Product Description

· Optimizes strength training by providing guidance on how to long to rest between sets, delivering the information in an easy-to-read graphical display (see image above)

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Designed for fitness enthusiasts who want to improve strength and cardio, the FT80 guides your strength training with heart rate-based recovery periods between sets, and creates a training program based on your personal goals while setting new weekly training targets. The Polar Fitness test measures your aerobic fitness at rest and tells you your progress, and the unit comes with Polar FlowLink for effortless data transfer to your online training diary via both Mac and PC.

The FT80 lets you determine your resting heart rate in just five minutes.

What's in the box?

FT80 training computer
WearLink+ transmitter
FlowLink data transfer unit
Manual
Smart Coaching Features
- Fitness Test: If you’re looking to improve your fitness and want to keep up-to-date with how well you’re doing, the smart Fitness Test provides crucial data in just five minutes. By regularly comparing your test results, you can see what progress you are making and how your fitness is improving.
- OwnZone: Knowing the right intensity to improve your fitness can be a challenge. OwnZone adjusts your heart rate training zone to match your body’s current physiological condition. By using OwnZone, you can be sure you’re training at an intensity that improves your aerobic fitness.
- Smart Calories: OwnCal accurately calculates the number of calories expended during a training session based on your weight, height, age, gender, individual maximum heart rate (HRmax), and how hard you’re training.
- Relaxation Test: All you need to do is to lie down for just five minutes while your training computer checks your body’s state of relaxation. The OwnRelax test can be done anywhere, anytime, lying down, or sitting comfortably without disturbance.
- STAR Training Program: Shows you how hard and how much you need to train to reach your longterm goals. This feature is designed to keep you motivated all week and every week by using a personal guidance program right on your wrist.
- Strength Training Guidance: Forget standardized recovery periods between sets and use more reliable guidance based on heart rate. Strength Training Guidance determines the optimal recovery time between your sets, helping you to improve muscle tone.
- Training Load: Shows at-a-glance info regarding your daily cumulative training load, and advises if and when rest days are needed, and when it’s best to train harder in order to maintain your performance improvement.
  Body Measurement Features
  - Automatic age-based target zone
  - Average, minimum, and maximum heart rate of training
  - Heart rate expressed as the number of beats per minute or as a percentage of your maximum heart rate
  - HR-based target zones with visual and audible alarm
  - User-set HRmax
  - Manual target zone
  - Polar Fitness Test
  - Polar OwnCal calorie expenditure with fat percentage
  - Polar OwnCode (5kHz/2.4 GHz W.I.N.D.) coded transmission
  - Polar OwnRelax relaxation test
  - Polar OwnZone personal heart rate zone
  - Polar STAR training program
  - Polar strength training guidance
    Data Transfer
    
    Compatible with Mac (Intel-based) via Polar DataLink
    Compatible with PC via Polar FlowLink
    Compatible with polarpersonaltrainer.com via Polar FlowLink
    G1 GPS Sensor Features
    
    Distance -- training and total
    Speed/Pace -- current, average, and maximum
    Polarpersonaltrainer.com Features
    
    Advanced training analyzing
    Training diary
    Training Load
    Training programs
    Recording Features
    
    Totals
    100 training files (with summaries)
    Weekly history
    S1 footpod Features
    
    Distance -- training and total
    Speed/Pace -- current, average and maximum
    Training Features
    
    Graphical target zone indicator
    HeartTouch -- button-free operation of wrist unit
    ZoneLock
    ZonePointer
    Watch Features
    
    Backlight
    Date and weekday indicator
    Display text in English, German, Finnish, Swedish, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian
    Dual time zone
    KeyLock
    Low battery indicator
    Stopwatch
    Time of day (12/24h) with alarm and snooze
    User-replaceable battery
    Water resistant to 50 meters
    Warranty
    Polar products include a limited two-year manufacturer's warranty against defects in materials and workmanship.
    About Polar
    Polar helps you truly understand and maximize your training. The company's combination of expertise in sports, physiology, and electronics results in its technologically innovative product line of sports and fitness tools, dating back to 1977. Polar caters to all fitness levels by offering a comprehensive product range, in order to help athletes -- from professional-level performers to those simply wanting to get in shape -- achieve desired results.