Best smartwatch for /fit/?Maybe a casio under 50€?
>>76660944My pick is Amazfit watches.They have a better offer for anything you might find, besides an Apple watch or a top tier Samsung one.The accuracy is now great after updates last year, as the HR tracking was off. Their batteries last for like 2 weeks, you can track a lot of metrics + workouts + gps.Whatever you do, dont get a whoop, its a fucking scam.
>>76660944what is the main purpose of smart/sport watch? i was thinking getting one for tracking my calories burned but i could just do rough estimate and be fine. what do you use it for?
>>76660944for me, I was looking at low cost, battery life, steps counter, heart rate, and sleep tracking. Fitbit inspire 3 was cheap.DYOR when it comes to what you want. Apple watch and other expensive shit needs charging daily, that's a hassle more than it's even worth.>>76661074Calories burned are never even remotely close on these things, better just ignore it outright.
>>76661074They can probably track calories burnt from your rhr,hr,spo2,steps,breathing rate,body temp.Apple seem to be good in everything but shit battery, probably just gotta turn off the non health functions.Try checking out the quantified scientist on youtube for reviews.
>>76660984>My pick is Amazfit watches.Seconded. I have an amazfit active 2 with a stretchy strap from aliexpress. Not too bulky and it does everything I want it to do like sleep tracking, sport tracking etc. Also the price is amazing compared to the more premium brands.If one just wants a step tracker then the cheapest china special might work okayish.
>>76660944apple watch has my vote just bc it can sync gps turn by turn directions with the phone so when i cycle it's like having precog 20 seconds before the intersection giving me more time to do the safe thing and no lowering my gazei've also tried garmin forerunner 45 and 55 and they were good, best feature is signing up for a race some months down the line and just following the plan when i feel like exercising. build quality is also kinda good. i downloaded a maps app but it seems kind of barebones, just a squiggly line on a beige background
anyone know if the xiaomi smartwatches are any good?
>>76660944I got huawei watch fit for free, and it's decent, but I mostly use it for step count, if I am doing zone 2 cardio and to tell me 2min pause between sets.
>>76660944I love giving my biometric data to my technocratic overlords for free and for absolutely no benefit!
>>76661074Heart rate variability is kind of big right now. After like 4 weeks of baseline it can accurately gauge stress on the body and receptivity to training, not just cardio but weightlifting. Low hrv means recovery is happening. High hrv means it isn't. How this plays in cardio is you can massively increase the benefit vo2 max training and know when you need to do it by not putting it on some kind of rigid time table. Same deal with lifting reap the most gains for more concisely timing workouts around hrv. Rather than routine hopping and hoping it lines up with your largely genetic controlled recovery. That's probably the biggest reason to have one.
>>76661074I have a Garmin which I use to compare swim/run sessions, track recovery, sleep, stress and energy. It helps me plan what workouts to do and when, see how my body reacts to different things in a more objective and fine grained way than "do I feel good or bad". Since getting it I stopped daily caffeine because I realised it was making me burn my energy too early in the day. I stopped drinking alcohol after 7 pm on weekdays and limited it on weekends because I could see how it affected my sleep by raising stress levels, even if I still got 7.5-8 hours. Since figuring these things out my stress levels trending down and my sleep is trending up.At first it was rough though because I guess I was ignoring my body's fatigue or something. First few months after my watch telling me I had run out of energy I was tired all the time, but my lifestyle hadn't changed, it was just awareness.
i bought some chink one off amazon and after a couple months the vibrating mechanism stopped working. i assume all cheap ones are like this
>>76661487for fitness tracking not really, mediocre HR accuracy, completely useless sleep tracking, shit apps. i guess they are ok as a step counter.
