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’m interested to see how the sleep tracker works. I’ve tried a couple of different iphone apps that are supposed to do the same thing, but they never seemed to work.
I definitely think the inactivity alert would be very helpful in reminding me to get moving through the day!
This I know I need more activity in my life so the step counter would be awesome. Sitting at work I know I do not move enough, so this would help me stay on track! Bikini bod, here i come!!
I would love a way to encourage me to get moving especially on my LAZY days!
The inactivity alert would be so helpful! It would be a great reminder for me to get up from my desk and move around a bit throughout the workday!
I’m interested in all I the features, but the sleep portion would be really interesting to track!
I think the inactivity alert is pretty awesome. Thanks for such a wonderful opportunity.
I love the inactivity monitor!!
The inactivity alert! What a great way to get little breaks from work!
I like that is has a motivating effect – I’m sure if I was more aware of days that I was being inactive, I would choose to change it. But it’s easy to ignore when I’m unaware!
i would love to see my sleep data!
I would LOVE to have a Polar Loop. Being able to track activity/inactivity throughout the work day would be very helpful!
I would really like to see if my activity is burning as much as I think! Doing CF 3-4 times a week and trying to squeeze in a run….I’d really like to see my expenditure!
The inactivity alert would be great when I an sitting in my cube all day.
I already have to wear a pedometer for work. But I really want to analyze my sleep. I didn’t realize polar had a product that can do that! I would love to check it out.
Inactivity alerts, although with a desk job it would constantly be going off.
Amazing piece of technology. Now gonna Need to know activity level vs. calories
The inactivity alert sounds like something that I could definitely use at work to get me moving every so often!
Motivation is exactly what I’m missing lately! I’ve hit a slump this winter and definitely need a pick-me-up! This would be awesome!
What a great new Polar product! I would love to try it and get motivated by the inactivity alerts!
I like the idea of inactivity alerts. I do exercise, but am not active enough outside of my workouts.
I am most intrigued by seeing the calories burned. I am definitely interested in the sleep tracked and think its awesome that it has an inactivity alert. L
I’d love to see my sleep stats!
My boyfriend has this same item and I am always wishing I had one to see my activity levels. He’s always bragging that his “bar is full” for the day so I’d love to challenge him to see who can get their fitness goals in first!
As I work at a desk job I would be interested to track my movements, and hopefully adjust my work patterns to increase them
The activity information is something I would love to know! I’m training for a sub 2 hour half (eeek) in 2.5 weeks and don’t know what my next goal will be. The Polar loop will help motivate me to keep moving!
WHile I love the feature that it tracks all your patterns throuhg the day, I’m most intrigued to see what my sleeping patterns are like since I am not someone who can usually sleep through the night without waking or getting up at least once because of a dream to to go to the restroom. Would love you win this!
I have a FitBit Flex right now, and I love the sleep-tracking feedback. But I’m really intrigued by the Polar Loop’s inactivity alerts. Since I have the equivalent of two desk jobs (working at a newspaper in the evening and writing romance novels by day), I spend WAY too much time on my butt.
I would love to have a device tracking my activity–that is motivating in itself! The inactivity monitor sounds interesting–after how long will it warn you? Of course, I love any calorie burned feature, too. I hope to try this out!
Definitely my steps. I work from home so getting enough steps in is a challenge.
Sleep tracking!
I would love to be able to track my overall activity for the day. Like you, I workout almost every day of the week and work in a school, but am really intrigued about how much energy I am expending every day. Right now I just know I’m wiped at the end of the day 🙂
I would be interested in the Polar Loop for all of the tracking activities, but especially for the sleep portion. I have issues sleeping, and would love a breakdown to help me work on getting better sleep!
I like the motivating aspect the most…I have a small baby and trying to get back in shape so I’d love to know how much I’m moving or NOT and challenge myself to increase activities. Already know I’m not getting any sleep :(. Would really love to try one of these!
I would love to utilize the inactivity alert since I am at desk for the majority of the day and the sleep reports.
I think the inactivity reports would be the most interesting. How much am I NOT moving? Probably more than I would like.
I am very interested in the sleep reports and the inactivity reminder!
Inactivity alerts! I would love to have an alert when I’ve been sitting for too long. This is great. I’ve never heard of the polar loop. Sounds like a great product.
The inactivity alert and activity goals to up my activity level
I have been wanting to get a product like this for some time now! I am a busy on the go nursing student and would love to be able to track all of my activity during my crazy schedule!!
I have been having trouble sleeping so the sleep tracker really intrigues me. I would love to see if there is a pattern on the nights I have the most trouble.
I would the the inactivity warning. It would definitely get me moving.
I’d love to have an inactivity alert – especially at my desk job! Also it’d be interesting to track and compare sleep trends with daily activity!
I like that it’s not a big watch!
I would love this for SO many reasons!! I think I would definitely purchase the heart rate tracker! I just found out that I will
Be having a baby in September and want to continue working out my whole pregnancy! I think the heart rate tracker wkd be great for me to make sure I am maintaining a healthy heart rate at all times while working out!!
Thanks!
Kirsten
I think the inactivity monitor would be great!
I would love to be able to track (and receive alerts) about my activity level as well as my sleep – My job involves far to much sitting and having a constant reminder/motivator would help me to get more active and take steps towards a healthier future!
Love the added heart rate tracker!!
I love the idea of the inactivity alert!
The inactivity alert is neat! I really need that!