Polar Ignite White is unbeatable in its own price category. When it comes to functionality it’s a match for professionals as well as those only just getting started living an active lifestyle. Besides supporting you during your training sessions Polar Ignite White allows you to follow up with your daily activity levels, quality of sleep and recovery. The looks of this watch are worth mentioning too! Ignite White is one of the best-looking sports watches on the current market matching your office wear as well as your gym outfits. The watch is delivered with a quick set-up manual to get you started and a cable for charging. You can choose from two size alternatives: S or M/L. Choose S if your wrist circumference is 130-185mm and M/L if the circumference is 155-210mm. The watch is granted Polar’s official 2-year warranty.
The most important functions of Polar Ignite:
- Precision Prime™ , Polar’s innovative technology for measuring your wrist heart rate with ultra-precision.
- Built-in GPS, GLONASS and A-GPS which allows the watch to do a quick satellite fix.
- FitSpark™ daily ready-made workouts tailored to fit your personal level of fitness, training history, readiness and recovery.
- Sleep Plus Stages™ advanced sleep tracking for automatic tracking of the quality and amount of your sleep. The function monitors each stage of your nightly sleep cycles classifying these into light, deep and REM sleep. Get an insight of your sleep time and how many sleep cycles you fit into your night. The sleep quality and time are converted into an easy-to-understand sleep score which tells you how well you slept from the perspective of the current sleep science.
- Nightly Recharge™ - Keep track of how you recover from your daily demands. The function is based on two variables: how your autonomic nervous system (ANS) calms down during the early hours of the night and how well you sleep. Both of the components are automatically measured by your watch and compared to your usual levels from the past weeks.
- Find your calm with Serene™. This function allows you to make mindfulness a daily part of your life by guiding you through breathing and meditation exercises. Serene is designed to help you improve your stress management skills.
- Up to 17 hours of battery life with the GPS and wrist heart rate turned and up to 5 days in watch mode with heart rate tracking and level of activity switched on.
- An easy-to-use touch screen in colour with automatic adjustment of brightness
- Pedometer
- Get phone notifications on your watch screen
- Easily changeable watch strap, switch whenever you feel like it and match your watch to your style
- Compatible with Polar’s H10 heart rate strap
Precision Prime™ - the praised heart rate technology
Polar’s Precision Prime™ solves one of the biggest struggles of past wrist-based heart rate technologies: misleading data due to excess movement. Polar has solved this problem by supporting the commonly used LED sensor-based optical mechanism with skin contact measurement. This allows the watch to overcome heart rate measuring issues due to motion artefacts. Fitness watches with Precision Prime also identify how well the sensor is touching the skin, and only monitor the heart rate actively when the watch is properly in contact with the wearer’s skin. Precision Prime was first launched with the Polar Vantage series back in 2018 and due to its praised performance the same technology is now also seen in the Ignite collection.
Ignite’s tailored FitSpark™ workouts
It’s important to do your workouts right. That’s why Polar has developed its new FitSpark™ training guide. Fitspark guides your training sessions with pre-made tailored training programs. The programs don’t only consider your personal level of fitness but also ensure that your workouts fit your current readiness and level of recovery as well as your training history. Let your Ignite White watch guide you through your training sessions from start to finish. Let go of the endless planning and focus your energies on purely enjoying the ride. The FitSpark™ training programs are based on WHO’s weekly workout recommendations for adults. According to the WHO you should aim to fit 150 minutes of reasonably strenuous exercise and 75 minutes of strenuous cardio into your weekly schedule.
The benefits of FitSpark
- No more need to plan your training! From now on you can leave it in the hands of FitSpark.
- Your tailored program is ready for you whenever you’re up for a workout.
- Choose from 2-4 daily alternatives to promote variety in your workouts. One of the recommendations is your best option for the day but the watch always allows you to choose from multiple alternatives.
- Ignite tailors you your program according to your level of fitness, training history, readiness and recovery (which is based on the Nightly Recharge function)
- The programs can be found in your watch itself.
A variety of training programs
- Cardio programs at various intensities that push you to reach your goals
- Strength training programs that help you to train your muscles right
- Programs focusing on core strength and mobility to improve your performance and to prevent injuries
Sleep Plus Stages™ - The Sleeptracker that Works
Your Polar Ignite White watch is equipped with an advanced built-in sleep tracker. You simply need to sleep with your watch on and let the function take care of everything else. Sleep Plus Stages automatically recognises when you fall asleep and wake up. Sleeping enough and getting good quality rest play key roles when it comes to your wellbeing. The night is when you recover, and without proper recovery, it would be very difficult to reach your training goals. The Sleep Plus Stages function monitors your night and offers you a full breakdown of your sleep in the morning. You’ll learn everything about how much you sleep as well as how long the stages of your sleep cycles last. By actively tracking your sleep you can identify the reasons that may affect the quality of your sleep negatively. The Sleep Plus Stages tracking is validated against a so-called polysomnograph which reflects the current standard of sleep tracking. According to the tests, Polar’s algorithm performs reasonably accurately when it comes to identifying the three stages of your sleep cycles.
