Polar Ignite 3 is a modern-classic fitness & wellness watch for a more energized life. With it on your wrist, you get guidance that’s tailored to your body and lifestyle day and night.
Wake up to better days with sleep tracking features and daytime alertness insights that help you perfect a bedtime routine. Get moving with bespoke workout suggestions and real-time voice guidance. See meaningful metrics at a glance on a beautifully bright, high-resolution touchscreen display with widgets you can customize. Plus, stay connected at all times with push notifications.
- Dimensions
- Width: 43 mm
- Height: 43 mm
- Thickness: 9.5 mm
- Weight
- Total weight: 35 g
- Total weight without wristband: 21 g
- Display
- Display type: AMOLED
- Display size: 1.28 Inch
- Display resolution: 416 × 416
- Touch screen: Yes
- Ambient light sensor: Yes
- Performance
- CPU speed: 192 MHz
- Memory: 5 MB
- Storage: 32 MB
- Materials
- Case material: Plastic
- Screen material: Gorilla Glass
- Bezel material: Stainless steel
- Geo location
- GPS: Yes
- Glonass: Yes
- Galileo: Yes
- BeiDou: Yes
- QZSS: Yes
- Assisted GPS: Yes
- Assisted Glonass: Yes
- Assisted Galieo: Yes
- Assisted QZSS: Yes
- Dual-frequency GPS: Yes
- Connectivity
- Bluetooth technology: Bluetooth® LE
- USB cable: Propriatery / USB-A
- Durability
- Sensors
- Precision Prime™: Yes
- ECG: none
- SpO2: none
- Skin Temp: GEN 1
- OHR: GEN 3.5
- Accelerometer: Yes
- Battery
- Battery capacity: 215 mAh
- Battery type: Li-Pol
- Battery rechargeable: Yes
- Performance training mode: 18 h
- Eco training mode: 88 h
- Smartwatch mode: 5 d
- Misc
- Stop watch: Yes
- Speed pace: Yes
- Countdown timer: Yes
- Interval timers: Yes
- Manual laps: Yes
- Automatic laps: Yes
- Autostart stop: Yes
- Vibration alerts: Yes
- Alarm: Yes
- Clock: Yes
- Backlight: Yes
- Date and weekday: Yes
- Time of the day: Yes
- Button lock: Yes
- Updateable firmware: Yes
- UI languages
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- English
- German
- French
- Italian
- Dutch
- Norwegian
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- Swedish
- Finnish
- Danish
- Polish
- Russian
- Turkish
- Indonesian
- Czech
- Japanese
- Chinese (simplified)
- Hungarian
- Estonian
- Slovenian
Polar Ignite 3
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Polar Ignite 3
Polar Silicone Wristband, 20mm
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Polar Ignite 3
Polar Silicone Wristband, 20mm
Polar Charge 2.0
Polar Silicone Wristband, 20mm
Polar Charge 2.0
Polar Ignite 3
Find Your Rhythm.
It’s time to wake up.
Open your eyes to a full analysis of your body’s recovery overnight and get your alertness forecast for the day ahead.
Designed for early birds, and night owls
With four gorgeous finishes and a selection of changeable wristbands, this is a watch that looks good anytime, anywhere, and on any body.
Polar Flow
It's more than a watch.
Set your goals, plan your workouts, and track your progress with all of the data from your body synced automatically.
Bonus packs
Every purchase comes with additional tools to boost your performance.
TrainingPeaks
30-Day Free Premium Trial
TrainingPeaks is the ultimate app for athletes across a diverse spectrum of sports to push their limits with advanced tracking, scheduling tools, training plans, and data-driven insights.
Learn more- In order to receive the Bonus Pack email you need to accept the Marketing consent from Polar. Manage your consent at account.polar.comå
- Please note: After the free Premium trial, your account will automatically revert to the free, Basic account. Valid for one-time use per customer and cannot be combined with other offers.
FAQ
Can Polar Ignite 3 be synced with third-party fitness apps such as Strava or MyFitnessPal?
Yes, Polar Ignite 3 can sync with third-party fitness apps like Strava and MyFitnessPal. This allows you to share your training data from your Polar device with these platforms to keep all your fitness information in one place and further analyze your performance and health metrics.
