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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So much! I want a visual of what my day looks like in terms of activity. I also think I could use a motivator to get me off the couch!
Inactivity alerts!
The inactivity alert would be extremely helpful! With a desk job where I sit for large portions of the day, a reminder to get up and move around a bit seems like a perfect idea. I know I would also love to see my overall daily numbers, including how sleep amounts may effect my efforts.
I run around quite a bit at work during the day but I think this would be great to motivate me when I get home. A reminder to get off the couch and get moving would be great!
The activity tracker interests me.
The inactivity alert would be a treat nudge to get up and move 🙂
I love that the activity tracker suggests ways to reach your goals! What a great way to be creative with your daily activity!!
Every morning I wake up and I’m soooo tired and can’t get going. It would be interesting to see what the sleep tracker could tell me and maybe it would help with getting a better sleep each night.
The inactivity tracker would be so cool!
I definitely like the idea of having my overall activity tracked.
I have been interested in trying one of these fitness monitors for some time now. I had a baby 2 months ago and would love to use the inactivity alerts to help me get back on track with my fitness to help me lose the last of my baby weight.
I’ve been wanting to try one of these to know how much I move throughout the day but also my sleep activity would be really cool too.
Definitely the total activity. Way cool!
Definitely inactivity monitor…I sit for 2 kids and even though I go, go, go most days it would be great to get a reminder if I am under active for the day…
I have been wanting a fitness tracker and would love to win the polar loop! I really love how it notifies you of you’ve been inactive too long. I can’t h myself at work sitting for hours without moving and would love to have something remind me to take a lap around the office.
*catch myself
I use MyFitnessPal and my Polar HRM daily, and I’d love to see how the numbers add up/compare. It would also get me moving in the evenings after dinner with the inactivity notification (that’s my time I need to increase my activity to help digest my dinner before bed).
I’d love seeing all the data on the app and tracking progress! Though it would be really interesting to see what goes on in my sleep, because clearly I’m oblivious.
Seeing that I am a first year GI fellow and a previous avid runner who has resorted to a life of sleep deprivation, I would truly enjoy the alarms for inactivity. It would help motivate me to move around during times when the couch seems like a much better place! Time for me to stop making excuses!
The activity tracker interests me the most……
I love the inactivity alerts because they are able to constantly remind to just move around a little bit!
Total activity would be really useful to me I think
I sit a lot at work. And I think this would be a great reminder to get an inactivity alert!
I would love to see my sleep patterns!! However, I have a lot of trouble tracking calories in and out and mart eying to lose some weight, so that would be great too!
The inactivity alerts. I am a teacher and I am always looking for wAys to motivate my students to live healthy and active lifestyles (even though I’m a chemistry teacher) so I think it would be awesome to use that in my class and take a “brain break” whenever it goes off and get my students up and moving, along with moving myself!
It would be so neat to see a breakdown of my daily activity! Wonderful idea!
The inactivity alert sounds awesome! What a great way to get people to get moving!
Sitting at a desk all day this would be a great way to up my steps per day.
The sleep tracker is most interesting to me! I’d love to use the data to setermine trends between good and bad nights of sleep with daily activity! I have a feeling sleep really affects my level of activity.
The fact that it will synch with my Polar HRM strap is LIFE-CHANGING. My biggest beef with most activity trackers is that they only really track certain KINDS of activity. Basically, steps. Having it link up to my strap and also reflect **all** my workouts (spinning! swimming! weight lifting!) is a huge advantage to a numbers geek like me. 🙂
Inactivity Alerts! As a student I sit a lot all day.
I like the idea that it gives you a reminder to get in gear, like a 24/7 personal trainer! I love tracking things so I think this would be awesome to help make sure I am making progress!
I sooooooo want one of these! I think it would be awesome to have one of these to alert me when I’m inactive! 🙂
I am in college so between walking from class to class all day to my daily workouts, it would be so cool to see how much activity I am actually getting in and calories I am burning without realizing it. I also tend to sit for a few hours studying, so the inactivity alert would be so perfect to remind me to give my mind a break and get my body moving for a few minutes…I think thats the best kind of break you can get!!
it’s amazing how smart it is! how can it possibly do so much?!
i’ve never worn a pedometer, heart rate monitor, or any other fitness tracker. i like the runkeeper app on my phone, but i don’t like that i have to start it up and hold my phone every time i use it. so i think the polarloop would be a great tool that i’d get a lot out of!
Inactivity alerts sound pretty sweet.
As a new mom and a mom of 3 under the age of 3, it would be extremely helpful to motivate me to get moving more. Also to help me find the balance of sleep, workouts, and just everyday life!
I want to know my sleep data! I’m pretty sure that I am a terrible sleeper, so I’d like to start to figure out some patterns!
The inactivity alerts look really cool–what a great reminder to take a break and get moving during a long day at the office.
Wow the sleep tracker seems really interesting! I’d love to see what it has to tell me
I know the heart rate monitor is extra but I really think that would end up being my fav feature, among the many other things.
Due to a new health issue, this would really keep me going. It sounds like a great way to be accountable and keep moving! Now if it only could beep when I’m about to eat something sweet! Thanks for your wonderful giveaways!
I would LOVE the inactivity alerts. I need those badly!!
I’m interested in my tracking my sleep patterns.
Inactivity and my sleep would be interesting to see 🙂
I would love to see my sleep data! I feel like i’m dragging on weekdays but get up at the crack of dawn on weekends like it’s no big deal!
I would love the inactivity alert! After graduating college and starting my first 9-5 desk job, I have noticed that my activity levels have decreased–so this would be great for me!
I d love to see how many steps i take on certain days!
I would love to finally know how active I actually am. So I guess I just love the idea of being aware of all that it offers.