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 the inactivity alerts! I think it’s easy to forget to stay active outside of regular workouts.
Wow, that looks awesome! I’d like to have something monitoring my progress throughout the day. I’m walking around to, from and at work, so I’m interested in knowing how much I walk on a regular day. Seeing a daily goal met would definitely motivate me to keep it up – I love small wins like that!
I’d definitely be interested in tracking my steps each day! Like you mentioned, I’m curious to see if there are any patterns in my activity level.
I would be curious to see how active I am during the day. I work at a bank and often feel like I don’t get enough exercise throughout the day and will often walk around the office to chat with colleagues or find things to do to get me moving! I think the inactivity alerts would be extremely helpful in making sure I am accomplishing my goals!
I would be most interested in seeing my daily overall activity using the loop, but I would also be curious about my sleep patterns.
I’d love the overall activity tracker and inactivity alerts! It’d probably serve as a great reminder to move during the day 🙂
I’m very intrigued by the sleep activity. Maybe I can figure out if working out in the mornings or evenings are more beneficial to my sleep patterns.
I work at a desk all day, so the inactivity alerts would really help motivate me to get up and move more throughout the day. Sounds like a great way to set and achieve your daily fitness goals!
I would love the activity tracker to see how much activity I’m really getting. I’d love the inactivity alerts to use as motivators to get off my butt!
I’m totally with you on the motivating aspect…I’ve started to wear a heart rate monitor when I take a spin class and it really motivates me to push myself more during the 45 minute class!
I love the inactivity alerts! That would be so motivating to moooove 🙂
I’ve tried the fitbit, but the inactivity alerts would be awesome!
Id love to be able to track my sleep data as well as see what a typical day of activity is for me.
I would love to win this! It would be awesome to learn my activity levels, I have a desk job and it’s def hard to reach a good activity level when I sit on my butt all day. It would really motivate me to know that see my differences between my workout days and “rest/sit on my butt all day”
I’d love to see feedback on my sleep!
What a great giveaway! I have wanted a fitness tracker for awhile but have been put off by the expense. The features I would love about the polar are the alerts to help me stay motivated and the heart rate addition. I would definitely purchase that to go with it, because it would help me better watch my diet and make sure I was consuming enough calories in the day.
Thanks for this opportunity! Fingers crossed!
I think the loop would help me move more during my work day by tracking my step count
The inactivity alerts sound like an awesome motivator to move more!
I’d love both the sleep tracker and the reminder to getup and move more especially when I’m at work.
I would love to keep track of my overall activity and sleep patterns!!!
ooh overall activity. even though i work out almost every day, i do spend a lot of time sitting/studying. it would be interesting to know!
I would love the sleep tracking. As a college student I feel like my sleep schedule is all over the place, and something I’m really trying to regulate!
Would love to track my overall activity and sleep patterns!!!
I have a desk job and the ‘inactivity’ alert would be awesome! I need something to remind me I have been sitting way too long 🙂
I like that it is an all-in-one monitor. There are others, but this one is supposed to be pretty accurate in terms of monitoring heart rate, even when I am not only walking or running. So it would be great for yoga, barre class, spinning, etc. And because I’m goal oriented, I would be motivated to get my dog out for one more walk after dinner if I am below where I want to be in terms of activity. So I can see how, just like Sadie, my doggie would be a big fan.
great motivation to get moving
I’m interested in seeing how many steps I take per day!
I would love to track my overall activity!! I have the Polar heart rate monitor already, so having this to track my overall activity would be awesome!! I would also love the inactivity alert. I work at a desk all day and would love an alert to remind me to get up and walk around.
Oh, I am really intrigued by the inactivity alert. When I have a long work day ahead of me, I try to set alarms on my phone to remind myself to get up & move, but I’m not as consistent with it as I would like to me. Maybe the polar loop would help give me that extra motivational boost!
I’d love to learn about my sleep patterns!
This sounds like a fantastic motivator! I would love to be reminded to be active and move around after I’ve been sitting for a while.
I’m a graduate student and do a lot of sitting around waiting for experiments – the beep when I’ve been too sedentary would be a nice reminder to get up and move around.
Love the idea of a inactivity alert, on the days i work in the office I would love a little “push” to get moving from time to time.
I think the inactivity monitor would be awesome for a desk job! It would encourage you to get up and move around a little throughout the day.
I would love to win, so that I could give the device to my mom, she really needs some motivation and I think this would fit the bill!
Overall activity.
I have been wanting an activity tracker for so long now, and there are so many to choose from it seems. I would love to understand my sleep patterns, and I love the aspect of the inactivity alert. So great for accountability, and it’s hard to get motivated on my own. This would really change my fitness goals, and help me to incorperate more activity into my daily life. Thanks!!
I love the inactivity alert! As a college student, it’s easy to get carried away when I’m studying and hours on hours can pass with me sitting in the same spot without even realizing it.
Chasing two young children all day makes me think I’m active but I’m curious how accurate this is!!
Step-tracking is a cool feature. I stand at work and try to walk around a bunch during the day to avoid sitting, so it would be interesting to see if I’m really moving as much as I think I am.
I’m really interested in my overall activity. I think I sit too much during the day and I try to walk every now and then but I feel like the tracker would be a good incentive.
I think the heart rate monitor option would make the data the most useful!
The inactivity alert really intrigues me, I need a reminder sometimes to get up and move away from my computer.
This would definitely be motivating for me! I like the feature that allows you to set a daily goal and you can track your progress towards your goal! I would love to try out one of these!!
Inactivity alert seems really interesting! I think it’s a great motivator to get moving.
I would be excited to learn my activities levels so that I can improve!
I would love to know how many calories I burn in a day!
I like that you can track and see what others are doing to be active in your area!
I would like to see my activity level and my sleep patterns. Maybe it would motivate me to go to bed earlier!
I would like the inactivity alerts.
I would love this to monitor my activity patterns. What an awesome product!