Are fitness watches useful if you’re not a cardio fag? I’m a regular powerbuilding retard. If they are, which ones are good?
Nah, just wear your rolex/omega/AP/PatekOnly npcs wear smartwatches
>>77331006>powerbuilding
>>77331006Smart watches are useless for powershitters because they can't detect heart attacks.
>>77331006you can track your workout with them and get autistic about all of it. I started doing it with my garmin but it just became too tedious and not worth doing. Also, don't wear an expensive luxury watch to the gym like >>77331014 said. Pick up a gshock or something like that.
>>77331006no
No. But you should consider getting one and becoming a cardiofag. You will never deadlift 7pl8.
>>77331006The problem with them is that they are basically just a neat toy that you will likely use for a week and then forget it exists and just use it as a normal watch.But some people DO use it everyday because they track everything obsessively. Are you one of those people? Probably not.
>>77331006>>77331111I do both gym and cardio and I track it with a Garmin. Garmin is kind of expensive but it works well. I can't be bothered to record every single set and exercise, so I just press start and stop during gym sessions so it just records one long session. But it's useful to track time for rest between sets and I usually leave my phone in the locker so I'm not glued to the screen even in the gym.
i am considering getting one to monitor sleep , activity, steps, and like regular health monitoring
>>77331006They're the most useful for people with really inconsistent tdees.Probably the least useful for lifters who are otherwise sedentary.
No.Technically tracking your weekly Zone 1 activity is a good metric, but its useless if you already are doing SOME exercise.Similarly the sleep tracking on some of the high end is decent, but you still need to know what normal and good sleep is, and then be able to read and decipter the graphs if you want to test.
>>77331006i like them to use as a stopwatch and a sleep trackerim thinking of getting an apple watch so i can leave my phone in the car when at the gym
>>77331797i have insomnia and bizarre sleep and activity schedule its impossible to track
>>77331006I have a Garmin Forerunner 265S. It's basically the best value/money (especially since I bought it with like 70€ off on Black Friday). Things I like about it:- Tracks my calorie expenditure. I think it overestimates it, but not by as much as you'd expect; you can get a really decent estimate if you track your macros obsessively for like a month and cross match. In my case, if I'm on a cut, my rule is that the actual expenditure is ~75% of what the watch tells me.- They help track your sets/reps at the gym. It auto-detects reps and the exercise you're doing but I find those don't work very well so I turned off the automatic features and input it myself after every set.- Really helpful for keeping track of your rest times.- HR monitor is a bit hit-or-miss sometimes but it's correct more often than I thought (I cross matched by taking my pulse manually via my carotid). For what it's worth, I'm one of those people with a weak wrist pulse. Also tells you your HR zones.- If you also use it for cycling, it tracks your routes with a little map. It's cute, I like it. Requires being paired to your phone.- The app has badges/achievements. I don't care about them much but they're cute.- The sleep tracker is cool.- Has regular watch features: stopwatch, alarms, timers.- Also has a thing where it lets you save GPS coordinates of wherever you are, as well as a barometer/altimeter/etc. Weather forecast + incoming storm detection. Cyclingfag stuff.- Also counts steps.- Oh, it also lets you track your gear. I have my bike registered on the app so whenever I go for a ride it tallies up my km and logs it under my bike. It's fun to see how many km I've done on it over time.Overall I'm happier with it than I expected. I'd buy it again if it broke. I'm also a gay man by the way.
>>77331807its $350not 70
>>77331814Yes but I bought it for like 280€
>>77331816oh i misread it, 70$ off not 70$ total my bad
>>77331806I don't think it'll help much unless you use it to actually say "no" to lifting too much when your hrv and sleep is in the gutter.I used mine something similar.>gutters stats>HIT fullbody no pause sets no just one more just hit it and quit it>light cardio use the watch to make sure I don't go over 75% maxsafehr>wait for stats to improve>then go back to longer or more intense workoutsIt's hard to resist the temptation of another set and you tell yourself quantitativly it doesn't matter. But if your ass isn't in the shape to cash the check you're writing it won't help.
