Fitbit Blaze, Fitbit Charge 2, or Fitbit Surge?

dxtra30
dxtra30 Posts: 498 Member
edited November 14 in Fitness and Exercise
I'm looking to buy a new Fitbit tracker for the gym. I'm torn on Fitbit Charge 2 , Fitbit Blaze, and Fitbit Surge. I do cross fit training classes, weight training classes, and minor running. I'm looking to show heart rate monitoring and burned calories (Yes I know it's a guess not accurate number) on the Fitbit but at least a ball park number. Which would you recommend and why? I'm thinking the Fitbit Charge 2 but unless you think otherwise. Any other suggestions or opinions would be great. TIA!

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  • NorthCascades
    NorthCascades Posts: 10,968 Member
    You can't tell how many calories you've burned lifting weights from your heart rate. For things like running and cycling, HR data can give you a reasonable estimate for energy use, but, for lifting, that's not the case.
  • capaul42
    capaul42 Posts: 1,390 Member
    I have a Charge 2 and love it. I think the only thing I don't like is that the silent alarms are not as powerful a vibration as my Charge HR was. But it's a small thing that's not really too important. I find mine (and the HR before it) to be approximately 90-95% accurate for me. And I love the hourly reminders to move.
  • Michael190lbs
    Michael190lbs Posts: 1,510 Member
    capaul42 wrote: »
    I have a Charge 2 and love it. I think the only thing I don't like is that the silent alarms are not as powerful a vibration as my Charge HR was. But it's a small thing that's not really too important. I find mine (and the HR before it) to be approximately 90-95% accurate for me. And I love the hourly reminders to move.
    I agree and with the same outcome. Love my HR2
  • trigden1991
    trigden1991 Posts: 4,658 Member
    I have a Charge HR and find that the step count and TDEE estimates are both very accurate for me.
  • Soulfood77
    Soulfood77 Posts: 211 Member
    The reason I chose the Charge 2 was because it had the features I wanted and the band fit my wrist. I found the others looked so huge like men's watches. I am really glad I went with the Charge 2 as now that it's on my wrist, I definitely wouldn't have wanted anything bigger.
  • 30kgin2017
    30kgin2017 Posts: 228 Member
    I got the surge for the built in GPS but found since I like music that I tend to carry my phone anyway. The band of my surge wore away, although I found a replacement band online that was easy to change and there are also sleeve covers now which would prevent the wear I had. I've worn it daily for about 2 years.

    I actually just swapped my surge for a blaze today. I ran in the rain a couple of weeks ago and my surge got water in it. I didnt put in rice for about 2 days after, the rice dried it out but it left cracking like pattern on the inside.

    I chose the blaze today rather than get another surge because 1) I got skin irritations from the build up of skin etc on the surge (the band also cracked around screws at the back and some eventually fell off leaving small holes for gunk to collect in). Although I regularly cleaned it could get it all out of cracks being able to remove or swap bands including to a different materials would give my skin a break and allow better cleaning

    2) I was going to go for the charge 2 but see the same strap wearing issues and irritations.

    3) I wanted the cardio fitness and also reminder to move. Apparently Blaze will get the cardio fitness in the next update which is imminent (it was suppose to be last week) it has reminder to move. Surge has neither and doesnt seem to be going to.

  • TheRambler
    TheRambler Posts: 387 Member
    I love my Samsung Gearfit 2. I have a Galaxy phone, so it makes sense.
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