous indique quand il est temps de vous ravitailler et vous aide à maintenir un niveau d’énergie adéquat tout au long de vos séances.

SACHEZ QUELLE QUANTITÉ EMPORTER

FuelWise vous donne une estimation de la quantité de glucides que vous devrez consommer au cours de la séance, ce qui vous permet de savoir quelle quantité de ravitaillement emporter avec vous.

TROUVEZ LA MÉTHODE DE RAVITAILLEMENT OPTIMALE POUR VOTRE ORGANISME

FuelWise vous fournit une grille de ravitaillement personnalisée que vous pouvez modifier en fonction de vos propres besoins, de manière à ce qu’elle soit parfaitement adaptée à votre organisme.

MAINTENEZ UN BON NIVEAU D’ÉNERGIE GRÂCE À LA FONCTION RAPPEL GLUCIDES AUTOMATIQUE

FuelWise calcule automatiquement la quantité de glucides nécessaire pour votre séance d’entraînement. Il effectue un suivi de votre dépense énergétique tout au long de la séance et adapte les rappels de ravitaillement automatiques en fonction de votre consommation de glucides, de façon à ce que vous vous sentiez plein d’énergie jusqu’à la fin de la séance.

Train like a pro, recover like a pro

When you’re training to achieve a specific goal, you need to find the balance between different types of training and rest. Polar Vantage V monitors your training load from each training session, measures your daily and long-term recovery levels and helps you recognize your personal limits by telling you whether you have been training too much, too little or just right.

Polar Vantage V gives you a personalized training recommendation for each day and warns you when you are at risk of overtraining, injury or illness. It can also recognize if you have too much stress from something else than training and will motivate you to keep training if you start to lose your momentum.

Training Load Pro

When you train, the different systems of your body get strained. With Polar Vantage V, you get a holistic view on how your training sessions strain these different systems and how it affects your performance.

Training Load Pro gives you a training load level for both your cardiovascular and your musculoskeletal system (Cardio Load and Muscle Load), and also takes into account how strained you feel (Perceived Load).

When you know how strained each body system is, you can optimize your training by working the right system at the right time. You get a numerical value, verbal feedback and a visual bullet scale for each training load.

Cardio Load

Your Cardio Load value tells you how much strain your training session put on your cardiovascular system. It is calculated after every workout from your heart rate data.

Your Cardio Load is calculated as training impulse (TRIMP), a commonly accepted method to quantify training load.

Muscle Load

Muscle Load tells you how much your muscles were strained during your training session. Muscle Load helps you quantify your training load in high-intensity training sessions, such as short intervals, sprints and hill sessions, when your heart rate doesn’t have enough time to react to the changes in the intensity.

Muscle load shows the amount of mechanical energy (kJ) that you produced during a running or cycling session. This reflects your energy output (instead of the energy input it took you to produce that effort). In general, the fitter you are, the better the efficiency between your energy input and output. Muscle Load is calculated from your power data, so you only get a Muscle Load value for your running workouts (and cycling sessions if you’re using a cycling power meter).

Perceived Load

Perceived Load is a value that takes into account your own subjective experience of how demanding your training session was.

The key to finding the balance between training and rest is learning to listen to your body and to combine your subjective feeling with the data you get from your Polar Vantage V. This is something athletes learn by doing, and your training data will help you learn to know your body better.

Your Perceived Load is quantified with Rate of Perceived Exertion (RPE), a scientifically accepted method to quantify training load. Your Perceived load levels indicate how hard a training session was compared to your session average from the past 90 days.

Strain & Tolerance

In addition to the training load from individual training sessions, you can follow how Cardio Load builds up over time – the relation between strain and tolerance.

Strain shows how much you have strained yourself with training lately. It shows your average daily load from the past 7 days.

Tolerance describes how prepared you are to endure cardio training. It shows your average daily load from the past 28 days. To improve your tolerance for cardio training, slowly increase your training over a longer period of time.

Your Cardio Load Status looks at how your Strain compares to your Tolerance and estimates how your training is impacting your body.

