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 would be interested to see my activity levels and sleep level. I am rTher active (I think?) with three big and young dogs, a house to tend to, and training for a half marathon. But being recently engaged, I tend to want to hunker at home and not go for evening walks and workouts are easier to pass up if my fiancé doesn’t go. Actually would be fun to have a little competition between the two of us to motivate us on all levels. Cool gadget!
I think the inactivity alerts are awesome. You don’t really realise how much of the day you spend sedentary and so it would be a great reminder to get up and move around, as I do believe incremental movements and small activities you include in your overall day helps the most with weight management and health. Consistency is key, no matter how small. So getting the Polar Loop would be so great to be able to remind myself of this. x
I would love the inactivity alerts and I think being able to track steps would be the encouragement I need to get outside and move!
I would be excited to track my heart rate and in such an easy way through the polar loop! I think tracking your heart rate is the key to getting a good workout without over or under exerting myself!
I would love this as a daily motivator!! I’m always looking for things that will further motivate me to be more active!
The inactivity alerts! I have a desk job and try to regularly get up and walk through the office but it is the hardest thing to do in a day! That extra reminder would help me build a great habit.
I would love to see how i could hit my activity goals daily!
It would be wonderful to have for motivation and to know your numbers.
I would love to know my daily activity level. Sometimes I feel like I don’t sit down all day and other days I feel like a lump on the couch – so it would be great to know if either of these are true!
I would love the inactivity alerts to remind me to get up & move a lil 🙂
I would love to access daily activity levels, also the inactivity feature is a great addition to this fitness tracker.
I’m definitely interested in the inactivity alerts! Working a desk job, it would be nice to get some reminders to get up and move around.
I would love to try this out because I walk most of the day up and down the hallways of an Elementary school and have always been curious exactly how many calories I burn/steps I take! I would also love to track my sleep because I have recently started using essential oils and I feel like they are helping my insomnia but it would be nice to see some data 🙂
I’m training for my first half ironman so I’d love to see how much I am moving as a result!
I would be veru interesting in my sleep pattern data! Also, the inactivity alerts would be super helpful!
I wear a heart rate monitor when I workout, so the loop would be a great addition for me to track my activity outside the gym!
I would love to see my daily activity and sleep patterns!
I would love the sleep data and the inactivity
Alerts I work at a desk and that would be good motivation to
Get up and move
Being able to see myoverall daily activity seems intriguing. As a outside sales rep it would be interesting to see how active I really am. I think it would be less than I think. Hopefully I win and I can test it out. 🙂
I love the idea of inactivity alerts! having an office job, I try and get up every hour and do some kind of exercise but sometimes I forget! this would be a great reminder! 🙂
I try to get up and move around every day at work, but the Polar Loop’s inactivity alerts would be just the thing I need to get movin’ after a long period of sitting!
The inactivity alerts seem like a great feature I’d love to try out because I’m always sitting for long periods of time at
My job!
I sit at a computer/desk all day so I would love the inactivity alerts to get me up and moving more. I would also be interested to see the sleep data because I feel like I struggle with getting good nights of sleep.
Have you used any other activity trackers or have any comparison with the Loop?
The inactivity alerts would be really helpful for me! I go to the gym 4-6 times a week but I am at my computer 80% of my work day. It would be a great reminder for me to get up and move around a bit throughout the day.
I would love the inactivity alerts! I work from home and know I need to get up and move more often. I just built a kinda-sorta- standing desk (a piece of wood on top of a fabric bin on my desk haha) so that I can stand and work because I know all the sitting isn’t good for me!
I work a desk job so I think the Polar Loop would be a great way to motivate me more throughout the day to get up and move!
What is not to love about this?!?! I’ve been eyeing the Loop for a while, but just can’t swing it right now in the budget!
I think I would like the inactivity alerts most since I work at a desk all day!
I would love to see how much activity I get in everyday! Most days I think I do quite a bit, but I may be in for a rude awakening 😉
Definitely the inactivity alerts! I work a desk job so it would be incredibly helpful to have subtle reminders every day to get up and do a loop around the office!
I think I would love everything about it. Sounds like just what I need to monitor my road to fitness.
2 reasons why I would love the Polar Loop:
1. My best friend and I are about 2000 miles apart and email each other our previous days activity. We try to hold each other accountable through our journey of fitness and health. This would make it way easier!
2. I work from home and find myself sitting for long periods of time. I would LOVE a reminder to get up and walk around, do some lunges or sit ups to break up my day. I often get too busy to remember to move!
I’m most interested in the heart rate monitor!
I like the inactivity alerts, but also the thought of connecting with others to motivate each other (and/or motivate myself to “beat” someone)!
Wow, inactivity alerts for sure! I know I tend to zone out in front of the TV/computer, so that feature sounds awesome.
I would also love the inactivity alerts! I have a very basic pedometer through work so I already know the fun it is to have one. but the inactivity alerts, with the sleeping information would be interesting. thanks!
It would be so cool to see my whole days breakdown especially my inactive time because I probably don’t do enough moving AFTER I get my workout in lol
I love the idea of inactivity alerts! I have a desk job and try to get up every hour to do some kind of exercise but it is easy to get distracted. The Polar Loop would be great with keeping me on track!
The inactivity alerts intrigue me the most, especially sitting at a desk job all day long!
I’m really interested in the sleep data and the inactivity alerts. I am sometimes stuck at my desk for hours at a time.
The sleep data sounds interesting
I’m most intrigued by tracking the activity levels! Having a wristband like this would hold me more accountable!
I would love to know how much over/under my activity is per day. It would be a wonderful motivator to stop watching TV and start moving around! I’ve actually been looking for something along these lines, and the polar loop sounds perfect!
I’d love to see activities tracked! I’m not a sedentary person, but I think it is easy to forget how much your day to day movements supplement our workouts!
I’m in need of some serious motivation and this would be great! I would be excited for all the features. As a breastfeeding mommy I would interested in seeing my sleep data. To see how much sleep I truly get each night.
I like the idea of the activity alerts! I would definitely respond to those and it would probably become a game for me to try not to get one! Sounds helpful!
This whole thing intrigues me. I’d love to see my activity level tracked. But, I am struggling with good sleep lately, so the sleep piece would be interesting too.
I’ve been looking into this for a few weeks now, thanks for the review! I’m interested in the sleep tracking as well as the heart rate monitor while training!
i’d love to try the polar loop for to track how i sleep! as a graduate student, sleep is crucial when i can get it, and i struggle with sleeping well… i want to know how often i’m waking up and want to fix this problem! thank you for the giveaway 🙂
I love the inactivity alerts! I’m bad about having good intentions, and then sitting at the computer for most of the day.. this would remind me to “get up and do something!”
Sleep data would definitely be the most interesting, but overall, just tracking your activity in a day would be cool to see!