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The secret to delivering an effective and efficient training session is to use a Polar heart rate monitor. By constantly monitoring your client's heart rates during exercise, you can ensure they are training at the right intensity to improve their overall health and fitness, weight management or sporting performance. Eliminate the guess work out of personal training by using a Polar heart rate monitor.

Polar Education Zone: Basic Heart Rate Training provides the latest information on the basic concepts of heart rate training and has been designed for those who are new to fitness industry or simply want to brush up on their knowledge and broaden their skills.

The course is to be completed online and requires approximately 2 hours worth of reading plus questions.

The course will provide you with knowledge in the following areas:

• How and why to use a Polar heart rate monitor.
• Benefits of heart rate training.
• The heart muscle and how it effects training.
• The energy pathways, fuel sources and metabolism.
• Heart rate training basics (resting heart rate, average heart rate and maximum heart rate).
• How to determine a maximum heart rate.
• Target heart rate zones for training.
• Factors that affect heart rate.
• Principles behind the super compensation curve.
• Overtraining and how to avoid it.
• Different types of training methods.
• Planning sessions for different population groups using heart rate target zones.
• Ways to monitor improvement.

On completion of this course, you will receive 2 CECs / 1 PDP towards your fitness registration across Australia and you will get the opportunity to order any Polar heart rate monitor at 30% off RRP.

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