Why is good quality sleep so important?
- According to research, sleep plays a key role in recovery from a physical as well as a psychological perspective.
- Lots of important things happen during your nightly rest. Think of muscle growth and tissue regeneration that mainly occur during sleep.
- The amount and quality of sleep have a huge impact on one’s level of motivation, memory, learning and mood.
The tracking of sleep cycles and stages
Your sleep consists of sleep cycles which are divided into three different sleep stages. These stages are light, deep and REM sleep. The Sleep Plus Stages function measures how long each of these stages last and counts the number of sleep cycles you fit into your night. Your Polar Ignite White fitness watch combines the various components that affect the amount and quality of your sleep into one easy-to-read numeral value which the function calls for sleep score. The score gives you a simplified overview of your night which you can find from your Polar Ignite watch and Polar Flow app. Those who want to dive even deeper into the data can head to the Polar Flow web tool which gives you a more detailed overview of your sleep.
Nightly Recharge™ - Track Your Recovery
While Polar Sleep Plus Stages™ is tracking your sleep, Nightly Recharge™ is keeping an eye on how well you recover from your last training session as well as other strenuous activities. Nightly Recharge is based on two components: how well you slept (Sleep Charge) and how well your autonomic nervous system calmed down during the first few hours of sleep (ANS Charge). Both are commonly used factors in the evaluation of recovery. The result tells whether you're ready to get back to training or if you should take it easy to let your body fully recover from your last workout session. By connecting your Ignite White watch to the Polar Flow app you’ll get access to training and sleeping tips that are based on your personal recovery results. This will help you to improve your energy level regulation.
Ignite Serene™ - Your Key to Mindfulness
Deep breathing is known to have impactful health benefits. Breath exercises are an easy way to manage stress, improve your endurance and to develop your concentration skills. Ignite Serene™guides you to breath at a slowed-down pace. The function measures your body’s response during the breathing exercises and guides you by giving you real-time animation and vibration-based feedback. The watch gives you a full performance summary after completing the exercise.
Technical Specs:
- Gesture activated colour touch screen (IPS TFT), 240 x 204 resolution
- Dragontrail glass
- Integrated GPS and GLONASS. A-GPS for quick fixations.
- A glass fibre reinforced polymer case. Buttons and bezel from stainless steel.
- Measurements: 43 x 43 x 8,5 mm
- 35g with strap and 21g without strap
- A white silicone strap with stainless steel buckle
- Strap sizes: wrist circumference 130–185 mm (size S), 155–210 mm (size M/L)
- Strap width 20 mm
- A rechargeable 165 mAh lithium-polymer battery
- Battery life up to 17 hours when in training mode (wrist-based heart rate and GPS on) and up to 5 days in watch mode and the continuous tracking of heart rate switched on
- UI languages: english, finnish, swedish, spanish, dutch, indonesian, italian, norwegian, portuguese, polish, french, german, danish, czech, turkish and russian
- Standalone mode: the watch can be used on its own (limited memory capacity) or paired up with the Polar Flow app. By connecting to the app you get access to more functionalities, features and unlimited cloud storage for your training data
- Polar BLE heart rate sensor compatible sensors
- Water resistant to 30 m (ISO22810, can be worn when swimming)
Frequently asked questions:
Why is the Polar Ignite White pricier than Polar Ignite Black?
The only difference is that the strap of the black Ignite watch is made of cheaper TPU-plastic whereas the white strap is made of silicone. Some prefer silicone and consider it a more comfortable material when worn on the skin. The strap can easily be exchanged afterwards!
Polar Ignite or Polar Vantage M?
Functions of Polar Vantage M that are not supported by Polar Ignite
- Training Load Pro: track how your training strains your body
- The training load values of your workout
- Your workout effect (only on the Flow webtool)
- Multisport training (eg. Triathlon)
- Manual laps
- Automatic pausing/start of workout
- Not compatible with third party cycling or running sensors (except for heart rate strap)
- Shorter battery life in training mode
Functions of Polar Ignite that are not supported by Polar Vantgae M
- Nightly Recharge - recovery tracking
- Serene breathing exercise
- Tracking of sleep cycles
- Activity reminder
- Polar’s wrist heart rate based fitness test
Is a heart rate strap included? Do I need one?
Polar Ignite White is delivered without a heart rate strap. If you want to use a strap for even more precise measuring results we recommend you to opt for Polar’s H10. Polar Ignite’s wrist based heart rate has however been praised by the users of Vantage M and many have said that it’s a close call when compared to strap based measures. The watch is equipped with Polar’s new multisensor Precision Prime technology.
