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Heart rate zones (HR Zones) When you first buy a watch, most of us leave every manufacturer setting as it is and just go running. Those defaults aren’t necessarily right for your body, though, and heart rate is where that shows up most. On my Suunto Race S, the Default HR Zones put the bottom
Garmin smartwatches log your time and distance in the pool, and they also give you SWOLF, a score for how efficient each length was. I think it’s one of the more interesting numbers on the watch if you’re working on technique. It ties your speed to your stroke count, so it doesn’t just nag you
I just took a Garmin Fenix 9 on a two day, one night trek through a forest route, and the navigation on it genuinely surprised me. Out there with no phone signal, having detailed offline maps and multi-band GPS on my wrist was my lifeline. What do offline maps actually give you deep in the
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Tech forums have been going back and forth lately about how well the Garmin Fenix 9 Pro actually tracks your health. I wear this stuff every day, so I couldn’t leave it alone. Are the numbers worth trusting? Here’s what I found. How accurate are the Garmin Fenix 9 Pro’s readings in real use The
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Garmin Approach S72 Watch is a new golf GPS watch built around data and analysis while you play. The notable bits: biometric tracking, swing analysis read straight off the wrist, and green reading. The Approach S72 Watch comes in 43 mm and 47 mm, with an AMOLED display, a titanium bezel, a sapphire lens and
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Wearing a smartwatch around the office or reading its spec sheet on paper is familiar ground for all of us by now. This time I wanted a change, so I took the Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 straight out into real terrain. The place I picked for this test was the trail running route at mountain.
I spent nearly ten minutes hunting for the setting that changes what the buttons do on the Galaxy Watch Ultra 2. It isn’t where you’d expect. The change itself takes a minute, so if you’re poking around this smartwatch looking for it, here’s where it lives. Which buttons you can customize The Samsung Galaxy Watch
One feature I was curious about when I picked up the Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 was the 86 dB emergency siren. The number on its own tells you very little about how loud that is, so I set it off in a few different places to see whether it’s useful and how far it
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The Race S isn’t a new Suunto release anymore, but it’s one of the best-looking, best-built watches the company has made. Since the Race, Suunto has also reworked a lot of how it approaches products, and you don’t see numbered Suunto lines anymore. The Race S is a lighter, more compact version of the Race.
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What everyone asks about the Fenix 9 Pro is the screen, and what they mean is brightness. In direct sun the pace field and the map stay readable, which was not true of the last one. The questions I still had after a few weeks were whether it holds up in every light and what