Watches to work out

What’s up Jai,

first off your G-shock looks amazing!

I personally got a Apple smart watch. In order to track my workouts and sleep patterns. I normally double wrist the Apple Watch with either a quartz or a mechanical time piece on the other wrist. I found that the Apple Watch does a fantastic job in indicating, the quality of sleep, heart rate calories burned duration of work out and tracking the route you took for the run really well. But I’m sure other members here can attest to a smart watch and I can probably do the same thing for a more budget friendly price.

Tissot makes something in this space, but honestly, if you really want the fitness and recovery tracking, just do it right and get a Garmin. I gave up and switched from my Whoop strap (which wasn't very good, and I tired of paying a subscription fee) and now wear a Garmin Forerunner 965 on my right wrist and a "real" watch on my left. This is one of the reason why I have no use for "tool" watches. I always have just about the best tool watch on my right wrist. Garmin makes some nice looking (and rather expensive) higher end fitness watches, too. They seem silly to me, since I know I'll likely want to upgrade to a new model every couple of years, but if you don't plan to do that, they might make sense.

I’m with you on the Whoop - what a waste of money. For all the marketing, the data insights weren’t that helpful and I didn’t imagine how annoying it would be to have no screen. Not that accurate on the heart rate either.

I use a Samsung galaxy watch 5 Pro, but I've had Garmin, Fitbit and Suunto also. The Samsung is great if you want all the smartwatch features, as is my wife's Apple watch ultra, but to just track running etc I'd get a cheaper Garmin probably. None of them look like a normal nice watch though. I just work out then immediately remove mine🤣

Just use a pen and small notebook. The less you upload your data online using any watch, the better for your private health info.

https://www.garmin.com/en-US/c/sports-fitness/luxury-smartwatches/

I have no personal experience of the Marq range, though one of the guys at my tri club had one and although it looked OK he had issues with accuracy especially with swimming. May have been a one off though.

Throw a rod in there

To me, the Marq watches are too expensive to make any sense. Technology changes too fast.

I've been on the fence lately if I even want to continue to track everything I do, recovery, etc. I've learned what I need to about my body and training/exercising (and the effects of alcohol on recovery), and I feel like a doofus wearing two "watches". I may go back to just recording my bike rides with the bike computer.

I can agree, I think if you're regularly training you know your own body more than algorithms can predict in terms of recovery etc. I only use it for pace HR and distance so I don't need too much depth.

Yes I use my Apple Watch Ultra to keep an eye on my heart rate and rythm as I have afib. So ultra on my right wrist, mechanical on my left!