
1.How to Put Your Heart Rate Monitor On
179320 USA/GBR D
Heart Rate Monitor
User’s Manual
USA/GBR
The Polar A3™ wrist receiver
displays your heart rate during exercise.
The transmitter
detects your heart rate continuously and transmits it to the wrist receiver.
The elastic strap
holds the transmitter in the correct position.
Keep the wrist receiver within 1 meter/ 3 feet of your transmitter. Check that you are not near other people with heart rate monitors or any source of electromagnetic disturbance.
1. Attach the transmitter to the elastic strap.
3.Lift the transmitter off your chest and moisten the two grooved electrode areas on the back.
2.Adjust the strap length to fit snugly and comfortably. Secure the strap around your chest, just below the chest muscles, and buckle it.
4.Check that the wet electrode areas are firmly against your skin and the Polar logo is in a central, upright position.
Reset
If reset, settings will return to the default values.
Signal
Alarm on or off.
OK
Starts measuring heart rate. Starts and stops the stopwatch. Enters the displayed mode. Locks in your selection.
Up
Moves to the following mode or increases the selected value.
Down
Returns to the previous mode or decreases the selected value.
Heart Touch function
Bring the wrist receiver up to the Polar logo on the transmitter during exercise and you can check the time of day.
2.Functions and Modes of Polar A3
How to operate the set buttons
•To move forward or back, use Up or Down button.
•To choose the value to begin adjusting, press OK. It will begin blinking.
•Press Up or Down button to adjust the value (The digits run faster if you press and hold the button).
•Wherever you are in the settings, you can return to the Time of day display by pressing and holding OK.
Time of day display mode
•Starting point for all functions
•Shows date and time
Press and hold OK to return to the Time of day display, wherever you are in the Settings or File recalling cycle.
When the alarm is turned on, the symbol appears on the Time of day display. When the alarm comes on it will sound for one minute or you can turn it off by pressing any of the four buttons.
Exercise recording mode
•In the Exercise mode you measure your heart rate and record your exercise information in a file
•You can view different information while the heart rate monitor is measuring heart rate
SETTING
File mode
• Shows the data recorded during the exercise
Setting mode
•Set different values
-12h or 24h time mode
-birthday
-target heart rate limits
-watch functions; alarm, time, date
3.How to Start and Stop
How to Set up Your New Receiver
1.Press any of the four buttons twice to activate the receiver. TIME is displayed. 12h 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:
12h or 24h time mode Time of day
Date 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
Press appears in a few seconds. twice
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.
How to Stop
1. Press OK to stop the stopwatch. QUIT and paused stopwatch
appear. Measurement is paused. Pressonce
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.
4.Functions During Exercise
1.Press Signal button to turn the zone alarm sound on or off.
2.Check the time of day by bringing the wrist receiver up to the Polar logo on the transmitter.
3.Scroll up to select what values you want to view in the upper row of the display during exercise.
1. Heart rate in the target zone is displayed
a)as absolute heart rate or
b) as a % of maximum heart rate
according to your lower row selection.
2. Fitness bullets
For every 10 minutes in TZ, a appears.
4.Scroll down to select what you want to view in the lower row of the display.
1. Heart rate in beats per minute.
2. Heart rate as a % of your maximum heart rate.
3. Exercise time
4. Time of day
5.You can pause the stopwatch by pressing OK. Repressing OK will restart the stopwatch.
After restart you will see the heart rate in the lower row.