>>77331818np it happens
>>77331006every time I buy a new watch I think it's the greatest thing ever and I use it for week never taking it off and tracking my sleep and all that shit. then after a week the novelty wears off and I literally only use it for running. so if you run regularly then it's worth it. and just get the cheapest basic one from garmin or whatever
>>77331006>Not a cardio fagNeither was I, until I bought a watch and a pair of running shoes.Now I'm a "runner who lifts", not even a "lifter who runs".Try it out, cardio is fun as fuck. It's quality time outside by yourself with nobody but your inner monologue. I produce some of my clearest thoughts on 2hr long runs at 5am.
>just get the cheapest basic one from garmin or whateverIronically this (Forerunner 55) is one of the best ones for sleep tracking, because it doesn't have a touchscreen so it won't accidentally turn on in the middle of the night. My vivoactive 5 has a super bright OLED and a touch screen, so it gets a bit annoying at night. I still sleep with it every night though, because the data is just too good.>>77331819>75% maxsafehrIt's not "max safe HR". If you run at your max HR for too long then you'll just involuntarily slow down, your heart won't explode or anything.>t. Regularly hits 103% of my calculated "maximum" during interval sessions
my experience with garmin is that they're very unreliable with data they provide to the point I don't want to use them anymore. for example they're happy to show you stale weather data on the watch face if they failed to sync so you can never trust what's there. the HR algos are jeet tier, for example with certain activities like treadmill they have hard coded cap on hr, if you go above they just slice that in half. same thing happens when you don't start any activity, the watch thinks your high hr on a random walk is a fluke so it displays half of it. all of this is unacceptable for an autist like me. what a shame they fucked up a good hardware with poor programming
>>77332006I'm not saying I stand by max safe hr meaning what its namesake implies. Just using it as measure of intensity. Lot of these watches will calculate a custom one based on your heart rate in other states to give you something better than 220-your age in years.
>>77331006I’m an Apple guy and so I have an Apple Watch In the weight room it’s only really useful for setting intervals so you can track your rests easilyI use mine for sleep tracking because I’m middle aged with Sleep++That’s about it for your use cases
>>77331006I feel like it helps me be more consistent when I can track progress. It also feels good to physically check how much work I put in
>>77331006I coded myself a 4chan app so I can waste time on /fit/ and /g/ even on the shitter, so I would say moderately useful.
>>77333807that is one of the cringiest things i have ever seen on this site
>>77333807this is one of the basedest things I have ever seen on this site
>>77333807Can it play doom?
>>77331006Garmins help you track sleep too and regardless doing some cardio is good for your health>>77331105kek
>>77334006>some cardio is good for your healthProofs?
for lifting just get a cheap band to track your heartrate and your training time, the fancy watches are mostly tailored towards cardio activities and gps tracking>>77331014>complains about NPCs>recommends the most popular luxury watch brands>>77334431https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.125.325526
for non-cardio fitness not terribly sleep tracking is a game changer though
I have an apple watch, most of the fitness value comes from the sleep tracking, but I also use it to measure my TDEE so I can get my calories right on workout and rest days.I run a linear regression on my weight measurements and they're always in good agreement with my caloric intake, so it must be pretty accurate.
Garmin instinct 2 is cheap and does sleep tracking, heart rate, has a timer and a bunch of other gay shit I dont use. Use timer between sets, track heart rate on the treadmill, track sleep and HRV each morning. Stays charged forever because its not some queer smart screen crap. Best smartwatch.
>>77334533>>77334528How do you use sleep tracking?
>>77334600sadly the current trend for manufacturers is to gradually veer towards AMOLED shit because apparently fags don't care about wearing a watch that's just a black screen 99% of the time
I use my gmt master 2. Get on my level
>>77334616Nice one but i mog.At least you're aren't wearing a fagwatch to "track sleep" like npcs itt kek
>>77334682This DYEL faggot doesnt understand sleep is the most important aspect of training. NGMI skinny wrist manlet.
>>77334698>sleepJust lie down and close your eyes nigga lmaooo
>>77334616Niggas buy a gmt watch and than never go anywhere lmao retards
>>77334818GMTs aren't for traveling lmao, you can just adjust your watch on a plane.GMT are when you need to know two time zones simultaneously, usually in business situations.
They're good if you do cluster/timed sets/etc. Otherwise useless.
>>77334698I drink an espresso and fall asleep an hour later, at night. This is how you sleepmaxx.
>>77333807this is one of the thingest things ive ever seen on this thing
