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SMART COACHING
Whether it’s assessing your day-to-day fitness levels, creating individual training plans, working out at the
right intensity or receiving instant feedback, Smart Coaching offers a choice of unique, easy-to-use features,
personalized to your needs and designed for maximum enjoyment and motivation when training.
M430 includes the following Polar Smart Coaching features:
• Activity Guide
• Activity Benefit
• Fitness Test
• Heart rate zones
• Running Program
• Running Index
• Smart calories
• Training Benefit
• Training Load
ACTIVITY GUIDE
The Activity Guide feature shows how active you've been during the day, and tells you how much you need to
still do to reach the recommendations for physical activity per day. You can check how you’re doing in
reaching your activity goal for the day either from your M430, from the Polar Flow app or web service.
For more information, see
24/7 Activity Tracking.
ACTIVITY BENEFIT
Activity benefit gives you feedback on the health benefits that being active has given you, and also on what
kind of unwanted effects sitting for too long has caused for your health. The feedback is based on
international guidelines and research on the health effects of physical activity and sitting behavior. The core
idea is: the more active you are, the more benefits you get!
Both Flow app and Flow web service show the activity benefit of your daily activity. You can view the activity
benefit on daily, weekly and monthly basis. In the Flow web service, you can also view the detailed
information on health benefits.