Polar AW200 Wrist Pedometer & Altimeter Watch

Polar AW200 Wrist Pedometer & Altimeter Watch
Does not Offer Heart Rate
The Activity Watch is the perfect companion for outdoor adventures such as hiking or jogging. If you find yourself too busy for exercise, just strap on the Activity Watch and leave the calculating to the watch. You might be surprised to find out how active you really are.

Every movement you make can have beneficial effects on your health. With the innovative and easy to use Polar AW200 Activity Computer, you can make sense of it all thanks to a range of features that will help motivate and guide you to improved fitness. It’s with you every step of the way, so isn’t it time you got active? This activity watch helps you improve your fitness by understanding the intensity of your walking and shows how many calories you’ve burned. The barometric trend and temperature inform you of possible weather changes and the altitude measurement indicates route profile and quantifies your walking performance by showing meters ascended and descended.

Exercise: Active time
Cumulative time of health beneficial body movement. Compare the active time with the total time and find out how long you have been moving on a health beneficial intensity level. Basic recommendation: aim for 30 minutes or more a day. Active time means the duration of truly active body movement since you started recording activity with AW200 Activity Watch. Active time excludes the time you have spent on stops and breaks during your walk.
You can compare the active time with the total exercise time and find out how long you have been moving on different activity zones.
To improve your health the minimum recommendation is to carry out 30 minutes continuous daily activity (minimum length per session is 10 min). To improve fitness, walk or run 3-4 times a week, minimum of 30 minutes at least at moderate intensity.
For health benefits the most important thing is being physically active every day. The duration (minutes) and the amount (kilocalories) of activity are key factors. For fitness improvement fewer sessions per week will do, but the intensity (activity zone) becomes more important. Right intensity depends on your current fitness level. The better your fitness, the higher the intensity can be. Regular runners can exercise at the highest zone at times to improve performance.

Exercise: Active steps:
Body movement which is comparable to steps taken during active time, with right intensity to improve fitness. Quantifying the level of health beneficial activity in steps allows for very simple targeting of daily activity. Basic recommendation: aim for 7000 steps or more a day. Polar active steps are based on continuous motion of your whole body. Single steps at place are not active steps. Polar AW200 Activity Watch starts calculating the active steps during walking type of activity when the movement has lasted minimum of 30 seconds. Keeping track of your active steps allows a simple targeting of your daily action. Recommendation is that you accumulate minimum of 7000 active steps a day during your activity sessions.
Steps taken while walking on varying terrain are fitness wise more valuable than the ones taken on level terrain since fewer steps are required to achieve the same effects. Also steps taken at higher activity zones are more valuable than steps taken at lower activity zones.
In general, to walk more effectively, pay attention to your posture and technique. Keep your body erect, your head up and your neck and shoulders relaxed. Try to keep your back straight.
Walk with a comfortable stride length and pace. Make sure you walk heel-to-toe, pushing off with the toes at the end of each step. Take shorter, rather than longer, steps. More frequent short steps will give you a better workout and are easier on your joints.
Let your arms swing naturally with each step. Swinging your arms properly will give you a better aerobic workout, burn more calories, and engage more muscles throughout your torso. Also, you will be able to move faster if you let the arms move with you.

Exercise: Activity zones and Zone pointer
5 zones (speed levels) showing the effort of your activity. Motivates and inspires the user to increase activity effort at different levels and benefit from varying effects on health and fitness. Basic recommendation: aim to increase the active time spent in higher zones. Based on walking and running speeds, Polar divides activity into five zones. The following chart displays the zones and their effects on your health and fitness:
Regular walking can improve fitness depending on your current fitness level. For example, if a less fit person walks daily for 30 minutes or more at comfortable pace, fitness improves. For more experienced walker brisk walking will improve fitness. A good recommendation is to walk briskly at least 30 minutes 3-5 times a week. This recommendation applies also to running.

Exercise:
Cumulative calories (kcal) and calorie expenditure rate (kcal/h) Measures energy consumption (in kcal and kcal/h). Basic recommendation: burn 150 kcal more than your daily norm. In general, calorie (cal) is a measure of the energy value in e.g. food and physical activity. 1000 cal=1 kilocalorie (kcal)

Altimeter:
Altitude with graphical trend
Current altitude and air pressure reading with graphical trend. Discover the surroundings and how much elevation gained by tracking the route profile. Observe and predict upcoming weather changes - enables better preparation for outdoor activities.

Altimeter:
Cumulative ascent and descent

Altitude difference -
Shows your current altitude reading with graphical trend curve and your vertical progress.

