The following post is sponsored by FitFluential, LLC on behalf of Polar. As always, all opinions are my own. Stay tuned for a giveaway at the bottom of this post where you have a chance to win a Polar Loop of your own!
Polar Loop Review
Having a goal motivates me. It doesn’t have to be a big, lofty goal. Small goals add up to some pretty amazing accomplishments, right?
When I received the opportunity to try out the Polar Loop, an activity tracker that notices every jump, step and run, I was very intrigued and immediately agreed! I had a feeling it would motivate me to move more throughout the day and I was absolutely right. That is my favorite thing about the Polar Loop: It’s motivating!
I see so many people at my gym wearing fitness trackers and I’ve heard more than a few of my clients rave about them, so I couldn’t wait to set up my Loop and get moving when it arrived in the mail.
Set Up + Battery Life
A little tip: When fitting the Polar Loop to your wrist, check out the instructional How To video online.
Though directions are included, I found it much easier to watch someone go through the steps of fitting the Polar Loop to their wrist than figuring it out with the illustrations.
Once I had the Polar Loop fit to my wrist, I charged it using the USB cord that came with the Loop and set up an account on Polar.com. An important side note: The Polar Loop has great battery life and charges quickly! I figured I would need to charge it at the end of each day, but it lasts several day without needing a charge.
When I created an account on the Polar Loop site, I loved checking out the map of the world to see what people around me were doing! I zoomed in on Florida and enjoyed looking at the activities my fellow Floridians were completing.
You can also set your profile to private (which is what I did) if you’d like so no one can see what you’re doing and you can be oh-so-sneaky. Or, you can allow only certain people to see your profile by adding them as “followers” which I think is a great way to sync up with friends and family members to motivate each other to move more throughout the day.
Once the Polar Loop is set up, you can press the button on the front of the tracker to view the LED display that flips between showing you the time of day, calories burned, total steps and your daily activity goal.
Polar Flow App + Inactivity Alerts
The Polar Loop can also connect to the Polar Flow (free) app and give you real-time updates about your movement and activity levels for the day.
Here’s an example of the breakdown:
One thing I really liked about the Loop was the inactivity alerts! If you’ve been sitting for too long, an alert will let you know and that was a big motivator for me to get off my butt and walk around or move even if it was for only five minutes or so.
Adding Your Heart Rate Into The Equation
The Polar Loop does not come with a heart rate monitor so this is an added cost if you want it, but it’s a great way to get accurate data about your overall calories burned and how hard you are working at certain times during the day. The Polar Loop retails for $109.95 and the heart rate monitor is an additional fee, but even without the heart rate monitor the Loop can tell the difference between activities like sleeping, walking, running and more. It’s also safe to use in the pool!
What Trends Did I Notice?
Some days it was really easy for me to hit my activity goals. On Saturdays, Ryan and I often work out and then take Sadie for a long hike after breakfast, so meeting my activity goals on Saturdays is rather easy. (And if I incorporate running into my workouts, it’s much easier to hit my goals!) On other days when I am working from home or even days when I am personal training, it’s a little harder because I am often sitting or standing around and only walking from one place in the gym to the next.
Since my hometown is not very walkable, the best way I found for me to hit my activity goals was to increase the distance of Sadie’s walks!
So, I think it’s safe to say Sadie is the Polar Loop’s number one fan.
On days when I might be more inclined to play fetch with Sadie in the backyard, if I was under my goals on the Loop, I’d leash her up for a walk instead so she wasn’t the only one getting exercise.
Polar Loop Giveaway
Now here is your chance to win a Polar Loop of your own!
To enter this giveaway, please comment on this post and tell me what feature of the Polar Loop intrigues you most. Are you most excited to see your overall activity for the day tracked? Are you interested in your sleep data? Do the inactivity alerts intrigue you? Let me know!
I will randomly select a winner on Friday.
Good luck!
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I love that this can be connected to a heart rate monitor 🙂
The sleep data sounds really unique and interesting!
I think the inactivity reminders are a great feature of the Polar Loop! I would love to have something notify me if I was inactive for too long!
Thanks for the chance to win!
I would like the alert to tell me I’ve been inactive for too long! I tend to sit at my desk for an extended period of time, and I don’t realize that I need to get up and move!
I would love to track my activity, since I’m a teacher sometimes I’m sitting around with students and other times I’m walking around, so I would like to find out when I am not active enough!
The inactivity monitor and sleep feature sound great! I workout regularly, but sit all day at work and it would be a great reminder for me to get up and move in between meetings!
