Polar Pacer Pro

VO2max Explained

Your individual VO2max can tell you how many millilitres of oxygen is being used by each kilogram of your body weight.

To put it simply, it tells you how fit you are and how efficient your heart is - helping you understand your future potential for aerobic endurance.

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VO2max In Action

Since your muscles need oxygen to move, improving this value can make you healthier and boost your overall performance in sports.

A higher VO2max value can make workouts feel easier, lower your 5K (or Marathon) times significantly, and help you train longer without tiring. Basically, if you increase this value, you’ll become fitter, stronger, and perform better.

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Walking Test

Walking Test is an uncomplicated test that you can perform regularly to estimate your aerobic fitness level based on your VO2max.

Walk at a brisk pace for 15 minutes along a flat route and the automatic calculation will factor in the distance you walk, your heart rate during the test, and your personal metrics: gender, age, height, and weight.

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• Walk for 15 minutes. Get results.
• Check your aerobic fitness level easily.
• See your progress over the long-term.

Running Performance Test

Run at the right level.

The Running Performance Test helps you personalize your heart rate, speed and power zones, so that you’ll always hit the optimal running pace.

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• Know where your running performance is
• Personalize your training zones
• Keep track of your progress

Precision Prime™

Polar Precision Prime™ sensor fusion technology tracks your heart rate from the wrist. The innovation combines optical heart rate measurement with other sensor technologies to rule out motion artifacts that might disturb the heart rate signal and produce unreliable readings.

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• Deeper light penetration into the skin
• Light detectors pick up returning light
• Accurate heart rate measurement

Running Index

After every run, you get a Running Index score based on the relationship between heart rate and speed. A single number to see your progress and compare to gender and age related aerobic fitness norms.

Because Running Index gives you an estimate of your maximal aerobic performance, it is a good predictor of your finish time for popular race distances, from 5k to marathon.

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• See how efficient your running is.
• Monitor your progress with a single score.
• Predict how fast you can run a race

Training Targets

Plan your training sessions in advance with customized training targets and save them to your training diary. When it’s time to break a sweat, your device will guide you throughout your scheduled session, so you can fully focus on your workout.

You can create interval workouts with heart rate, speed, or power targets, or set simple training goals, such as ‘burn 700 kcal cycling’ or ‘run 30 minutes.’ Your device will alert you when you need to slow down or speed up to make sure your training goes as planned.

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• Create your own training targets
• Get guidance and alerts for each session
• Analyze your training in Polar Flow

Running Power Explained

Whereas heart rate measures your internal load as you run (cardio effort required), Running Power monitors your external work rate in watts as you run (mechanical output from your muscles).

This is an extremely useful tool for sprints and short intervals because it responds to intensity changes almost instantly.

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Running Power In Action

Because Running Power responds quickly to intensity changes, has a high dynamic range, and takes into account changes in altitude, it’s perfect for interval training and running in hilly terrain.

By monitoring changes in your pace and altitude, you can use Running Power to maintain a steady level of effort during a steady-state workout in varying terrain, for example, running on a trail.

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Running Program

Choose one of four running events, 5K, 10K, half marathon or marathon, and get a personalized, adaptive training plan that fits you and your goals.

Your personal running program is based on your training history and your current fitness level – with programs ranging from 9 weeks up to 20 months in length, depending on your event and choices.

Each running program consists of three phases and includes five different types of runs, including interval training and long runs. Don’t sweat it, though. Your Polar device will guide you through each workout and give feedback for each session.

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• Personalized, adaptive training plans
• Choose one of four running events
• Guided workouts and session feedback

Leg Recovery Test

The Leg Recovery Test tells you whether your legs are ready for speed and strength training in just a couple of minutes without any specialist equipment – all you need is your watch.

The test is quick and easy to do, and gives clear, guided instructions on how to get the best results. Those results provide you with concrete advice on what type of workout benefits you most at the moment.

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• See if your legs have recovered
• Easy to do. Get result in minutes
• No extra equipment required

Season Planner

Most athletes can only peak twice a year. With Season Planner, you can plan and customize the training season - whether you’re in your base training period or in preparation for the racing season.

You can set weekly volumes by duration or distance targets, plan training focus areas, and easily create individual workouts or training targets for each sport.

See what is helping and not helping in terms of reaching your goals and ensure you peak at the right time.

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• Plan and customize your season training plan
• Set duration and mileage targets
• Divide your training sessions into periods

Training Load Pro™

When you train, the different systems of your body become strained. Training Load Pro™ monitors this strain to provide you with detailed insights.

Training Load Pro™ gives you values for the load placed on both your cardiovascular and musculoskeletal system (Cardio Load and Muscle Load) after every session, and with Perceived Load you can rate how strained you feel - allowing you to see the immediate strain on your body, and monitor training induced strain over the long-term.

