I get that they give information like sleep and heart rate, but how does that actually help? is there really any point to these besides telling you info youll never even use?
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do fitness trackers actually do anything?
apple watch estimates ur calories burned per day i found that it was pretty close cuz i ate ~600 kcals below that and in 3 months lost the weight i was supposed to
The only good thing is to keep a record of your workouts mostly. It's a tool which works decent, but not flawlessly keep in mind.
>hr isn't always correct
>run distance, speed etc is not always correct, especially for sprints it's pretty bad. Long distance it's better
>hell even steps can be wrong
>battery can be a pain in the ass if you have a Samsung, apple etc
But there's some pros
>smartwatch capabilities (send short messages, reply to calls when hands are busy, read emails etc)
>keep a record of your workouts, especially if you do different stuff like running, basketball etc
>have other tools at hand (timer etc) useful for fitness too
Can you do without? You bet. Are they useful/worth it? Maybe
You can get better accuracy if you add external sensors, either armband or waist strap for HR and footpods for speed.
Nav features can be useful too if you run/bike different routes, especially off road.
They are semi accurate and fun if you are autist obsessed with numbers but mostly useless tbh
depends if you'll actually use it.
I have a garmin fenix and I use it literally everyday for recording activities where I actually view the data and use it. Depending on what watch you get will determine how accurate it can be with gps based activities. Keeping track of sleep, heart rate and stress is also useful at times and helps me dial it back if i'm overdoing things.
If all you do is look at your steps and want to get the "burned calories" at the end of a workout it's a total waste of money.
i only use it for gps tracking walked miles
i started training pullups on the assisted machine some weeks ago. i found out my HR was about 145 after finishing each set. i was resting between sets too little and i would get gassed, dizzy and almost fall from the machine. i discovered if i do another set when my HR below 115 bpm i dont frick myself over and i can virtually do infinite sets. today i did 6 sets for 10 reps with 40kg on the machine, im a 5'7" manlet who weights 88kg 🙂 before discovering this i could only do 6x3 with 50kg on the machine. smartwatches are based.
The most use I got out of my LTE Apple Watch is when we were at the beach and I emoji texted my gf to bring me a lighted cigarette because I just got out of the water
Do you cough up shit yet? Can you still breathe through your nose? Is your voice Ghoulish yet? Does the inside of your mouth hurt all the time yet?
Anon I said I smoke, not that I took 5 doses of the v*xx
hes right, you know. smoking is for fricking morons. if you tried to look cool, it didnt work.
>t. ex heavy smoker
Of course it's ex-moron shitting on morons. Of-fricking-course.
It's always a sobergay shitting on normal people drinking normal amounts because he simply could NOT not drink a jug a day.
>if you tried to look cool, it didnt work.
For you.
And btw you will relapse.
drinking once in a while is understandable. smoking tobacco ever is moronic, especially since you can ingest nicotine without ruining your oxygen intake among other things.
It's genuinely enjoyable and I'd much rather smoke cigs and enhance every experience with it than not.
>addict's perspective incoming
A cig after a good meal, after sex, or while sitting on a nice outdoor terrace combined with a drink or a coffee, watching sunsets and sunrises, sharing cigs with people and meeting new people this way, or just having a smoke on your lindy walk. It's all objectively better with a cig. This is the hill I'll die on
>from cancer lmao
Besides I don't understand what the big deal if we're both online. Why would you even have a strong opinion about other people smoking.
I was a party smoker like most, until a good friend died under 30 from lung cancer complications. He had already healed and I saw him at a bar a few weeks before he died, he was smoking again and at that point I kinda knew it was just a matter of time. I might have agreed with you before that it "enhances every experience" but now if I have a cig in my hand I just keep thinking about him.
Sorry about your friend anon, that definitely changes your perspective.
