Polar launches Polar Ignite 3: A powerful new fitness and wellness watch designed to help you find your rhythm

Polar Electro, the world leader in personal guidance for fitness, sport, and health, unveils Polar Ignite 3, a new fitness and wellness watch — packed full of features designed to help people better understand their body’s natural circadian rhythm and harness it to get even more out of every day. This beautiful watch offers powerful training tools, best-in-class sleep tracking, and customisable quick-access widgets, all together with a beautiful stylish design. The vivid high-resolution AMOLED touchscreen and the strong durable curved lens offer a beautiful viewing experience, while SleepWise™, a new tool, visualises the impact of sleep on the day ahead.

Made for active lifestyles, Polar Ignite 3 is packed with Polar’s beloved fitness features, including the new in-training Voice Guidance and daily on-demand workout suggestions. As Polar Ignite 3 is so versatile, users will want to wear it all day long to track their activity, heart rate, and calories burned. At night, automatic sleep tools track the amount, quality, and different sleep stages to build a full analysis of how the body recovered overnight from exercise, stress, and other life demands. In short: Polar Ignite 3 is the perfect tool to help you find your own rhythm.

“Everyone’s circadian rhythm – our internal body clock – is different. When we align our lifestyle, activity, fitness, and sleep-wake routines to our circadian rhythm, this will not only make us perform better but will also help us live a healthier life,” says Sander Werring, CEO of Polar Electro. “Polar Ignite 3 is the result of our passion to provide unique guidance through our data that helps people all over the world live a more well-rounded life, in their own unique and personal way,” he adds.

The perfect companion to help you find your own rhythm 

The circadian rhythm is the internal clock that governs all systems in our body. From exercise to sleep, Polar Ignite 3 is equipped with a suite of features designed to help people balance their lifestyles with this rhythm. Polar recently collaborated with renowned data artist, communicator, and researcher Dr. Kirell Benzi to bring to life the circadian rhythm data of three individuals with very different backgrounds and lifestyles. Each individual tracked their unique rhythm day and night for several weeks. This data was then transformed into beautiful pieces of art which celebrated the individuality of people and their circadian rhythms.

Living in sync with our individual circadian rhythm starts with sleep. Polar Ignite 3 takes Polar’s advanced sleep-tracking features even further with the introduction of SleepWise™. By combining sleep amount, quality and timing with the internal rhythm and individual sleep needs, the all-new SleepWise™ analyses the user’s sleep-wake cycle and determines their cognitive alertness for the day ahead. Every morning, users will see a detailed outlook of their alertness levels and understand better when the optimal time is for focused activities, or just winding down.

The other key component to finding optimal rhythm is exercise. When it’s time to work out, Polar Ignite 3 has a robust suite of training and coaching tools Polar users have come to love. No matter where they are in their fitness journey, users can easily check their condition and level with simple – yet scientifically sophisticated – tools like Fitness, Walking, and Running Performance tests. With over 150 pre-defined sports profiles, everybody can choose their favourite activity, and get the tools to track it. For those looking for movement coaching or guidance in an instant, Polar Ignite 3 comes equipped with FitSpark®️, an on-demand guide for daily workouts chosen to suit the body’s current condition and level of readiness.

Now, users can stay focused and limit distractions during their workouts with the new Voice Guidance feature. During workouts, Polar Ignite 3 offers real-time feedback and essential workout metrics through headphones or connected speakers, so users know exactly how they are performing at all times. Voice Guidance is available any time Polar Ignite 3 is connected to the Polar Flow mobile app. 

After the day’s exercise, work and the demands of life, users can wind down with Serene and its guided breathing exercises to manage stress and calm the body and mind.

Stylish and fashionable all-new design

The design of Polar Ignite 3 is smart, beautiful, and ideal for active lifestyles. The sleek aesthetics and soft edges create a seamless screen experience. A stainless-steel bezel surrounds the curved, durable Gorilla Glass lens that protects a bright, vivid AMOLED touchscreen display that is easy to read in all conditions, both indoors and outdoors.

Polar Ignite 3 introduces customisable quick-access widgets that give instant access to the information that matters most to everyone, including weather, heart rate data, activity summary, and more. With these widgets, users can personalise the watch face with different colours, style, and even match the wristband with their favourite outfit.

At a weight of just 35 grams, Polar Ignite 3 is extraordinarily light, making it comfortable to wear all day and all night long, while tracking heart rate, sleep, and activity for days. Unlike with many other devices on the market, users don’t have to worry about charging their watch every night. Even with the new bright display and its many capabilities, Polar Ignite 3 offers incredible battery life that lasts up to five days on a single charge, allowing users to track their activity and heart rate 24/7 and get more insights on their body’s performance.  

Polar Ignite 3 also brings a colourful and fashionable new collection of 20mm wristbands, including the elegant Obsidian Crystal and Alcantara Stone variants, which put the finishing touch to any style and provide a snug, ultra-comfortable fit.  

Polar Ignite 3: Key features 

  • SleepWise™: An analysis of how sleep affects the day with a detailed forecast of daytime alertness levels, plus an estimate of when the body is ready to fall asleep.
  • Nightly Recharge™: An overnight recovery measurement that shows how well a person recovers from stress, and other demands of the day. 
  • Sleep Plus Stages™: Automatic sleep tracking tool that shows the amount and quality of sleep, and the time spent in each sleep stage. 
  • Serene™: A guided deep breathing exercise that helps you relax your body and mind and manage stress.
  • Polar Precision Prime™ Sensor Fusion Technology: Advanced optical heart rate tracking technology. 
  • 24/7 Activity Tracking: Polar Ignite 3 tracks the cumulative active time, steps, and distance each day. 
  • FitSpark™: Daily, on-demand exercise suggestions chosen to suit the body’s condition and readiness. 
  • In-training voice guidance: Real-time feedback and essential workout metrics through headphones or connected speakers (when connected to Polar Flow).
  • Walking Test:  A simple, safe, and repeatable way to measure VO2max by going for a 15-minute brisk walk. 
  • Smart Calories: The number of calories burned during training sessions as well as total daily calories. 
  • Energy Sources:  A summary of how much different energy sources (fats, carbohydrates, and proteins) you used during your session.  
  • Music controls: Users can connect Polar Ignite 3 to the music app on their phone to navigate around playlists and adjust the volume straight on the watch. 
  • Polar Flow: Powerful and free fitness and training app to see, analyse, and understand all activity exercise, and sleep data. 
  • High-Resolution AMOLED Touchscreen Display: A vivid and vibrant colour display that is easy to read, size: 1,28-inch, resolution: 416×416, 16M colours.
  • Customizable Widgets: Users can choose the information that appears on the watch face and access instantly the functions and information they need most. 
  • Dual-Frequency GPS: Pinpoint accuracy with less interference from tall buildings and bad weather. 
  • Long-Life Battery: Up to five days in watch mode or up to 30 hours of continuous training time with GPS and heart rate monitoring on a single charge
  • High-Speed Processor: Up to 2x faster than the previous generation of Polar Ignite. 

Availability and pricing 

Polar Ignite 3 is available today at polar.com and retail stores worldwide, for £289 in Night Black, Purple Dusk, Greige Sand, and Brown Copper. 

Both Voice Guidance and SleepWise™ will be available later this month along with an update to the Polar Flow app. After that, SleepWise™ will be rolled out to all Polar users with watches that support Sleep Plus Stages™ later this year.

 

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