What wearable do you use to track your health/fitness/workouts?

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I'm curious to know what everyone is using (or not as the case may be) to track health and wellbeing along with your fitness and workouts.
  1. What wearable do you use? (Brand/model)
  2. What do you use it for? (workouts, health monitoring, sleep tracking, nav when hiking, etc)
  3. What do you like about it?
  4. What do you dislike or would change about it?
  5. Do you think it makes a tangible difference to your health and fitness?
 
I'll go first...

1. Garmin Fenix 6 Pro/Sapphire
2. Pretty much wear it 24/7 except for showering/very occasional charging. Track daily health, all workouts (mainly tennis and the Wattbike), sleep tracking and I have used it when hiking to keep me on track.
3. The battery life. Durability/ruggedness. No subscription needed for any of the features. I really like the body battery and the training status functionality, helps me plan my workout sessions and how hard I push. Also really like that it pairs with my Wattbike and Concept2 Rower and pulls metrics like power and cadence. I really like the amount of data I get from wearing and using the watch, and that I can use both the mobile app and the web apps to view and analyse that data. I also like the fact that Garmin appear to support and release new features for their devices for a good amount of time.
4. The optical heart rate sensor is Garmin's 'last gen' sensor, and it shows. Its decent enough but for anything really 'dynamic' you need to use a chest strap. GPS accuracy is solid but convinced its not quite as good in very built up areas as my Apple Watch Series 4 that I had previously. It's a fairly chunky device, but then you are getting a lot in that shell.
5. Yes I think so. I've a tendency to either undertrain or completely overtrain and burn out, so this has definitely helped me maintain a better balance.
 
Martynt74 said:
do you guys really find they add much more than the likes of Garmin offer from a recovery/monitoring point of view
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No, I tried the Whoop (3.0) band and found it less accurate than my Fenix 6 (and then Epix 2) due to the really poor HR tracking. That may have improved since of course with the new one. I'm not really a fan of subscription services for this stuff either, feels like your health data is then held behind a bit of a paywall if you ever decided to stop.
 
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