This is a technical rabbit hole post, which ultimately ends up blaming not one, but all three of my young daughters for my Garmin watch woes. Hope you enjoy! Next week will mark a year since Garmin introduced Endurance Score ontheir Epix Pro&Fenix 7 Proproducts. Since then they’veexpande...
The Apple Watch will monitor this automatically, and unlike Garmin and other wearables, you don’t necessarily need to complete a GPS-tracked workout for it to work. Apple can actually estimate lower VO2 Max levels than rivals, as it looks to use its Cardio Fitness Score to motivate people...
According to the study, the Apple Watch tended to overestimate energy expenditure, while the Polar watch underestimated the numbers. Garmin Connect, Strava, and other training apps might be a bit better, but they’re not perfect either, and the number they give you depends heavily on the ...
Some fitness bands and smartwatches that measure resting and exercise heart rates have fitness tests and scores built in. For example,Fitbit models with heart ratemonitoring give a cardio fitness score. Garmin GPS sports watches and other fitness bands will report VO2 max. You can do a three-...
Signup only takes a few minutes, and the platform offers a 30-day money back guarantee. The biggest time suck is just syncing your various devices (Garmin, Wahoo, Apple Watch,smart trainer,power meter, etc) to the app. Once you have yourtraining plan, it’s time to get to work. (FY...
Tied this with my Garmin Forerunner (ANT) and it does work, however during cycling it always reads too low. A lot too low. My wife’s watch does the same and a buddy’s Fenix does this as well. During running a is fine, cycling not so much. A full on max effort, heart rate...
In fact, this actually works on any Garmin watch that supports Connect IQ Data Fields (so, that would include something like a Forerunner 230/235 series). To be clear upfront, while this solution does very much work and thousands of people have used it – it’s not perfect. The ...