Recovery Pro (Polar H10 required)

Polar Vantage V helps you prevent overtraining and injuries with a unique recovery tracking solution. It actually measures how recovered your body is and offers you recovery feedback and guidance.

Daily recovery

You can measure your daily recovery level with the Orthostatic Test (Polar H10 required). It is based on your heart rate and your heart rate variability, and it takes into account all stress factors of your life, including stress from training and stress caused by other aspects of life, such as poor sleep or work pressure.

Training and Recovery Balance

Recovery Pro combines your long-term recovery data with your long-term training load to monitor the balance between training and recovery. This will help you recognize your personal limits by showing whether you’ve been training too much, too little or just right.

Optimize your training with Training Load Pro™

When you’re training to achieve a specific goal, you need to know how your workouts strain your body in order to find the balance between different types of training and rest.

Polar Vantage M shows you how your training sessions strain your body and how it affects your performance.

Training Load Pro monitors the strain your training puts on your cardiovascular system (Cardio Load), and also takes into account how strained you feel (Subjective Load). If you’re using a separate running or cycling power meter, you will also get a training load value 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. You get a numerical value, verbal feedback and a visual bullet scale for each training load.

Cardio Load

Your Cardio Load value tells you how much strain your training session put on your cardiovascular system. It is calculated after every workout from your heart rate data.

Your Cardio Load is calculated as training impulse (TRIMP), a commonly accepted method to quantify training load.

Perceived Load

Perceived Load is a value that takes into account your own subjective experience of how demanding your training session was.

Your Perceived Load is quantified with Rate of Perceived Exertion (RPE), a scientifically accepted method to quantify subjective training load. Your Perceived load levels indicate how hard a training session was compared to your session average from the past 90 days.

Strain & Tolerance

In addition to the training load from individual training sessions, you can follow how Cardio Load builds up over time

Strain shows how much you have strained yourself with training lately. It shows your average daily load from the past 7 days.

Tolerance describes how prepared you are to endure cardio training. It shows your average daily load from the past 28 days. To improve your tolerance for cardio training, slowly increase your training over a longer period of time.

Your Cardio Load Status looks at how your Strain compares to your Tolerance and estimates how your training is impacting your body.

Muscle Load (only available with a power meter)
If you’re using a power meter in your running or cycling workouts, your Polar Vantage M will also calculate a Muscle Load value. Muscle Load tells you how much your muscles were strained during your training session. Muscle Load helps you quantify your training load in high-intensity training sessions, such as short intervals, sprints and hill sessions, when your heart rate doesn’t have enough time to react to the changes in the intensity.

Funciones y especificaciones técnicas

Funciones destacadas

Training Load Pro

Cuantifica el esfuerzo en tu sesión de entrenamiento y observa cómo tu entrenamiento afecta a tu cuerpo. Más información

Métricas de natación

Sigue tu progreso en la piscina. Polar Vantage M detecta automáticamente tu ritmo cardíaco, estilo de natación, distancia, ritmo, brazadas y tiempos de reposo. La distancia y las brazadas también se registran en aguas abiertas.

Notificaciones de móvil

Mantente conectado mientras recibes notificaciones en tu teléfono, como avisos de llamadas entrantes, mensajes, correos electrónicos y citas del calendario, entre otras cosas.

Registro de la actividad 24/7

El Polar Vantage M efectúa un seguimiento de los pasos, la distancia, las calorías y el sueño, y te marca un objetivo de actividad diaria personalizado.

