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Do you trust your fitness tracker?


dbar123

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My Garmin Vivoactive 3 smartwatch is laughably inaccurate. The heart rate monitor is often off by around 30 beats/min (as verified by taking a manual pulse) and it seems to randomly decide whether my exercise minutes count as intensity minutes or not. When biking I usually use my Polar Veritysense arm band to take over heart rate duty but that monitor has its own stupid issues.

Are you happy with your tracker? I’d hate to upgrade only to find out the current tech is no better.

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Timely post! When I ride I use a Garmin 1030 which syncs with Strava. It’s accurate as hell. When I run, hike or walk I generally use the Strava app on my iPhone, which is also quite accurate. I finally bought an Apple Watch 8 last summer, and it always undercounts my mileage and is useless for my cardio/lifting program which I do every other day. I’ve only worn it a few times and hate it. I never put my gym time on Strava as a result.

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