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Polar Ignite – Fitness Watch with Advanced Wrist-Based Optical Heart Rate Monitor, Training Guide, GPS, Waterproof
£135.48
- BECOME YOUR TRUE POTENTIAL: Polar Ignite, a sports smartwatch for women and men who want to push their limits the right way. Perfect for gym, group and team exercise, swimming, running, cycling, walking.
- SLIM DESIGN OPTIMIZED 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, color touch display.
- NIGHTLY RECHARGE: Nightly Recharge measures how well your body recovers from the day stress during the night.
- 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.
Last updated on March 14, 2023 12:35 am
Additional information
| Age range | Adult |
|---|---|
| Features | Bluetooth |
| Item model number | 90071065 |
| Manufacturer | Polar |
| Department | Unisex |
| Brand | Polar |
| Batteries included | Yes |
| Included components | Cable, Wrist unit |
| Map type | Street |
| Sport | Cycling, Exercise & Fitness, Running, Swimming |
| Seasons | All Weather |
| Color | Black |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Material type | Silicon |
| Shape | Round |
| Weight | 35 Grams |
| Display size | 4.3 Centimetres |
| Compatible with | Smartphone |
| Style | Ignite |
| Size | S |
| Product Dimensions | 0.43 x 0.43 x 0.09 cm, 35 Grams |
by Mr P.
I have had it ten days and the sleep tracker has failed twice, but that’s not a big deal for me as I bought it for heart monitoring and exercise tracking on the advice of my cardiology doctor.
by Louise
This was bought mainly as a training aid for a Kayaker. Works well in this capacity, links well with polar chest strap and watch can be programmed to stay lit to see heart rate while training. The sleep information was unexpected good too and is proving useful. Easy to use, fairly bulky watch but looks nice. Very happy with this.
by Steps Ahead Fan
Don’t believe all the negative reviews, I purchased this after a lot of online research. I’m not a fitness fanatic, and before the Ignite I wasn’t even wearing a watch, but wanted something which gave me a nudge / reminder to get up and do some exercise (I lead a sedentary lifestyle, though I am pretty fit – 56yrs, 5’9, 75Kgs, BF16%).
I was going to hold off until I could get a Samsung Active 2 with my phone upgrade, but read enough about how inaccurate its HRT monitoring was (as well as its GPS) that I decided I wanted more of a fitness watch than something on my wrist that’d literally double up as a phone (because I’ve already got my phone for that, right ?).
I also didn’t want to pay too much for my first fitness watch as I believe this is still quite a moving technology and new/better ones will be coming out all the time.
Finally, I was more steered towards Polar because I have had Garmin products before and didn’t like their software. Polar have been in the HRT monitor space the longest (as far as I know) and felt if anyone could produce a great fitness watch, they’d be the favourite.
So far, I’ve had it a week and absolutely no complaints !
Well, okay, a few improvements I’d personally like 🙂
1) The strap is a) too rubbery/grippy, and b) the strap loop keeps sliding down each time you try to put the watch on. a) + b) = A very frustrating experience every time you try to put the watch on, since to slide that loop up once the watch is on your wrist is very difficult to do since the rubber material is too grippy, preventing you doing so without a few blue words during it……
(I’ve since superglued the strap loop permanently in place and so have eliminated the above mentioned frustration).
2) The watch face is switched off until you bring the watch up to your face to look at it. That is fine except that this only works when you’re in the upright position (either sitting or standing is fine). Try bringing the watch up to your face when you’re lying down or in bed and you’ll find the watch face will not wake up…. it’s as though the orientation of the watch is what is important to it, not that you’re making a sudden movement with your arm to wake it up.
3) You have a choice of analogue or digital watch faces, one of each. That’s fine, but when you choose the analogue face, the face I prefer, then the watch hands obscure the health data and information. If you choose the digital face, no obscuring takes place. It’s a shame that Polar didn’t design TWO positions for that data, one for the digital version of the watch, and another for the analogue version.
Other than that, I’m completely satisfied with my Ignite watch, I’ve had NONE of the issues I’ve read in online reviews elsewhere, no issues with it measuring my sleep within the first three nights, no issues with the software, the GPS is accurate (I tried it on a local walk I do every other day) and the data itself is very useful.
If you’re a fitness fanatic, take your marathons and training very seriously, then you probably want a more sophisticated and accurate device – and for that you’ll need to pay two or three times the price of a Polar Ignite. But for those of us who want a watch mainly for fitness, aren’t fanatical about that, and don’t want smartphone features, this watch is not only perfect in my view, it is also VERY attractive on the wrist.
A great purchase decision !
by S.H.
I’ve heard how good polar are, and decided too invest too see for myself, as i do a lot of cycling and swimming, upto now have too say quite impressed with the swim metrics, although it hasn’t got a lap counter like my other sports watch, it’s quite accurate on distance then simple maths too work out lengths put in, also have used it on a couple of bike rides (work commute), need too put in a good ride one day too see how good this really is.
This maybe just a basic polar tracker, and i am tempted maybe too upgrade too more expensive polar tracker when needed, also seems too be very detailed on my sleep pattern, and let’s me know if i have achieved a good rate of sleep too go for my goals next day, my only complaint so far is battery life seems too be short lived compared too the other tracker i used, 4/5 days max is all I’ve been able too go without recharging it, hopefully an upgrade might bring a bit more battery life between recharge.
by Karen T
I bought the Polar Ignite primarily to track my swimming laps and it does this brilliantly. It is very precise, down to even telling you what stroke you were doing and this makes me very happy.
The only drawback I could mention with it is the sleep program. I can’t seem to get to grips with it, it either records too much sleep or not enough. This is mostly my own fault as i havent read the manual on how this aspect of the watch works.
For everything else though I give it a 10/10. Well worth the money.
Also having bought several other smart watches that proclaimed to be the same thing, this one IS actually waterproof!!