It's not like I'm trying to die faster, but I almost died thrice (not joking, tough luck)
>almost drowned
>barely dodged a random psycho driver, like in those liveleak vids when a person jumps away last moment
>got waken up by my cat when the apartment was already full with fumes during a fire in the building
So it skewed my worldview in a way that I think of every year of my life as a bonus year. Not sure if it's healthy to think this way, but at this point I'm convinced my guardian angel is a pro and God has a plan for me.
You made this thread a few days ago. What don't you understand about keeping track of how far you run?
I use the GPS on mine to plot my hiking so I can log my hikes for my mountain leader training.
It's also nice to see your resting heart rate go down over time as you train more.
this thread is making me wanting to buy an apple watch
based paypiggy consoomer
I will get the most expensive watch they got (the Ultra 2) and return it on the very last day of their return policy window to cuck the shit out of Apple. I'll break the brand new condition hymen of the ultra watch but not even pay the full price for it. Heh.
If you'll never use the info, absolutely don't get one. But the reason a lot of people get them is because they use the info, idiot.
I work swing shifts, so I use the sleep tracker to help make sure I'm getting enough as I swing from days to nights. This is the main reason I got the watch. You can also log notes with some, so it's really helped me find patterns and improve my sleep overall.
I've been using the heart rate monitor to push my cardio as well. The feedback and information is great, as well as letting me know if in in an aerobic or anaerobic zone, so I can dial training in a little tighter. I've been able to put in more quality work and not burn myself out instead of just trying and swinging in the dark. I like trail running and rucking for time, and it helps me train that like I would my lifts. Lifting is easier to program than running/cardio, you definitely know where you are by what's on the bar. Hard to guess your heart rate at all times, and view changes and patterns.
The calories is a neat estimator as well. I can adjust up or down a little as needed if my daily activity changes. I work a physical job, so if I'm cutting and have a hard day, a 500cal deficit can quickly turn to 1500cals and sewer my workouts. It's not perfect, but again, it gives me great information to adjust to different situations. Same if I end up driving a long ways and I'm stuck being sedentary, I can adjust my food intake down accordingly.
Other than that, I have a Garmin one. The full gps is nice for multi days hikes and hunting. I also have my dogs GPS collars hooked up to it so I know where they are in the field, especially in the woods where I want them looking for game, as opposed to open land where I want them close. Much better to have the wearable than fumble with a handheld GPS in a pocket.
They're not absolutely necessary, you're right. You can make great progress without one. But the data is absolutely usable for people who want it.
heartrate is a cool metric to have for your resting hr and for doing low intensity zone 2 work, i have a garmin, doing runs with a nice gps watch changes the game. if you don't run or bike or hike or whatever probably not worth it
My Garmin gives quite accurate sleep data and predicts stamina levels well.
I find it useful, for example on long bike treks its nifty that the watch can predict how far I can get without being exhausted, same for workouts and daily stuff. And with my moron brain its handy, if I know that I slept poorly without having to guess (I usually guess wrong) I know I need to take it easy or I'll just spazz out and be even more moronic at work.
call me a homosexual but I love my garmen fenix 6
Then we're homosexuals together, I love my fenix 7.
I have a Garmin Forerunner and it's a lot of fun to use.
It excels at tracking cardio like running (very detailed stats) and biking (to track your tours), lifting not as much,
but the kcal tracking seems accurate and sleep + heart rate monitoring are cool.
If you're wearing a watch might as well have it display something semi-useful aside of the time.
Smart functions are neat, but that model has them kinda reduced.
Buttons suck major dick at Garmin so buy it in the store after trying or send it back if you get a bad model.
>garmins can cost $800-900
What the frick? Who would choose those over an Ultra?
it's pretty cool to see how many steps I walk, and how long I sleep for. When I ride my bike it's cool to look at all of the stats.
