Polar M430 - M/L

Polar M430 watch:a complete training partner for indoor and outdoor use

The Polar M430 watch frees you from any hindrance while analysing your performance during your running sessions. Its cardio wrist means you don't need a belt to accurately calculate your heart rate. Complete and adaptable, it tracks your outdoor performance thanks to its integrated GPS. It also supports you during your indoor sessions by closely monitoring your wrist movements.

A true electronic coach, this Polar watch displays the essential data for completing yourrunning session in optimal conditions. Reliable and accurate, its integrated GPScalculates yourspeed, distanceand route. All the data collected can be synchronised with the Polar Flow application and web service. Ideal for setting your personal goals and trying to beat your records. 

Its wrist heart rate monitor accurately measures your heart rate thanks to the optical heart rate monitor. The technology on the wrist is also useful when the GPS signal is unavailable, particularly indoors. The data about the movements of your wrist can be used to calculate your pace and distance.

The Polar M430 watchfeatures Smart Coaching to assess your fitness and follow a personalised programme based on your profile and goals. This feature also tells you the exact number of calories burned, helps you stay active throughout your day and presents you with feedback on your daily, weekly and monthly activity.

This model lets you monitor your activity 24/7. It warns you when you've been inactive for too long, and counts the number of steps and calories burned. Even tells you how long and how well you're sleeping.

The mobile app gives you an overview of your training and analysis. You have a simple, clear view of your day-to-day activity. The synchronisation is easily provided by Bluetooth Smart.

Key points of the Polar M430 watch:

• Activity tracking functions: steps, distance travelled, calories burned, sleep
  
• Smart Coaching functions
• Optical heart rate monitor: wrist heart rate measurement
• Advanced GPS function: calculates speed, distance and route
• Indoor running data: calculates pace and distance from wrist movements
• Fitness test
• Sleep Plus: sleep analysis
• Polar Flow web and mobile : analyses, synchronises and shares workouts
  
• Smartphone notifications: display on your watch screen.
• Sports profiles: selects the profile best suited to your training sessions
• Bluetooth Smart: wireless synchronisation
• Weight: 51g
• Thickness: 12mm
• Screen size: HD 128 x 128 pixels
• Strap size: M/L (max 210 mm, min 130 mm)
• Colour: black

Box contents

• Polar M430 watch
• USB cable
• Polar M430 Getting Started Guide

Activity functions

• 24x7 activity tracking: It records your daily activity at different levels of intensity continuously. Indicates time spent resting and sitting, as well as daily activity at low, medium and high intensities. Counts calories, daily steps, distance travelled and sleep time.
• Sleep Plus: automatically calculates the duration, quantity and quality of your sleep.
• Activity goal: helps you stay active and motivates you throughout the day.
• Time of activity: calculation of cumulative time of low-, medium- and high-intensity activity.
• Steps and distance: step count and calculation of distance travelled.
• Activity summary: memorise your daily physical activities.
• Activity effectiveness: daily, weekly and monthly summary
• Inactivity alert: alert to encourage you to move. An alert is sent after 55 minutes of inactivity. No alerts are sent out at night.

Drive functions

• Running programme: personalised programme based on your distance, profile and goals.
  
• Wrist speed and distance: measures speed and distance travelled from your wrist movements.
• Wrist stride cadence: monitoring that helps you avoid injury.
• Heart rate measurement monitored on the wrist: thanks to Polar's exclusive optical heart monitoring module
• Speed and pace zones: monitoring the intensity of your training as a function of speed and pace.
• Zone Lock: targets and locks a specific training zone during the session. When you leave the preset heart rate, speed, pace or power zones, the heart rate monitor triggers a visual and audible alarm.
• Zone Pointer: indicator displayed on the screen to show whether you are within the predefined or desired target.
• Polar Fitness Test: estimates your aerobic fitness at rest without effort in five minutes.
• Running Index: calculation of cardiorespiratory fitness.
• Smart calories: calculates the number of calories burnt according to weight, height, age, sex, FCmax, FCrest and VO2max.
• Training effectiveness: analysis of training sessions and assessment of its benefit for your physical health.
• Training load: shows the intensity of your training session.
• Recovery status: helps find the balance between training and rest and estimates the training load you can tolerate.
• Return to starting point: takes you back to your starting point as quickly as possible and calculates the distance to that point.
• Distance: shows the distance covered during a training session.
• Altitude, elevation gain: allows you to identify your actual altitude.
• Sports profiles: choose the sport you’re currently training in from a hundred or so activities. 
• Customisable training screen: in Polar sports profile settings.
• GPS: reliable speed and distance measurements, viewing your route on the map via the Polar FLow app and online service after your session.
• A-GPS: provides a fast satellite position.
• GPS power saving mode: extends the heart rate monitor battery.
• Estimation of arrival time: based on current speed and predefined distance to go.
• Speed/altitude: option to display current, average and maximum speed/altitude.
• Training goals: create goals in Polar Flow, save and re-use later.
• Training history: storage of recent training files.
• Training diary: keeps track of past training sessions and activities. The information displayed includes: training programmes, individual training results and tests.
• Interval Timers: indication of when to switch from an intense phase to a less sustained one and vice versa.
• Manual intermediate times: definition of intermediate times quickly.
• Automatic intermediate times: defined on the Polar Flow web service based on a frequency or distance.
• Personal record: keeps track of your best performances.
• Auto stop/start: once active, this function automatically starts and stops recording your heart rate monitor-related data.
• Stopwatch

Bluetooth Smart features

• Connection of the device and sensors to each other
• Data synchronisation via mobile
• Optimised wireless technology for low energy consumption
• Bluetooth Smart sensor automatically paired and locked to transmit data to heart rate monitor

Watch functions

• Weight: 51g
• Display: 128x128 px
• Waterproofing: WR30
• Rechargeable battery
• USB cable
• Text display in several languages
• Smartphone notifications
• Vibration alerts
• Alarm
• Key lock
• Backlighting
• Date and day of the week indicator
• Time of day 12/24h
• Firmware update

Data transfer

• Compatible with PC Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, and later versions
• Compatible with Polar Flow web service via standard micro-USB cable (requires FlowSync software)
• Compatible with a Polar Flow mobile application via Bluetooth Smart
• Compatible with Mac OS X 10.6, OS X 10.7, OS X 10.8, and later versions
• Export data (September 2014): export Flow training data to other applications and web services
  
  

Flow

• Journal
• Running index analysis
• Cartography
• Revive
• Explore
• Social networks feeds
• Instant analysis of training and activity
• In-depth analysis of training and activity
• Training programme
• Sports profile settings
• Tracks progress