Polar Precision Performance Software Screenshots

Curve displaying avg and max HR, speed, cadence, elevation, etc with options all customizable. See last screenshot for another config.

Individual exercise info with with times in each zone.

Weekly view of times in zones and total time. Excellent periodization tool (do what I say, not as I do...).

Calendar view with color coded bikes/exercises, time and calories totaled by week. Double-click a date to pull up the diary.

Polar Tips

A sample screen capture of the Polar software is below. The red line is heart rate, brown is altitude, green is speed, yellow is temperature, light blue is pace for the laps I entered manually while riding or with the software afterwards. The background colors represent different heart rate zones. 186 is my max so the red is sub-lactate threshold, orange is sub-threshold, green is tempo, optic yellow is aerobic, yellow is recovery, and blue is sedate. Average speed for the ride was 17.2 and max was 41.6. There can be 9 of these per day in the diary, which also tracks the number of calories burned. Some other interesting views are the calendar and histograms for time in zones. This is a great training and coaching tool!

Update location and instructions (read!) for v4.00.043 4/4/06 http://support.polar.fi/PKBSupport.nsf/ALLDOCS/42256C2B001E0F6A42256B27003FEA5F?OpenDocument

USB Interface Driver Issues
http://support.polar.fi/PKBSupport.nsf/ALLDOCS/42256C2B001E0F6A42256B61001F2C84?OpenDocument

Useful tips during exercise
http://support.polar.fi/PKBSupport.nsf/ALLDOCS/42256C2B001E0F6A42256C4F004CA3F7?OpenDocument 

Updating your Polar Person Data (.ppd) file:

1. Open the Polar s/w
2. Choose Options.Teams... to open the Team Management Dialog
3. Choose Edit...to open the Edit Team Dialog
4. If you do not already have 2 members for the existing team, add a new bogus team member.
5. Close all the dialogs
6. Switch to a different person other than the file you're trying to update via the Options.Switch Person... Dialog
7. Rename the Joe Schmoe.ppd file to Joe Schmoe.ppd.bak. The default location for this is C:\Program Files\Polar\Polar Precision Performance\Joe Schmoe
8. Save the new Joe Schmoe.ppd file into that directory
9. Switch Persons to Joe Schmoe as in step 6

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