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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As an office worker, the inactivity alert is probably my favorite feature.
I’m super interested to see the sleep information!
I’d love to see my sleep data and the inactivity alerts! Being in college I definitely don’t get enough sleep so that would be helpful. And sitting in class + sitting at my desk studying = too much sitting. That little reminder would make me want to go run up and down the stairs of my dorm for 10 minutes!
I’d love to know how active I am daily! I feel like I’m constantly going, but it’d be great to compare 🙂
I think the inactivity alert would be most helpful and keep me on top of my personal fitness goals!
i work in an office so the inactivity reminders would be great
I think everything the tracker does is great. Like you said, it’s a motivator!
EKKKKK 🙂 I need this! I work at a desk so the inactivity feature sounds awesome, but I’m also training for my 2nd half marathon so all the data I can see in general would be cool 🙂
Definitely the inactivity alerts! I work at a desk all day and some days it is hard to remember to get up and move around at regular intervals.
I am definitely intrigued by the inactivity alerts as well as sleep data. I know my quality of sleep could use improvement so I’m curious what the polar loop can tell me!
I love that it alerts you when you’ve been inactive for a certain time period. This would be esp helpful at work where it is easier to get distracted and ignore the fact that you’re not moving enough!
I would really love to see my sleep data! I feel like I get really restless sleep, so I would love to actually know!
I’d love to know how active I am during non-workout time – being in Toronto, I walk take stairs constantly (unless you’re in a skyscraper, it’s not an elevator-friendly city), and would love to know how much all these things add up!
I would be interested in the inactivity alerts. Even though I work in an office I try to walk around as much as possible and go to a coworker’s office rather than send an email, but this would be an added help! I’m also training for my 3rd marathon right now so the Polar Loop would of course be helpful on my training runs.
I have a heart rate monitor, but I wouldn’t wear the chest band all day.. it’d be great to have something that’s ALWAYS on me to keep me motivated to move all day!
I’d love to see my sleep data!
I’ve tried many different ‘tracking’ tools and some are straps around the chest, some are big bands on my upper arm…I love that this one is a wrist watch type!! So cool and won’t draw too much attention to it!
I’d be interested to know how well I am sleeping!
I would love to see my calorie count and be able to receive inactivity alerts!
I would love to see my sleep data!
I’m especially intrigued by how I think I’m living an active lifestyle, but maybe I’m not! I work at my desk all day with few walk breaks. Are my gym visits doing enough to keep me healthy?
I’ve really been wanting one of these, but just can’t spend the money right now. What intrigues me is the alert. I have a desk job but also feel like I walk around a lot too, but I probably really don’t.
I’d love to receive the inactivity alerts. I work in an office where I’m sitting alllll day. I move so little throughout the day and it’s hard to remind myself to take a break.
Inactivity alert sounds helpful.
I love all the features! Calories, steps, activity! This would really motivate my weight loss!
I would love the inactivity reminders. I sit in my office all day and need to remember to get up and move more!
I would love to track my inactivity every day – such a great reminder to get up and move around throughout the work day!
The inactivity reminder sounds intriguing! As an office worker I’m pretty sedentary, so this would be a gret motivator!
I’ve been dying to get one of these! I have the heart rate monitor and watch. I also have a Fitbit, but with my recent foot injury I’ve been cycling more & I noticed my Fitbit doesn’t work well for cycling. I really have been wanting to get this to use with my polar heart monitor and compare to Fitbit.
I would love to get a better idea of what my activity is for an entire day – I try to keep track of workouts, but what about my walk to a meeting or the other little things I do all day? I’d love to win this!
I love the “inactivity alert”. Also the strap. I had a fitbit that I lost because it just slipped off my wrist 🙁
I’d like to think I get enough activity most days, but I have no data to prove that! I would also be super interested in the sleep data, which needs to be a top priority, too.
What a great giveaway!! I am most intrigued by the activity tracker, and I absolutely love that it will alert you when you’ve been inactive for too long. What a great idea to keep this new Mom active and motivated!!
The inactivity alert sounds like a great feature!
I work a desk job, so the inactivity alerts would be a great way for me to get my butt out of my chair more often at work! I am always struggling to find more ways to be active at work and the Polar Loop would be perfect for that!
I love the inactivity alerts feature. It would be great motivation for me to keep active throughout the day!
I sit on an exercise ball at work and I would be intrigued to see if that is as helpful as I hope it is! Also I teach classes and it would be an excellent reminder to myself and the class that a break would be needed! Thanks 🙂
OMG this is am awesome giveaway!!!! I have a fitbit but have wanted to try the polar wrist band. I really love that you can wear it in the pool. Every once and a while I swim and I’m very interested to know how many calories I burn in the pool.
Since I’ve started a desk job, I’ve noticed a huge (negative) change in my body due to all the sitting — the inactivity alert would be so helpful and motivating!
I like how it can track your heart-rate in every activity. I’m interested tracking my sleep!
I think having a goal to reach for the activity level would be extremely motivating! If you saw you only had a few points left, how easy would it be to go for a walk or do a quick workout (Nike Training Club!) at home? 🙂
I work in a hospital, and would be interested to see my daily activity tracked – I feel like I move alot but it would be neat to see the truth!
I’d be really interested in seeing my sleep patterns & how often I wake up or how many straight hours I’m really sleeping!
The feature of the Polar Loop that intrigues me most is the inactivity alert! I think that would be a great motivator because I’m a current grad school student and it is so easy to forget how long you’ve been sitting around reading and studying. This would give me that extra push to get outside for a run or hit up my apartment’s gym!
I’d love to see my overall activity for each day!
After many previous active jobs, I am now at a desk position due to a work injury and find myself sitting for way too long throughout the day. I love the idea of the inactivity alerts, it would be great to have this on to remind myself to get up and stretch and walk around during the work days!!!
Wow! I’ve been seeing these around and didn’t really know what they were all about! I think I would use it as a motivator to move more throughout the day; although the inactivity alerts sound pretty neat!
The inactivity alert would definitely motivate me to move more during my working hours (sitting at a desk). I also would be interested to see how my activity progressed. Thanks for the giveaway!
would love to se my activity level
I would LOVE to have a reminder to get up and move every so often!! I try to be mindful of this but it’s easy to get caught up in work and forget…