Polar grit x1/23/2024 ![]() In fact, most sport features you find in other Polar watches, such as the excellent Polar Vantage M2, can be found on the Grit X too. Being used to wearing the Garmin Forerunner 945 at night this watch is a little bigger/heavier, but is wearable 24/7, even on a petite wrist.Īnd even though this watch has been pushed as offering all the features an outdoor enthusiast needs, there are multiple sport modes available for indoor indoor activities, over 130 in total. If you’ve had alcohol you can see the stress it puts your body under there’s no hiding from this feature. Talking of recovery, it’s vital to performance, so you can dip in to the Nightly Recharge feature to look at how you are doing, with Sleep Plus adding essential extra insights into sleep quality and length, and body stress. The FitSpark feature will generate personalised training guidance and workouts, relevant to your training history and recovery. Post training you can see your stats, from your basic plus HR data including your cardio load, showing you how much your cardio system has worked, as well as your heart rate zones showing how much time you’ve spent in each, energy used, pace and power stats. (Image credit: Polar) Polar Grit X review: recovery features You can set reminders to take on water and nutrition specific to your health and weight and the intensity of the work you’re doing. ![]() This watch is going to nudge you to rehydrate with a notification, such as ‘drink – take on 10g of carbs’ reducing the chances of you bonking due to being so in the zone that you forget to refuel in longer sessions and races. Watches are trying to ‘coach’ us more, but not just in training, and a really cool extra is the FuelWise Smart Fuelling assistant. Having a compass and altimeter are also handy extras. There’s turn by turn instructions, as well as overview of your session when you finish. It’s a simple swipe on the Komoot setting to connect your accounts, granting you access to routes from other users. To make the most of the route planner you will need to download the Komoot app, then you can use this to transfer a GPX file on to your watch to plan your route. ![]() It also ranks you as the watch automatically detects hill segments. This feature gives you a display of distance, elevation and speed while you’re on the move. When you run with another athlete and take on the same vertical but both end up with completely different elevation on Strava, you will know that your stats are right, theirs are wrong. You’re getting much more specific uphill and downhill stats. ![]() One is Hill Splitter, and as a hill runner I love this feature. The Polar Grit X has some really nice additional features. (Image credit: Polar) Polar Grit X review: training features Even with all features activated expect 40 hours of tracking – take this up to 100 hours if power save is on. Most important for us outdoor types is battery life, as the more our watches let us explore without having to worry about a charging lead and power output, the happier we are. Nevertheless, the Grit X looks and feels rugged and in theory, when you bash this against a rock, fall off your bike, it’s not going to scratch or break and the design reflects this – it’s simple and robust. One might wonder why multisport watch manufacturers choose this standard to measure their watches' performance against it probably has something to do with the relative flexibility of the non-military application of the standard. The Polar Grit X is made to MIL-STD-810 military level durability – the same standard other outdoor watches are made to such as the Garmin Instinct Solar. Green, Red and Blue textile accessory bands cost even more and the leather option is the most expensive version. You can add on a black, white or green silicon accessory band for a little extra dosh. There are two standard colour options, black and olive-green. Two sizes are on offer, Small and Medium/Large as well as numerous strap options. (Image credit: Polar) Polar Grit X review: design
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