Otras funciones de Smart Coaching

Smart Calories

Conoce con exactitud la cantidad de calorías consumidas en función de tu peso, altura, edad, sexo, frecuencia cardíaca máxima individual (FCmáx) y de la intensidad de tu entrenamiento. Más información

Registro continuo de la frecuencia cardíaca

Descubre cómo se comporta tu corazón durante todo el día. El registro continuo de la frecuencia cardíaca te proporciona datos aún más precisos sobre la quema de calorías y la actividad, y te indica la frecuencia cardíaca más baja y más alta de tu jornada. Más información

Guía de entrenamiento diario FitSpark

Recibe planes diarios de entrenamiento en función de tu recuperación, disposición e historial de entrenamiento. Más información

A free running plan that adapts to your progress

With Polar Running Program, training for a running event is easier than ever. All you need to do is choose your distance and set your date, and Polar Flow creates you a personal and adaptive training plan that is based on your individual metrics. Your plan adapts along the way based on your progress.

A running coach on your watch

Every workout is conveniently available on your Polar Vantage M2. Your watch guides you through each workout, telling you if you need to take it easier or push a little harder.

Stay injury-free with supportive exercises

Your training program comes with strength, core and mobility workouts to keep you going all the way through to race day. You can do the workouts comfortably at home, and the instruction videos help you through each session.

MÄT PULSEN MED POLAR VANTAGE M2

Olika sporter har olika behov när det gäller pulsmätning. Med Polar Vantage M2 erbjuds du flera pulsmätningslösningar – välj den metod som passar bäst för din träning och kondition.

PRECISION PRIME

Polar Vantage M2 använder Polar Precision Prime – sensorfusionsteknologi som mäter pulsen från handleden. I denna innovation kombineras optisk pulsmätning med annan sensorteknologi för att räkna bort alla rörelseartefakter som kan störa pulssignalen och ge osäkra avläsningar.

POLAR H10 PULSSENSOR

När du behöver oöverträffad precision kan du koppla ihop Polar Vantage M2 med Polar H10 pulssensor, pulsmätningens gyllene standard. Polar H10 pulssensor och Polar Pro bröstbälte är det optimala valet för intervallträning, racketsporter och andra sporter med mycket armrörelser.

Du kan köpa Polar H10 pulssensor separat.

POLAR Verity Sense OPTISK PULSSENSOR

Polar Verity Sense är en optisk pulssensor som du kan bära på över- eller underarmen. Det är ett bra alternativ om du inte kan ha en klocka på handleden i din sport eller om du inte tycker om att använda bröstbälte. Polar Verity Sense har ett bekvämt textilarmband och är lätt att ta på och av.

Polar Verity Sense är också simmarens bästa vän. Den har ett spänne för att fästa sensorn på simglasögonen och ett internt minne så att du kan spara dina träningspass i bassängen och ladda upp dem till Polar Flow efteråt.

TL;DR – Quick comparison chart

If you want to cut straight to the chase, here’s a shortcut to comparing the features between Polar Vantage V and Polar Vantage M. Or use the comparison tool for a more detailed list.

We’re also rolling out a number of enhancements to both Polar Vantage V and M so make sure you check our Vantage updates page to see what’s coming.

Feature	Polar Vantage V	Polar Vantage M
Polar Precision Prime, wrist-based heart rate measurement	X	X
Speed and distance from the wrist	X	X
Training Load Pro	X	X (Muscle Load via third-party sensor)
Recovery Pro	X
Running power	From the wrist	Via third-party sensor
Running Program	X	X
Running Index	X	X
Sleep Plus	X	X
+130 sport profiles	X	X
Multisport mode	X	X
Swimming metrics	X	X
Waterproof	X	X
GPS	X	X
GLONASS	X	X
Barometer	X
Battery life with GPS	40 hours in training mode	30 hours in training mode
Display	Always-on color touch display, resolution 240 x 240	Color display, resolution 240 x 240
Measurements	46 x 46 x 13 mm	46 x 46 x 12.5 mm
Weight	66 g	45 g
Changeable wristband	X (only Polar Vantage V wristbands)	X (compatible with all standard 22mm wristbands)

Optimiza tu entrenamiento con Training Load Pro™

Cuando entrenas para alcanzar una meta específica, necesitas saber cómo afectan tus sesiones a tu cuerpo para encontrar el equilibrio entre los diferentes tipos de entrenamiento y el descanso.

