Polar OwnCal

Find out how to accurately track your calorie expenditure during activity & exercise with the unique Polar feature, OwnCal. This feature is available on select Polar products.

Full transcript: Hi. I'm Chris with Polar USA. Welcome to another installment in our series of Polar Unique Features. Today we're going to learn about the Polar OwnCal feature. OwnCal counts and displays calories burned in any workout and also measures cumulative numbers after several exercise sessions. The OwnCal calculation is based on several key factors, including individual body weight, height, age and gender, maximum heart rate, and heart rate during exercise. This feature is available on select Polar products. Now we're going to show you how OwnCal works. Jen will use the OwnCal feature as she works out with her FT40. For more accurate results, Jen performed the Polar fitness test with the OwnIdex feature on her FT40 before she got started. If your unit has the OwnIndex feature, you can find out how to perform that test by viewing our OwnIndex video at www.youtube.com/PolarUSA. Once Jen gets started working out with her Polar FT40, she hits the OK start button twice. Her unit detects her heart rate and she's off. As Jen works out, she can check her wrist unit to see how many calories she has burned and determine if she is hitting her goal. Jen's training goal today is to burn 500 calories. The amount of energy expended by physical activity depends on exercise intensity and duration. Body weight is also a factor, so the heavier a person is, the more energy he or she will expend versus a lighter person doing the same exercise. In order to reach her training goal, Jen increases her intensity on her elliptical machine. After 45 minutes, Jen has reached her goal of expending 500 calories. At the end of her workout, she receives a summary, which includes time, average and max heart rate and total calorie expenditure. To keep an ongoing training diary, Jen uses the Polar FlowLink to upload her info from her wrist unit to www.polarpersonaltrainer.com. Thanks for taking a moment to get to learn about Polar's unique feature OwnCal. This is a great feature to help set and achieve tangible training goals. To find out more about maintaining a digital training goal, go to www.polarpersonaltrainer.com, and to learn more about polar products and how you can make training with heart rate part of your healthier more active lifestyle, visit www.polarusa.com.

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Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Polar
• FT40
• OwnCal
• tracking
• calories
• counting
• elliptical
• training
• how
• to
• burn
• watch

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I have a FT40, and I love it! <3