It falls just short of 24 hour tracking for a full week, but the looks and other features seem to be close to your needs.
Scratch the top one, that one doesn’t have it’s own GPS built-in, just realized that sorry.
Suunto also has the following one, but I am not sure which one is better, I don’t own any of these watches but I am interessed in them once I will be replacing my FR235 (won’t be anytime soon):
Bit of a bump but I’m so pissed at my Fitbit Ionic I was going to start my own thread…
I bought it with tracking/improving sleep, better quantify recovery and foolishly thought I could use it to track HR on the bike. Along with multiple glitches and inability to sync from time to time for no apparent reason and the fact it doesn’t auto update timezones (I travel every week) it’s just been a disappointment. Getting help to solve issues has been hit and miss as well.
Today was the last straw. Doing VO2 work the HR would drop every single interval then pick it back up during the recovery phase. All I wanted to see was my HR towards the end of each interval and set to assess effort. Nope.
I even tried to sell it for 1/3rd the price I bought it for and not a hint of a nibble. I’d give it 1 star out of 5.
I’m happy with my Fitbit Blaze, but I’m upgrading to a Garmin Fenix 5+ if Santa obliges. The Fitbit is too closed an ecosystem, and if you’re not moving and generating GPS data, the files it exports are empty and so of no use for indoor training. Plus I don’t really believe the outer part of the wrist is the best place to get a heart rate signal.
I intend to use a chest HR monitor and link it to the Fenix when I’m on the bike or doing serious training, and use use the wrist-based optical measurement for daily walkabouts etc, where the accuracy seems fine. Plus, Garmin Connect is a much better platform that the Fitbit dashboard. YMMV of course. I’ll report back on whether the Fenix lives up the the promise
I have worn Apple Watch since it was introduced three an half years ago (?). I could not live without it anymore. But it definitely isn’t a sports watch, like a Garmin. It is just a very nice activity tracker.
Same and agree. The latest series 4 has best-in-class smartwatch, optical HRM, HRV, and EKG is vaguely interesting and lets see where that goes if app developers are given access. But it does require an iPhone. If I was a triathlete then my goal would be to buy a Garmin 935.
Interested in the Apple Watch 4. I didn’t realize it charged in 10-15 minutes. Can any Apple 4 users share your experience using sleep tracking and HRV as useful recovery tools? (HRV in particular). Masters athlete so staying on top of recovery is paramount. I’m wondering how other A4 users are using HRV and sleep monitoring as a tool. Is the data and/or apps proving useful?
I’ve been running a garmin vivoactive HR for a year with no issues, and I wear it 24/7. It lasts at least a week between charges
It tracks my sleep and all day HR, has gps and ant+ so I can use it for activity tracking, plus lots of other cool things such as phone notifications, music controls etc.
I’m a garmin user on the bike so it made sense to stay with that, I’ve just got a garmin scale as well and like how I have one app for everything
Do you find that the breathe app is sort of inconsistent in when it actually records HRV? I often have to do 1-3 sessions in the morning before HRV shows up in the health app (and the first readings don’t show up later either). Have you noticed anything that affects this? I usually do 1 minute sessions.
I agree, @bbarrera , that is my experience as well, however, my wife has a series 2 and I think I know what you mean, if you use the breathe app, it doesn’t always sync right away, if however you open your Health app on the phone, it syncs right then. So if it doesn’t appear, try opening health first, just to trigger the sync.
If I use Breathe on watch, and then immediately open HRV4Training on my iPhone, there is no HRV value available for HRV4Training. I have to open Health app to trigger the sync between watch and Health.
i have bought Fitbit Charge 3 and Fitbit Versa for myself and my girl friend. Me and my girl friend both love using Fitbit so I would recommend you to go for the best Fitbit.
