Fitness Watches Advice
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@MN5 the fact you talk about yourself in the 3rd person means you are a twat!
Currently I only have a GPS watch to track my runs, aside form telling the time, it doesn't do anything else...but then phone does all that and more now too, although putting my phone in my pocket while swimming is a nuisance...
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@taniwharugby said in Fitness Watches Advice:
@MN5 the fact you talk about yourself in the 3rd person means you are a twat!
Currently I only have a GPS watch to track my runs, aside form telling the time, it doesn't do anything else...but then phone does all that and more now too, although putting my phone in my pocket while swimming is a nuisance...
Lennox Lewis did it better I must admit
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@hooroo said in Fitness Watches Advice:
I've seen a few good news stories on site where the guys have lost weight just through being able to more accurately track what they are doing and knowing if they haven't done their quota of exercise etc
Yep, it’s very good at nagging. I find the reminders very useful as well.
Would recommend you turn off all app notifications and then turn on the ones you want. If you get too many you stop paying attention.
I use mine to automatically log into my mac as well.
If your experience is like mine, you’ll find the battery on your iPhone will last longer as you don’t need to check it all the time for notifications or the time.
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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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@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...
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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.