Polar Vantage M te muestra el esfuerzo que tus sesiones de entrenamiento suponen para tu cuerpo y cómo afecta a tu rendimiento.

Training Load Pro controla el esfuerzo que tu sesión de entrenamiento supone para tu sistema cardiovascular (Carga cardiovascular) y también tiene en cuenta el esfuerzo percibido (Carga subjetiva). Si utilizas un medidor de potencia independiente para correr o pedalear, también obtendrás un valor de la carga de entrenamiento para tu sistema musculoesquelético (Carga muscular).

Cuando conoces el esfuerzo de cada sistema corporal, puedes optimizar tu entrenamiento trabajando con el sistema adecuado en el momento adecuado. Obtienes un valor numérico, feedback y una escala visual de puntos para cada carga de entrenamiento.

Carga cardiovascular

El valor de la Carga cardiovascular te indica el esfuerzo que tu sesión de entrenamiento supone para tu sistema cardiovascular. Se calcula después de cada entrenamiento a partir de los datos de tu frecuencia cardíaca.

Tu Carga cardiovascular se calcula como impulso de entrenamiento (TRIMP), un método comúnmente aceptado para cuantificar la carga de entrenamiento.

Carga percibida

La Carga percibida es un valor que tiene en cuenta tu propia experiencia subjetiva de lo exigente que fue tu sesión de entrenamiento.

Tu Carga percibida se cuantifica con la Tasa de Esfuerzo Percibido (RPE, por sus siglas en inglés), un método científicamente aceptado para cuantificar la carga subjetiva de entrenamiento. Los niveles de Carga percibida indican la dureza de la sesión en comparación con la media de tus sesiones de los últimos 90 días.

Esfuerzo y tolerancia

Además de la carga de entrenamiento de las sesiones de entrenamiento individuales, puedes conocer cómo se acumula la Carga cardiovascular con el tiempo.

El esfuerzo
muestra cuánto te has esforzado últimamente en los entrenamientos. Indica tu promedio de carga diaria de los últimos 7 días.

La tolerancia
describe tu preparación para soportar el entrenamiento cardiovascular. Indica tu promedio de carga diaria de los últimos 28 días. Para mejorar tu tolerancia para el entrenamiento cardiovascular, incrementa lentamente tu entrenamiento durante un periodo de tiempo más largo.

Tu Estado de la Carga cardiovascular
analiza cómo se compara el esfuerzo con tu tolerancia y calcula cómo afecta el entrenamiento a tu cuerpo.

Carga muscular (solo disponible con medidor de potencia) Si utilizas un medidor de potencia en tus entrenamientos de carrera o ciclismo, tu Polar Vantage M también calculará un valor de Carga muscular. La Carga muscular te indica el esfuerzo que han realizado tus músculos durante la sesión de entrenamiento. Asimismo, te ayuda a cuantificar tu carga de entrenamiento en sesiones de alta intensidad, como intervalos cortos, carreras y sesiones en pendiente, cuando tu frecuencia cardíaca no tiene tiempo suficiente para reaccionar a los cambios de intensidad.

Know how you train with Training Load Pro™

When you train, the different systems of your body get strained. With Polar Vantage M2, you get a holistic view on how your training sessions strain these different systems and how it affects your performance.

Cardio Load

Your Cardio Load value tells you how much strain your training session put on your cardiovascular system. It is calculated after every workout from your heart rate data.

Your Cardio Load is calculated as training impulse (TRIMP), a commonly accepted method to quantify training load.

Perceived Load

Perceived Load is a value that takes into account your own subjective experience of how demanding your training session was.

The key to finding the balance between training and rest is learning to listen to your body and to combine your subjective feeling with the data you get from your Polar Vantage M2. This is something athletes learn by doing, and your training data will help you learn to know your body better.

Your Perceived Load is quantified with Rate of Perceived Exertion (RPE), a scientifically accepted method to quantify training load. Your Perceived load levels indicate how hard a training session was compared to your session average from the past 90 days.

