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 would love knowing my overall activity for the day. I am a graduate student so I spend the majority of my days in class or working at the computer. I think the inactivity alerts would be helpful too. It would remind me to take a quick walking/study break!
Wow, great product! I love the thought of being able to track yourself against a goal. It’s a wonderful tool for staying on track daily!
I am a teacher, so I feel like I walk around a lot and am very active. I would like to know just how much walking I am actually doing.
So cool! I’ve been wanting to try one of the fitness activity trackers! I know I’d be motivated to work harder during my workouts and incorporate more activity into my days with one 🙂
I would love to see how much I am actually active during the day. I often think that working out is enough but then don’t do much activity otherwise. Hopefully this would motivate me. i would also like to see the differences between the weekdays when I am teaching and the weekends when I am more lazy.
i would love to have my daily activity levels tracked!
I would definitely be interested in seeing in track my overall daily activity. I’m curious to see how much activity actually happens at work!
I would love to see my activity levels when I’m NOT working out. The inactivity alerts would really encourage me to get up from my desk more during the day.
Great motivation to get out and get moving, especially on a cold day
Great motivation to get out and get moving, especially on a cold day
I love the idea of inactivity alerts. I tend to sit for long periods of time at work without getting up, so this would be great motivation to get up and move!
It would be so neat to have inactivity alerts, since I am probably sitting a lot at my job!
I would love to track my sleep!
I would definitely like more motivation to move if I’ve been inactive for a while. I work out about five times per week but sitting at a desk all day really counters all the good work I do in the gym. It would be great (especially since spring is supposed to make an appearance some time soon) to get this when I’m able to amp up my running and walking.
It would be very interesting to track my movement for each day. I would love to try this out!
I would love this to see how much activity I am getting in a day, and I would also love the updates that tell me I have been sitting still for so long! What a cool gadget!
I have noticed that I am very inactive during the day, thanks to my desk job. One thing I have been doing is going to the bathroom on the other side of the building. I think the Loop would be a good reminder to sneak in other activity like that during the day.
I am intrigued to see how my activity and sleep patterns affect the way I feel. I think using a device like this could help me better understand how my body functions best!
I’m curious to see my total steps. I’ve never used a pedometer and have been curious as of late!
The inactivity alert is very intriguing. I work at a desk and often forget to get up and walk around every hour. I would love a reminder. My dog would probably also love for me to be more active with her too 🙂
I like the idea of the inactivity alert. Having a desk job, that would be a great reminder to get up and move more often!
I would be curious to see my overall activity for the day!
What a cool product! I would love to be able to track my activity-I am a nurse and would love to know how much running around I actually do at work!
I love the idea of being able to watch and modify by activity throughout each day in order to challenge myself to take extra steps each day! How cool!
I would love to see how much I burn through out the day, maybe its more or maybe its less than I think and will need to do more activity to get the activity I need in a day!! I am just so curious and want to know!! Looks super cool!!!
I always do better and push myself when I can “see” what I am doing! And the inactivity alert, how cool is that!
The inactivity alerts! I sit for long periods at work and it would be a huge motivator to get up, stretch and take a walk every once in awhile!
I think it would be very interesting to see how many times the inactivity alert goes off during the day. I sit in front of a computer all day for work so it might be a motivator to get up and at least walk down the hall for a few minutes every once in a while!
I think it would be cool to see my daily activity
I would love to upgrade it with the heartrate monitor as I am interested in heart rate training.
I have a desk job, so I’d love to get a nudge to get moving when I should!
i am really interested in my sleep patterns and my overall activity throughout the day. I am wondering, as a new mom, if just chasing baby around has increased calorie burning.
I would love to see how many steps I am walking each day, I think this would be incredibly motivating!
I sit at my desk for the majority of the day at work so the inactivity alert would be great for me!
Great giveaway. I am most intrigued by the inactivity tracker. I am a busy mom but there are definitely moments in my day where I could be active instead of sitting on the couch waiting for baby to wake up from a nap. It would be interesting to know all the different stats about my day.
I have seen these and I want one! I would love to have this on my runs and not have to have my iPhone in my hand! Hope I win!
The inactivity alerts have me really intrigued…hopefully it’d keep me from slacking 🙂
This looks great! I would love to see my overall activity for the day. I wear a heart rate monitor during work outs but knowing all day would be awesome.
I would like to track my activity thorough out the day.
Cool! I’d love to keep track of my overall activity levels
I hate the fact that I have an office job and sit for the majority of the day, I would love to have a reminder when I’ve been sitting too long to get up and take a walk! I also live in NYC and am always interested to see how much I actually do walk on an average day and how many calories are being burned since that is my main mode of transportation.
I LOVE the inactivity alert feature! I’ve been having trouble getting motivated to stay active so I believe this would really be beneficial for me.
I have a desk job so the inactivity alerts would be great! Most days I try to take a 30-60 min walk at lunch, but I’m sure this would motivate me to do even more shorter walks throughout the day.
I think the inactivity alerts would be great. As a grad student I spend a lot of time reading or sitting in front of my computer. It would be great to have that reminder to get up and move a little!
I’ve been wanting this polar loop for awhile. I love my polar HRM and would be awesome to see my sleep data also.
I think the inactivity tracker sounds like an awesome feature. It would be great to motivate me to get up from my desk more often!
The idea of inactivity alerts and tracking sleep sounds great! Would love this!
Fantastic giveaway, I’ve been eyeballing these for awhile. I am curious about my overall stats each day.
I have been checking out a lot of similar products but it’s hard to decide which features I want most. The Polar Loop seems to combine them all and I like the option to include a heart rate monitor.
I love that it tracks your sleep! That would be great.