Review on 🏋️ Renewed Garmin Vívoactive HR GPS Smart Watch: Black, Regular Fit - Get Fit, Stay Active! by Trevor Bannister

First of all I would like to say that it probably looks bigger in the picture than it actually is. It never felt big or chunky to me, but it won't be as thin as a watch without a heart-rate sensor (the addition of a sensor gives the case a decent amount of depth). It's pretty light and comfortable to wear for long periods of time. But it's not particularly pretty. The obvious competitor to this is the various models in the Fitbit line, and it does a few things better than I like. Primarily I bought this to keep track of workout intensity and heart rate workouts, and to try and behave when I'm running out of control and walking around the BitHR monitor - pretty accurately during workouts, if it is worn a little tight. It pairs fairly easily with a chest strap, but it follows closely enough that it doesn't seem like a big deal. The chest strap is more resilient when it comes to tracking sudden heart rate changes like the start of a sprint or a cool down, but the watch seems to settle in fairly quickly and seems more than serviceable on its own. rare in this watch. You can track your entire run, bike or whatever without having your phone with you as it doesn't need paired GPS and will sync when you bring it closer to your phone. When you view a session on your phone, you get a map with details of your path, elevation, pace, etc. The watch reads the GPS-calculated pace in real-time, which helps me a lot to be more consistent. Apps - There's a ton of extra stuff to put on if you want, watch faces, different trackers, etc. There's a lot of customization options, and the screen size means there's a lot of useful options. The watch is extremely customisable, there are a number of predefined training modes which basically allow the watch to track heart rate a lot more often and use GPS (you can turn both settings off) or you can define your own. All of them are registered on separate pages in the application, and you can view a decent amount of information just on the watch itself. If you don't want to do everything through your phone, this is definitely a more independent watch. He also makes a golf swing! I've never tried it but it just sounds cool and I will at some point. Some potential downsides - The screen is fairly low resolution and running some of the very busy watch faces makes the clock noticeably slower to switch from the main screen. Garmin does this to save battery life, and it really does, but if you want a nice display, you might want to look elsewhere. It's extremely functional, but ugly. Most reviewers also seem to prefer the Fitbit app, I haven't personally used it but I like it better, I think if anything there are just a ton of options that can be more inconvenient. it's probably better to reach them. Connect gives a lot of information and telemetry, which is basically what I need.