Survey: Which connected fitness gear do you use:

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  • mbaker566
    mbaker566 Posts: 11,233 Member
    garmin vivoactive3-no music
    they seem pretty accurate. no weird data
  • chris_in_cal
    chris_in_cal Posts: 2,521 Member
    I had a Garmin Vivoactive 3 and really enjoyed it as a great nexus of watch, fitness tracker, activity GPS watch....I gave it away and my Garmin 645 Music is in the mail and I should be getting it Thursday. I'm super excited. I bought one of those silly running earbud things and have been testing it with my phone. It is okay. When my 645 Music arrives, I'm going to go running at the beach with a speedo, my Garmin 645 Music, the little earbuds and it is going to be just like running naked with a sound track (at least that is the dream :) I'll report back if the magic really happens....or it is a tech disappointment as is often the case.
  • Marcel182
    Marcel182 Posts: 143 Member
    Withings Pulse 3D, turned Nokia, turned back to Withings.
  • BruinsGal_91
    BruinsGal_91 Posts: 1,400 Member
    Garmin Forerunner 25. Very basic running watch, but has everything I need (GPS, geeky stat stuff etc). It's linked to Garmin Connect, Strava, and MFP. Keep thinking about upgrading, but haven't pulled the trigger yet (mainly because I don't know which Garmin to pick).
  • fitlulu4150
    fitlulu4150 Posts: 1,371 Member
    I'm on my 2nd Garmin Forerunner 35 and I love it. The price is more affordable than other watches I've looked at and it literally does everything I need it to. The battery only needs charging every 4 days or so and it's completely waterproof. After drowning 2 fitbits this is very important to me. I have it connected to MFP for exercise and calories consumed. The phone app is very nice and gives a lot of detail. It has a nice HR monitor that works most of the time. Occasionally, it just doesn't get going but I'm pretty consistent HR wise and so I'm not too worried about it. The only time I look really closely at the HR function is when I'm running uphill............LOL At my age I have to be somewhat careful that I don't bust my heart right out of my chest or something.

    It's a great product in my opinion.
  • pondee629
    pondee629 Posts: 2,469 Member
    Garmin Forerunner 225. I log my gym workouts manually.
  • coderdan82
    coderdan82 Posts: 133 Member
    I have the Garmin Vivoactive 3. I've only used it indoors at the gym (I got it just as winter started) but so far I love it. It's surprisingly good for strength training; you can design a workout, transfer it to the watch and it will tell you what exercise to do next, count your reps (not super accurate) and time your rest periods. Calories burned on cardio machines seem to be estimated well. The hr monitor seems accurate too, except on some weight lifting exercises where I flex my wrist muscles a lot. I have my calorie target set to my RMR in MFP and the extra calories that Garmin posts to MFP seems to bring the total to the ballpark of my daily burn. It has a built in GPS which I look forward to trying when the weather gets warmer.

    I've been using Sleep As Android as a separate app to track my sleep. It works way better than the other ones. Unfortunately, there's a bug in the Garmin version that the developers have been struggling with for the past while so I can't use my watch for that yet.
  • Josh_Friedman
    Josh_Friedman Posts: 112 Member
    I've used several types of Fitbit that all seem to fail inside of a year for some reason, mostly power issues. I used a Garmin Vivosmart for a year until the band fell apart and I couldn't get a replacement. I also had to replace the charger several times. Right now I'm using a Samsung Gear Fit, which is great, but only holds a charge for 2 days or less.
  • cheryldumais
    cheryldumais Posts: 1,907 Member
    Garmin Vivofit2. Bought it because it was inexpensive. Kept it because it works! It tracks sleep and steps. Mine is about 3 years old and they have upgraded them with HR monitors etc. What I like about my model is it uses a watch battery which is good for 1+ year. No daily recharging. It syncs with MFP.
  • OldAssDude
    OldAssDude Posts: 1,436 Member
    Right now I'm using a Garmin Forerunner 935.

    I also have a Garmin feni 5x, Suunto Ambit 3 Peak, and Polar V800.