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• Monitor how your training strains your body
• Understand your cardio & muscle loads
• Track loads by session, and over the long-term

Global Navigation Satellite Systems

Train with the best positioning experience anywhere in the world.

The built-in GPS works together with GLONASS and Galileo global navigation satellite systems, and QZSS regional navigation satellite system for East Asia and Oceania to provide accurate speed, distance, and route data anywhere on the planet.

Assisted-GPS provides faster fixes and tells your watch the predicted positions of the satellites, making it possible to receive signals from them within seconds wherever you are, even under difficult conditions.

• Assisted-GPS for faster fix times
• Supports multiple satellite systems
• Accurate location, speed, and distance data

Turn-by-Turn Guidance powered by komoot

Plan and map detailed routes with komoot and sync them to your watch for turn-by-turn route guidance on the go. Whether road cycling, hiking, trail running, or mountain biking, komoot’s superior planning and navigation technology allows you to easily discover the great outdoors - includes your home region for free.

And now, you can venture further from home and explore even more with an additional FREE REGION BUNDLE included.

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• Personalized routes for your favorite sport
• Includes 2 x FREE regions
• Real-time turn-by-turn navigation

Back to Start

Get back to where you started.

Back to Start guides you to your starting point in the shortest distance possible (beeline) – displaying your bearings and an arrow pointing you in the right direction, as well as the direct distance between you and where you need to get to.

• Get back to your starting point
• Follow the arrow for directions
• See the distance you have left

Route & Elevation Profiles

With route and elevation profiles you can see the terrain you covered during your training session in Polar Flow as a detailed summary – with calculated slope angles for every ascent and descent of the recorded session.

• Automatic slope angle calculations
• Elevation profiles for training terrain
• Get detailed insights for the route you covered

Hill Splitter™

Hill Splitter™ automatically detects all uphills and downhills by using your GPS-based speed, distance, and barometric altitude data.

It shows you detailed insights into your performance, such as the distance you have traveled, the speed you covered it, and how much you climbed or descended on every detected hill during your session, automatically adapting to the terrain you are training on with every effort counted.

• Automatic uphill & downhill detection
• Get detailed climb and descent insights
• Track every effort on all terrains

Recovery Pro™

Recovery Pro™ works in sync with Training Load Pro™ to give you the full picture of your recovery, letting you know when your body is ready for more training, if you’re training at the right level, or if you should take it easier.

Instead of estimating, Recovery Pro™ actually measures your recovery by monitoring the balance between your training and recovery on a daily basis, and over the long-term.

You get feedback and suggestions that take into account training-induced stress, plus everyday stress outside of training, or bad sleep to provide you with personalized guidance to help you train the right way.

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• See when your body is ready for more training
• Personalized feedback and training tips
• Prevent injuries and overtraining

Nightly Recharge™

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

Your Nightly Recharge™ status is based on two components: how you slept (Sleep Charge), and how well your autonomic nervous system calmed down during the early hours of your sleep (ANS Charge).

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• Automatic overnight recovery measurement
• Get tips to improve sleep and training
• Based on your sleep, and ANS status

Serene™

Relax your body and calm your mind with Serene™ guided breathing exercise.

Deep breathing is known to be an easy and efficient way to manage stress, build resilience and improve focus. Serene™ guides you to breathe at a slow, regular rhythm to synchronize your heart rate with your rate of breathing – six breaths per minute; which is the optimal breathing rate for shutting down your body's stress response.

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• Improve your well-being, sleep, and stress resilience
• Easy, relaxing guided breathing exercises
• Sync your heart rate and breathing rate

Sleep Plus Stages™

Getting enough good-quality sleep is vital for your health and well-being. When you sleep, your body cycles through three sleep stages: light, deep, and REM.

Sleep Plus Stages™ automatically tracks the amount and quality of your sleep (Sleep Score), and lets you know how long you spent in each stage during the night.

Sleep tracking can help you understand your sleep behavior over the long-term, and also identify the factors in your day that may have a negative impact on your sleep.

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• Automatically track the quality of your sleep
• See your Sleep Score at a glance
• Learn how factors affect your sleep behavior

Push Notifications

Get alerts for incoming calls, messages and notifications direct to your watch.

Whenever you receive a notification on your phone, your watch will vibrate and a red dot will appear at the bottom of the display. When receiving a call your watch will vibrate and show the caller - allowing you to answer or decline the call with your watch.

Phone notifications are available for iOS and Android phones.

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• Get call, message, and notification alerts
• Easily customize your notifications settings
• Compatible with both iOS and Android

Music Controls

Navigate around your playlist and adjust volume straight on your watch. Your Polar watch connects to the music app on your phone, so you can easily control your music without having to take out your phone.

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• Play your favorite music, audiobooks, and podcasts
• Play/pause, skip tracks, adjust the volume
• Compatible with both iOS and Android