chellie
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Any thoughts on it at all. Thanks
Garmin Venu® Sq
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Rooter
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Not that specific model, but i am a massive garmin fan boy. By far the best fitness trackers on the market, from the entry level stuff to high end. My kids have forerunners, the wife has a newer forerunner. I have a fenix, use their bike computer too (edge 520)
Their stuff just works, its accurate, well made and well priced. Customer services is also excellent if you ever have any issues.
Their stuff just works, its accurate, well made and well priced. Customer services is also excellent if you ever have any issues.
kandrew
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I have had a venu sq music for about a month. During that limited period, fitness wise all i have done is use it for indoor treadmiil and turbo trainer sessions and the occassional walk/jog when the dogs really dont want to go with me. It appears to give accurate heart rate data, and a reasonable gps track. I wear it 24/7 in turn your wrist to turn on mode and the battery lasts 4-5 days. Most of my more serious workouts i use a polar h10 chest strap and cadence and speed sensors on the turbo trainer which it connects to without a issue.
All the screens for just about everything on the watch are very configurable and I am still optimising what I see in various workouts.
I have yet to test it in golf mode for obvious reasons, but my plan is to use it when I play 9 holes after work rather than the shotscope 3, if its good enough it may displace the shotscope on the weekend but that remains to be seen.
The jury is still out on the usefulness/accuracy of the sleep data/body battery/body stress stuff.
As fitness watch it does the job as you would expect from a garmin product, but a large part of what you are paying for is garmin ecosystem which i have generally found to be good. I have it conencted to myfitnesspal where i track calories and which is also connected to the withings app which talks to my scales all this tracks back into the garmin app.
It does do show all my texts and any other events from my andriod phone i have configured, but that side of is of less interest to me.
The only annoyance I have found so far is constructing my own strength based workouts it appears to limit me to a list of its own built in movements. I believe there are workarounds for this but it has not bothered me enough to investigate yet.
In the interests of full disclosure I got it at 50% off through my company private medical scheme, which put it in the same price range as the higher end amazfit devices. This made purchasing it much easier.
Andrew
All the screens for just about everything on the watch are very configurable and I am still optimising what I see in various workouts.
I have yet to test it in golf mode for obvious reasons, but my plan is to use it when I play 9 holes after work rather than the shotscope 3, if its good enough it may displace the shotscope on the weekend but that remains to be seen.
The jury is still out on the usefulness/accuracy of the sleep data/body battery/body stress stuff.
As fitness watch it does the job as you would expect from a garmin product, but a large part of what you are paying for is garmin ecosystem which i have generally found to be good. I have it conencted to myfitnesspal where i track calories and which is also connected to the withings app which talks to my scales all this tracks back into the garmin app.
It does do show all my texts and any other events from my andriod phone i have configured, but that side of is of less interest to me.
The only annoyance I have found so far is constructing my own strength based workouts it appears to limit me to a list of its own built in movements. I believe there are workarounds for this but it has not bothered me enough to investigate yet.
In the interests of full disclosure I got it at 50% off through my company private medical scheme, which put it in the same price range as the higher end amazfit devices. This made purchasing it much easier.
Andrew
chellie
Tour Winner
Thanks both. Was thinking about it for linking to Nutrachecker and steps. At the moment I'm not getting much more exercise in. Am hoping that the gym I go to will survive all of this and I can get back to it.
Rooter
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Nutracheck integrates to it quite well with Garmin connect, adding calories used etc. (how accurate this is with any wearable is debatable)
chellie
Tour Winner
Oh, I've just seen the Lily watch in purple...
I can also get discount but not 50% sadly.
I can also get discount but not 50% sadly.
Old Skier
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Go via Garmin Customer Services UK direct if you are replacing a current Garmin as they give good discounts at times.
ScienceBoy
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For the Apple Watch peoples download WorkOutDoors...incredible app!
chellie
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Ordered the Garmin Venu® Sq.
