Every run, read as it lands
As soon as a run syncs from your Polar, Vertical takes in the pace, heart rate and effort and factors it into your plan. No manual uploads.
Polar has always been serious about heart rate and training load. Vertical reads every run automatically, turns that data into a plan built for your real fitness, and coaches you through each session by chat and voice.
The gap
Polar has measured runners longer than almost anyone, and Polar Flow is dense with heart-rate and training-load data. Data is not coaching, though. Nobody there is reading those runs, deciding what tomorrow should be, or answering when your week does not go to plan.
So you sit with Training Load Pro and Running Index, guessing what they mean for your next session. Is the load sustainable? Is your fitness actually climbing? Polar shows the numbers and leaves the plan to you.
How Vertical works with Polar
As soon as a run syncs from your Polar, Vertical takes in the pace, heart rate and effort and factors it into your plan. No manual uploads.
Vertical derives your paces and heart-rate zones from your Polar history, then builds a periodized plan toward your goal, informed by more than 500 peer-reviewed papers on endurance training.
Your plan lives in the Vertical app, where your coach talks you through every session by chat and voice, and reads it back the moment your Polar syncs the finished run.
Ask anything in plain language and get an answer built on your own Polar data. Onboard by voice, then chat whenever a session, a niggle or your schedule needs a rethink.
The short version
Your Polar synced your tempo run. Heart rate sat right in your threshold band for the full 20 minutes, which is what we wanted. Your aerobic engine is responding. Easy day tomorrow, then intervals Thursday.
In practice
Your Polar shows your heart rate drifting up on an easy run. Vertical reads it, tells you the effort was higher than the pace suggested, and keeps tomorrow genuinely easy so you actually recover.
Training Load Pro flags a jump before a key block. Ask your coach what it means and get an answer weighed against your goal race and how recovery has gone, not just a status label.
Work or illness costs you a few days. Tell your coach and it rebuilds the week around what you can realistically do, and your goal stays on track.
Setup
Talk through your running background and goals out loud in a short voice onboarding, or by chat. No forms.
Authorize Polar once. Your recent history flows in and every future run syncs automatically.
Vertical reads your Polar history against the research, gives you a straight read on your fitness, then builds a plan around the things holding you back.
Follow each session with your coach in the app, your Polar runs sync back, and the plan adapts as you progress.
Yes. Connect Polar once and Vertical reads every run automatically, with no manual uploads, using your pace and heart-rate data to build and adapt your plan.
Not to Polar yet. Vertical reads your Polar runs automatically and your coach guides each session in the app by chat and voice. Structured workout push to the watch is available today for Garmin and COROS.
Any Polar that syncs your runs to Polar Flow works, since Vertical connects at the account level rather than to a specific model. If your Vantage, Grit or Pacer already logs runs, it will work with Vertical.
Yes. Heart rate is central to how Vertical reads your runs. It derives your zones from your real data and uses the heart-rate story behind each run to judge effort, not just pace.
No. Vertical derives your paces and zones from your real Polar history, or from a recent race you talk through during voice onboarding if you are just getting started.
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