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 think the inactivity alerts would be helpful!
I’d love to see my overall progress of the day!
I would love to be able to track my sleep data!
I would love to see the overall activity I have. Right now I’m on maternity leave so the inactivity alert would be fantastic as well!
I am really excited about the alert to tell you when you’ve been inactive for too long. This will really help at work to let me know to get up and start moving!
I would LOVE the Polar Loop! I would be most excited about it tracking my activity to make me more aware. I know some days that I’m not as active as I should be and this would certainly help keep me focused!
I love the inactivity alerts! I always lose track of time on my computer so that would be a great way to keep moving throughout the day!
I’d love to see how much I move in Les Mills classes, like BodyAttack and Body Step.
I have yet to try any sort of tracker or heart rate monitor. I think it would be so helpful to get a better sense of my overall activity over the entire day!
I love the activity tracker aspect!
I think the most enticing feature is accountability! If you know exactly how active you are… you’ll be encouraged to meet your goals or even increase them. Thanks for the giveaway!
I really like the inactivity alert. Sometimes I get so consumed with work while sitting at my desk that I forget to get up and take a break from time to time.
Sleep data! Some nights I sleep like a rock, and others I’m tossing and turning. Time to find the missing link for a good night’s rest.
I used to have a fitbit and loved seeing my activity throughout the day. I think this would be a great extension of that!
I work in an office and sit all day, so I’d love to see the inactivity alert to remind me to move!
I think I’d look forward to the motivation aspect the most!
You have no idea how bad I NEED THIS!! I work in an office job and try to move as much as I can, but I would love to get the alerts to make me walk around when my body needs it or even go to an empty office and stretch!
The whole concept of the LOOP is very intriguing, would love to be able to help me achieve my daily goals! Guess I better go hit the treadmill now! 🙂
It would definitely get me to walk more and climb more stairs, since I become lazy once I leave the gym
Would love to buy the heart rate monitor to go with this! Seeing how consistently I reach my goal intrigues me! Thanks for the chance to win!
I sit a lot at my job, and I probably don’t realize how little I move during the day. The polar loop would motivate me to get up and do a quick walk throughout my day at the office.
The feature of the Polar Loop that I like best is that it will alert you to get up and move! Hitting a daily and weekly goal is a great way to get motivated in general and having a band like the Polar Loop can serve as a constant remind and the alerts are added motivation that is sometimes needed during busy weeks.
I am intrigued by the inactivity alert. I sit at a desk all day and get wrapped up in work all day that I forget to even get up to go to the bathroom!
I love the idea of the inactivity alerts! I sit all day for my job so this would be a great way to remember to get up and walk around.
I’d love to be able to see all of my activity data at the end of the day. I like the look of how the information is presented!
I like the idea of having everything (sleep, activity, etc) in one place as opposed to having multiple apps to track all of it!
Definitely the inactivity alerts!!! We have a similar feature on our work computers (called a Work Pace Break) that temporarily locks you out from working for a few minutes of “hard” work. I would LOVE this feature on a fitness device – and it is the first device I have heard of that has this feature 🙂 Unique & Intriguing!
I would love to see the overall progress of the day! such a cool giveaway!
I am obsessed with getting a fitness tracker–and I hadn’t heard of polar loop before, but I am intrigued. Especially by the activity alerts. As someone who sits all day at the office, it would be good to be reminded to move around a bit.
I think the sleep data is interesting. My mom has a FitBit, and it’s been neat to see how much she actually sleeps.
I could definitely benefit from the inactivity alerts! As a stay-at-home mom I’m always curious as to how active I actually am!
I think it would be so great to track my movements throughout the day! Sometimes it feels like I’m really active but then after I think about it, I was mainly standing rather than moving per se.
I’m interested in seeing my overall day activity – I’m training for a half marathon and I also work 12 hour nights as a nurse so I’d like to see the differences between those since I’m on the move a lot!!
The inactivity alert seems cool! I have a heart rate monitor now, which I love, but more information about my daily activity as opposed to just in the gym would be interesting.
I would be excited for it all. I really want one of these!!
I really would love to see my overall activity for the day. I think the inactivity alerts would be great to get me off the couch too. I’ve been wanting a Polar Loop for a long time! It would really motivate me to lose the baby weight!
I like knowing that I’ve reached my fitness goals at the end of day without keeping track of them myself.
I sit in an office all day so I know my activity levels are incredibly poor. Wearing this would really motivate me to get moving, which will most likely lead to more healthy changes in my life. This would be a great tool for changing my daily routine for the better.
The inactivity alert is most motivational to me! I would love to increase my physical activity and having a little buddy to tell me when to move would help!
I would love to see my overall activity each day! The inactivity alert also sounds motivating.
What a great product. I’d love the inactivity alerts!
I like the inactivity alerts. I often get up at work every 20 mins to so just to be active because I hate sitting…this will help me continue to do so or even increase!
I’ve been thinking about getting a band like this for a while. I think the coolest feature of the Polar Band is that it tells you the amount of calories burned AND it alerts you when you’ve been inactive too long. What a great motivator!!
I’m intrigued by the inactivity alerts, I’m walking or standing all day at work which can make me fall in to a habit of sitting a lot when I get home. It would be nice to have a motivator to keep me moving once I got home!
I absolutely love the idea of the inactivity alert! It’s just what I need whether I’m home or at work
I’m very interested in my sleep data. I have trouble getting enough sleep, and keeping track of it has been helpful. I also am a desk jockey so I am very interested in a watch that will presumably yell at me while I’m working to get up off my butt 🙂
I’m working on staying active during a hip injury :(, so since I can’t do my usual runs, etc. I’d LOVE to use to to track my daily activity level and find ways to keep that up/augment it during this less cardio-intensive period :). I never get picked for this stuff, but this is definitely the one that would help me most haha.
The inactivity alert sounds amazing! It’s too easy to get bogged down at work and not get up and move!
I love the concept of the inactivity alerts. I know that it would motivate me to move throughout the day!
I would love to see my number of steps and the inactivity alert sounds nice!