

If it has you curious, read more about the watch’s options for customizations - from personalized training metrics to watch faces most to your liking - and all the activities it tracks.With Garmin dominating the upper end of the market, competing brands are looking at trying something different that not necessarily tries to compete like for like. The Polar Unite is priced at $150, comparable to many fitness watches on the market. (If you would prefer a built-in GPS and altitude sensors for outdoor navigation and ties to weather information, you may want to read about the Polar Grit X Pro.) And you’ll get access to Polar Flow for tracking your workouts and adapting your goals based on performance tests and training workload. In short, you’ll get a heart-rate tracker with an option to tap your phone’s GPS for location-based data. The watch can estimate if you’re overworking or detraining compared to your recent workload, and even has some simple recovery tests to see if your legs are as fresh as you think. You may want to adhere to a training plan, but feel either eager to work out on a rest day or rest on a workout day. By tracking your rest and sleep, the watch can help inform your training decisions. Polar explains this information can be helpful during long sessions when your body will begin to use protein for energy rather than its usual role in repair and growth.Īdditionally, the watch lets you track your recovery. The percentages of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins used will be based on your vital info like age, gender, and heart rate.

Polar Flow lets you look at your workouts and heart rate data in several ways to gauge your fitness, recovery, and progress toward any goals you set.Ī personalized Energy Sources summary will evaluate what types of fuel your body burned while training. The watch is also your gateway to Polar Flow, a broader online fitness tracking platform with training plans, performance tests, and long-term tracking. It uses both optical heart rate measurements with other sensor technologies to declutter readings from odd movements or interruptions for more consistent readings. Polar Precision Prime is the brand’s sensor technology for tracking your heart rate through the wrist. These tracking presets range from common gym workouts to windsurfing, and track subtle differences between running on a trail or a treadmill. The Polar Unite watch will track heart rates through more than 100 activities. You can get location, speed, and distance info from your phone by pairing them. Just because the watch doesn’t have built-in GPS, your phone does. However, it provides a way to give a wrist-bound consideration throughout your day without checking your phone. Granted, those may be the distractions you want to avoid in a workout. If you want, the Unite watch can be looped into your phone’s push notifications so you can stay in touch with messages, calendar events, or simply which song is playing. It’s a quick-look guide to making micro-decisions like taking the stairs. The all-day tracking also lets you set your own daily goal and helps keep you apprised of your progress through a simple watch face. This lets you gauge how active you’ve been before a planned workout. The Polar Unite tracks activities all day, whether you’re sitting nearly motionless at a desk or on your feet all day, even if you don’t think of it as exercise.

#POLAR UNITE BLUETOOTH#

If you live and exercise at sea level, an altimeter doesn’t do much for you. Known for its fitness-tracking sports watches, the Polar Unite foregoes some of the tracking tech and leans into fitness tracking with options for customization. All photos: Polar GPS on Your Phone: Data You Don’t Need