    I have owned many fitbits and other devices, but Garmin seems to be king of the fitness devices right now. Plus I have almost 4 years of workouts saved in Garmin Connect, so it has become pretty valuable data.
  • fishgutzy
    fishgutzy Posts: 2,807 Member
    edited November 2018
    Garmin fenix 5X love it. Rugged. The jewelry that tries to be active gear like the Apple Watch wouldn't last long on my wrist.
    Note the scratches in the metal case.
    On the Apple, it is a glass dome that would have shattered already.
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  • tecat810
    tecat810 Posts: 4,829 Member
    Garmin forerunner 35. Love it.
  • HermanLily
    HermanLily Posts: 217 Member
    Atlas Wearables 2 and Atlas Shape ❤
  • caindove11
    caindove11 Posts: 73 Member
    Apple Watch 4
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    Was Fitbit Zip for covering daily activity levels, worked great for desire.
    Now Garmin Vivofit 3, same functions basically used (not much but daily).
    And Garmin FR 310XT for workouts, had for years, got a backup ready to go actually on sale.
  • bshedwick
    bshedwick Posts: 659 Member
    My Garmin Fenix 5 is my primary fitness device. Does my Edge 520 bike computer count ?
  • ritzvin
    ritzvin Posts: 2,860 Member

    Not really useful for the OP's goals, but a Garmin 920XT.
    Why? - I wanted customizable fields per activity, course upload with turn cues, programmable training intervals, decent battery life (at least 2 days of tracking mountaineering between charges). Bonus features: running dynamics (I can check on my cadence and whether I'm favoring a leg and/or bouncing too much)-although, I only wear the HR/dynamics monitor occasionally on runs to get an updated estimated of VO2max (or if I think I'm doing something off in my gait/my knee starts tweaking and I want to check the dynamics data).

    FYI- the Fenix came out *after* I bought this (totally would have sprung for that for the basemap capability and extra activities and outdoor features).

    Usefulness for gym: customized fields - can have the time of day in larger field, along with elapsed time, and lap time (to measure rest periods).

    What I wish it had: basemap capability (for when I opt to go off route on the fly in an area I'm not as familiar with), ability to show map/next cue along with 1-2 data fields (like on the Edge line), ability to see the Elevation profile on the map screen as I'm following a pre-programmed course (like on the Edge). If I was rich, I would splurge and get both an Edge and a Fenix.

    It does have step counting, and sleep monitoring (in the sense that it logs whether or not there is movement, and is viewable on graph - not sure what people want when they ask for a device that "monitors sleep")..slept in it once out of curiosity.
  • ritzvin
    ritzvin Posts: 2,860 Member
    ritzvin wrote: »
    Not really useful for the OP's goals, but a Garmin 920XT.
    Why? - I wanted customizable fields per activity, course upload with turn cues, programmable training intervals, decent battery life (at least 2 days of tracking mountaineering between charges). Bonus features: running dynamics (I can check on my cadence and whether I'm favoring a leg and/or bouncing too much)-although, I only wear the HR/dynamics monitor occasionally on runs to get an updated estimated of VO2max (or if I think I'm doing something off in my gait/my knee starts tweaking and I want to check the dynamics data).

    FYI- the Fenix came out *after* I bought this (totally would have sprung for that for the basemap capability and extra activities and outdoor features).

    Usefulness for gym: customized fields - can have the time of day in larger field, along with elapsed time, and lap time (to measure rest periods).

    What I wish it had: basemap capability (for when I opt to go off route on the fly in an area I'm not as familiar with), ability to show map/next cue along with 1-2 data fields (like on the Edge line), ability to see the Elevation profile on the map screen as I'm following a pre-programmed course (like on the Edge). If I was rich, I would splurge and get both an Edge and a Fenix.

    It does have step counting, and sleep monitoring (in the sense that it logs whether or not there is movement, and is viewable on graph - not sure what people want when they ask for a device that "monitors sleep")..slept in it once out of curiosity.

    ETA: Garmin is fairly ubiquitous in the sports world...just about every website that does analysis on tracked data can be setup to auto pull your activities from Garmin's server without you doing anything. Strava, Endomondo, etc get my data almost instantaneously after I end an activity (as long as my phone is on and not in Airplane mode or out of service area).

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