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 sound amazing! Since I work at a desk all day, I sometimes forget to get up and get moving
Most interested in overall activity! Thanks for the giveaway!
I would interested in the sleeping feature and how many calories burned. I’ve never tried a tracker but would be very interested in one.
This looks awesome! I would most look forward to the alerts throughout the day. I work sometimes from 7 in the morning until after 7 at night at a desk job and sometimes get so caught up I forget to move! But overall I’m interested in the detailed activity reports. What a great product!
Hi! I really love that it alerts you when you are sitting too long. When my daughter is napping, I tend to watch a lot of TV, so that would be incentive to add some activities while watching!
Id love to inactivity alerts. It seems like a great way to be reminded to get off my butt!
Sometimes I notice that I am sitting too long at work and it is pretty easy for me to get up and go on a 5 min walk, however, I am never motivated. I would love to have something like the Polar Loop to motivate me!
The inactivity alerts sound great! Sometimes my days at work involve tons of walking but other days I get stuck with none! I’d love a little alert/reminder.
I would love to see my activity daily since I am a pharmacy student and have to spend a major portion of my day studying. It would be a helpful reminder to get me to take breaks throughout the day!
I would love the inactivity alerts! On days that I don’t work out, I find myself struggling to hit my step goal so I think this would be a good reminder to get moving 🙂
The inactive alerts would defintely help. Sometimes I don’t realize how idle I am. Also, the fact that other people can view my activity is a huge motivator for me. The accountability factor is my greatest motivator. I mean, I don’t want people thinking I’m lazy now do I?
I would be most interested in the activity tracker. I just had a baby, and I’m curious to see what I’m actually doing in non traditional forms of exercise!
I have been trying to work on my sleep lately and was looking into a fitbit to track it. I would love one of these to optimize my sleep! Thanks Julie!
I would love to know how it measures my energy expended while sleeping! And also it’d be great to go on long runs with it!
Would love to see my overall activity for the day!
I would love to be able to track my inactive times and try to be more active at those times of the day. The sleep activity would be interesting too!
I’id love to see how many steps I really take in a day. I’m a numbers gal so this looks awesome!
I love that it tracks fitness throughout the day. Everyone needs a little inspiration to move more!!
This sounds awesome! Would love to track my daily activity!
I am loving the app that tells you what you can do to reach your goal by the end of the day.
Polar Loops Sounds like fun… great way to track numbers i!!!
I’m very interested to see how my activity that day influences my sleep cycles! Being a student means not much sleep, so I want to see what helps me get the best sleep!!
I think seeing the inactivity times would be most motivating! I love competing with myself!
I think I’m the most excited to see not only my overall activity data and helping me improve it, but my sleep data also. I tend to me a late night early rise person so I don’t get a ton of sleep so seeing how it all works together sounds awesome!
I would love to see my sleep data!!
I’m excited to track my overall activity level and sleep.
I like that it tells you when you aren’t moving a lot. That’s a great motivator!
I think the sleep data would be interesting!
I love that it tells you what you could do to complete your goals. I’m very goal-driven so I feel like that would definitely motivate me!
I love the idea of “following” and motivating friends and family! I’m a gym-lover trying to motivate my new husband, and if it was like a game, I think he’d be very into it!
I would like to use the feature to track my overall activity for the day. I work a desk job which entails me sitting all day. I think if I used this it would motivate me to get up and take walks, walk to a coworkers office instead of just emailing, etc.
I love how it has a built in pedometer, and I could always use the motivation to get up and walk around every so often!
The part that interests me most is the inactivity alert! I get stuck working at my desk often or in the evenings, after my two year old us asleep, I just want to veg on the couch. It would be lovely to have that reminder and activity goal for days when I’m not motivated.
Sounds like fun, I want one! I’d like to see all my steps tracked
I would definitely love the inactivity tracker part of the loop. I work a desk job and have to set a reminder on my outlook to actually stand up every hour! Otherwise, I would sit all day in front of a computer. The inactivity tracker would help me remember to get up and move. I always feel so much better when I’m active at work and this would help so much!
I have a fitbit flex, but I would like to see the time displayed on the device, in addition to the other features displayed. Honestly, if I won, I’d give it to my husband and get him in on the activity-tracking game. (He always loves the new and improved!)
I would love to see my overall activity! I’m in college and spend a lot of time in class so it’d be nice to know what days I need to get moving around more!
I love the sound of an alert to get me up from my desk and moving around more. I try to take short walks throughout the work day, but sometimes it is hard to force myself to get up and take a quick walking break – this would be so motivating!
I’m interested in the sleep tracker!
I love the monitoring and heart rate detector
I love that you can easily see how many calories you have burned on a given day at any time!
Having something to keep me accountable to my goals and also tell me what to do to complete my goals would be great. Also I think the information about sleep in combination would be very helpful.
I would love to see the difference between my activity during the week (when I mostly sit at a desk but try to get up and walk around) to the weekend (when I am chasing my toddler around). Thanks for the wonderful review Julie!
It seems like a great way to keep track of your activities!
I track the days I go to the gym on a calendar at work, but would love something like this. I know I’d be more motivated to move if I knew I would miss a target at the end of the day.
Does this track treadmill workouts as well?
I’m really interested in sleep and recovery data. Can’t get that from any of my current trackers.
Holy moly, those inactivity alerts look awesome! I would be really interested to see what my activity looks like on a day of class vs. no class.
I would enjoy seeing my daily activity levels.
I’ve been wanting one but haven’t made the leap yet. Working at a computer 8-10 hours a day I certainly need a reminder to get up and get moving even if it’s to grab more water. Also a great motivator is counting steps! I really need to make a conscious effort to get moving more throughout the day! It can help using this product.
I love the ability to have the heart rate data! I do Crossfit and it seems like this activity monitor would be more accurate of a tracker than the Fitbit (which hasn’t be accurate for my Crossfit workouts). I have to send my Force back (nickel reaction), and I’d love to have a Polar Loop to replace it! Great review!