Originally posted by pink
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I really like the Apple Watch and not just for fitness. It's a quality piece of hardware, robust, difficult to scratch and feels nice to wear.
I'm not an amateur athlete so my needs may be different from others. I'm interested in improving my fitness, recording gym session, improving walking speed (I walk the dogs for two hours a day) and monitoring my heart rate. I also use a home bike.
I work from home and sit in front of a PC most of the day so I want to increase my activity. The Apple Watch takes a different approach from fitbit, fitbit is focused on increasing activity by monitoring steps.
Apple has a focus on activity, so if you walk it counts as activity, if you cycle is counts towards activity. You can also see a break down between calories burnt through activity and what you would normally use by just existing.
With the fitbit I was too focused on winning challenges and increasing steps. Cycling did not count towards steps, same for weight lifting. So I think Apple give you a more rounded view of your activity.
The Apple app is pretty good but you can't view your stats on a website. You can export the information if you want but it's not something that you get out of the box.
The heart rate monitor and gps are fine. The heart rate information is presented really well and it's useful to see how exercise over time impacts this. I also record my weight using wifi scales and manually record my blood pressure. Using the health app again you can see the correlation between exercise, bp, heart rate etc.
I’m writing war and peace, so if there is anything specific you want to know then let me know.
Apple Watch is better than Fitbit in my opinion.
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