Forerunner 55

Garmin Forerunner 55 or 165 will do exactly what you need! Honestly I think the whole subscription thing is being a bit blown out of proportion for those of us who stick to the lower price point watches like myself. I have the 165 and it’s phenomenal. Waterproof and has physical buttons so you don’t

I moved to a Forerunner 265. Mainly because the GPS on my Charge 5 was so unreliable - at best it worked 25% of the time. Garmin GPS has been extremely accurate and 100% reliable in one month of post-Christmas use. I bet the Forerunner 55 would be the same.

I am brown and need a way to let my emergency contacts know if I’m detained when I’m living my life every day. I want to be able to yell at Siri to enact emergency plan. For protests I might leave it and only do Apple tag so contacts know where I’m detained. If you're going to be an active participa

A Garmin Forerunner 55 is a decent cheap smart watch costing around $150 US. No watch is really going to handle skydrol so you have to rinse it off with IPA if it gets contaminated. By smart I mean that is is good enough to stay connected via bluetooth without any hassle and show you texts/incoming

Polar H10 chest strap is the gold standard for accuracy and runs around $80-90. Works with most watches and apps via Bluetooth and ANT+ If you want wrist-based, Garmin Forerunner 55 or Coros Pace 2 are solid budget GPS watches with decent optical HR. Chest straps are still more accurate for zone tra

My garmin forerunner 55 doesn’t automatically end the workout. It says workout finished but the clock keeps going until I press stop. Just the other day I purposely went .25 over and it recorded 3 miles instead of the prescribed 2.75

How about a suggestion slightly at a tangent? Forerunner 55 - the cheapest, most basic running watch Garmin do. I have it and love it. It records all my runs with full GPS and heart rate data, controls the music coming from my phone, integrates with Strava, has basic smart watch usefulness and the b

Not an expert, but I'd recommend the following: Start super slow, like jogging but barely faster than a fast walk. Do that for a minute or two, if it feels really easy speed up a tiny bit. Keep doing that until you reach a point where it feels like "this feels like some effort but I could keep doing

Before you switch make sure you export all your historical data from Fitbit. The API lets you pull everything going back years but once you delete your account its gone. I learned this the hard way when I was considering switching. Garmin has better GPS accuracy from what Ive heard and their API is

for $200 and keeping your whoop, the garmin forerunner 55 or 265 are the obvious choices. gps, hr, pace, lap, all there. but i'd actually push back slightly — if you're 5 years into whoop and love the health metrics, the real thing you're missing isn't a second device. its teh integration between th