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’ve been wanting something like this for so long but don’t have the money because I’m a poor college student. lol i think the inactivity monitor alert would be so useful, being a college student because I often sit for long periods of time, either in class or studying, so this would be great to help remind me to get up and walk around!
I am most excited about the daily activity tracker! I am graduating in May, and I am going to be a teacher. When I was student teaching, I was always curious to see how many steps I took everyday because I was always on my feet walking around the classroom. I would love to track my steps when I start teaching!
I’d love to see my heart rate trend!
The inactivity alerts really intrigue me! I am at a desk all day for work and it would be nice to have something that reminds me to get up and walk around!
The inactivity alerts sound like a major bonus!
I would love to see my active time…maybe! I have a sedentary job and am pretty sure I only get activity at the gym 🙁
I like the inactivity aspect. I’d like to know if I’ve been sitting at my desk too long.
I’m glad you reviewed this product as I have been looking at purchasing a fitness tracker! At my job I walk around for most of the day so I’d be interested to know my daily activity level at work.. I’m also curious about the sleep tracker.
I just recently took an office job and sometimes it’s hard to remember to make loops around the office in order to stay semi-active. I’m intrigued with the continuous reminder to stay active so I reach my goal! Really hope I win this! 🙂 I’ve been eyeing similar bands, I hadn’t heard of the Polar Loop before.
I would love to see what the activity tracker would reveal about my habits now that I have changed jobs! I always feel like I’m active, but would be fascinated to know what the REAL numbers say.
I like the inactivity alert. A gentle reminder never hurt anyone 🙂
I would love to see how many steps I take as a teacher! I feel active, but who really knows? 🙂
I would love the inactivity feature as well as knowing if I have exceeded my activity goals every day! I am very competitive… especially myself!
i think the best feature is the inactivity alert function! Even though I am an avid runner, I am a student so there are long periods of time I am forced to sit down and study. I would love to have a reminder to take a break and walk around because I hate sitting still.
I like the inactivity feature!
I’m curious about the sleep tracker and how much I walk at work. Great giveaway!
I have a Polar FT7, and it gives me a lot of this information, so I would be most interested to see the sleep information the Loop gives me.
I would most be interested in tracking my sleep!
I’m so intrigued by all of the features of these fitness trackers! The inactivity feature on this one seems really great! And I’d be so interested to know my sleep patterns, although I’m sure I’d find out I could be getting much more of that! 😉
I would love to track my sleep with the polar loop!
Great giveaway! I’ve been wanting to get a fitness tracker & have been considering Polar Loop, a Fitbit Force or the new Garmin Vivofit. I’m really looking forward to tracking my sleep!
I love that it links you with your peers. The best motivation is seeing those around you working hard.
I would love to see my activity time. I am a teachers assistant to 12 Autistic pre k children. It feels like I have run around in circles all day. I wonder how many miles I go in school. 🙂
I am definitely intrigued by the sleep functions! I am always tired, so I’d be interested to see why!
I would love to see the sleep tracker option since I’m always tired!
I would love to see my activity log. I work with kids and I’m always running around doing something. I’d love to have more information about my non-workout activities!
I would love to track my sleep!
The Polar Loop looks awesome to me! The inactivity alerts would be perfect. Although I get my workout done around 6 a.m., I am a counselor and sit talking with children all day and usually feel very inactive for the rest of the day. I think it would motivate me to get up and walk the hallways! Plus, I love anything that is motivating!!
I love the sleep tracker feature and the inactivity alert function the best!
I am most excited about the daily active tracker.
I love how it alerts you when you’ve been inactive. I have a desk job and the reminder to get up and walk around would be great!
I tend to sit a lot at my job so getting an alert would be awesome to remind myself to walk around for a few.
I’m curious to see my activity data. I do formal exercise most days, and I try to incorporate movement into my day, but I’m not sure it’s enough.
I’d love to be able to track my heart rate and use the inactivity alert feature!
I am a D1 soccer athlete and I never really know how much activity I put into the week. I can guess, but I would really like to know the exact amount of my overall activity! Also the sleep app would be great because being a biology premed major sleep is rare to come by so I think it would be cool to see how much sleep I get and how it affects my workouts! I could even turn this into an experiment and get some credit for it whoop whoop!!
Definitely interested in tracking my steps each day!
The inactivity alerts! That is one thing I found really interesting about the polar loop. It would benefit me since it would let me know that it is time to get up and do something :). Even if I don’t win, thank you for doing the giveaway!!
I NEED the inactivity alerts…sitting at the computer for too long makes me so stiff!
I would love to track my sleep !
I’m interested to track my activity at work…I feel like I sit all day long but I know I’m up and moving a little. This would motivate me to do more!
I would love the sleep tracker!!
I had a FitBit one which I loved because it tracked my steps and calories burned. I had to give it to my mom though because she lost hers. I would love to have this one because it is similar but more comprehensive than the FitBit.
I have a desk job and love the idea of an alert to remind me to get up and get moving
I have been eyeing activity trackers for quite some time and I think this is my favorite! I have recently moved to a desk job so I think I would really enjoy the daily activity tracker. I think I would be more motivated in my workouts if I knew how active (or inactive) I was each day!
This polar loop sounds awesome! I have heard of the fitbit, but this one is new to me. I would love to see what it would track in terms of my sleep activity. I serve at a restaurant so I am on my feet and active most of the day, but I find that at night I don’t always sleep too sound, and I know this is bad because sleep is important for good health!! I would be very intrigued to use one of these and see what data it collects for me!
I would LOVE one of these. I have been researching various fitness trackers for awhile now. I am most interested in the inactivity alert. I recently took a new job that is much more sedentary than my previous teaching job. It would be great to have that reminder to get moving, even if it’s just a quick jaunt around the office.
I feel like I wake up approximately three hundred times a night. So I’m definitely in the sleep data.
The inactivity alert!!!! AWESOME idea!!! :0)
I think the daily activity tracker would be interesting to see 🙂 I’ve been looking into different activity trackers, but I haven’t been sold on one yet. This one sounds great!
The inactivity alert is such a good idea! I work in an office and sometimes spend my whole day in front of the computer. It would be great to have something remind me to get up and move.