Strain & Tolerance

In addition to the training load from individual training sessions, you can follow how Cardio Load builds up over time – the relation between strain and tolerance.

Strain shows how much you have strained yourself with training lately. It shows your average daily load from the past 7 days.

Tolerance describes how prepared you are to endure cardio training. It shows your average daily load from the past 28 days. To improve your tolerance for cardio training, slowly increase your training over a longer period of time.

TRACK YOUR HEART RATE WITH POLAR VANTAGE M2

When it comes to heart rate monitoring, different sports have different needs. Polar Vantage M2 offers you several heart rate tracking solutions – choose the method that suits best to your sports and conditions.

PRECISION PRIME

Polar Vantage M2 uses the Polar Precision Prime sensor fusion technology to track heart rate from the wrist. This innovation combines optical heart rate measurement with other sensor technologies in order to rule out motion artifacts that might disturb the heart rate signal and produce unreliable readings.

POLAR H10 HEART RATE SENSOR

When you need unparalleled accuracy, pair Polar Vantage M2 with the Polar H10 heart rate sensor, the gold standard of heart rate monitoring. The Polar H10 heart rate sensor and the Polar Pro chest strap are the optimal choice for interval training, racket sports or any sports with plenty of arm movement.

You can buy the Polar H10 heart rate sensor separately.

POLAR Verity Sense OPTICAL HEART RATE SENSOR

The Polar Verity Sense is an optical heart rate sensor that you can wear on your upper arm or forearm. It’s a great alternative if you can’t wear a watch on your wrist in your sport or if you find the chest strap unpleasant to wear. Polar Verity Sense comes with a comfortable textile armband and it’s easy to put on and take off.

Polar Verity Sense is also a swimmer’s best friend: it includes a clip that attaches the sensor to your swimming goggles and an internal memory so you can save your pool session and upload it to Polar Flow afterwards.

Узнайте, когда восполнить запас энергии с помощью смарт-функции пополнения энергии FuelWise™

Во время длительной тренировки или забега очень важно поддерживать в организме водный баланс и достаточный уровень энергии. FuelWise — это смарт-функция пополнения энергии, которая подсказывает вам оптимальный вариант восполнения энергозатрат во время длительного занятия

Это позволяет вам поддерживать свои силы и работать с максимальной отдачей.

НЕ ДОПУСКАЙТЕ ИСТОЩЕНИЯ СИЛ

Забываете о пополнении энергии? Смарт-функция с напоминанием подскажет, когда пора восполнить затраты, и поможет поддерживать достаточный уровень энергии во время тренировки.

СКОЛЬКО ВЗЯТЬ ЕДЫ

FuelWise оценивает количество углеводов, которое необходимо во время тренировки, чтобы вы знали, сколько еды нужно с собой взять.

ОПТИМАЛЬНЫЙ ВАРИАНТ ПОПОЛНЕНИЯ ЭНЕРГИИ

FuelWise предлагает базовый вариант пополнения энергии с учетом ваших данных — для максимальной эффективности вы можете корректировать его в соответствии со своими индивидуальными потребностями.

АВТОНАПОМИНАНИЕ О ПРИЕМЕ УГЛЕВОДОВ ДЛЯ ПОДДЕРЖКИ ЭНЕРГИИ

FuelWise автоматически вычисляет, какое количество углеводов необходимо вам для тренировки. Эта функция следит за расходом энергии во время занятия и регулирует автонапоминания в соответствии с потреблением углеводов, позволяя вам сохранять силы и бодрость до конца тренировки.

Функции и технические характеристики

Сверхдлительное время работы от аккумулятора

Устройство Polar Vantage V2 обеспечивает вплоть до 40 часов непрерывной работы. Многочисленные варианты энергосбережения увеличивают срок службы аккумулятора до 100 часов.

Встроенный датчик GPS

GPS, ГЛОНАСС, Galileo и QZSS с системой GPS (A-GPS) с технологией прогнозирования для ускорения процесса определения координат. Встроенный компас и барометрическое отслеживание высоты.