Altitude is measured by using an air pressure sensor. Air pressure changes constantly due to varying weather conditions. Therefore, measured altitudes in the same position may vary. Pressure variations due to weather conditions, or indoor air-conditioning, may affect altitude readings. Calibrate your Altimeter at regular intervals to make sure it remains accurate.

Since the Altimeter and Barometer both use barometric pressure, only one of these features can be activated at a time. Therefore, you will have to activate the Altimeter separately for use. When the Altimeter is activated, all changes in barometric pressure are interpreted as changes in altitude.

The Altimeter allows you to identify your current altitude and to determine altitude-related conditions. It will also aid in pinpointing your position on a map and help you select an appropriate route. Using the Altimeter, you will learn how much you can ascend or descend per day, and how fast you can ascend or descend in current weather conditions.

Barometer:
Sea level pressure with graphical trend

Barometer:
Temperature

Recording: Exercise time (total)
The time you have exercised with the stopwatch running. The Total Exercise Time feature keeps track of your cumulative exercise time since last resetting the counter. This feature gives you yet another way to set daily or weekly exercise goals for yourself.

Recording:
Calorie expenditure The feature in Polar Heart Rate Monitors calculating the number of kilocalories expended during exercise is called OwnCal. This function allows you to follow the kilocalories expended during one exercise session (exercise on display) and cumulative kilocalories expended during several exercise sessions (total on display). The fat-burning percentage (fat% on display) estimat kilocalories expended from fat during a workout and is expressed as a percentage of the total kilocalories burned.

Basic:
Water resistant 50m

Basic:
Backlight

Basic:
KeyLock

Watch:
Time of day (12/24h) with alarm

Watch:
Dual time zone A feature that allows you to choose between two time zones.

Watch:
Date and weekday indicator

Watch:
Alarm with snooze

Battery:
User replaceable Low battery indicator

Monitor Your Activity with Polar AW200
Physical activity is an essential part of a healthy and vital lifestyle. Walking can help you lose weight or maintain healthy body weight, lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels, lower your risk of cardiovascular and other chronic diseases, reduce stress and improve your overall mental outlook. Besides, walking is enjoyable, and people of all ages do it every day with very little fear of injury.

The best way to reap the health and fitness benefits of walking is to make it a part of your daily life and to make sure that the intensity of your walks matches your goals.

Monitoring your activity helps you to develop a greater understanding of the ‘health beneficial’ activities and to improve your personal health and fitness management. If you enjoy being outdoors and are interested in well-being, but do not want to follow a structured training plan and workout regularly in a dedicated session, Polar AW200 Activity Computer is the ideal companion for all of your walking type of activities. Polar AW200 is easy to use: just wear the Activity Computer, press start and go. You do not need to attach a transmitter belt or separate sensors.

Polar AW200 Activity Computer helps you to know the level of your activity by showing - the total time for session and active time - the time you spent at the five Polar activity zones - the amount of active steps - cumulative calories (kcal) and energy expenditure rate (kcal/h) - ascent, descent and maximum altitude during activity.

During action you will see an activity indicator showing the speed you are walking or running. In Polar activity monitoring the source of information is your body activity, including the body movements. An accelerometer in the AW200 converts the body movement into electrical pulses which are filtered and combined with the information about you (your height, weight, age, gender) and the environment (ascent, descent, time).

Physical activity is an essential part of a healthy and vital lifestyle. Walking can help you lose weight or maintain healthy body weight, lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels, lower your risk of cardiovascular and other chronic diseases, reduce stress and improve your overall mental outlook. Besides, walking is enjoyable, and people of all ages do it every day with very little fear of injury.

The best way to reap the health and fitness benefits of walking is to make it a part of your daily life and to make sure that the intensity of your walks matches your goals.
Monitoring your activity helps you to develop a greater understanding of the ‘health beneficial’ activities and to improve your personal health and fitness management.

If you enjoy being outdoors and are interested in well-being, but do not want to follow a structured training plan and workout regularly in a dedicated session, Polar AW200 Activity Watch is the ideal companion for all of your walking type of activities.
Polar AW200 is easy to use: just wear the watch, press start and go. You do not need to attach a transmitter belt or separate sensors.
Polar AW200 activity watch helps you to know the level of your activity by showing
- the total time for session and active time
- the time you spent at the five Polar activity zone
- the amount of active steps
- cumulative calories (kcal) and energy expenditure rate (kcal/h)
- ascent, descent and maximum altitude during activity.

During action you will see an activity indicator showing the speed you are walking or running. In Polar activity monitoring the source of information is your body activity, including the body movements. An accelerometer in the AW200 converts the body movement into electrical pulses which are filtered and combined with the information about you (your height, weight, age, gender) and the environment (ascent, descent, time).

