User Manual

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5. Features
5.1. Recording an exercise
In addition to 24/7 activity monitoring, you can use your watch to record your training
sessions or other activities to get detailed feedback and follow your progress.
To record an exercise:
1. Put on a heart rate sensor (optional).
2. Press the upper right button to open the launcher.
3. Scroll up to the exercise icon and select with the middle button.
4. Press upper right or lower right button to scroll through the sport modes and press the
middle button to select the one you want to use.
5. Above the start indicator, a set of icons appear, depending on what you are using with the
sport mode (such as heart rate and connected GPS). The arrow icon (connected GPS)
flash
gray while searching and turn green once a signal is found. The heart icon (heart rate)
flash gray while searching and when once a signal is found, it turns into a colored heart
attached to a belt if you are using a heart rate sensor or a colored heart without the belt if
you are using the optical heart rate sensor.
If you are using a heart rate sensor but the icon turns green, check that the heart rate
sensor is paired, see 5.13. Pairing PODs and sensors, and select the sport mode again.
You can wait for each icon to turn green or red or start the recording as soon as you like
by pressing the middle button.
Once the recording is started, the selected heart rate source is locked and cannot be
changed during the ongoing training session.
6. While recording, you can switch between displays with the middle button.
7. Press the upper right button to pause the recording. Stop and save with the lower right
button or continue resume with the upper right button.
If the sport mode you selected has options, such as setting a duration target, you can adjust
them before starting the recording by pressing the lower right button. You can also adjust
sport mode options while recording by keeping the middle button pressed.
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