Polar Vantage M tracks heart rate with the Precision Prime™ sensor fusion technology.* Read more
Quantify the strain of your training session and see how your training strains your body. Learn more
Polar Vantage M supports over 130 different sports. Add your favorite sports to your Polar Vantage M in Polar Flow.
Follow your progress in the pool. Polar Vantage M automatically detects your heart rate, swimming style, distance, pace, strokes and rest times. Distance and strokes get tracked also in open water swimming.
Stay connected with notifications from your phone. Get alerts for incoming calls, messages, emails, calendar events and more.
Polar Vantage M tracks steps, distance, calories and sleep and gives you a personalized activity goal for each day.
Find out your running VO2max and follow how your running performance is developing. Learn more
Know exactly how many calories you’ve burned based on your weight, height, age, gender, your individual maximum heart rate (HRmax) and how hard you’re training. Learn more
Get motivating feedback immediately after training describing the effect of the session. Learn more
Get a comprehensive view on how your heart behaves during your day. Continuous heart rate monitoring gives you even more accurate calorie burn and activity data and tells you the lowest and highest heart rate of your day. Learn more
Relax your body and calm down your mind with the help of a guided breathing exercise. Learn more
Get ready-made daily workouts that match your recovery, readiness and training history. Learn more
When you’re training to achieve a specific goal, you need to know how your workouts strain your body in order to find the balance between different types of training and rest.
Polar Vantage M shows you how your training sessions strain your body and how it affects your performance.
Training Load Pro monitors the strain your training puts on your cardiovascular system (Cardio Load), and also takes into account how strained you feel (Subjective Load). If you’re using a separate running or cycling power meter, you will also get a training load value for your musculoskeletal system (Muscle Load).
When you know how strained each body system is, you can optimize your training by working the right system at the right time. You get a numerical value, verbal feedback and a visual bullet scale for each training load.
Your Cardio Load value tells you how much strain your training session put on your cardiovascular system. It is calculated after every workout from your heart rate data.
Your Cardio Load is calculated as training impulse (TRIMP), a commonly accepted method to quantify training load.
Perceived Load is a value that takes into account your own subjective experience of how demanding your training session was.
Your Perceived Load is quantified with Rate of Perceived Exertion (RPE), a scientifically accepted method to quantify subjective training load. Your Perceived load levels indicate how hard a training session was compared to your session average from the past 90 days.
In addition to the training load from individual training sessions, you can follow how Cardio Load builds up over time
Strain shows how much you have strained yourself with training lately. It shows your average daily load from the past 7 days.
Tolerance describes how prepared you are to endure cardio training. It shows your average daily load from the past 28 days. To improve your tolerance for cardio training, slowly increase your training over a longer period of time.
Your Cardio Load Status looks at how your Strain compares to your Tolerance and estimates how your training is impacting your body.
Muscle Load (only available with a power meter) If you’re using a power meter in your running or cycling workouts, your Polar Vantage M will also calculate a Muscle Load value. Muscle Load tells you how much your muscles were strained during your training session. Muscle Load helps you quantify your training load in high-intensity training sessions, such as short intervals, sprints and hill sessions, when your heart rate doesn’t have enough time to react to the changes in the intensity.
Muscle Load shows the amount of mechanical energy (kJ) that you produced during a running or cycling session. This reflects your energy output, not the energy input it took you to produce that effort. In general, the fitter you are, the better the efficiency between your energy input and output.
Choose from over 130 sports and add your favorite sport profiles to your Polar Vantage M in Polar Flow. You can add up to 20 sport profiles to your sports watch and customize individual settings for each.
For example, you can define individual heart rate, speed or power zones and choose what data you want to see on your watch face while you train.
Using the right sport profile helps you keep your training log in Polar Flow up to date. You’ll also get sport-specific feedback.
