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 like the idea of the inactivity alerts to help keep you moving!
I would love this!! I’m trying to get back into shape after having my twins, (which are 11 months) I would be very curious to see how much I’m moving on a daily basis, just trying to keep up with these two!!
Definitely most interested in tracking my activity levels on days I do and don’t go to the gym so I can compare them! I hope it gives me motivation to move more at my desk job.
Working in a restaurant, I’m always moving and walking around. I would love to track my activity when I work those crazy doubles!
I find the sleep data so interesting!! Would love to add this to my must-have fitness accessories!
I’d love to use this to help motivate me to walk more. I’m just now recovering from an ankle injury and looking for ways to get active again!
I work a desk job and it can be hours before I get up, so I’d love to have the inactivity alerts to remind me to get up and move!
As a grad student I think the inactivity monitor could be so, so useful. My many long study sessions in the library add up to a lot of physical inactivity!
I would be most excited to see how many steps I take. I work in an office and have to be very intentional about how to get in more steps until I get home!
I love the inactivity feature of the polar loop. I think this would be great for work as a lot of times I find myself going home and realizing I’ve done nothing but dot behind a desk!
Ooooh sleep information would be so beneficial!
Very cool! I love that the device gives you inactivity alerts and tracks your overall activity for the day. With a desk job, it’s a great reminder to get up and move!
I love the alert setting!
I have a job where I’m tied to a desk ALL day so the inactivity alerts would be great so that if I can get away from the phones, it’s a nice reminder to take a quick lap around the office or at least stand and stretch.
I would love the inactivity alerts since I have a desk job. It is easy lose track and go a couple of hours without getting up and moving!
I have never tracked a workout, or just daily activities. It would be AWESOME to start and see how productive I really am. 🙂
I am intrigued by the sleep activity. I am a personal trainer and fitness instructor too, but my sleep is patterns are awful due to menopause ( I am 53). I have horrible hot flashes during the night and I would love to see how much restful sleep I am actually getting.
I am pretty active most of the time – I love to exercise, but I would love to see how my rest days compare. Sleep is so often overlooked as a part of training, so I’d like to see my sleep data too!
I would LOVE it to track my steps and activity. Because I am in grad school and working, I am often left sitting most of the day without even realizing it – this would be a great motivator to get moving! 🙂
I sit at my desk all day, so I would love the feature that would “remind” me to get up and walk around!
I am definitely interested in the sleep tracker and the inactivity alerts. I always feel like I am not sleeping well and would love to see what the Polar Loop has to say about my sleeping habits. Also, I’d love to get alerts throughout the day to motivate me to get up and move around.
I would love the inactivity alerts! Sometimes we all need a little kick in the butt to get moving,=.
I would definitely be most interested in my sleep activity!
I’m in college so a lot of my day is spent sitting in class or sitting and studying and it would be neat to see just how much I’m actually inactive!
I would love to be able to track my sleep patterns.
I’ve been looking to get a fitness tracker for a very long time and I think this one’s great because it has an LED display! I also love that it will track your sleep…something I’ve been needing to get more of!
It all sounds awesome, but I really like the inactivity alerts. I have a desk job and am really bad about getting up and moving,
I love that the polar watch helps you walk your dog more! I would love to have a reason to walk my dogs more!
Always been curious about my overall activity level and even though I workout very regularly…I think it will (similar to you) motivate me to take my puppy Riley, on longer walks especially to meet a daily fitness goal.. it’ll be a win-win for this puppy & mama!!!
I would love to win this because it would be the best workout buddy! It would get me motivated to get up and move more throughout the day, which is hard because I’m a college student that sits and studies in a desk most of the day.
the inactivity feature since I work from home, i try to make it a point to get up every hour but I know I don’t!
I would love to use the polar loop to track my activity during the week. I am a nursing student so some days I am at clinicals and moving around non-stop but others I am sitting and studying. This would be a great motivator!
I have been considering one of these! I need more motivation to get up and get movin’.
I would love an inactivity reminder! I am writing a dissertation which means that all I ever do is sit, sit, sit….
I love the idea of tracking my activity each day and working towards a goal. The inactivity alert seems like a great feature!
I am interested in seeing how many steps I actually take in a day. I have an office desk job, and I am sitting most of the day. So seeing how much I am being inactive during the work day, would certainly motivate me to be more active outside of work.
I think I’d love to see my overall activity monitored throughout the day, considering the fact that I am a dancer and I live in the city!
Oh my! I love so many things about this! Ive wanted one for so long but the prices on all these bands are a little crazy! I love the inactivity notification, that would keep me motivated . Keeping tracks of my steps would be the other thing I would be interested in, I work as a doctors assistant and walk all day non stop, knowing how many miles I walk would be awesome!!
Since I live in NYC and do tons of walking (an hour of walking every work day), I would love to see what my average daily steps are. I would also like to see how many calories I actually burn during my morning workouts.
The inactivity alert is awesome! Working at a desk all day, it would be amazing to get a lil reminder to get up off my butt and MOVE.
I like the idea of the inactivity alerts, especially since I sit at a desk most of the day.
What a great giveaway! I’m interested in everything but the sleep data would be great – we have a new baby so it would be interesting to see how much – or little! – sleep I’m actually getting!
I think this would motivate me to get up from my desk a bit more so I am very interested in the inactivity alerts. So cool!
I like the inactivity monitor. I work at a desk job and try to remember to take breaks to walk around during the day, but time can get away from me and I frequently work for hours without stopping to walk around a bit. I think this feature would be really useful to me!
Sleep data would be interesting! But also having the current time appeals to me! :0)
I would love the inactivity alert! i live in sunny CA, but even with the gorgeous weather, i still find myself sitting inside on the computer a lot! this would motivate me to take more walks outside!
Definitely the sleep data!! I’m always so curious sometimes when I toss and turn how that translates into my sleep patterns. Thanks Julie!
Awesome giveaway! Everything about the Polar Loop intrigues me! I love the idea of setting mini goals each day, I have a desk job so the inactivity reminder would be great, & I am very curious about my sleep patterns, etc. Thanks! 🙂
I think it’s pretty interesting that you can see what other people in the area with Polar Loops are doing. I don’t know if I would have my info be public, though.
I would be really interested to see where I am at activity wise. I work in a lab and I feel like I am on my feet a lot, but I know I also do a lot of desk work. It would be interesting to see!