Best looking polar watch i have owned (i have had 2 previous models)sleep monitoring is very goodstrap does not irritate our give a rash (all others did)but. . Add a fitness watch it’s poor. Bpm recording is not nearly accurate enough and the gps is wildly inaccurate. I compare with both h7 and h10 chest monitors and the ignite shows lower heartbeat and the map shown for my runs indicates i have been way off track. An identical dog walk (should be more accurate than a run) showed a big difference between ignite and h7 paired with gps on phone. This is pretty appallingreally disappointed with this watch.
Ok so there is lots i like about this watch but also lots i think is certainly missing for the price. Activity trackinggreat training data available after a training session. Watch suggests what training you should do each day based on how you train and how you slept. Quite nice feature but i already have my training schedule so i will not necessarily use this. No automatic training recognition. Heart ratemore accurate than most wrist based monitors but not great – struggles with high intensity training jumping abruptly from 130 to 170 when it should have been 170 -180 all along. Sleep trackingvery good feature with in depth data, more so than on other watches i have used. Grosslly overestimates how many steps you do. I usually wake up with around 500 steps already clocked in. Daily activity goalsi really do not like i cannot set my own daily steps goal. There are 3 preset options and that’s it. Also, there is apparently an option to get inactivity alerts if you are not moving but i never get them.
Really happy with this product. I’m a sports and exercise physiologist who has mainly worked with polar products but also some garmin, fitbit and suunto. I looked at a lot of options when choosing a new activity tracking watch. I mainly wanted it to track the quality of my sleep and it’s giving me great information back. It is also easy to switch to a training session so it collects heart rate data accurately and you can make a selection of activities from a wide range of options. It is also an eye opener with regards to how much (or little) activity i do at work and you can easily set your activity goals and track how you are doing against them. It has also been great for giving information on possible workouts that best suit your level of recovery. Not something i need to use but i think it’s fantastic for someone who doesn’t know what training to do or who aren’t on a written programme. It will give you the time and heart rate zones to hit, and for circuits set exercises, reps and sets. There are some additional comments. The touch screen isn’t as sensitive as expected but certainly works and might be to stop you inadvertently making selections when it rubs on clothes etc. If linked to phone it will send every notification though you can turn it off during training sessions. You don’t get the range of watch interfaces that you can with garmin but you can scroll through a number of watch faces with different information on them. Links really well with polar flow.
This watch could be amazing uf there weren’t constant pairing problems and a short battery life. It disconnects from my phone (iphone) very often and then it takes me to remove the bluetooth, turn off the watch (which is very difficult to do by the way) and then back on and then eventually it will pair again. All other functions are great. The watch is very light, nice design (i got the white edition). I love the fact that i can go swimming with it. I used to have a fitbit so this is quite an upgrade for me. The sleep analysis is very detailed and it is interesting to see what can influence your sleep quality. It takes a couple of weeks of data to be able to start comparing but after 3-4 days the polar ignite already gives analysed sleep data. The varied training option means that i finally have an accurate reflection of my training mode.
This could be a fault with this specific unit, or a design fault. I am finding it really hard to turn the back light on when wearing the watch on my arm and wanting to tell the time. Probably on 50% of the occasions i have to lift and move my arm back and forth several times inorder to get the backlight to work. The actual fitness part is great, but alas, for me i need to be able to easily tell the time and this ignite just won’t allow that. I will be sending it back for a replacement in the hope that it is a one off.
Backgroundi have long been a loyal user of running watches produced by garmin and my most recent (and much loved) watch is a garmin vivo active 3. I have also recently tested the polar vantage m, which also being a multisport watch, was a good side by side competitor for the vivo active (although i felt the vivo active was just ahead when it came to functionality and how user friendly it was, along with price at the time). Summaryin summary the polar ignite is an absolutely superb watch and i have a feeling that it is going to become my new day-to-day watch. I much prefer it to the more expensive polar vantage m and if the polar flow app was slightly more extensive i would most definitely prefer it to the garmin vivo active. If you take the app out of the equation (for lifestyle functions only, as mentioned below the pure training data is maybe better than what garmin presents) then this watch is a hands down winner and the only people i would not suggest to buy it would be those wanted to take part in triathlons. Set up:- you can set up the watch with or without the polar flow app. It is recommended to use the app and therefore i did (i also love analyising my fitness data so a watch which isn’t syncing with an app is no fun for me). – the app took less than 5 minutes to download over a reasonably good wifi connection. – once i registered my profile on the polar flow app (took approximately 2 minutes) the phone and watch quickly found each other and began to pair. The initial sync between the devices then took approximately 10 minutes.
