#Unite fitness how to#
The Unite is not without its flaws, but for the price it offers an impressive package for people who want to get fit and aren’t entirely sure how to go about it. Not adding to the collection of cables everyone has is a good idea on one hand, but this approach also means the charger is small and easy to lose. This is a problem I’ve encountered with other Polar watches too – the inactivity alerts don’t seem to trigger when they should.Ī couple of other small annoyances with the Unite are its strap, which is oddly hard to do up tightly without popping it open again, and the charger, which is a cradle with a USB attachment on it. There are also inactivity alerts on the watch, but I’ve not had one from it yet despite spending a lot of time sitting at my computer. The overall activity goal on the Unite can be set to one of three levels, one being the easiest and three being a target that even very active people will find tough to hit every day. But there is also a general activity goal on the watch, so Polar could have used the steps tally to just track, well, steps. I can see why Polar does this: if step count is your main target each day you want all activities to help you towards it. Polar’s step tracking takes into account all your activity and assigns step values to things like indoor cycling, so my count was always inflated well beyond what a Garmin on my other wrist had recorded. The Unite tracks your everyday activity but if you follow your step count closely, be prepared for some unusual numbers. Polar Ignite Review: An Extremely-Smart Budget GPS Watch.I’d still say you want the screen always-on during workouts, especially when following instructions from the Unite. It’s another sign that the watch is better for gym-goers, because training without connected GPS on doesn’t sap the battery so much. This is well short of the 50 hours Polar suggests the Unite will achieve in training mode with both the heart rate tracking and connected GPS enabled, though I’m sure I could make the battery last longer by not having the screen on. The Unite’s battery drained by around 20 percentage points an hour when I was running with an always-on screen (I don’t want to press a button or wait for the autowake to get its act together every time I want to glance at my stats). Not having built-in GPS also doesn’t seem to result in better battery life. Both the Watch GT 2e and Fitbit Charge 4 do. And even though the Unite is cheaper than other Polars at £134.50, there are many devices for that price or less that have built-in GPS. Even if you always run with your phone, as I do, connected GPS is not as accurate as built-in GPS. For outdoor activities like running and cycling, the Unite will link to your phone’s GPS to add accuracy, or you can rely on the accelerometer in the watch to track your run distance.
Of course you can ignore these workouts and do your own – the watch tracks pretty much every type of exercise bar triathlon. An alternative 30-minute bodyweight workout was the only suggestion that seemed to fit with the poor night’s sleep the Unite had detected. After a night of sleep it rated as “compromised”, my cardio recommendations were a tough 54-minute tempo run or an easy run of over an hour, while the primary strength recommendation was a 51-minute workout. In practice, I did find the Unite was sometimes a little ambitious with its workout recommendations, especially for a watch aimed at beginners.
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