Polar connects directly through your Polar Flow account.
Connecting
Data Sources → Polar → Connect, then sign in with your Polar account.
Your device must be syncing to Polar Flow already. The Workbench reads from
Polar’s servers, not from the watch, so anything that has not reached Flow does
not exist as far as we are concerned.
What you get
- Sleep with stages, and Polar’s own sleep score
- Nightly Recharge — Polar’s recovery measure, available from the very first
night rather than after a baseline period
- Continuous heart rate through the night, which we use for your overnight
heart-rate dip
- Training sessions with heart rate, routes and Polar’s own load figures
- Steps and daily activity
Recharge from night one
Unusually, Polar’s recovery figure is meaningful immediately. Most equivalents —
including our own Capacity — need days of your history before they mean
anything. If you are a Polar user, expect recovery data far sooner than this
site’s general “give it a week” advice suggests.
Polar does not report naps
Naps are not available from Polar, at all. This is a limitation of Polar’s
own service, not the Workbench — their sleep data has room for one night per
date, with no structural place for a second session.If you nap regularly and want it recorded, it will need another source or a
manual note. Effort ratings do not come through
If you rate a session’s effort in the Polar app, that rating does not reach us.
We verified this across several syncs: Polar’s public interface does not carry
app-entered ratings.
If you want your perceived effort recorded, enter it in the Workbench against
the session.
The sleep score is Polar’s own
Where the app shows a Polar sleep score, that is Polar’s number by their
method, not ours recalculated. Deliberate — comparing our scoring against
vendors’ is one of the things this beta is for, and that only works if we do
not quietly overwrite theirs.
Known quirks