Fitness Watches Advice
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I have a Garmin Forerunner 235 and i love it.
The watch itself looks good, and has heaps of functionality (as well as a lot of apps written for it) but the Garmin Connect app is a great way of tracking everything (helped by the fact i also have a Garmin bike computer).
The only thing with my model is it isn't designed for swimming, making it next to useless in tracking my swimming distances in the pool (not too bad in open water though, GPS is pretty accurate). If i keep this triathlon thing up i will have to upgrade.
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@mariner4life said in Fitness Watches Advice:
I have a Garmin Forerunner 235 and i love it.
The watch itself looks good, and has heaps of functionality (as well as a lot of apps written for it) but the Garmin Connect app is a great way of tracking everything (helped by the fact i also have a Garmin bike computer).
The only thing with my model is it isn't designed for swimming, making it next to useless in tracking my swimming distances in the pool (not too bad in open water though, GPS is pretty accurate). If i keep this triathlon thing up i will have to upgrade.
How long until your first Tri?
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@mariner4life said in Fitness Watches Advice:
@hooroo two weeks ago
I thought you had already done but can't remember the facebook posts around it
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So it seems if you’re a 40 year old past it triathlete you need a watch to track your swimming?
Watch Michael Phelps or any top swimmer in the world, in fact any half decent swimmer at the local pool. None of them wear gay watches, they use the timing clocks at the pool to train.
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@sammyc said in Fitness Watches Advice:
So it seems if you’re a 40 year old past it triathlete you need a watch to track your swimming?
Watch Michael Phelps or any top swimmer in the world, in fact any half decent swimmer at the local pool. None of them wear gay watches, they use the timing clocks at the pool to train.
I'm too fucking tired to read the clock properly. Plus when you swim as slow as i do, you don't know how many times it has gone around before you get to the other end...
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@sammyc said in Fitness Watches Advice:
So it seems if you’re a 40 year old past it triathlete you need a watch to track your swimming?
Watch Michael Phelps or any top swimmer in the world, in fact any half decent swimmer at the local pool. None of them wear gay watches, they use the timing clocks at the pool to train.
It's not as annoying a big fat people wearing Lycra while sipping lattes at cafes though.
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@sammyc said in Fitness Watches Advice:
So it seems if you’re a 40 year old past it triathlete you need a watch to track your swimming?
Watch Michael Phelps or any top swimmer in the world, in fact any half decent swimmer at the local pool. None of them wear gay watches, they use the timing clocks at the pool to train.
It's not about that for me. It's for ease of tracking. I'm hopeless at keeping laps in my head and I certainly don't check clock every lap.
What I like about this sort of thing is it maps your lap times and gives fastest/slowest etc and where you were most consistent.
I like things like that.
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@hooroo said in Fitness Watches Advice:
@sammyc said in Fitness Watches Advice:
So it seems if you’re a 40 year old past it triathlete you need a watch to track your swimming?
Watch Michael Phelps or any top swimmer in the world, in fact any half decent swimmer at the local pool. None of them wear gay watches, they use the timing clocks at the pool to train.
It's not about that for me. It's for ease of tracking. I'm hopeless at keeping laps in my head and I certainly don't check clock every lap.
What I like about this sort of thing is it maps your lap times and gives fastest/slowest etc and where you were most consistent.
I like things like that.
you have to remember, unlike many of us, @SammyC can actually swim, so this sort of stuff is a foreign language to him
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@mariner4life said in Fitness Watches Advice:
@hooroo said in Fitness Watches Advice:
@sammyc said in Fitness Watches Advice:
So it seems if you’re a 40 year old past it triathlete you need a watch to track your swimming?
Watch Michael Phelps or any top swimmer in the world, in fact any half decent swimmer at the local pool. None of them wear gay watches, they use the timing clocks at the pool to train.
It's not about that for me. It's for ease of tracking. I'm hopeless at keeping laps in my head and I certainly don't check clock every lap.
What I like about this sort of thing is it maps your lap times and gives fastest/slowest etc and where you were most consistent.
I like things like that.
you have to remember, unlike many of us, @SammyC can actually swim, so this sort of stuff is a foreign language to him
I can swim too. Just not fast or aesthetically pleasing to the eye....
I did a five k mountain run last week up the Bay of Islands and was suprised at the results on my mates watch. My uphill climbs were close to downhill and my average pace was better than expected too.
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@taniwharugby said in Fitness Watches Advice:
@hooroo where did you end up, Cape Brett walk? Cruising round you woulda seen some of the islands you need to swim between, when I was there over easter I was trying to recall which islands that event you posted swam to...
Not sure mate. It was a forestry track thing, very near Wharau Road which was where the bach is.
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@hooroo you woulda known if you did the Cape Brett, most usually hike in and stay in the DOC hut.
looks like Wharau Road is over the other side of the 'Bay' Kerikeri end, so unlikely you woulda gone to Cape Brett for a walk.
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@Kirwan Got the series 3 Apple watch and I must say that it has exceeded expectations. I love it.
So much easier for quick texting and calling (in the right place and certainly not in public)
All the gimmicks seem to work well and it is handy for distance finding in Golf too
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@hooroo said in Fitness Watches Advice:
@Kirwan Got the series 3 Apple watch and I must say that it has exceeded expectations. I love it.
So much easier for quick texting and calling (in the right place and certainly not in public)
All the gimmicks seem to work well and it is handy for distance finding in Golf too
Glad you like it. I’ve worn mine every day since I got it.
Very handy for chucking in a quick reminder too.
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Wife gave me the Garmin Vivioactive 3 for my Birthday.
I've previously used the Apple Watch 2 and at first, I was somewhat disappointed and thought it was a bit of step down. But one you get passed the screen technology (which is obviously far superior in Apple), the Garmin is much more comprehensive and motivating.
The Connect App is brilliant, and does so much for you. I've just started the weight loss part of my overall program to do the London marathon next year and will be using it for logging a number of different things.
Handy too, that the Connect runs synch with the Workout app in the Apple software so I can continue to monitor my YTD progress on runs!