Active Steps and Proper Walking Technique Polar active steps are based on continuous motion of your whole body. Single steps at place are not active steps. Polar AW200 Activity Watch starts calculating the active steps during walking type of activity when the movement has lasted minimum of 30 seconds. Keeping track of your active steps allows a simple targeting of your daily action. Recommendation is that you accumulate minimum of 7000 active steps a day during your activity sessions.

Steps taken while walking on varying terrain are fitness wise more valuable than the ones taken on level terrain since fewer steps are required to achieve the same effects. Also steps taken at higher activity zones are more valuable than steps taken at lower activity zones.

In general, to walk more effectively, pay attention to your posture and technique. Keep your body erect, your head up and your neck and shoulders relaxed. Try to keep your back straight.

Walk with a comfortable stride length and pace. Make sure you walk heel-to-toe, pushing off with the toes at the end of each step. Take shorter, rather than longer, steps. More frequent short steps will give you a better workout and are easier on your joints.

Let your arms swing naturally with each step. Swinging your arms properly will give you a better aerobic workout, burn more calories, and engage more muscles throughout your torso. Also, you will be able to move faster if you let the arms move with you.

Active Time Active time means the duration of truly active body movement since you started recording activity with AW200 Activity Watch. Active time excludes the time you have spent on stops and breaks during your walk. You can compare the active time with the total exercise time and find out how long you have been moving on different activity zones.

To improve your health the minimum recommendation is to carry out 30 minutes continuous daily activity (minimum length per session is 10 min). To improve fitness, walk or run 3-4 times a week, minimum of 30 minutes at least at moderate intensity.

For health benefits the most important thing is being physically active every day. The duration (minutes) and the amount (kilocalories) of activity are key factors. For fitness improvement fewer sessions per week will do, but the intensity (activity zone) becomes more important. Right intensity depends on your current fitness level. The better your fitness, the higher the intensity can be. Regular runners can exercise at the highest zone at times to improve performance.

What is activity measurement? Activity measurement senses the movement of the whole body and converts it into easy- to-understand information telling the amount (quantity) and effort (quality) of the activity.

Who is it for? How will they benefit from it and why do they need it? Polar AW200 is for any active person, oriented to enjoying the outdoors (e.g. walking, trekking, nordic walking), with an interest in their health and well-being. The product is designed for walking type of activities. Look better, feel better and enjoy more from life – the watch helps the user to develop a greater understanding of their ‘health beneficial’ activity and will inspire them to take a longer or higher intensity walk. Studies show that people are inclined to over-estimate the amount and quality of their activity or exercise. AW200 provides the ‘truth’ and thereby helps improve personal health management.

What makes it unique? The stainless-steel high quality watch case design is built to last and makes the Polar AW200 completely unobtrusive and suitable for everyday wear. The electronic and algorithm designs are extremely efficient resulting in an average battery (CR2032) life of 2 years under normal use. The AW200 features an in-built barometer / altimeter for predicting weather changes and recording route profile information. The different effort required to walk up and down hills are considered during energy expenditure (calorie measurement) calculations. AW200 measures energy expenditure for low intensity movements, too. AW200 divides active time into different intensity levels (zones) helping to guide and motivate exercise.

How does activity measurement compare to Polar’s heart rate measurement? Activity technology complements heart rate monitoring. Activity measurement is ideally suited for lower intensity non-target oriented exercise such as walking, brisk walking and gentle running or jogging. Heart rate monitoring is for more structured (target orientated) exercise where significant gains in cardiovascular fitness are sought.

How much does the AW200 weigh? The AW200 weighs 85g.

What materials are used in AW200? Wrist strap buckle, case and case back material: Stainless steel complying with the EU Directive 94/27/EU and its amendment 1999/C 205/05 on the release of nickel from products intended to come into direct and prolonged contact with the skin.

Strap: Thermoplastic Polyurethane and glass fiber strengthened ABS

There are no reactions to any buttons? You need to reset the wrist unit. Resetting only clears the date and daily alarms, not the recorded files. The altimeter and barometer calibration values return to their default values (standard sea level pressure 1013 hPa/29.90 inHg). To reset the wrist unit, press the UP, DOWN, LIGHT and STOP buttons down simultaneously. If you do not press any buttons for approx. one minute after resetting the wrist unit, the display goes to TIME mode.

The animation on the display is not moving although I am? First, make sure you are recording, see 'Start Action Recording'. Then move effectively and fast enough for a minimum of 30 seconds for the zone pointer (animation) to move. Too slow or too careful (e.g. tiptoeing) movement may also stop the animation, as such movement is not considered beneficial enough.