I’m all about the sleep feature!
This has me intrigued!! I’d be most interested in the sleep data though!!
the inactivity alerts is most exciting for me. I need to be pushed.
The inactivity alerts would be perfect to remind me to get up from my desk during the day at work.
As a nurse working on a very large med surg unit I would be really interested to see my activity over the course of my 12 hour shifts. I’m constantly running from room to room checking on my patients and getting supplies.
I would love the inactivity alert. I am stuck in the law school library most of the day, and it would be nice to get an alert reminding me to go walk around!
I love the heart rate monitor, many of the other fitness trackers don’t use one! I also really like the inactivity feature, since I’m guilty of sitting on my booty for long periods of time.
I would like to know my inactivity stats. I do sit at a desk all day so it would be nice if it told me to get up and move every so often.
I like the inactivity alerts- I could definitely use that feature on the weekends!!!
I’m most interested in the calories burned and step tracker. I’m always walking or moving around and wouldn’t mind knowing how many steps I’m taking!
I have a Polar heart rate monitor, and I love it! I’ve been researching different activity trackers, and I love that the Loop is compatible with a heart rate monitor for more accurate readings, especially for something like a spin class, where there’s not a lot of arm movement.
I would love to see my sldeep data. Sleep is a challenge for me!
I am most excited to see my inactivity as well as my activity for a full day!
I personally love the inactivity alerts! If I’m doing things like blogging or homework for longer periods at a time, I find myself sitting too long and I forget! Love that the Polar Loop features this! 🙂
I love the idea of having an inactivity alert. Genius!
I would love to track my sleep! Also, I live in a pretty walkable city but I don’t think that I take advantage of it. This could be a great motivator!!
I think both the inactivity alerts and the sleep data sound great. I have a desk job, so it would be really helpful to have a reminder to get up and walk around the office. I also tend to not sleep very well, so I’d be really interested to learn a little bit more about what’s going on there.
I think the inactivity alert feature is really neat because sometimes you just need a reminder to get up and move!
Inactivity alerts. Sounds awesome!
Inactivity alerts would be a huge help for me since I work a desk job!
I’m most excited to see my inactivity.
It’s a toss up between the sleep tracker and inactivity alert!
I am interested in the sleep data!
I like the idea of the inactivity alert while I am at work!
I would be interested to see how much I walk during the day because I’m a school teacher, always walking up and town the aisles and up and down the stairs!
I love the inactivity alerts! I’m an HR Director and unfortunately my job required lots of meetings!
I am an active person outside of work but I have a desk job, so the inactivity feature would be great for me!
sleep activity!!
Since I’m a college student, it can be challenging to be moving as often as I want. I workout every day and walk to and from class, but there isn’t much I can do while I’m in class or studying. I love the fact that this alerts you if you’re being inactive and I think it would really help to remind me to get up and move while studying or doing homework!
I’m most excited to track my overall activity and see how active I really am during the day!
I’d love to take advantage of the motivation to get more activity in!
Sitting at a desk all day every day, the inactivity alert would be awesome! I get sucked into working so often, a little reminder to move a bit would be super helpful!
I love the inactivity tracker. A reminder to get up and active especially in winter would help.
I would love to try one out! The inactivity alert intrigues me most, as I have a desk job that results in A LOT of inactivity.
The inactivity alerts seem like they’d be a great motivator!
I would like to track my overall activity in order to motivate me to move more each day.
I’d love to get an idea of my overall activity during the day. I also think the inactivity alert feature would be really useful for me – I know I sit for far too long at work without getting up to move around!
I love how it will tell you when you have been inactive for a long period of time. Sometimes I don’t realize I have been sitting down for a hour until I look at a clock.
I would love to learn more about my activity throughout the day! I work a ‘desk job’ and would love the motivation to get up and walk more throughout my work day.
The inactivity alert seems awesome – it’s easy to lose track when you work a desk job!
I love that it alerts you if you’ve been inactive for too long!
Oh I’d love this! I sit at a desk for almost 8.5 a day – I try to make an effort to get up and walk around and when it’s not snowing here in Chicagoland I’ll go for a walk on lunch. But sometimes I get so busy I forget to walk around. This would be perfect to remind me because I’ll see it constantly and I’ll want to move more!
I’m interested in the inactivity alert since the first 2 years of med school are big sit on your behind and study book after book years! A reminder to get up and move would be fantastic
I work a desk job and am preparing for a wedding next summer. I’d love to use the Loop to make sure I’m moving enough throughout the day!