Wearable sports technology company Polar has added the Polar Team Pro Shirt, which integrates proprietary heart rate technology onto the shirt’s fabric and a GPS tracking sensor for coaches to glean insight into various player metrics, to its growing fitness portfolio.
Through two heart rate capture points, the Pro Shirt gathers real-time heart data while a sensor pod also slides into the back collar to provide other motion-tracking information, including an individual’s distance, speed and acceleration. It also replaced a traditional chest strap monitor.
The newly-launched wearable shirt technology will pair with the Polar Team Pro system where sensors broadcast live training data to a coach’s smart device in order to better understand athlete performance such as assessing conditioning levels, properly prescribing off-season training volume, establishing valid return-to-play conditioning parameters, and effectively monitoring workloads during training camps.
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“As a company with a deep heritage in team sports and trusted fitness technology, we’re constantly working to evolve design and function in ways that will improve athlete performance. Polar technology and products are, at their core, developed for the needs of professional athletes and coaches. As a result of our continued focus on improvement, we’ve reimagined the chest strap for professional athletes and developed Team Pro Shirt,” commented Tom Fowler, President, Polar US.
