Looking for all the Polar Ignite fitness watch features? This new generation of Polar devices is for goal-oriented fitness enthusiasts who want to go beyond what they imagined was possible.
To help you optimize your fitness results and achieve ultimate fitness, the new Polar Ignite fitness watch focuses on better sleep and optimal recovery with features like Sleep Plus Stages™ for sleep tracking, Nightly Recharge™ for monitoring recovery, Serene™ breathing exercise for relaxing the mind, and FitSpark™ daily training guide for on-demand workout tips.
Let’s take a closer look at how these new features help you adjust your workouts based on your recovery, fitness level, and training history to become the best possible version of yourself – your true potential.
Sleep Plus Stages – Multiple sleep stats under one total score
Sleep is an integral part of optimal overall recovery as many restorative functions occur mostly during sleep, such as muscle growth, tissue repair, and protein synthesis.
The Polar Ignite’s Sleep Plus Stages feature measures multiple metrics reflecting the amount and quality of your sleep. Every morning, you’ll be able to see your Sleep Score that shows how well you slept compared to the indicators of a good night’s sleep based on the current sleep science.
You can also compare the components of Sleep Score to your own usual levels, which helps you understand how your lifestyle habits affect your sleep.
Your Sleep Score is composed of six components (sleep time and five sleep quality parameters) that are grouped under three themes:
- Amount
- Solidity
- Regeneration
Solidity and regeneration reflect the quality of your sleep. Along with the sleep amount, they both affect how refreshing and restorative your sleep was. You can also see a breakdown of your sleep and detailed visualization of your sleep structure with sleep stages: light, deep, and REM sleep.
Nightly Recharge – Holistic recovery from exercise and stress
As sleep is an unconscious state, your own estimation of how well you’ve slept doesn’t tell you the whole story. That’s why the Polar Ignite introduces the Nightly Recharge feature that measures how your body recovered from training and stress during the night.
The Nightly Recharge status combines two essentials for optimal recovery: how efficiently your autonomic nervous system (i.e. ANS measurements: heart rate, HRV, and breathing rate) calmed down during the early hours of your sleep and how well you slept compared to usual.
Based on your Nightly Recharge status, the automatic overnight recovery measurement, and other personal data you’ve tracked or added, the Polar Ignite tells you whether you should take it easy or go all in. After a bad night, you’ll get tips on how to improve your sleep and regulate your energy levels on those particularly rough days.
If you didn’t sleep as well as usual, you’ll get a tip on how to improve your sleep. If your ANS charge or Sleep charge is particularly low, Polar Ignite gives you practical tips on how to calm down when you’re in overdrive and energize your body and mind when you need a boost, helping you to get through those tough days with lower recharge.
FitSpark – Personalized workout tips
Based on your Nightly Recharge status, training history, and fitness level, the FitSpark feature offers you personalized daily training suggestions with different daily workout options (cardio, strength, core, mobility) to choose from.
FitSpark offers you 2-4 different workout options every day: one that suits you best and 1-3 other options. The workouts include instructions on how to do the exercises and real-time step-by-step guidance to ensure you exercise safely and with proper technique.
This way you can vary your workouts safely (with your recovery and fitness level considered) and truly focus on each workout without the pain of having to think about what to do next.
Serene breathing exercises – Less stress, more energy for exercising
Mindful deep breathing is a proven way to relieve stress that negatively affects your health, well-being, and ability to work out and perform at your best. Deep breathing is a simple technique that you can use to consciously generate a relaxation response. When you regularly ignite the relaxation response, you may start to see benefits such as better resilience, reduced cumulative effects of stress, and improved sleep and overall well-being.
The Polar Ignite’s Serene breathing exercise feature is a stress management tool that helps you relax your body and calm down your mind. It guides you towards slow (6 breaths per minute) diaphragmatic breathing that has proven health benefits. You’ll get real-time biofeedback on how you’re doing.
The Serene breathing exercise feature tracks time on serenity zones – the time when slow breathing has successfully driven your heart into beneficial synchrony with the rhythm of your breathing.
TL;DR
To summarize, the Polar Ignite isn’t just a fitness watch – it’s your daily fitness companion that guides you through your workouts, but also helps you sleep better and recover from daily stress.
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Please note that the information provided in the Polar Blog articles cannot replace individual advice from health professionals. Please consult your physician before starting a new fitness program.
