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Before now, fitness testing had been reserved as a tool primarily for the professional athlete. However, Polar has developed an easy and safe way to measure cardiovascular fitness at rest called the Polar Fitness Test. The Polar Fitness Test uses your gender, age, height, and body weight plus your level of physical activity, your heart rate and your heart rate variability measured at rest. Lasting no more than 5 minutes, the Polar Fitness Test is as easy as laying down and pressing a button, though you should be free from any distractions during the test. Once completed, the Polar Fitness Test shows the resulting fitness level as your OwnIndex. The result is comparable to VO2max, the same indicator of aerobic fitness used by professional trainers and athletes ranging from 20, the fitness level of an unfit sedentary individual, to 95, the fitness level of Olympic athletes. By comparing your result to the global references listed in the Polar M-series manuals, you can get a pretty good idea of how fit you are for your sex and age. For instance, if you're a 33-year-old woman with an index between 34-37 you would have "average fitness" compared to other women of the same age. While an index below 34 would mean you are below the average and an index above 37 would mean you are above the average. The Polar Fitness Test is a safe way for anyone to self-test his or her fitness level because it doesn't require physical exercise at the moment of testing. Polar Fitness Test is as accurate in predicting the VO2max as any sub-maximal fitness test. The Polar OwnIndex was upgraded by developing more accurate VO2max prediction also in the well trained athlete to give the Polar OwnIndex(s). This feature is available on the new rs-series only For more information on the Polar Fitness Test, check out Polar's research article. |
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