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›New boost for cardio and strength training with the award winning FT80

01/12/2010

Kempele, Finland – 1. December, 2010 – This year, give someone a new way to train with the Polar FT80. With Polar, it’s motivation that lasts. It’s personal guidance and knowing exactly how hard and how long to exercise. It’s inspiration to get you fitter, faster. Polar, the market leader and pioneer in heart rate training technology, has re-launched the award-winning FT80 training computer with a white display and a renewed design. Winner of the iF product design award, Plus X Award, and the Fennia Prize, the Polar FT80 is the most dedicated training partner for seriously committed fitness enthusiasts. With its modern, sporty and striking design features, the FT80 is a comfortable fit in all conditions for any exercise. Its appealing sleek style stands out from the mass while the thin casing and smooth surface allow excellent wrist mobility during a hot workout. Fitness enthusiasts can now choose between a black and a white display to suit their own preference. Both models come with many unique Polar features that help fitness enthusiasts fine-tune their body both in cardio and strength training. The STAR Training Program gives the user a customized aerobic training program with weekly targets according to their personal goal. After a week of training, it gives feedback in one of the available 7 languages and adapts the training program for the following week based on the user’s training habits when necessary. If the user has had a good week of training – having followed the individual training program – the FT80 awards them with stars or a trophy. Instead of standard recovery periods between repetitions, the Strength Training Guidance helps optimize workout sessions by showing a graphical curve of the user’s heart rate and indicates to them when they are ready for the next set. Pacing training according to an individual’s heart rate with the FT80 makes the most use of every session. To see if the user’s fitness level is really improving, the FT80 measures their aerobic fitness with the Fitness Test. To do the test, the user only needs to lie down and relax for five minutes. The result, Polar OwnIndex, is comparable to the maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max), telling how fit the person is. By comparing the results over time, the user can see if their fitness is improving. The FT80 comes with the WearLink®+ transmitter. It picks up the heart’s signals and transfers them to the training computer. The soft textile chest strap seamlessly adapts around the user’s chest bringing full freedom of movement to the training session. The individually coded heart rate transmission ensures that the training computer picks up the right heart rate signal and not someone else’s, which is perfect for exercising in a group. For extra motivation, the user will find the online training diary at polarpersonaltrainer.com a great help in tracking performance and getting up-to-date advice on how to keep improving. Those with a competitive edge can challenge their friends and other polarpersonaltrainer.com members to keep motivation going through the tougher periods. With the training load feature the user has a convenient, at-a-glance calendar view on their cumulative training load – an easy reference for the user to know when they are recovered enough for the next session. “The FT80 gives fitness enthusiasts a new way to train, allowing them to make the most of their training time”, comments Jan Mueller, Fitness & Cross-Training Segment Manager at Polar. “It works just like a personal trainer by setting weekly training targets, giving valuable feedback on every training session and rewarding the user for a good week of training. Simply put, the FT80 gets you fitter, faster.” For sale through authorized Polar retailers from October 2010, the renewed, stylish black FT80 training computer will be available with the comfortable WearLink+ transmitter, FlowLink® data transfer unit for effortless data transfer between the training computer and polarpersonaltrainer.com, and a user manual. In a more extensive set, it will also come with be available with the G1 GPS sensor. About Polar Founded in 1977, Polar Electro invented the first wireless heart rate monitor. Since then the Company has been leading the sports instruments and heart rate monitoring category through its in-depth understanding of human physiology, performance, and the environment. Polar works in close cooperation with leading sports institutes and governing bodies, and has, thus, become widely recognized as the pioneer and world’s leader of heart rate monitoring and fitness evaluation equipment. Headquartered near Oulu in Finland, the company operates internationally in more than 80 countries and its products are sold through over 35,000 retailers globally. Today, the award-winning Polar training computers are the number one choice among consumers worldwide. To learn more about how the wide range of Polar products and services can help you achieve your training goals and make your fitness story a success, please visit www.polar.fi