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I think you may be able to parse Garmin's data manually, but.. why tho. Also Re sleep tracking: there is still no evidence that commercially available fitness wearables are reliable or accurate for sleep tracking. There is some evidence to suggest that fitness wearables can cause or worsen Sleep Anxiety and Orthorexic behaviors. 2019 Study Worried you have a sleep disorder? See a specialist and do a sleep study. Don't get enough sleep? address your sleep hygiene and nighttime routine. feel tired all the time for no reason? again, a doctor would be helpful, because it could be a symptom of something else want an unvalidated wearable metric to make you paranoid about pleasing their sleep algorithm? by all means
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I'm pretty sure just about every smart watch on the market with an optical heart rate sensor allows you to fully disable HR tracking. I know garmin does.
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Necronormiecon posted:I'm completely ignorant on sports wearables: what sort of watch should I get? I recommend an app actually to calculate TDEE rather than a watch. Optical heart rate sensor + bodyweight + duration + a couple proprietary assumptions still doesn't get you very close at all to estimating the energy demands of a specific activity. macrofactor has been a game changer for me. Here's a thorough article about the limitations of wearables and estimating energy expenditure I'm still a fan of sport watches, especially Garmins, for measuring my performance on given activities, which is critical for goal setting and planning training.
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fitnesssyncher has found some good solutions to making health data from a fitness watch more accessible. as far as devices go I would get a used garmin off of facebook marketplace personally
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Garmin Vivofit 4 is another solid option
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it's a pretty mature technology and the new gains on the latest watches are marginal imo. I like garmin because they are reliable, dominate sports watches, and aren't going anywhere. set a budget and get a watch she thinks looks good the hrm, screens, and gps on the venu and vivoactive series are also fine
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Hotel Kpro posted:Let’s say I have a Garmin Instinct and it does what I want it to which is track my hikes and last a long time using GPS mode. There’s really no reason to upgrade is there? I’ve got money to blow at REI and I’m struggling to think of poo poo I need and I’m considering throwing it all at a new watch but it seems like a waste if there’s not much improvement over what I already have. Fellow Germin Instinct (1) haver here. I will eventually upgrade to the Instinct 2X Solar, but I'm holding out for as long as possible. If I had store credit with REI literaly right now I'd use it on actual hiking/bike touring gear personally.
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some Garmin watches have FDA-approved ECG. Here's the list. ECG is also available on Apple Watch series 4 and later, which doesn't help for Android users. Latest model Samsung Galaxy watch also has ECG are you in the US? this feature isn't available in all countries since it is a Medical Device and needs fairly rigorous regulatory approval. unsurprisingly, the FDA seems to be the fastest health authority for approval
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To clarify: You use Sony Linkbuds to listen to podcasts and audiobooks at work, but worry that they are too dorky, so you are looking into Amazon Echo Glasses because you feel they might be less dorky? does no one else at your worksite use earbuds or headphones?
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circular frames can look fantastic. it really depends on proportions, complexion, hair styling, and wardrobe. like these:    vs:    lol beaten on the Roger Stone pic
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Heart rate tracking has improved in the past 6 years, though mostly with new features: modern optical heart rate monitors can measure blood oxygen, heart rate variability, and even do ecocardiograms. The budget "activity trackers" usually don't have those features though. One other thing I'll say about fitbit is that they're owned by Google now, who have a bad habit of abruptly ending support for their side projects.
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Yeah I'm more or less a garmin stan and have been using their watches for longer than Smartphones have been around, when you had to plug it into your computer with a USB cable and read the .fit file on a PC. They're a hardware company, with watches / bike computers / "fitness" products making up less than a quarter of their revenue. They have a huge market share in marine and aviation navigation, and even brought in $559 million in automobile navigation in 2022. My wife is in the Garmin ios app beta test, and it's mostly a redesign of the main landing page, with the activity view & newsfeed remaining the same. But to be honest, aside from maybe not being on the cutting edge of design, I've never fully understood the complaints. Like, Strava is great due to segments and KoMs and route discovery, which I guess garmin could maybe implement, but with fewer users than Strava has access to. What's always been most important to me is being able to review my runs and rides, and having a single ecosystem for my resting heartrate, sleep, relative training load, and bodyweight (since I use a Garmin Index wifi scale). It simplifies aggregating long-term trends, which I consider more important to my health and fitness goals than anything day-to-day.
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