>>76660944Im not telling you to spend between 300 or 700 bucks on a samsung watch, but if you are interested in general fitness and not about high performance shit, its the best choice. Sure, an amazfit or xiaomi band can do the job good enough, but the samsung fitness app has a ton of info and it makes suggestions about a ton of shit you can improve. Ive had the galaxy watch active, 4, 6 and last week i got the ultra, and oh boi, the ultra does tickle my fitness autism with a few new functions and added data it has. I had an old xiaomi band too and i had no complains about it, it just worked, but the samsung one is top notch and the best part is you dont have to pay a retarded subscription, you just install everything and you have everything. My dad has owned a bunch of cheap bands and some of them had paywalled functions, which honestly its an insult for me paying for something and not having everything working. Samsungs app track everything sensor related (ofc) and a few things like your diet if you take the time to type the data in, the nutrients info is kinda basic, but the food database is great (it has its downsides too like you cant add a multivitamin or vitamin C supp, the app somehow refuses to log supplements for some reason)
>>76660944What do you do? If you go running, I can recommend a Garmin or Polar watch.
>>76661713Couldn't you be more aware without the watch?
>>76660944Are there any watches that can track blood pressure?Is such a thing even possible?I wonder if doctors would accept that result instead of the "holter" which I have now done twice in my life and is hell.
>>76662018FitBit's and Samsung's do however they are fairly inaccurate and guessing based off a few sensors. It's "close enough" for the most part.
>>76660984>My pick is Amazfit watches.>>76661287>Seconded. I have an amazfit active 2Mine sucked and I bet you're shills.Weirdly, nothing with an optical sensor (all of them) tracks hr well when lifting weights. Get a chest strap or just measure it with your finger.
>>76660944Rolex
>>76661981No
>>76660984damn would probably do that but i do love having the stronglifts app on my apple watch
>>76661710been cardiofagging for the last two months and my HRV is higher than the rest of the year
>>76661129Ive found that the calories are very accurate so long as you divide them by 3 lol. They massively overshoot but its consistently 3 times over so just mentally divide by 3 and bam.
>>76662080>rolex>bixby
>>76662449That still seems like too much, I'm only at 5500 steps today and with zero other exercise it's reading 24xx. Divide by 3 for 8xx? don't think so, probably quite a bit less than that
I got a garmin watch cheap secondhand and it really motivated to increase those cardio seshes its fun to see all the stats afterwards
garminshitbits self destructI went back to regular watches after being sick of having to activate the thing on my wrist to see the time and charging and lately the only thing I'm interested in is resting hr so I wear my garmin to sleep
>>76662938idk, works on my machine. just tilt up and it shows the time
>>76662938>shitbits self destructMine did just this. Pretty annoyed to be honest. Then they got bought out by google anyway so was kinda a blessing. Got my eye on a runout garmin which I may pull the trigger on this weekend.
kinda miss the days where I'd just time my runs with my g-shock and keep track of times on a piece of paper stuck to the back of my front door.
>>76660944>Maybe a casio under 50€?Fuck those smarthwatches and buy a Casio (picrel):- Fucking big visor, legibility 10/10.- 10 years batery + 10 bar.- Full time + calendar until 2099, chronograph + spilt time, timer + auto repeat (good for gym) + 5 alarms (with dates) + dual time.- Cheap as fuck.Stop being gay.
>>76663317I don't think anyone gets a smartwatch because they need to know the time/have a stopwatch/alarm clock/interval timer since the phone does all those things immaculately. Watches at this point are just accessories unless they offer something above and beyond those functionalities.
>>76662050Nah, I'm using garmin vivosmart 4 for like 3 years now, but it started to have the strap bulge and the screen can no longer seen in daylight, thought I would try those newfangled health strap/band hence the helio strap. There are those smart rings too and shit can get cheap as hell but you dont wanna be wearing rings doing lifts, shit might get caught. Try to put on the other wrist, bicep or part of your arm the sensor facing to get better reading.
>>76663100i hate that I have to tilt when I could just glanceI just found out about hybrids though, considering one now (screen + analog watch)>>76663160charge 5? mine was
>>76663317better for sprinting because your intervals kinda have to be second-exact than some jittery laggy gps trace mess
>>76663603Charge 3. First I lost the vibration feature, then then the screen just got duller and duller to the point it was unusable.
>>76663766mine did that too but i also had it for three or four years