It's also cool to be aware of your heart rate (mine is 52 right now)
i think mine was $200. They make so many different models and do an absolute dogshit job of advertising the different features of every model
I just checked some reviews of the latest higher end models and the UI is as laggy as in a 2000s car infotainment system
Shameful display
battery life
You don't use the information because you don't know how to. When you work out and track other factors alongside these metrics, they can provide much insight into various things like workout quality, potential overtraining, stress levels, and so on. I'm going to assume this is bait.
Anyone got recommendations for one of these?
>potential overtraining
doesn't happen unless you're a professional athlete/ competitive bodybuilder /morone crossshitter
Nope, you can overtrain at any level
I'm untrained and managed to overtrain by going to failure on every set 3x a week with full body because my body hasn't adapted to the stimulus yet.
>is there really any point to these besides telling you info youll never even use?
i have a very basic fitness smart watch (garmin venu sq) and it covers all i really need which is step and cardio tracking and sleep tracking. it also has a feature that tells you when your heart rate and stress levels are elevated when not working out and need to relax which helps me because i am very neurotic and live in my own head.
i track heart rate zones during my workouts (cycling and rowing). its good for that and quite accurate compared to my polar h10 chest strap. id rather wear the watch because a chest strap constricting me while breathing hard in higher intensity workouts gives me anxiety haha....
i track heart rate variability as well. i find that metric to be endlessly fascinating with regards to sympathetic/parasympathetic balance and recovery. HRV is definitely not as precise as the chest strap but the trend line is the important part, not the raw accuracy.
i like tracking my sleep just as a reminder that staring at screens too much is actually incredibly bad for you.
>HRV
qrd? I'm familiar with something similar in motorsports where skill is directly correlated with rpm / pace maintenance.
>HRV
I'm new to it because I just picked up a Fitbit Charge 6 on Black Friday. It's got phenomenal heart rate tracking compared to all the watches I've had before, which is specifically why I got it. Heart rate tracking blows on 90% of smart bands/devices. Anyway, after wearing my new watch for a few days, it started spitting out numbers, one of which was my heart rate variance.
>28 ms.
>Hmmm, ok. What does that mean?
>look it up on Google
>find out it's extremely bad for someone my age. Only people in their 70's should be that low
>having a panic attack at work as I read this
>I was so much happier without this information
I have a Garmin Vivosmart 4, which I got used for like, 80$ a few years back. It's a fitness tracker, and not a full on smart watch. I only wear it when I run. I personally hate the idea of charging a watch, I've been wearing watches since the 4-5th grade, so cheap quartz watches are my go-to. The idea of going from a 5-10 yr battery to having to charge weekly is to much of a mental barrier.
I only wear my Garmin for runs, but that's just it. I've never had trouble with sleep, so I didn't care to track it. And I stopped tracking calories because it was too much work for little pay off.
I only find it useful because it automatically tracks and logs my runs. Aside from that, I find smart devices to be kinda dumb.
For me it's really useful for checking if I am in AFib or not.. and it's accurate for it. I actually had no idea I was even in it until I was monitored, I just thought it was heart palpitations which I suppose in their own right are a little daunting
my galaxy watch can download podcasts that I listen to on runs. That's literally the only thing I care about and it simplifies cardio for me. I hate armstraps for phones so this was a big improvement.
I like counting my steps and hours I sleep.
Apple or Google documenting my location, HR, BP, and quality of sleep, not so much.
I have the Fénix Solar 7 depicted in that pic and it’s the best watch I’ve ever owned. The predictions about my running performance according to the VO2, sleep and past day training are really accurate.
Also it gives a solid report post mountain biking ride and doesn’t have a problem connecting with other apps that also track and make maps like Komoot.
Swimming, surfing, snowboarding, it has a lot of features. Shit, it has a golf interface that I haven’t even checked
Been using it since June and battery lasts 18 days or sometimes even 20 depending on the solar intensity.
Recommended.
Can you use these watches to listen to music? Honestly ld like to replace my phone with one of them when im going to the gym.
Do i really have to wear them to sleep to get the sleep monitoring
I prefer sleeping totally naked. I dont want a watch on