To enable synchronization with these apps, you typically need to connect your Polar Flow account with the third-party app account. Here’s how you can do it:
- Go to the "Settings" in the Polar Flow app or web service.
- Select “Partners” and select preferred service or app.
- Connect your accounts by following the steps provided.
After setting this up, your training data from your Polar device will automatically sync to these platforms after each session, assuming you have an active internet connection.
For detailed guidance and more information, check out these Polar support articles:
Does Polar Ignite 3 offer any insights or features tailored specifically for improving sleep quality?
Yes, Polar Ignite 3 offers several insights and features specifically designed to help improve sleep quality. Here’s a brief overview:
- Sleep Plus Stages™: This feature tracks your sleep stages (REM, light, and deep sleep) and provides a detailed view of your sleep patterns. It helps you understand the quality and quantity of your sleep, allowing you to make informed adjustments to your sleep habits if necessary.
- Nightly Recharge™: This feature measures how well your body recovers from stress and training during the night. It combines data on sleep quality and autonomic nervous system (ANS) recovery, providing insights that can help you optimize your daily activity and training based on your recovery status.
- Sleep Score: Each morning, you get a numerical score that reflects the quality of your sleep the previous night. This score is based on several dimensions of your sleep, helping you gauge overall sleep quality at a glance.
- Serene™ Guided Breathing Exercise: This feature guides you through a breathing exercise that can help calm your body and mind, making it easier to fall asleep or return to sleep if you wake up during the night.
- SleepWise™: This feature analyzes your sleep data and provides personalized insights and practical tips to help you boost your energy levels throughout the day based on how you slept. It's focused on helping you adapt your daily routines and activities according to the quality of sleep you achieved, ensuring you maintain optimal energy levels.
These features are designed to work together to provide a comprehensive view of your sleep and recovery, empowering you to make changes that can lead to improved sleep quality and overall well-being.
Learn more about sleep-related features on Polar Ignite 3 here:
Is the heart rate sensor in Polar Ignite 3 suitable for high-intensity interval training (HIIT) workouts?
Polar Ignite 3 is equipped with Polar Precision Prime™ sensor fusion technology, making it suitable for tracking heart rate during high-intensity interval training (HIIT) workouts. This technology combines optical heart rate measurement with skin contact measurement to ensure accuracy, even during the most demanding training sessions.
For best results during such workouts, it's recommended to wear the watch slightly higher on your wrist and tighten the wristband to minimize movement and maintain good contact with the skin. This positioning ensures the most reliable heart rate readings during intense activities.
Additionally, if you're seeking supreme accuracy, especially in sports where keeping the sensor stationary on your wrist is challenging, you can also pair the watch with a Polar H10 chest strap, which is known for its responsiveness in interval training.
Learn more about heart rate monitoring during HIIT workouts with Polar Ignite 3 here:
What is Polar Flow and is Polar Ignite 3 compatible with it?
Polar Flow is a comprehensive training platform from Polar that provides tools for planning and tracking your training, activity, and sleep. It's a central part of the Polar ecosystem, serving as both a web service and a mobile app. Polar Flow allows you to analyze every detail of your training and monitor your progress. It also syncs with your Polar device to provide guidance and data about your workouts and recovery.
Polar Ignite 3 is indeed compatible with Polar Flow. It connects seamlessly with the platform, allowing users to access detailed insights into their workouts, daily activity, and overall fitness and health trends. By using Polar Flow with Polar Ignite 3, you can also receive personalized training guidance and see how your training affects your body in different ways.
For more details on Polar Flow, you can visit these pages and articles:
Training & Activity
Regular activity and training can have significant positive impacts on your health and wellness. Exercise will not only make you feel great physically, but can also improve your mental state to relieve stress, elevate your mood, and improve your sleep.
FitSpark®
FitSpark® personalized training guide offers daily, on-demand workouts that are easy to do, and match your recovery, fitness level, and training history.
Get new workout suggestions every day for cardio, strength, or mobility direct to your watch - all you have to do is pick the session you like and let your watch guide you through it.
24/7 Activity Tracking
Our bodies are designed to move, so staying active is essential for your overall health and well-being.
Polar watches promote active lifestyles by giving you a daily activity goal based on your personal data and activity level setting, then automatically tracking your activity throughout the day. If you’ve been inactive for too long, you’ll get a friendly reminder to get up and move. Your daily activity goal is shown as a circle that gradually fills until you reach your goal - get 100%.