Цветной сенсорный дисплей

Всегда включенный цветной сенсорный дисплей, читаемый при солнечном свете, размером 1,2”. Многослойное защитное стекло Gorilla Glass с покрытием против отпечатков пальцев.

Тест на эффективность в велоспорте

Тест на эффективность в велоспорте позволяет вам персонализировать зоны мощности и подсказывает вашу функциональную пороговую мощность. Требуется измеритель мощности.

Training Load Pro

Функция Training Load Pro помогает понять объем ваших тренировок за последнее время, и какую нагрузку получают различные системы вашего тела во время занятий.

Recovery Pro

Recovery Pro подсказывает, готово ли ваше тело к тренировкам и предлагает обратную связь о восстановлении прямо на ваших часах. Требуется датчик ЧСС Polar.

Тест на восстановление мышц ног

Тест на восстановление мышц ног подскажет, готовы ли ваши ноги к тренировкам высокой интенсивности — всего за пару минут и без какого-либо специального оборудования: все, что вам нужно — это ваши часы.

Nightly Recharge

Функция измерения восстановления Nightly Recharge показывает, насколько хорошо вы восстановились за ночь после дневных нагрузок.

Планирование маршрутов с помощью Komoot

Планируйте свой маршрут в Komoot, импортируйте его на часы Polar Vantage V2 и следуйте пошаговым инструкциям навигации.

Управление музыкой и другие функции умных часов

Легкая навигация по списку воспроизведения и регулировка громкости прямо на часах. Кроме того, на экране часов отображается прогноз погоды и уведомления из приложений.

Руководство по тренировкам FitSpark

Polar Vantage V2 и руководство по тренировкам FitSpark обеспечивают готовый план ежедневных занятий с учетом вашей истории тренировок, степени восстановления и физической формы.

Участки Strava Live

Сделайте ваши пробежки и поездки более захватывающими с помощью участков Strava Live. Получайте оповещения о ближайших участках, просматривайте данные показателей в режиме реального времени во время прохождения участка и проверяйте свои результаты сразу после завершения.

Спортивные профили

Polar Vantage V2 поддерживает более 130 различных видов спорта. Добавьте в часы свои любимые виды спорта с помощью Polar Flow и настраивайте элементы, отображаемые на часах, для каждого спорта.

Источники энергии

Узнайте, как ваше тело использует различные источники энергии во время тренировки. Polar Vantage V2 определяет потребление энергии из жиров, белков и углеводов.

Показатели плавания

Часы Polar Vantage V2 автоматически определяют вашу ЧСС, стиль плавания, дистанцию, темп, количество гребков и время, затраченное на отдых. Показатели дистанции и количества гребков отслеживаются также при плавании на открытой воде.

Running Index

Оцените максимальное потребление кислорода (VO2max) во время беговых тренировок и отслеживайте динамику результативности бега.

Bli kjent med Polar Vantage M2

Nightly Recharge

Restitusjonsmålingen Nightly Recharge viser hvor godt du henter deg inn i løpet av natten etter gårsdagens utfordringer.

Training Load Pro

Training Load Pro gir deg et bilde av hvor mye du har trent i det siste og hvordan treningsøktene belaster de forskjellige delene av kroppen din.

Energikilder

Se hvordan kroppen din benytter seg av forskjellige energikilder under en treningsøkt. Polar Vantage M2 deler energibruken din inn i karbohydrater, proteiner og fett.

Musikkontroll

Naviger rundt i spillelisten din og juster volumet rett på klokken. Du får også værmelding og pushvarsler på klokkeskjermen.

Telefonvarsler

Vær tilkoblet med varsler fra telefonen din. Få varsler om innkommende anrop, meldinger, e-post, kalenderhendelser med mer.

Sportsprofiler

Polar Vantage M2 har støtte for over 130 forskjellige typer trening. Via Polar Flow kan du enkelt legge til de treningsprofilene du bruker mest, og tilpasse hva du ser på klokken for hver treningstype.

