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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Inactivity alerts at work would be great! I take public transportation, so I’d also be interested to see just how much walking I do throughout the day.
Oh my goodness!! Sign me up!
The Polar Loop intrigues mainly because of its easy tracking capabilities. Just by having it, I will become motivated to take the long way to get somewhere! It will be like a fun fitness game to see how active I am. This will help me become a more fit and active person, just like you! 🙂
The inactivity Alert would be amazing! I just started a full time job so keeping track of when I need a little movement would be incredibly beneficial!
The inactivity alert would be fabulous to have! I sit at a desk for my job and sometimes get so into what I’m working on that I forget to walk around as often as I should!
I love the inactivity alerts!
I love the idea of the inactivity alerts! That would totally motivate me!
I have the fitbit flex and I like it but I’m bummed because I didn’t realize it doesn’t sync with my phone and there’s not inactivity reminder which is what I really need! I wish I saw your review before I bought the fitbit!
I love the idea of inactivity alerts – I work at a desk all day, and it’s good to be reminded to get up and walk around!
I like that it tells you when you are being inactive too long. Doesn’t allow you to be too lazy during the day 🙂
The inactivity alert would be a great reminder for me to get up from my desk at work!
I am excited that you can not only use this to track your day to day activity, but you can connect it to a heart rate monitor and get a more accurate calorie count and work out analysis. 🙂
Since I work a desk job, the inactivity alerts and being more aware of how much I move throughout the day sounds cool to me!
I am excited about all the tracking! If I had to choose I think it would be either the inactivity alert (which would be great at work and home) or tracking my sleeping!
Excited for the giveaway
I love a lot of what this offers, but the inactivity alert is something I really need. Like you, sometimes I need a reminder to get off my butt!
i love that there are inactivity alerts. i sit around a lot due to work but have been trying to make a conscious effort to get up and walk around more often but it’s easy to forget when you’re on the computer! a little reminder every now and then would be so helpful!
The inactivtity alert!
I heard about the Polar Loop a few weeks ago and have been SOOO curious! I am my own biggest hurdle when it comes to working out–the inactivity alerts would be the PERFECT motivator for me!
Like many of the other commenters on here, I work a desk job so the inactivity alerts would be awesome!
All of it sounds intriguing, but I think the sleep monitoring intrigues me the most.
I find the Polar Loop super intriguing! I love the fact that it tracks all activity and I could find myself being more motivated to make sure I walk up and down the stairs instead of taking the elevator or walking to get lunch instead of driving. I recently broke my hand so any type of low impact activity I would love to track so I can still hit my fitness goals. I would also love to see my sleep data! Thanks for this awesome giveaway opportunity! Fingers crossed!!!
i am definitely interested in the sleep data and motivating myself to move more.
I love this! those inactivity alerts would be so helpful when I am doing work and kind of zone out to the world!
I love the sleep monitor! I wonder how well I’m actually sleeping!
This little bit of technology looks incredible! Definitely a fantastic motivator…I’d also love to get data for my activity throughout the day- simply out of curiosity! I’d look into this for sure for me and my mom!
I’m interested in sleep data. I feel like I’m so restless many nights!
I think everything sounds great, but I would love the inactivity alerts/tracking!
Inactivity would be an awesome and motivating feature!!
The Polar Loop is intriguing to me because I would like the see the breakdown of my day’s activities and I think the sleep data is pretty cool too!
I love the idea of the Polar Loop. I’ve been really trying to reach my fitness goals for the past year, and I feel this would be the best step in the right direction. I have my lazy times (a lot) and times where I get into my fitness routine (every morning). Its so important to me to create a balance. That is my biggest ambition. I think I’m most excited about the alerts that will go off when I’ve been sitting around for a long period of time. My father died very young (42) of a heart attack. We were all shocked. It was completely unexpected. I’m now 33. I’m on a mission to be the healthiest that I can possibly be in my life. I believe that the Polar Loop will really help motivate me to the next level.
I am intrigued by the inactivity alerts. I am sitting a lot for my job and this would be a great reminder to get up and get moving!
Omg I’ve been wanting one so bad! I would love to know when I’m being inactive to long!
The activity alert is a great feature. I have a desk job and I try to get up and move around at least once an hour, but sometimes you get involved in a project and realize you’ve been sitting for waaay too long. Would love to have the Polar Loop!
The feature I am most interested in is the one where the band will give you a notification if you have been sitting too long. So often I get caught up in work that I just forget to move!
I think the inactivity alert would be so motivating to me! I love your blog!
The inactivity alert sounds awesome! As someone who works a desk job it would be nice to have that little reminder to get my butt moving!
I am so intrigued by the sleep tracker. Also, the inactivity alerts would be great!
I think the polar loop would be really useful to help increase my fail activity, but I also think it is really cool how it tracks your sleep, and gives you information about it!! I would love to win it, it would definitely be out to good use!! 🙂
I LOVE the inactivity feature. I have a desk job, so I spend most of my day sitting. I’d love to have a little reminder every now and then to get up and move!
I’d be most excited about see how much I do and don’t move on certain days, espcially week vs. weekend days!
I love that I could see all of my activity together! I work in Kindergarten and would love to be able to see how active I actually am during the school day in addition to my workouts!
I toss and turn many days a week while sleeping so I would love the sleep tracker!!!
I don’t have any wearables, but would love to have one. Just knowing my HR and calories burned would be nice. Thanks for the chance to win one!
Wow, I like the inactivity alert feature. It would serve as an instant reminder to get on my feet and move around!
Sleep Data!!! I am a HORRIBLE sleeper and would love to see how much “real” sleep I actually get. Of course it would be interesting to see my daily activity, but I think sleep data would be cooler since it’s harder to track that- since your sleeping, ha!
I’d like to track my daily activity!
I would love to see all of it, but especially the sleep data!
Oh my gosh I would be the luckiest girl ever to win one of these!! Seriously, I would love to see what my resting heart rate and total calorie burn would be throughout the day! I’ve never used something like this before but oh it would be so cool!!
I love the fact that it will tell me to get off of my butt! I work at a desk and have a really hard time reminding myself to stand up and move around throughout the day!
I love the fact that it will tell me to get off of my butt! I work at a desk and have a really hard time reminding myself to stand up and move around throughout the day!