Polar Ignite 3 is a stylish fitness & wellness watch that helps you live a more energized life. It tracks your sleep, activity, and heart rate to provide guidance that’s tailored to your body and lifestyle.
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.
Features - Training & Performance
Training Load Pro™
When you train, the different systems of your body become strained. Training Load Pro™ monitors this strain to provide you with detailed insights.
Training Load Pro™ gives you values for the load placed on both your cardiovascular and musculoskeletal system (Cardio Load and Muscle Load) after every session, and with Perceived Load you can rate how strained you feel - allowing you to see the immediate strain on your body, and monitor training induced strain over the long-term.
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.
Swimming Metrics
Easily track your swimming performance with automatic detection of your swimming style, distance, pace, strokes, and rest times.
Improve your swimming technique over time both in the pool (SWOLF score), and open water.
Season Planner
Most athletes can only peak twice a year. With Season Planner, you can plan and customize the training season - whether you’re in your base training period or in preparation for the racing season.
You can set weekly volumes by duration or distance targets, plan training focus areas, and easily create individual workouts or training targets for each sport.
See what is helping and not helping in terms of reaching your goals and ensure you peak at the right time.
Running Program
Choose one of four running events, 5K, 10K, half marathon or marathon, and get a personalized, adaptive training plan that fits you and your goals.
Your personal running program is based on your training history and your current fitness level – with programs ranging from 9 weeks up to 20 months in length, depending on your event and choices.
Each running program consists of three phases and includes five different types of runs, including interval training and long runs. Don’t sweat it, though. Your Polar device will guide you through each workout and give feedback for each session.
Training Targets
Plan your training sessions in advance with customized training targets and save them to your training diary. When it’s time to break a sweat, your device will guide you throughout your scheduled session, so you can fully focus on your workout.
You can create interval workouts with heart rate, speed, or power targets, or set simple training goals, such as ‘burn 700 kcal cycling’ or ‘run 30 minutes.’ Your device will alert you when you need to slow down or speed up to make sure your training goes as planned.
Voice Guidance
Stay focus and limit distractions during workouts with real-time feedback through headphones or other speakers paired to your phone. With Voice Guidance, you’ll receive audible alerts when you reach certain distance, complete a lap, meet a training goal, change heart rate zone, and more.
Rather than always having to look at the screen to know your progress, you can simply hear essential metrics while still enjoying your favorite music or podcast.
*Voice Guidance requires an active Polar Flow mobile app connection.
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 strength training–and perfect for multi-joint 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.
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.
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.
Training Benefit
Training Benefit helps you learn about how different types of workouts improve different areas of your fitness, for example, how low intensity sessions affect different areas compared to high intensity sessions.
Feedback is given after each session that you record with your Polar watch. During the workout you must be within the Polar heart rate zones for at least 10 minutes, and the feedback is based on the time you spend in each heart rate zone during the workout.
Running Index
After every run, you get a Running Index score based on the relationship between heart rate and speed. A single number to see your progress and compare to gender and age related aerobic fitness norms.
Because Running Index gives you an estimate of your maximal aerobic performance, it is a good predictor of your finish time for popular race distances, from 5k to marathon.
FitSpark™ Daily Training Guide
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.
FuelWise™ Fuelling Assistant
FuelWise™ is a smart fueling assistant that helps you find the optimal way to fuel during a long training session or event.
To perform better over longer durations, you need to fuel your system with carbs and drink regularly. FuelWise™ gives you smart carb and drinks reminders for you to refuel and help you maintain adequate energy levels during long sessions.
Features - Activity & Health
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%.
Step Count
Counting your steps is a good way to see if you’re doing enough to maintain your overall health. The more steps you take per day, the closer you’ll be to your fitness goals, paving the way to better health.
Going for a walk is an easy way to clock up some steps, but you take a lot of steps every day just by doing everyday things. With a 3D digital acceleration sensor, Polar Watches will measure every move and update your step count as you go.
Measures every move automatically, every day
Updates your step count on the go
Helps you reach your daily activity goals
Inactivity Alert
Inactivity Alert helps you avoid the negative effects of sitting still for too long. Polar products track your movement throughout the day, and when you remain inactive for a prolonged period, the device gently reminds you to get up and move (screen-based products) or the Polar Flow app gives the same notification if it has a Bluetooth connection to your device.
Monitors daily movement and detects prolonged inactivity.
Sends gentle reminders to get up and move when you’ve been still too long.
Supports healthier routines through subtle nudges on device or Flow app.
Activity Goal
Activity Goal is a personal daily target for movement and active time, designed around your personal details (such as age, weight, height, and gender) and the activity level you select in the Polar Flow app or web service.
Sets a personalized daily movement target based on your profile and activity level.
Tracks your progress throughout the day to keep you motivated.
