Polar STAR Training Program
The adaptive and personalized Polar STAR Training Program helps you to reach your training targets. The training program gives you the optimal intensity, calorie, and time targets for your training and allows you to decide what kind of exercise you want to do and when.
The Polar STAR Training Program is based on your fitness level, activity level, training goal and user information (weight, height, age and sex).
Your training computer gives feedback on your performance after each training session and once a week. By analyzing your weekly training results and changing fitness level, the training computer adapts to your training habits and gives you training guidance for the following week.
When you create Polar STAR Training Program choose your training target. Your choice is
- Improve fitness if your target is to improve your current cardiovascular fitness level and you are able to train regularly.
- Maximize fitness if your target is to maximize your current cardiovascular fitness level, you have been training regularly for at least 10 -12 weeks and training nearly every day is not a problem to you.
- Lose weight if you want to lose some weight and you are able to train several hours per week. This option is only in the FT60 training computer.
After the Polar STAR Training Program is created your training computer gives you training time and calorie target for the week. Further more the target training time is cut up for three different target intensity zones.
During the Polar STAR Training program your training computer continuously analyzes your progress and adjusts by increasing or decreasing weekly training targets. The program is first time adjusted after six weeks of training. To optimize your training, the balance between training and recovery have to be ideal. If needed your training computer will assign you to have a recovery week that allows your body to recover and adapt to the stimulus that training has provided.
Start your training session regularly with OwnZone determination to make your training computer take into account your long-term OwnZone results when updating the program targets. 
When you have successfully followed your Polar STAR Training Program your training computer rewards you with star(s) or a trophy.I need to reset my FT80/change battery and don't want to lose my STAR training program. How do I do it?
If you need to reset your training computer and you don't want it to affect the STAR training program, only enter the time and date after reset. Then press and hold the BACK button to skip the Basic settings. The STAR training program will continue where you left off.
Your previously stored user information settings are not affected during battery change/reset. If you go through the set up and press OK for each user information setting (weight, height, DOB, Sex, HRmax, activity, OwnIndex), the FT80 understands this as a new person and resets the STAR training program.
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