Loop

Just got the Polar Loop and honestly not a fan at all. Has anyone here gone through their refund process? Was it smooth?

I love my little loop. I wear it on one hand, then I can wear a smart watch on the other. I also love that if I’m chasing the kitty around the house or lifting heavy groceries, I get credit for it. My Garmin would just give me intensity minutes or move IQ but Polar gives me training load. I can also go for a walk around the mall and get credit for that too. If I’m walking around the neighbourhood I can choose to use my phone for distance and route or just enjoy the walk and get credit for that too. I trust Polar’s science more than Helios band. I find most of the negative reviews are from able bodied people that don’t appreciate the loop for what it is. I recommend reading the manual to see if it meets your needs.

If you want things like pace, or lap counting while you are swimming then you would wear a watch at the same time. I leave my phone in a locker outside the change room at my local YMCA so I use a watch and loop while swimming. If I’m just wandering around the neighbourhood I may use my phone (Polar Flow app) for the route and distance. If you were somewhere without phone connectivity, such as hiking in the mountains then I would use a watch with gps. I love that Polar has inactivity stickers on the daily activity screen so I can see where I’m less active. It’s usually because I’m reading a book or watching tv with the family but at least I can see it in the app which none of the other ones do. All sports watches/smartwatches do have “get up lazybones” vibration/notification though. The Loop doesn’t really vibrate for that though a notification will come across your phone. You can also check charge level of your loop on your phone as well.

For me the loop seemed to be most accurate compared to my Apple and Garmin products when I wore it and didn’t track anything manually or automatically.

Yes. I have trialed it for a few months. Got at launch. Not that good. The hardware feels nice. Looks solid... But not as useful as the whoop for actionable data. In fact not useful so have stopped wearing it recently

I got loop yesterday and noticed that if it did not record my afternoon sleep even though it’s not a nap but it did record night sleep correctly so just wondering is this something loop only record night sleep