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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The inactivity alerts. I spend much of my day in the library studying, and the extra nudge to get up and moving would be helpful!
I love the daily activity tracker! It would really come in handy to know how much I am moving throughout the day and the breakdown of my activity!
I love the idea of seeing how active I am over the course of a day! I’m coming back from a major illness and trying to get more active. I’ve been wanting one of these!!
Luanne
The inactivity alerts would be fantastic! I have a desk job, so I spend most of my day sitting. I’d love a reminder to take a quick walk!
would be interesting to see my activity levels now and how they would change if I kept track of them daily! the inactivity sensor if pretty ingenious also!
I would love to be able to track my total activity throughout the day. My husband and I are training for a hike of Mt. Kilimanjaro next year, and I think the Polar Loop will help keep me motivated to meet my training goals!
I think I’d be the most interested in seeing my sleep data. I feel like you get a somewhat decent idea of your activity while you’re awake, but who knows what’s going on while you sleep! 🙂
I think I would be most excited about the activity tracker. Being able to see how much I do all day would be fun and also encouraging for me to get out and move more.
I really love that it syncs up with the App so you can see a full report every day. I’m big on tracking my activity, so this would be perfect! 🙂
I actually love the idea of the inactivity alert! I’ve seen a few of these fitness trackers… but I don’t have one! Would love to try it!
I would like to see my overall daily activity and my sleep data.
I would love to have the inactivity monitor. Working from home means I sit around a lot and it would be great to have that reminder to get up and move my booty. 🙂
Activity tracker and the inactivity alert would be awesome to check out. I’m in college and though I work out, I also spend a lot of time sitting and lounging around. It’s good to have a reminder to get up and do stuff!
I work in an office but try to walk around as much as possible.. It would be interesting to see how much I really move around.
I think the feature I would love the most is the Inactivity Alerts! Sometimes sitting down all day, it would be a great feature!
I thought the inactivity reminder was a great way to make you get up and move!
I like that it tracks calories. I take a class that is hard to gauge how much I burn.
I think the inactivity alert is a great idea!
I currently track all my workouts on map my hike/fitness. I would love a more personal recording. I would especially like to track my heart rate.
I think it will be tough to see inactivity logs! Working at a desk all day really makes it tough to hit movement goals – even if I make it to the gym most days. Getting a push to get up and walk the dog or just move around is a great idea!
I am so intrigued by these gadgets. I’ve worn a heart rate monitor for years to track my active calories burned, but I would love to see how active I really am. I tend to be a couch potato after the kiddos go to bed!
I feel like I am active but I would like to find out exactly how active! Also, tracking my sleep would be cool!
Any accountability helps but seeing actual reports would be an eye opener!
It all sounds really cool…I would love to compare the activity of a weekday with a weekend! And if the sleep data is accurate, that would be so interesting to track! Thanks for the fun giveaway!!
I am very interested in the sleep activity!
I am really interested in the inactivity notification. I sit in a cubicle all day so that would help motivate me to get up and moving!
I would love to see the sleep data – I know sleep has a huge impact on how you feel throughout the day but I have no idea what my sleep habits are like!
Oh exciting! I love the sleep tracking feature and have wanted to get something like this for a while!
I can’t believe it tracks sleep data! But, I would be more interested in just tracking the calories burned and the inactivity logs sound cool.
I love the inactivity sensor!
I’m most interested in the activity tracker! I feel like I move a lot, but have never measured my activity level. Curious to see how my hard workout days compare to rather inactive days where I’m stuck at my desk.
I would be most interested in my sleeping patterns. I tried using an app in the past but it wasn’t very accurate.
I love the idea of the inactivity notifier- I think it’s so important to keep moving everyday!
The sleep aspect of this definitely inrigues me. The inactivity logs is also huge because I work in an office where we are all constantly reminding each other to move! Would love one to show one off at our wellness program I coordinated!
I work a desk job, so the inactivity alerts would be a great way to remind me to walk around the office every now and then!
I’ve been thinking about buying a fitbit but I’m so intrigued by the sleep data that this tracks. I’ve been traveling a lot for work and I feel like my sleep is suffering a bit from it. I’d love to see it illustrated and start working on better rest!
I would love to see how my activity levels vary from day to day!
Since my sleep pattern lately has been tossing and turning, I’d be most interested in the sleep aspect of the Polar Loop. However, I also work at a desk most of the day (but I get to the gym daily afterwards – go me!) and need the constant reminder to get off my booty.
I really like the idea of being able to wear it on your wrist rather than one with a clip. Also, the inactivity alert sounds pretty amazing! I sit in an office all day so have an alert that tells me it’s time to move would be great.
I love that it tracks all activities, without having to wear a heart rate monitor strap all day long!
I’m a student and spend lots of time sitting in class so in curious to see how much activity I really get!
I would love to get the inactivity reminders. I work at a desk all day, so it would be a nice reminder to get up and get movin!
I would LOVE to have the Polar Loop for the inactivity alerts! I have been spending WAY too much time “online”, not getting my “to-do’s done & also not reaching my weight loss goals! I feel sure the Loop would give me that “nudge” I need to just step away from the iPad and get busy!!!
I would love to see what a typical day for me actually looks like in regards to steps. So I think the activiyy tracker part would interest me most :).
I love the inactivity alerts feature. I sit at a desk all day for work and even though I try to get up hourly to move around, sometimes I get so wrapped up in work that I overlook the time. The alerts would be a great feature to force me to get up out of my chair because I would be more aware of how long I’ve been sitting. It would probably also be more of a motivation to actually go to the gym, either before or after work, after see how long I’ve been inactive throughout the day.
I would love to see my sleep activity! I’ve heard from others about weird trends in their sleep they weren’t aware of until they used a Loop or bodybugg.
I know I’m good about hitting activity levels when I’m awKe, but I’m so intrigued about what happens when I’m asleep!
I know I’m good about hitting activity levels when I’m awKe, but I’m so intrigued about what happens when I’m asleep!
I think the inactivity sensor is interesting especially since I work in an office job and know I can go long periods of time without moving
I’ve been so busy lately that true workouts have fallen by the wayside. I try to remind myself that there are little things I can so outside of the gym that keep me healthy but it’s hard to stay motivated. The inactivity reminder would be so helpful! Not to mention that seeing my activity levels laid out in as data would be a great motivator to start finding more time for workouts!