Polar

Coachbox and Polar: every workout in, automatically

Workouts and daily numbers come in by themselves. Sending a planned workout to a Polar watch is not possible, and that is up to Polar.

What comes into Coachbox

  • Completed activities
  • Daily metrics
  • Sleep
  • Resting heart rate
  • Steps

What this connection cannot do

  • You cannot send a planned workout to a Polar watch. Polar lets other apps read the workouts you have finished, but does not offer a way to send one back. That is a choice on Polar's side, not something we skipped.

If your athlete trains with a Polar, everything that comes in works the way you want. They finish a session, Polar Flow picks it up, and the workout is in your calendar with heart rate, pace, power and GPS. Their daily numbers arrive the same way when Polar is the watch they wear all day.

What does not work

Traffic only goes one way. Polar lets other apps read the workouts your athlete has finished. It does not let them send a workout back to the watch.

So this is not something we forgot to build. There is nothing on Polar’s side to build it with. The day Polar opens that up, we will add it.

What to do in the meantime

Your athlete opens the session in the Coachbox app and follows the blocks there while the watch records. It costs them a glance at their phone between intervals, and everything else about the connection keeps working.

If you really need the session to land on the watch by itself, put that athlete on a Garmin, Coros or Wahoo. Those three take a workout from Coachbox today.

Connecting Polar

  1. 1Your athlete opens Settings and goes to the Synchronisation tab.
  2. 2They find Polar Flow under the non-active connections and click Connect.
  3. 3They log in at Polar and authorise Coachbox. New workouts start arriving from that moment.
Full step-by-step guide in the help centre

Questions about integrations

Can I send a planned workout to a Polar watch?

No. Polar does not offer a way for other apps to send one, so we cannot build it. Your athlete can open the session in the Coachbox app and work through the blocks there while the watch records.

What does arrive from Polar?

Completed workouts with their full activity data, plus daily metrics like steps, resting heart rate and sleep when you pick Polar as your metrics source.

Which device should I use if pushing workouts matters to me?

Garmin, Coros and Wahoo all accept a structured workout. For indoor cycling, Tacx works through the Garmin connection.

Connect your first device today

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