Gadgetory

hey everyone Jimmy with Jim's review room with all this activity bands that have been reviewing the one area of tech that I've missed has been smart scales Fitbit introduced the Aria scale back in 2012 Withings has their own since 2009 but new to the market polar has theirs this year with their polar balance it's priced at $100 retail as of this video I'll place a link in the video description below click on that and you can see what the most updated prices are today so without further adieu my channel is here to help you make a purchase decision welcome everyone to jim's review going over the physical features first it's really straightforward with a smooth glass top a display for your weight and per Polar's website at splash proof and the bottom does feature stable rubber grips on each end here and under the cover up top houses three Triple A batteries in which polar does include in the package regarding capabilities the scale does work without the need of a polar activity band as it can sync to your phone via bluetooth smart but if you did have a polar band like the V 800 m 400 or in the loop model the wrist unit will give you a personalized activity goal based on your current weight target and I'll show you where in how the weight targets work once I can get into the app you also have the ability to sync your weight to the band without your phone if you can find that more convenient the only thing that I really saw lacking from a physical standpoint is a scale not having Wi-Fi built-in like some of the other competitors now Wi-Fi would have allowed you to sync without the need of either your phone or the activity ban itself and last the scale can be used by up to 10 different people per Polar's website so now we're going to take a look at the polar flow app see what this can read and see if the app is helpful in any way looking at the polar flow f if you tap on the menu icon just select the scale with the word balance next to it at the very top of the app is your weight target which you can only input and adjust any polar flow website I'll show you that very soon but in the middle is the amount of weight that you have gained or lost when you first started and last on the right or how many days you have left to try to meet your target weight down below polar appears to love using these wheels here to illustrate your progress after each weigh-in and activity you'll see a scale in the middle here lean one way or the other the left side will point to either if you're gaining or losing weights and to the right is an estimation of how many pounds are gaining or losing in a given month for me here you can see I've been maintaining that lean 145 pound range but after family coming over and my mother's cooking things have started to creep up a little bit here but polar is promoting that there's no need to have food diaries or estimations on calorie intake which for some people may be a huge benefit or huge relief while others may prefer something a little bit more analytical now polar takes the approach as you can see here in the next section of the screen by offering a calorie deficit it doesn't go full-blown and say the less that you eat but don't eat anything whatever it may be the more weight that you lose we all know that's not the healthiest approach but polar provides smarter estimates and how much less you should eat based on your daily weigh-ins and the amount of activity that you have been performing you can be the judge of that will work for you and for your lifestyle or not but on the right is your activity suggested for that day to help you stay on track to reach your target weight now your generic daily goal for activities performed that we've seen on so many activity bands already but your activity is adjusted specific to you based on your way in moving down the app is your linear graph with triangles representing your weight registered by the scale the yellow line represents my trend the blue line is the trend that I need to stay on to reach my dieting goals now the only thing that I wish show down here is my activity as this is shown on the polar float websites but oddly not on the app moving down the polar flow app here does provide your body mass index which is pretty straightforward as you can see on the screen and the very last feature you can initiate your scale to measure with the icon on the top right and before concluding this video as I stated earlier the only way to adjust your weight target is through the polar flow website which you can see on your screen now this looks nearly identical to the app but this have some additional information that could benefit you very easily from here you can adjust the target from the top right and that's basically it everything else is adjusted and automated the main screen on both the polar flow website and the app will guide you along with the information that I discussed earlier so overall for the scale how do I feel about this now I really love the target setting as each day progresses the amount of activity changes to reflect wherever you are on your weight loss target that's perfect and that's Polar's biggest selling point and it does work and the only thing for me personally does everyone like going the route of a calorie deficit or would you prefer to do food logging to see the specifics or maybe for the more analytical person now the way the scale does work with the information provided and at the end of the day it's really a matter of preference in my belief so that's it for the review if you can be sure to LIKE and subscribe if you haven't done so and be sure to add me on to Facebook Twitter and/or Instagram to see some behind the scenes stuff and of course follow my journey as well in my reviews I'm Jimmy with Jim's review room and my channel is here to help you make a purchase decision you guys take care I'll see you in the next one bye