POLAR VANTAGE V Black, Running Watch with GPS

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POLAR VANTAGE V Black, Running Watch with GPS

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 measurement, whether during regular 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 such as H6, H7, and H10 can be connected to the Vantage watch.

The sports watch includes the Polar Flow ecosystem, which comprises the main part, an online Flow diary, and a mobile app. The Flow diary has several important tasks. It archives measurement results and daily activities while allowing for broader sports watch settings.

Main Features of Polar Vantage V

Polar Precision Prime

The Polar Vantage M watches measure 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 see how your training affects your body.

During training, you strain different parts of your body. With Polar Vantage V, you get a holistic view of how training sessions strain 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 the body is loaded allows you to optimize your training and develop the right system at the right time. You get a numerical value, verbal assessment, and a visual scale with dots for each training session.

Cardio Load

The cardio load value indicates how much the training strains 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 widely accepted method for quantifying training load.

Muscle Load

Muscle load indicates how much the training strained your muscles. Muscle load helps quantify training load during very intense workouts, such as short intervals, sprints, and hill climbs, where the heart rate does not have enough time to respond 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 needed to produce the effort). Generally, the better your fitness, the greater the efficiency between energy intake and output. Muscle load is calculated from performance data, so this value is obtained only 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 combine subjective feelings with data obtained from the Polar Vantage V watch. Athletes learn this through practice. Training data helps you get to know your body better.

Perceived load is quantified using the rate of perceived exertion (RPE), which is 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 last 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 your training has recently caused. It shows the average daily load over the last 7 days.

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

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

Recovery PRO

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

Daily Recovery

The daily level of cardio recovery can be measured with an 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 such as 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. Polar Vantage V 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

Polar Vantage M supports more than 130 different sports. Add your favorite sport to these sports watches in the Polar Flow app.

Swimming Metrics

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

Smart Calories

Polar Vantage expresses calorie consumption in various 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 overall displayed energy expenditure includes energy needed for training, energy from regular daily activities, and basal metabolism energy, which is derived from personal data.

Training Benefit

Receive motivating feedback immediately after training with a description of the training session's effect. Without complicated thinking, you know whether the training was hard, easy, and whether the effort at the given intensity, considering past days, is effective or so demanding that it could harm health.

Continuous Activity Monitoring

Polar Vantage M will track how many steps you've taken, the distance you've covered, how many calories you've burned, and how you've slept, and set personal daily activity goals for you.

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 significantly improves 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. Besides that, a chest strap, such as Polar H10 (not included), can be connected. What the watch will display during training is up to you, available are:

• instant heart rate
• average heart rate
• maximum heart rate achieved
• 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 when moving outdoors. 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, for enthusiasts who need immediate pace, a special running sensor Polar Stride Sensor is 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

Polar Vantage V uses its own barometric sensor to measure altitude. The starting height 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, for example, based on a set constant distance. Lap Times carry information about average speed, distance, and average heart rate.

• training time
• manual lap time
• previous lap time
• current lap 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 the data becomes more accurate, 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 watch operates during training for up to 40 hours with GPS and optical heart rate sensor enabled. If you do not train or train without GPS, the watch can remain charged for about 3 weeks. The operating time varies depending on the enabled functions.

Water Resistance

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