POLAR VANTAGE V White M/L, Running Watch with GPS

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POLAR VANTAGE V White M/L, Running Watch with GPS

The Polar Vantage V is an advanced running watch with GPS and wrist-based heart rate monitoring. The watch uses GPS to measure distances, speed, elevation, and track recording.

Basic heart rate monitoring, whether during daily activities or training, is ensured by the new type of optical sensor Polar Precision Prime, which consists of 4 photoelectric elements, several pairs of red-green light, and 4 electrodes that also serve for charging and data transfer. For special purposes, chest straps like H6, H7, and H10 can be connected to the Vantage watch.

The sports watch includes the Polar Flow ecosystem, which encompasses the main unit, an online Flow diary, and a mobile app. The Flow diary has several important tasks. It archives measurement results and daily activities and also allows for broader settings of the sports watch.

Main Features of Polar Vantage V

Polar Precision Prime

The Polar Vantage M watch measures heart rate at the wrist using Polar Precision Prime sensor fusion technology. This innovation combines optical heart rate measurement with skin contact measurement to prevent any motion artifacts that could disrupt the heart rate signal and create unreliable data.

Training Load Pro

Quantify your training load and find out how your training is affecting your body.

During training, you stress different parts of your body. With the Polar Vantage V watch, you get a holistic view of how training sessions stress these different parts and how it affects your performance.

Training Load Pro provides the level of training load for both the cardiovascular and musculoskeletal systems (cardio load and muscle load) and also considers how tired you feel (Subjective Load).

Knowing how each part of your body is loaded allows you to optimize your training and develop the right system at the right time. You get a numerical value, verbal feedback, and a visual scale with bullet points for each training session.

Cardio Load

The cardio load value indicates how much the training stresses your cardiovascular system. It is calculated after each training session from heart rate data.

Cardio load is calculated using the TRIMP (Training Impulse) method, which is a generally accepted method for quantifying training load.

Muscle Load

Muscle load indicates how much the training stressed your muscles. Muscle load helps quantify training load during very intense workouts, such as short intervals, sprints, and hill runs, where the heart rate doesn't have enough time to react to intensity changes.

Muscle load shows the amount of mechanical energy (kJ) you produced during running or cycling. It reflects your energy expenditure (instead of the energy intake you needed to produce the effort). Generally, the better your fitness, the more efficient the relationship between energy intake and expenditure. Muscle load is calculated from power data, so you only get this value from running workouts (and cycling if using a cycling power meter).

Perceived Load

Perceived load is a value that considers your own subjective impression of the training's difficulty.

The key to finding the balance between training and rest is learning to listen to your body and combining subjective feelings with data obtained from the Polar Vantage V watch. Athletes learn this through practice. Training data helps you better understand your body.

Perceived load is quantified using the rate of perceived exertion (RPE), a scientifically accepted method for quantifying training load. Levels of perceived load show how demanding the training was compared to the average value over the past 90 days.

Strain and Tolerance

In addition to training load from individual workouts, you can track how cardio load accumulates over time, i.e., the relationship between strain and tolerance.

Strain shows how much strain training has recently caused you. It shows the average daily load over the past 7 days.

Tolerance describes how prepared you are to handle cardio training. It shows the average daily load over the past 28 days. To improve cardio training tolerance, gradually increase training over a longer period.

Cardio load status tracks how strain compares to tolerance and estimates how training affects your body.

Recovery PRO

The Polar Vantage V watch helps prevent overtraining and injuries with a unique recovery tracking solution. It measures how your body has recovered and also provides feedback and recommendations regarding recovery.

Daily Recovery

Daily cardio recovery level can be measured with the orthostatic test (requires Polar H10 sensor). It is based on heart rate and its variability and considers all stress factors in your life, including training stress and stress caused by other life aspects like poor sleep or work pressure.

Balance between Training and Recovery

Recovery Pro combines long-term recovery data with long-term training load to monitor the balance between training and recovery. By knowing whether you have trained too much, too little, or just right, you can more easily recognize your personal limits.

