| Sports watch 15:56 - Mar 27 with 1699 views | PrideOfTheEast |
Hi All,
Any recommendations? Ideally I'd like to be able to track heart rate, blood pressure and potentially body fat percentage.
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| Sports watch on 16:00 - Mar 27 with 1673 views | NewcyBlue |
A sports watch won’t accurately track BF%
A sports watch won’t accurately measure BP
A sports watch won’t accurately measure heart rate, they vary from watch to watch depending on the sensor they use.
For BF% just buy a decent set of scales that measure this. The number won’t matter as much as the tendency e.g. numbers going up or down.
Heart rate, the top end watches have better sensors.
Blood pressure, this can only accurately be measured with a blood pressure cuff. |  |
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| Sports watch on 16:32 - Mar 27 with 1625 views | Pecker |
Apple watch does most things. |  | | |
| Sports watch on 17:18 - Mar 27 with 1601 views | Mullet |
For body fat get a set of calipers - they're far cheaper and consistent. But your best measure is the mirror. Unless you're measuring something medical or doing bodybuilding comps to get to single digit % it's a bit of a con to focus on it in my opinion.
Loads of decent heart rate monitors which you get a band around the chest and a watch to display and download it. Think mine cost less than £50. |  |
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| Sports watch on 10:53 - Jun 6 with 704 views | unbelievablue |
Did you get anything in the end?
I've got an Apple Watch which has been decent for sleep tracking and movement and HR, but not too much else. |  |
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| Sports watch on 12:41 - Jun 6 with 642 views | PrideOfTheEast |
| Sports watch on 10:53 - Jun 6 by unbelievablue |
Did you get anything in the end?
I've got an Apple Watch which has been decent for sleep tracking and movement and HR, but not too much else. |
Yep I got an Apple Watch too. Does what I need it to do, which is basically track my runs and then I probably wear it once a week or so just to monitor my heart rate generally. | | | |
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