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179335USA/GBRC Heart Rate Monitor User's Manual USA/GBR 1. How to Put Your Heart Rate Monitor On The elastic strap holds the transmitter in the correct position. The Polar A5TM wrist receiver displays your heart rate during exercise. The transmitter detects your heart rate continuously and transmits it to the wrist receiver. How to Put Your Heart Rate Monitor On1. How to Start and Stop3. After Exercising 4. 8. Target Heart Rate Zone Settings7. 5. Functions During Exercise 6. How to Recall File Stored in Memory 10. Resetting 9. Self Walk Test by Polar and UKK Institute 12. Technical Specifications 13. Limited Polar Warranty 14. Disclaimer 11. Minimizing Possible Risks in Exercising with Heart Rate Monitor 2. Functions and Modes of Polar A5 Contents How to Recall File Stored in Memory6. Reset If reset, settings will return to the default values. Walk Test mode Based on 1.24 miles/2 km brisk walk Measures cardiorespiratory fitness How to Start and Stop How to Set up Your New Polar A5 Receiver 1. Press any of the four buttons twice to activate the receiver. Unit is displayed. LBS/INCH is flashing. 2. Once awakened, the receiver will guide you through the necessary settings. Scroll up or down to set the right values. Press OK to lock your selection. Set the following: Measuring units lbs/inch or kg/cm 12h or 24h time mode Time of day Date Weight Height Sex Birthday After setting your birthday, your target heart rate zone based on your age is automatically calculated. After the settings are complete, the receiver automatically goes to the Time of day display. You can cancel the setting by pressing and holding OK, but you can not start measuring the heart rate before you have completed the settings. How to Start 1. In the Time of day display press OK. Your heart rate appears in a few seconds. 2. Press OK again. The stopwatch starts running and you can start exercising. The exercise data will only be stored if you have turned the stopwatch on. 3. How to Stop 1. Press OK to stop the stopwatch. QUIT and paused stopwatch appear. Measurement is paused. Exercise is no longer recorded. 2. Press Up or Down button to exit the Exercise mode. The receiver shows the Time of day display within 5 minutes if you forget to quit the heart rate measurement mode when you stopped the stopwatch and removed the transmitter from your chest. Press twice Press once BMI Interpretation < 18.5 Underweight 18.5 - 24.9 Normal weight 25.0 - 29.9 Overweight 30.0 Obesity Reference: World Health Organization. Obesity: preventing and managing the global epidemic. Report of a WHO Consultation on Obesity. Geneva: World Health Organization, 1998. The BMI value does not distinguish between muscular and fat tissue. Thus, a weight-lifter may have a BMI value which indicates obesity although the person only has large muscles and little fat tissue. Time of day display Press Up Press OK FILE Press Up KCALPress Up BMIPress Up W INDEXPress Up IN ZONEPress Up AVERAGE HR 1. Press Signal/Light to turn the light on. 2. Press and hold Signal/Light to turn the zone alarm sound on or off. 3. Check the time of day by bringing the wrist receiver up to the Polar logo on the transmitter. 4. Scroll up to select what values you want to view in the upper row of the display during exercise. Functions During Exercise4. 5. Scroll down to select what you want to view in the lower row of the display. 3. Exercise time 6. You can pause the stopwatch by pressing OK. Repressing OK will restart the stopwatch. After restart you will see heart rate in the lower row. 2. Heart rate as a % of your maximum heart rate. 4. Time of day 1. While in the Time of day display mode press Up or Down until FILE is displayed. 2. Press OK. 3. Scroll up or down to recall the exercise information: EXE. TIME Total exercise time AVERAGE HR Average heart rate of the exercise IN ZONE Time spent in target zone KCAL Calories expended during the exercise BMI Body mass index W INDEX WalkIndex, the result of the walking test The most convenient way to determine whether a person is overweight is to use the Body Mass Index,