Svømmeberegninger

Polar Vantage M2 registrerer automatisk puls, svømmestil, distanse, tempo, takt og hviletider. Distanse og takt måles også ved svømming i åpent vann.

BUILD THE DAY ON THE NIGHT

Nightly Recharge is an overnight recovery measurement that shows you how well you recover from the demands of your day. It helps you make optimal choices in your everyday life to maintain overall wellbeing and reach your training goals.

All you need to do is wear your Polar Vantage M2 during the night – the overnight measurement is completely automatic.

KNOW HOW WELL YOU RECOVER

Recovery from overall stress plays a major role in performance development, optimal daytime functioning, well-being and health. Nightly Recharge tells you how well your body was able to recover from the strain caused by training and other demands of your day.

Optimize your training with Training Load Pro™

When you’re training to achieve a specific goal, you need to know how your workouts strain your body in order to find the balance between different types of training and rest.

Polar Vantage M shows you how your training sessions strain your body and how it affects your performance.

Training Load Pro monitors the strain your training puts on your cardiovascular system (Cardio Load), and also takes into account how strained you feel (Subjective Load). If you’re using a separate running or cycling power meter, you will also get a training load value 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. You get a numerical value, verbal feedback and a visual bullet scale for each training load.

Cardio Load

Your Cardio Load value tells you how much strain your training session put on your cardiovascular system. It is calculated after every workout from your heart rate data.

Your Cardio Load is calculated as training impulse (TRIMP), a commonly accepted method to quantify training load.

Perceived Load

Perceived Load is a value that takes into account your own subjective experience of how demanding your training session was.

Your Perceived Load is quantified with Rate of Perceived Exertion (RPE), a scientifically accepted method to quantify subjective training load. Your Perceived load levels indicate how hard a training session was compared to your session average from the past 90 days.

Strain & Tolerance

In addition to the training load from individual training sessions, you can follow how Cardio Load builds up over time

Strain shows how much you have strained yourself with training lately. It shows your average daily load from the past 7 days.

Tolerance describes how prepared you are to endure cardio training. It shows your average daily load from the past 28 days. To improve your tolerance for cardio training, slowly increase your training over a longer period of time.

Your Cardio Load Status looks at how your Strain compares to your Tolerance and estimates how your training is impacting your body.

Muscle Load (only available with a power meter)
If you’re using a power meter in your running or cycling workouts, your Polar Vantage M will also calculate a Muscle Load value. Muscle Load tells you how much your muscles were strained during your training session. Muscle Load helps you quantify your training load in high-intensity training sessions, such as short intervals, sprints and hill sessions, when your heart rate doesn’t have enough time to react to the changes in the intensity.

Polar Vantage M: Battery life

According to Polar, the Vantage M will give you a sizeable 30 hours of battery life, which is 10 hours less than the Vantage V offers. But when you consider the M430 offers 8 hours with GPS and heart rate, that’s still impressive numbers.

Based on my experience that battery life claim is very much on the money. I’ve not had to touch the charger (it uses the same one as the Vantage V) for a couple of weeks. That’s with 3-4 tracked running sessions using GPS and heart rate. An hour-long run barely makes a dent in the battery. It’s got seriously good stamina and if you love big battery life, then the Vantage M certainly does not disappoint.

Polar Vantage M

By Polar

The Polar Vantage M might cost less than the Vantage V, but that doesn’t mean you get a vastly inferior sports watch. The design changes are not drastic enough to dramatically alter the experience of wearing the M 24/7 – in fact some ways it’s nicer to live with. You get pretty much all of the same features, or at least a good blend of the best the Vantage V has to offer, at a more affordable price. The price puts it against the likes of the Vivoactive 3 Music or one of Suunto’s Spartan Trainer watches. If you care mostly about sports tracking and training insights, this is the one to go for.

Hit

• Comfortable design
• Easy to use
• Great battery life
• Useful training insights

Miss

• Running power requires additional sensor
• Some syncing issues
• Some missing features from Vantage V
• Lacks smartwatch features