I was given this watch as a gift. I am a regular gym goer and have to say that i love this product already. I can choose all of the sports that i do – in and out of the gym and see all of my stats in polar flow when i sync the watch at the end of the exercise. I am not a techy person but this watch is very simple to use. I just press a button at the end of the exercise and can see everything on my phone in the flow app. I love seeing how hard i worked but most of all i like to track how my heart rate has spiked and then gone down during the class depending on what we are doing. I go out cycling and running too and love seeing the map where i have been and also the re-live video. The thing that has been the biggest shock to me has been to see how little sleep i actually get. The watch breaks my sleep down into the different stages of deep and light sleep and interruptions during the night as well as looking at how my body recharges over-night. I always knew i didn’t get enough sleep, but this has really confirmed it for me.
I’m already a fan of polar products, i have been for years, i purchased the vantage v when it was first released and did the same with the ignite. I’ve spent this week getting used to the ignite, it’s a touch screen like the vantage v, but with fewer buttons, one to be precise. The watch was easy to set up and synced with my flow account seamlessly. There were a few updates to do, but that didn’t take very long. The touch screen performs really well and i love the screen colours and brightness with the watch coming to life when i turn my wrist to look at the screen or touch the watch face or button. The ignite optical heart rate sensors look the same as on my vantage v and it picks up my heart rate just as quickly. The sleep stages are a lot more detailed on the ignite compared to what i’m used to on the vantage v though, but having read some on-line reviews, it looks like these sleep stages will also be added to my vantage v in a future software update. After a few days i started to get more scores associated with how well i’d been sleeping and how recharged my body was, i love this feedback – well done polar. Of course i also know my body well and if i’m feeling refreshed from sleep or not, but it has been really good to see the ignite offering the details relating to how much time i’ve spent in each of the sleep stages and how ‘re-charged’ i am the next morning. I’m looking forward to using the fitspark functions at the weekend with a cardio workout and then seeing my sleep and re-charge scores the following day.
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Amazing!
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The Ignite stood its ground vs the Garmin Vivo Active 3 and the Polar Vantage M
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Great Product
Polar Unisex’s Ignite Fitness Watch with Advanced Wrist-Based Optical Heart Rate Monitor, Training Guide, Gps, Waterproof, White, S
- BECOME YOUR TRUE POTENTIAL: Polar ignite, a sports watch for women and men who want to push their limits the right way, ideal for gym, group and team exercise, swimming, running, cycling, walking
- SLIM DESIGN OPTIMISED FOR 24/7 WEAR: Your new-generation smart workout partner with a 1-button interface includes such essentials as a wrist-based OHR monitor, speed, distance and route tracking with integrated GPS, calorie counter, colour touch display
- NIGHTLY RECHARGE: Nightly recharge feature measures how well your body recovers from the day stress during the night to make optimal choices for upcoming day and reach own training and wellbeing goals
- FitSpark DAILY TRAINING GUIDE: Get your personalised and ready-made daily workout guidance based on your recovery and overall readiness
- Sleep plus stages: Learn about your sleep quality, follow your sleep stages and get detailed sleep insights with the new sleep plus stages feature
This is just what i have been looking for, a sports watch both for training and also well being. Ignite fits really well on my small wrists and i like the touch screen and one button function. I have used polar before and the ignite heart rate and gps accuracy is spot on. If you do lots of different training, there are over 100 sports to choose from, even yoga, i like this flexibility. But i think the coolest things are the new features. The sleep is broken down into rem, deep, light sleep and interruptions and scored in the nightly recharge feature, so you can see if you are getting enough good quality sleep and recovering from your day properly. It delves really deep so you can see beat to beat intervals which show how well recovered you are and it also shows your breathing rate. Then ignite gives you a training programme the next morning based on how well you have recovered from the previous day and how you slept. This is called fit spark and it suggests either strength, cardio of supportive training. Each programme guides you, so if its cardio you have a heart rate based workout, with strength there are animated figures showing you what to do (i.
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