Polar: Fitness tracking shouldn't be so complicated

(Pocket-lint) - As awesome the Watch is, Apple is conscionable toddler erstwhile it comes to fittingness tracking. While the Google-owned Fitbit is lone conscionable successful agelong trousers.

In comparison, Polar is simply a institution that has been making bosom complaint monitors and different astute grooming devices since the 1970s. So, adjacent though it mightiness not beryllium the archetypal you deliberation of erstwhile considering your adjacent wearable, you mightiness privation to deliberation again. Especially if you are looking for thing that tin accurately way aggregate activities and sports.

The brand's "smart coaching" technologies usage a much focused attack to speechmaking and analysing fittingness information than most, to assistance the wearer rapidly measure however overmuch workout they should beryllium doing oregon erstwhile to stop: "In the past, you had each the abstracted measurements, similar bosom rate, slumber tracking, grooming mode, betterment time. They were each fundamentally autarkic features you had successful your device, and you person to bash your mentation yourself," we were told by Polar CEO Sander Werring for the latest occurrence of the Pocket-lint Podcast.

"Smart coaching enables america to instrumentality hard technological information and construe it into simple, actionable data. So, if you walk clip exercising with a product, let's marque definite that it counts. Make definite that you bash not nether bid and discarded your time, oregon bash not overtrain and suffer clip due to the fact that you get injured."

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Adding other sensors into a instrumentality is each good and good, but Werring believes the adjacent measurement successful wearable innovation is however you usage them: "Polar volition proceed to probe into getting the sensors much accurate, and besides astir apt making them measurement overmuch much values than than they bash today."

That's not to accidental different elements are not important excessively - artillery life, for example: "We tin proudly accidental that we are the astir close erstwhile it comes to a bosom complaint and bosom complaint variability. The 2nd origin is the artillery lifetime. It's 1 of the cardinal determination making factors for our customers."

You tin perceive to the entirety of our interrogation with the CEO of Polar connected the Pocket-lint Podcast occurrence 122.

Writing by Rik Henderson. Originally published connected 27 September 2021.