New Garmin smartwatch - Vivoactive HR

fubar925

Fitbit are not continuous I was lead to believe. The garmin vivoactive is and will measure between 1-5 mins depending if you are doing an activity..

Jazz Monkey Jr

It can be random depending on movement I believe.
                                                                       

Warnie

Hi guys,

I've just finished a session in the gym and thought I'd test out if the Garmin would recognise  the fact I was doing a few events. I walked on the treadmill for 15 minutes and it didn't recognise it. I then moved on to the cross trainer and did that for 15 minutes and that hasn't registered as an event either.

Am i expecting too much and it simply doesn't do this and I have to click on Indoor Walk and Cross trainer. Actually just checked on the watch and I was surprised to see Elliptical/Cross Trainer function not listed so maybe that's why it hasn't registered.

Has anyone else added Cross Trainer?

thanks for any helps.

Jazz Monkey Jr

Mine saw elliptical the other day and I hadn't been on one. It did recognise a walk automatically though. I would start it manually as will monitor HR and work out calories more accurately.

fubar925

Mine has seen elliptical twice now on warm ups... So far been ok.. Also Warnie I agree why you can't set elliptical/cross trainer seems weird I have brought it up with garmin and they have passed my feedback on..

Jazz Monkey Jr

Am I going made or are there no tones on the watch?

Jazz Monkey Jr

Charged mine up today for the first time. I think it was 75% when I got it 3 days ago and was on 49%. Took an hour to charge back up to 100% so hopefully good for a week now.

Warnie

I've just checked mine. 100% on Monday and I've just done a run using gps and it is now 56% - as far as I'm concerned that's pretty impressive!!

Warnie

Tested the watch out tonight with a couple of swimming sessions and a sauna! First session was front crawl only and it worked well. Second session was breast stroke and again the watch worked well. it was reactive to swipes, didn't miss a beat and recorded everything accurately. No idea how it does it but it got the lengths bang on. Also tried a few lengths without activating an activity and the watch failed - but I'm beginning to think I have a problem with my watch as no activities are automatically tracked. Impressed with the swimming though.

Jazz Monkey Jr

There is a setting on the app for Move IQ on/off