Name: Polar Vantage M Multisport & Running GPS Watch, Small / Medium, Black
Brand: Polar
SKU: PO90069739
Price: 279.95 USD
Availability: Discontinued
Rating: 4.3 (3 reviews)

Polar Vantage M Multisport & Running GPS Watch, Small / Medium, Black

Polar Vantage M

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Top Rated Gear: Polar Vantage M Multisport & Running GPS Watch, Small / Medium, Black Band Size: Small/Standard/Medium, Power Type: Battery

 Advanced Running & Multisport Watch with GPS Challenge your limits with Polar Vantage M, an all-round multisport & running GPS watch for anyone who loves setting new records. This slim and lightweight training companion provides you with all the data you need to improve your performance. Designed for Performance Polar Vantage M is a combination of the latest sports technology and lightweight design. No Compromises with Your Style Match your Polar Vantage M to any look with a changeable wristband. Choose your favorite from Polar's selection or use any band with 22 mm spring bars. Your All-in-one Training Partner Whether you're aiming to improve in your favorite sport or love to measure your performance in different sports, Polar Vantage M is always ready to help you. Make the Work Visible Polar Vantage M helps you quantify your training and see how your workouts strain your body in different ways. Choose from Over 130 Sports With Polar Vantage M you can customize individual settings for each of your sports.  The Perfect Training Platform for the Data-loving Athlete Polar Vantage M works seamlessly with Polar Flow, the online window to your training, sleep and activity. With Polar Flow all your training data is easily available in one place. You can also sync your data to other online sports communities, such as Strava or TrainingPeaks. Plan, Train, Analyze You get an automatic training diary, extensive planning and analysis tools, progress reports and the support of the Polar Flow community. Share Your Data with Your Coach Give your coach access to your training data with the free Polar Flow for Coach service. Training Load Pro  Optimize Your Training Training Load Pro gives you detailed insights into how your training sessions strain your body. Together with Recovery Pro, it helps you find the right balance between training and rest. Know How You Train When you're training to reach a specific goal, the key is the balance between different types of training and rest. Training Load Pro helps you understand how your training sessions strain the different systems of your body, so you'll know whether you've been training right. Comprehensive Monitoring With Training Load Pro, you get more than a general estimate of your training load. It monitors both the internal and external load of your workouts and gives you three separate training load values. Find The Balance with Data When you know how your training affects your body, you'll be able to keep your training productive and improve your performance. Prevent Over and Undertraining Training Load Pro estimates whether you've been training too hard, too little or just right. Visualize and Quantify Your Effort Training Load Pro and Polar Flow help you turn your training sessions into comparable numbers and easy-to-read visualizations. Data Based On Science and Research The methods that Training Load Pro uses to quantify training load, such as TRIMP and RPE, are commonly accepted by the sports science community around the world. Comprehensive Measuring As recommended in a consensus statement by the International Olympic Committee, Training Load Pro uses both internal and external load measures to quantify training load. How Does Training Load Pro Work? Training Load Pro automatically calculates Cardio Load and Muscle Load from your training data (Muscle Load is only available from running and cycling with power measurement). For Perceived Load, you can define the RPE value for each training session yourself. Running Index  Find Out Your Running VO2max Running Index is an estimation of your maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max) in running - a score that helps you see how efficient your running training is and how you can improve your maximal aerobic running performance.  Understand Your Running Performance Running Index helps you understand how efficient your running training really is. When you follow it over time you'll see how your running performance develops. Know How You Run You get a Running Index score after every run. It gives you an estimate of your maximal aerobic running performance.  See Your Progress Follow your Running Index report in Polar Flow. When your aerobic capacity and running economy improve your running index goes up.  Get Race Ready Running Index is a good predictor of race performance in endurance running. Your Running Index report in Polar Flow will show you an estimation of your finish time on different running distances. You can also use Running Index to compare your aerobic fitness level to people of the same age and gender. Running Program  Train with a Running Plan to Find Your Flow Train for an event or just pick a date when you want to run a certain distance. We've done the thinking for you so that you can just concentrate on finding your running flow. Running Program is a personal and adaptive training plan that is based on your individual metrics. It adapts along the way, learning about you from your workout data. Train for 5k, 10k, half marathon or marathon.  Tailored to You Personally Running Program is based on your fitness level, so it's personalized and considers your current condition. As you proceed with the program, it adapts based on your development and lets you know when you can step up a notch as well as when you need to cut back a little bit.  Strength, Core and Mobility for the Win The program is complemented with strength, core and mobility exercises as well as a prediction for the finishing time for your chosen distance. Supporting Exercises You can choose to include supporting exercises to your program. They are in video format and you can do them at home. Better strength, core control and mobility can make a big difference in your running. Event Prediction Prediction is based on Running Index which you get from each running session. Prediction is updated as you do more running sessions.  How Running Program Works When you create the program, you get training targets conveniently on your Polar sport watch. Just choose the day's target and let your watch guide you. Sport profiles Polar Vantage M supports over 130 different sports. Add your favorite sports to your Polar Vantage M in Polar Flow. Phone notifications Stay connected with notifications from your phone. Get alerts for incoming calls, messages, emails, calendar events and more. 24/7 activity tracking Polar Vantage M tracks steps, distance, calories and sleep and gives you a personalized activity goal for each day. Training Benefit Get motivating feedback immediately after training describing the effect of the session. Smart Calories  Know How Many Calories You Burn Smart Calories tells you accurately the number of calories burned during your training sessions as well as total daily calories based on your personal information and how hard you're training.  Understand Your Energy Need When you track your energy expenditure with your Polar sports watch or fitness tracker, you can see how demanding your training was for your body from metabolic point of view. You can also track your total calories throughout the day, which gives you an understanding on total metabolic demands of the day on your body.Monitoring your individual energy intake and energy expenditure as an athlete is important for nutritional planning, sport conditioning and peak performance. When you know your accurate energy expenditure you can assess your individual nutritional requirements and caloric needs. Training Benefit  Motivating Feedback From Workouts Right after training on your Polar device and more in-depth and physiological in Polar Flow.  Basic Training Or Tempo Training - And What They Do To Your Fitness You'll learn about how different types of workouts improve different areas of your fitness. Low intensity sessions affect different areas compared to high intensity sessions. When your workout is particularly long, that is considered in the feedback.