The altitude reading changes even though I stay at the same altitude? Altitude measurement is based on barometric pressure. Changes in altitude or weather cause changes in the pressure. For example, if you stay at the same altitude but the weather and pressure change, the altimeter interprets the pressure change as a change in altitude.

The barometric pressure readings are inaccurate? Your barometer may show faulty barometric pressure if it is exposed to external interference like strong wind or air conditioning. It is also important that you stay at the same altitude when using the barometer. If the readings are constantly inaccurate, dirt may be blocking the air pressure channels. In this case, send the activity watch to a Polar Service Center.

The battery of the wrist unit must be replaced? We recommend having all service done by an authorized Polar Service Center. This is especially necessary to ensure that the guarantee remains valid and is not affected by incorrect repair procedures performed by an unauthorized agent. Polar Service will test your wrist unit for water resistance after battery replacement, and will make a full check of the activity watch.

The display is blank? The activity watch is in battery saving mode when it is dispatched from the factory. To activate it, press the START button twice. See 'What to Do First'-section in the user manual.

The low battery symbol is visible? Usually this means the battery has expired. We recommend that you have the battery replaced by an authorized Polar Service Center. They will test your activity watch for water resistance after battery replacement, and will make a full periodic check.

Note: Due to cold conditions the low battery indicator may appear, but the indicator is deactivated when you return to a normal temperature.

How to Choose the Right Activity Level in Polar Fitness Test Activity level is an assessment of your level of long-term physical activity. Select the alternative that best describes the overall amount and intensity of your physical activity during the past three months. Top: You participate in heavy physical exercise at least 5 times a week, or you exercise to improve performance for competitive purposes. High: You participate at least 3 times a week in heavy physical exercise, e.g. you run 10-40 km/6-25 miles or you cycle 2-4 hours (40-120 km/ 25-75 miles) per week or spend that time in comparable physical activity. Moderate: You participate regularly in recreational sports, e.g. you run 5-10 km or 3-6 miles or you cycle 1/2-2 hours (15-40 km/ 3-25 miles) per week or spend that time in comparable physical activity, or your work requires modest physical activity. Low: You do not participate regularly in recreational sport or heavy physical activity, e.g. you walk only for pleasure or exercise hard enough to cause heavy breathing or perspiration only occasionally.

Monitor Your Activity with Polar AW200 Physical activity is an essential part of a healthy and vital lifestyle. Walking can help you lose weight or maintain healthy body weight, lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels, lower your risk of cardiovascular and other chronic diseases, reduce stress and improve your overall mental outlook. Besides, walking is enjoyable, and people of all ages do it every day with very little fear of injury. The best way to reap the health and fitness benefits of walking is to make it a part of your daily life and to make sure that the intensity of your walks matches your goals.

Monitoring your activity helps you to develop a greater understanding of the ‘health beneficial’ activities and to improve your personal health and fitness management. If you enjoy being outdoors and are interested in well-being, but do not want to follow a structured training plan and workout regularly in a dedicated session, Polar AW200 Activity Watch is the ideal companion for all of your walking type of activities. Polar AW200 is easy to use: just wear the watch, press start and go. You do not need to attach a transmitter belt or separate sensors.

Polar AW200 activity watch helps you to know the level of your activity by showing - the total time for session and active time - the time you spent at the five Polar activity zones - the amount of active steps - cumulative calories (kcal) and energy expenditure rate (kcal/h) - ascent, descent and maximum altitude during activity.

During action you will see an activity indicator showing the speed you are walking or running. In Polar activity monitoring the source of information is your body activity, including the body movements. An accelerometer in the AW200 converts the body movement into electrical pulses which are filtered and combined with the information about you (your height, weight, age, gender) and the environment (ascent, descent, time).

Polar Activity Zones Based on walking and running speeds, Polar divides activity into five zones. The following chart displays the zones and their effects on your health and fitness:

Slow walking - long slow walks maintain overall health and promote recreation.

Walking - regular walking in a comfortable speed improves health and fitness in less fit persons.

Brisk walking - brisk walking allows health benefits for all and improves fitness in most individuals.

Running - regular running is a recommended activity advanced fitness.

Fast running - even in short sessions improves performance and increases race speed.

Regular walking can improve fitness depending on your current fitness level. For example, if a less fit person walks daily for 30 minutes or more at comfortable pace, fitness improves. For more experienced walker brisk walking will improve fitness. A good recommendation is to walk briskly at least 30 minutes 3-5 times a week. This recommendation applies also to running.

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