Recovery Assessment

Recovery Pro offers an assessment of both the current level of cardio recovery and the long-term balance between training and recovery. The Polar Vantage V watch uses these two values for daily personalized training recommendations.

Running Index

Find out your running VO2max value and track how your running performance improves.

Running Program

Get a personal and adaptive training plan that suits you and your goals.

Sport Profiles

The Polar Vantage M watch supports over 130 different sports. Add your favorite sport to these sports watches in the Polar Flow app.

Swimming Metrics

Track your progress in the pool. The Polar Vantage M watch automatically detects heart rate, swimming style, distance swum, speed, strokes, and rest. Distance swum and stroke count can also be tracked in an outdoor pool.

Smart Calories

Polar Vantage expresses calorie consumption in different modes. In regular training mode, it expresses energy consumption induced by the training itself. Personal data and heart rate progression during training play a role. Polar Vantage also measures energy expenditure during regular daily activities. The total displayed energy expenditure includes energy needed for training, energy from regular daily activities, and basal metabolic energy, which is derived from personal data.

Training Benefit

Get motivating feedback immediately after training with a description of the effect of the training session. Without complicated thinking, you know whether the training was hard, easy, and at the same time, you find out whether the effort at the given intensity, considering the past days, is effective or so demanding that it could damage your health.

Continuous Activity Monitoring

The Polar Vantage M watch will track how many steps you take, the distance you travel, how many calories you burn, and how you sleep, and set personal daily activity goals.

Continuous Heart Rate Monitoring

Get a comprehensive view of how your heart behaves throughout the day. Continuous heart rate monitoring allows for even more accurate data on calories burned and activities and informs about the lowest and highest heart rate measured that day.

Sleep Plus™

Good sleep can significantly improve recovery and performance. Polar Sleep Plus™ automatically detects the duration, amount, and quality of sleep.

Heart Rate Features

Polar Vantage measures heart rate primarily from the wrist using an optical heart rate sensor. In addition, a chest strap, such as Polar H10 (not included), can be connected. What the watch will display during training is up to you, with the following options available:

• instant heart rate
• average heart rate
• maximum achieved heart rate
• average heart rate in a segment
• zone pointer (graphical display of set zones)

Speed and Distance Measurement

Polar Vantage measures speed and distance in several ways. The first method is using the integrated GPS, which then measures speed/pace and distance during outdoor movement. Furthermore, Polar Vantage M can measure speed and distance from the hand, i.e., without active GPS and only in the Running and Walking sport profiles. This can be applied, for example, when running on a treadmill. For running enthusiasts who need immediate pace, the Polar Stride Sensor is also available. Thirdly, Polar Vantage can connect to Bluetooth SMART cycling speed and cadence sensors. On the display, you can prepare a display for one of the following variables:

• instant speed or pace (km/h, min/km)
• average or maximum speed
• distance
• segment distance (in relation to the stopwatch)
• average segment speed

Altimeter

For altitude measurement, Polar Vantage V uses its own barometric sensor. The starting altitude is automatically calibrated via GPS.

• instant altitude
• elevation gain (meters climbed)

Stopwatch

Polar Vantage V is equipped with a stopwatch with lap times. Lap times are divided and separated into manually entered and automatically recorded based on a set constant distance. Lap Times carry information about average speed, distance, and average heart rate.

• training time
• manual segment time
• last segment time
• current new segment time
• automatic lap recording

Daily Activity Monitor

The daily activity monitor in the Polar Vantage V sports watch tracks regular daily activities, helps determine how much time you sleep, and how much time you spend sitting in an office chair. The daily activity monitor function can be supported by enabling heart rate monitoring throughout the day and night. This provides a more comprehensive overview of regular daily activities and mainly refines the data, especially concerning energy expenditure.

Battery

Polar Vantage V is equipped with an internal, rechargeable Li-Pol battery with a capacity of 320mAh, which ensures the operation of the watch during training for up to 40 hours with GPS and optical heart rate sensor turned on. If you do not train or train without GPS, the watch can stay charged for about 3 weeks. The operating time varies depending on the functions turned on.

Water Resistance

Polar Vantage V is marked 30M. It can be used for swimming, but not for diving.