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›Exercising with the new Polar heart rate monitor for students helps to power up their brain

06/07/2011

Kempele, Finland – 6th. July, 2011 – Polar, the market leader and pioneer in heart rate training technology, introduced a new heart rate monitor for children and young people at the AAHPERD Convention and Expo in San Diego in March. With all the basic heart rate features, the new Polar Move can tell your students everything they need to know in a heartbeat, making your PE classes more effective and safe while injecting them with a daily dose of brain power.

Polar has considerable expertise in health and physical education having provided heart rate monitors for schools since the early 1990s. Currently about 10,000 schools in the United States are using Polar Education Technology as an integral part of their PE classes. Polar heart rate monitors can also have a huge effect at your school on your students’ health and fitness as well as their everyday learning.

Children learn better when they have a healthy mind inside a healthy body. This can be achieved if your students exercise and get enough daily activity. According to ACSM (American College of Sports Medicine) children and young people should participate in moderate to vigorous intensity physical activity at least 60 minutes per day. It is incredibly important for any class because exercise can have a remarkable impact on your learning and the quality of your sleep. In other words, heart rate training powers up your brain.

Children’s heart rate behaves differently than that of adults. Therefore Polar has developed heart rate monitors especially for children and young people. Polar Move can display your students’ heart rate in beats per minute or as a percentage of their maximum heart rate, helping you guide your students to exercise at the right intensity in your PE class. With the graphical target zone indicator, your students can follow themselves while they are improving their fitness. And by counting and displaying the amount of burned calories, Polar Move can teach your students their personal energy expenditure in an inspiring way.

Polar Move comes with a comfortable textile WearLink®+ transmitter that accurately measures your students’ heart rate and transmits the data to their wrist units. Each transmitter is individually coded to ensure that the Polar Move picks up the right signal. This is extremely important when you are guiding a group of students by their individual heart rates to achieve a fun and inspiring PE class where every student can perform at their own level.

Your students can operate the easy-to-use Polar Move in eight different display languages, including English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Finnish, and Swedish, whichever suits them best. Polar Move can also store 10 exercise files with your students’ training data, allowing them to keep track of their performance and progress. User-replaceable batteries ensure fast and easy maintenance, so you can have your heart rate monitors up and running during every class without any need to send your heart rate monitors to an authorized service center.

Polar offers solutions for PE classes that fit the needs of any school. You can tailor your own package from the range of Polar Education Technology products and upgrade later. The new Polar Move heart rate monitor will be available from July, 2011 beginning with the United States, Canada, and Finland.

About Polar

Founded in 1977, Polar Electro invented the first wireless heart rate monitor. Since then the Company has been leading the sports instruments and heart rate monitoring category through its in-depth understanding of human physiology, performance, and the environment. Polar works in close cooperation with leading sports institutes and governing bodies, and has, thus, become widely recognized as the pioneer and world’s leader of heart rate monitoring and fitness evaluation equipment. Headquartered near Oulu in Finland, the company operates internationally in more than 80 countries and its products are sold through over 35,000 retailers globally.

Today, the award-winning Polar training computers are the number one choice among consumers worldwide. To learn more about how the wide range of Polar products and services can help you achieve your training goals and make your fitness story a success, please visit www.polarelectro.com.sg