Smart Calories
Calculates the number of calories burned based on your individual data: your weight, height, age, gender, HRmax, HRrest, VO2max, and the intensity of your training/activity.
Heart rate-based calorie calculation is used when heart rate is measured, and it measures burned calories the most accurately also in conditions like cycling or lifting weights. Activity-based calorie calculation is used in training computers and activity trackers, when heart rate is not available. You can see the cumulative energy expenditure (in kilocalories, kcal) during exercise and total kilocalories of the session after exercise. You can also follow your total daily calories.
Energy Sources
See how much of each energy source your body uses during training, broken down into fats, carbohydrates, and proteins for each session - illustrated as percentages of your total calorie consumption at the end of your session.
Seeing how much of each energy source you used during your session allows you to learn how different intensities affect your energy usage. You can also spot how the main energy source can change during a long session.
Fitness Test
VO2max is a key figure to illustrate your aerobic fitness - in other words, the better your aerobic fitness, the stronger and more efficient your heart is.
Fitness Test is a simple 5-minute fitness level assessment that can be performed lying down to estimate your VO2max without needing any other equipment. The automatic calculation takes into account your resting heart rate, heart rate variability, and your personal metrics: gender, age, height, weight, and training background.
Walking Test
Walking Test is an uncomplicated test that you can perform regularly to estimate your aerobic fitness level based on your VO2max.
Walk at a brisk pace for 15 minutes along a flat route and the automatic calculation will factor in the distance you walk, your heart rate during the test, and your personal metrics: gender, age, height, and weight.
Running Performance Test
Run at the right level.
The Running Performance Test helps you personalize your heart rate, speed and power zones, so that you’ll always hit the optimal running pace.
Work-Rest Guide
Work-rest guide analyzes your heart rate during work and rest phases of a session to give you personalized guidance on the optimal time to start working again.
Specifically designed for high-intensity strength training–and perfect for multi-joint, heavy resistance exercises–it automatically detects your highest heart rate during execution of a set. The algorithm will then monitor your heart rate as you rest, and instruct you when you are recovered enough to begin your next set.
Sleep & Recovery
A good night’s rest is the foundation for you to build the next 24 hours on. Understanding the way you sleep and how well your body is able to wind down overnight is vital for you to make the optimal choices for the day ahead.
Nightly Recharge™
Nightly Recharge™ is an automatic overnight recovery measurement that shows you how well you recover from the demands of your day. It helps you make the optimal choices in your everyday life to maintain overall well-being and reach your training or fitness goals.
Your Nightly Recharge™ status is based on two components: how you slept (Sleep Charge), and how well your autonomic nervous system calmed down during the early hours of your sleep (ANS Charge).
Nightly Skin Temperature
Automatic Nightly Skin Temperature measurement monitors fluctuations in the temperature taken from the surface of your skin on your wrist as you sleep. It then compares that value to your 28-day baseline to display the deviation from your usual range.
* The temperature measurement feature and data is not intended for medical purposes, diagnosis or treatment.
SleepWise™
Learn how your sleep behavior affects your day’s energy and alertness levels.
With SleepWise™, you get daytime alertness insights that help you perfect a bedtime routine so you can face your daily challenges sharp and ready.
By factoring in your sleep amount, quality, and your body’s internal circadian rhythm, SleepWise™ lets you know how the effects of sleep accumulate over time, making the impact of sleep debt and irregular sleep-wake rhythm visible.
Serene™
Relax your body and calm your mind with Serene™ guided breathing exercise.
Deep breathing is known to be an easy and efficient way to manage stress, build resilience and improve focus. Serene™ guides you to breathe at a slow, regular rhythm to synchronize your heart rate with your rate of breathing – six breaths per minute; which is the optimal breathing rate for shutting down your body's stress response.
Sleep Plus Stages™
Getting enough good-quality sleep is vital for your health and well-being. When you sleep, your body cycles through three sleep stages: light, deep, and REM.
Sleep Plus Stages™ automatically tracks the amount and quality of your sleep (Sleep Score), and lets you know how long you spent in each stage during the night.
Sleep tracking can help you understand your sleep behavior over the long-term, and also identify the factors in your day that may have a negative impact on your sleep.