FitTrend is excited to support Polar! #
Polar® has products for beginners, fitness enthusiasts, and elite athletes. Their technology is widely used in many scientific studies. Polar offers a variety of wearables, trackers, and heart rate monitors. Enabling Polar support will import your Polar data from Polar devices into your FitTrend Journal.
FitTrend announced support for Polar wearables and devices on December 16, 2022.
Benefits of Enabling Polar Support in FitTrend #
When Polar support is active, it enhances your experience by showing your Polar and FitTrend data together. Here are places in FitTrend that you will see your Polar data:
- Daily activity, such as daily calories burned and steps
- Automatically import your workouts and zone data
- Weight changes when you update your Polar Profile
- Automatically import your sleep and nightly recharge data
- Charts and features for deeper insight into your imported Polar data
However, your Polar device may not support all the possible data types that newer devices support. If you do not see specific data types mentioned in FitTrend, your device may not support them.
How FitTrend Imports Polar Data #
FitTrend talks to Polar using its publicly available API. Although, FitTrend cannot import your data without you granting us permission. Once granted, FitTrend will import your data automatically so it is available when you use FitTrend.
There are limits to what can be imported by our service relating to data recorded prior to enabling Polar integration:
- Data will only be imported which has been synced from your device to Polar Flow
- Only data synced with Polar Flow after you enable Polar support will be imported
- Only data within the last 30 days will be available to import. However, FitTrend actively imports new data as you sync your Polar device.
Additionally, there is a limit to how much FitTrend can talk to the Polar services per minute and per day. Therefore, FitTrend will import your data and notify you if we near any limits. This is temporary. When FitTrend begins to import data again, it will resume importing where it left off.
Enabling Polar Support #
Use the FitTrend Connect Manager to enable Polar support.
Polar devices are trademarks and registered trademarks of Polar Electro Oy or its affiliates. Also, you can find more information on Polar and its products here.