Turns everyday activity into achievable goals for healthier living.
Activity Benefit
Activity Benefit tracks all your active choices during the day and helps you understand the short and long-term effects of your activity and habits on your health and fitness.
With Activity Benefit, you’ll get motivating daily, weekly, and monthly feedback to guide you towards changing your behavior for better health.
The more you move, the greater the health benefits.
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.
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.
Continuous Heart Rate
Follow your heart rate around the clock with Polar’s continuous wrist-based heart rate solution – an intelligent, dynamic function that works with the 24/7 Activity Tracking feature to provide a more comprehensive measurement for activity intensity.
Your watch will check your heart rate at regular short intervals, and if it detects that your heart rate is elevated, it will start recording automatically.
It factors in a variety of activity intensities, even ones with minimal arm movement, such as cycling, so that they can be counted towards your daily activity goal and calorie burn more accurately.
Features - Sleep & Recovery
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).
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™ Guided Breathing Exercise
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™ Sleep Phases
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.
Features - Outdoor & Navigation
Back to Start
Get back to where you started.
Back to Start guides you to your starting point in the shortest distance possible (beeline) – displaying your bearings and an arrow pointing you in the right direction, as well as the direct distance between you and where you need to get to.
Get back to your starting point
Follow the arrow for directions
See the distance you have left
Daylight Times
See the sunrise, sunset, and twilight times at a glance – crucial for planning a long hike.
Features - Smart Features & Utilities
Flashlight
The bright, high-resolution AMOLED display doubles as a flashlight for quick, convenient use when you need to navigate the darkness.
The flashlight function can be accessed from the drag-down options on the watch, or set up as a handy quick-access widget on the main dashboard.
Weather
Check current weather info and a 2-day forecast straight on your watch. See the watch face for a quick glance into the next few hours or dig into the details, including wind speed & direction, humidity and chance of rain as well as tomorrow's 3-hour and the day after tomorrow's 6-hour forecast.
See the current weather conditions in your area
Get detailed 2-day forecasts
Check wind, humidity, and rain info
Music Controls
Navigate around your playlist and adjust volume straight on your watch. Your Polar watch connects to the music app on your phone, so you can easily control your music without having to take out your phone.
Play your favorite music, audiobooks, and podcasts
Play/pause, skip tracks, adjust the volume
Compatible with both iOS and Android
Find My Phone
Never lose track of your phone again. The Find My Phone feature shows the last synced location of your phone on your watch map, and lets you play a sound on your phone when it’s within Bluetooth range.
Access it quickly from the home screen drop-down menu or the main menu, ensuring you’re always connected to your device.
See the last synced location of your phone.
Play a sound on your phone when in range.
Quick access from the home screen or main menu.
Charging During Training
Keep going without worrying about battery life. Now, you can charge your watch while your workout is paused or active.
A “Dry before charging” warning will ensure your watch is safe to charge during long hikes or multi-day adventures, keeping you powered up for the long haul.
Charge your watch mid-training or while paused.
Safety reminder with the “Dry before charging” pop-up.
Ideal for long hikes, bike rides, or multi-day workouts.
Phone Notifications
Get alerts for incoming calls, messages and notifications direct to your watch.
Whenever you receive a notification on your phone, your watch will vibrate and a red dot will appear at the bottom of the display. When receiving a call your watch will vibrate and show the caller - allowing you to answer or decline the call with your watch.
Phone notifications are available for iOS and Android phones.
Features - Connectivity & Hardware
Polar Flow
Dual-Frequency GPS
Dual-frequency GPS supports multiple satellite frequency bands (L1 / L5) to deliver faster fixes and more accurate positioning in any environment.
The dual-band system eliminates errors in GPS location tracking that would otherwise be caused by interference from tall buildings, dense forests, or extreme conditions to provide a pin-point positioning experience, as well as precise speed, distance, and route data wherever you are in the world.
Pin-point positioning anywhere in the world
Supports multiple satellite systems
Accurate location, speed, and distance data
Global Navigation Satellite Systems
Train with the best positioning experience anywhere in the world.
The built-in GPS works together with GLONASS and Galileo global navigation satellite systems, and QZSS regional navigation satellite system for East Asia and Oceania to provide accurate speed, distance, and route data anywhere on the planet.
Assisted-GPS provides faster fixes and tells your watch the predicted positions of the satellites, making it possible to receive signals from them within seconds wherever you are, even under difficult conditions.
Assisted-GPS for faster fix times
Supports multiple satellite systems
Accurate location, speed, and distance data
HR Sensor Mode
Share your heart rate with training apps, gym equipment or cycling computers.
All you have to do is choose a sport profile on your watch to start training, sync to a compatible device, and see your live heart rate displayed on both your watch, and the equipment you are training with.
