[quote author=Moab_Rob link=board=19;threadid=2836;start=0#msg24096 date=1042103481]<br />Hi Eldron<br /><br />This is a first post for me and I hope this will be enlightening and not stating the obvious.<br /><br />I use a Polar S210 and did a serious programming exercise on it when I first got it. <br />I checked my workouts and found that there were only about 4 or 5 really different ones.<br />Zone 2 Recovery,<br />Zone 3,<br />Zone 4 + 5<br />and Intervals.<br /><br />I programmed the different Exercise sets with my Zones and named them appropriately.<br />Exercise set 2 = Zone 2 with the necessary high and lower limits, a warmup period, the training interval in the zone(manual or timed) and a cool down period. <br />Execise set 3 = Zone 3 etc etc etc.<br />You could also use the recovery feature if required to check recovery at end of main interval, before going into cool down.<br /><br />The interval set I amend depending on what intervals I'm doing. <br />EG: Indoors doing 'Muscle Tension' exercise would have a warmup period in Zone 2+3, then 10 intervals of 10 minutes in whatever zone you get too with resting intervals in between.<br />And finally a cooldown period.<br /><br />I simply select whichever exercise set is required depending on my workout and the S210 does the rest. <br /><br />Hope this helps you to get rid of the stickers on your bars.<br />[/quote]<br /><br />Moab_Rob (cool nick),<br /><br />Yeah I have some exercise sets programmed in but Tuesday is our "race replication day" aka see how badly you can whoop your buddies day (generally racing for every hill top, speed sign, pot hole and air molecule). I just want to see how badly I'm suffering so I use the instant % of max heart rate and Polar only does the straight % of max.<br /><br />Unfortunately the stickers are there to stay until I've memorised my Karvonen %'s.<br /><br />ps: Welcome to the site - it's the best cycling based human interactiion site I've come across! Viva cyclingforums.com viva!!!
