Hello, I had a Garmin vivoactive 3 for a couple of years - now it is broken. It was my daily watch and I used it for running. Now I look for a replacement. I checked Garmin, since I use an Edge and basically Garmin connect as my main platform. After testing OLED Garmins, I would only consider the …

Hey Elma, I had a series 3 LTE and loved it for a while. I ran with it a lot and streamed music (apple only at the time). Biggest fault that caused me to switch to Garmin was the battery life. I use a bike computer for cycling metrics, so I was not too concerned with tracking from the watch. I got …

[image] JayJayAre1992: series 3 LTE and loved it for a while. I ran with it a lot and streamed music (apple only at the time). Biggest fault that caused me to switch to Garmin was the battery life. Fwiw, Apple Watch battery life has improved greatly in recent years. I have an SE and never ru…

Having had an apple watch when they were newish and moved to Garmin as an athlete I would never go back.

I was wondering the same apple watch or Garmin. I tried to only use my watch for running laste week and set it up with strava and loaded music onto it so didnt have to have my phone and it worked great. The Apple Watch Ultra looks good and has a longer battery life and Apple are getting into the sp…

[image] WindWarrior: I’ve also enabled higher frequency HRV sampling and feed that along with sleep and workouts into phone apps Can you share what you did to enable the higher frequency HRV sampling?

I’m looking at Apple watch. I thought you enable afib history if you have a known history of afib and the watch then won’t bother you with notifications when it detects it. If you didn’t have the history, you’d be suppressing notifications you would probably want to see ? (If it happened to detect …

Every Monday morning I get a notification that it detected 2% or less AFib for the previous week.

Thanks. I went and read a bit more about it.

Wow, thank you for all the answers. I will get specifically back to you. In general: I have an Edge 830 for cycling, which is perfect for me. So the watch would be possibly daily usage (not immensely important, but I would definitely like all the metrics from Garmin) and running / hiking etc (lik…

Should I get a Garmin Forerunner as a Cyclist for the purpose of running and daily usage? Or am I better off with an Apple Watch?

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WindWarrior August 3, 2023, 3:45am 12

In your phone pull up the Watch app. Scroll down to Heart and enable AFib History.

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Should I get a Garmin Forerunner as a Cyclist for the purpose of running and daily usage? Or am I better off with an Apple Watch?

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