Data nerdery! I bought my first smart/sportwatch

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  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    That is pretty good using HRV on an optical HR method.

    Now, how well does it ramp up with either HR or breathing increasing?
    Can you watch a scary movie tonight and report back? ;-)
  • MissBraeBee
    MissBraeBee Posts: 40 Member
    thelastnightingale wrote: »
    In my experience...

    A Fitbit tracks sleep more accurately. It will pick up my actual sleep at night, together with any random daytime naps.

    A Garmin only tracks sleep accurately overnight, and cannot cope with you having broken sleep and/or napping during the day. It can also assume you're asleep if you're just being very still/chilled out.

    The body battery feature on the Garmin for me is hugely accurate, which I find frustrating because I can't seem to get my body battery up and to stay up!

    I personally find the calorie burn on the Fitbit to be more accurate.

    Fitbit customer service is better. Over the years, they've given me two free replacements (including an upgrade) and paid for shipping. I've had my money's worth. Garmin goes down more often and has more sync issues.

    I like the Fitbit for everyday use, but the Garmin for running.

    I think I'd recommend Garmin to someone who was into their running or biking, but Fitbit to anyone more interested in monitoring their sleeping patterns and counting steps.

    What fitbit do you have? I was checking out the versa 2!

  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 9,986 Member
    heybales wrote: »
    That is pretty good using HRV on an optical HR method.

    Now, how well does it ramp up with either HR or breathing increasing?
    Can you watch a scary movie tonight and report back? ;-)

    I just had a job interview. Interestingly, the variation range has gotten pretty much absent during the interview and now I'm back to my bigger range. It totally fits the timing of those 92 minutes. That's some scary *kitten*! I don't think I need a scary movie for tonight :D

    But yeah, whatever I write here: some device will always be good for some people, another one for someone else. And some people don't get good data out of anything. There's the Dutch saying: Meten is weten (measuring means knowledge), but there's also the German Wer viel misst misst mist (he who measures a lot measures *kitten*) so.. with these words I leave you to it and go for a run. :D

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