I've worn my Polar Vantage M watch for about two weeks now after having a different brand smart watch, and I'm loving it!  While all the available benefits of aren't intuitive to figure out without studying the manual, the basic ones are easily used out of the box.  The watch looks and works great!  Well worth more than its cost.

Impressive smart watch

Only had it a week but impressed so far by the data tracking both in watch and though Polar Flow app. Screen isn’t as bright as a Apple Watch but I knew that going in reading other reviews. Battery life is far more important to me. I charged three days ago and still have over 50% battery life. That’s wearing it 24 hours a day and using GPS tracking 1-2 hours a day. Would recommend.

Would recommend as a fitness watch

Upgraded to the Vantage M after four-plus great years with an M400.  Took a bit of time to get used to the wrist-based HR monitor.  Watch needs to be snugly strapped to wrist and ideally on a meatier part of the wrist farther up the arm rather than where the wrist and hand meet.  I didn't do this on my first run and got inaccurate HR readings.  But after the adjustment, it's been fine.  I love the ability to change straps easily to any 22mm strap (I've already done that).  Battery life has been much better than expected (2 hour run barely dents the charge).  Still getting the hang of the Cardio Load report (accessible on FLOW app) - I don't think I have enough data to make good use of it yet.
My greatest concern when looking at the specs was the lack of chime/sound for intervals or HIIT but the vibration that replaces the chime is loud and strong.  I can both hear and feel it.  The Vantage V has sound but is also considerable more expensive.  
The one knock I have is that the Vantage series does not sync with the Polar Scale as did earlier models.  However, the workaround is simple - just sync the scale readings to the Flow app on your phone and all your data will be in once place.  
I'm a long-time Polar user and have been impressed by the way they support their products (2-yr warranty) including continuing to produce updates for older products.  There are a slate of updates scheduled for the Vantage series that will add functionality that the brand new Ignite already has.  
In summary, the Vantage M has been everything I had hoped for and the Polar Flow app that you access on your phone/computer is so far superior to everything else the competition offers that Polar is the no-brainer choice for me.