The 9 Best Fitness Watches to Track Your Workouts?
The 9 Best Fitness Watches to Track Your Workouts?
Whether you want a full-blown smart device for an immersive wearable experience or just a fitness-oriented timepiece to record your laps and splits, we've rounded up some of the best watches for every training regimen. The gadgets will track your workouts, help you regulate your sleep, give you active training tips—and look damn good on your arm all the while.
1) Apple Watch Series 6
Apple
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There's not much more to say about Apple's signature smartwatch that hasn't already been said—but we'll rave about it a little more. The top wearable on the market got better in its sixth edition, with a new blood oxygen sensor and sleep tracking, seamless connectivity to iPhone, and new Loop bands that are more comfortable than you'd expect.
2) Amazon Halo
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In addition to tracking your steps, heart rate, intensity-based activities, and sleep, the Amazon Halo also offers another cool feature—tone of voice analysis. This unique feature helps you see how you sound to others to help strengthen your communication skills.
3) Garmin Fenix 6
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This model from Garmin truly does it all (as you would hope for the premium price). Well-known for its GPS capabilities, this model comes with preloaded maps to help navigate the outdoors. With its enhanced estimated wrist heart rate with Pulse Ox technology, you can monitor both your sleep and heart rate while working out. And with its advanced training features like PacePro, you can track your pace and your environmentally adjusted VO2 max.
4) Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2
Samsung Electronics
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No iPhone? No problem. This smartwatch boasts a bigger screen than previous models from Samsung, along with a design that works for the office and the gym. The watch automatically tracks seven exercises, while you can manually log “dozens” of others yourself. That’s not to mention that you can track your sleep, monitor your heart rate, and more.
5) Fitbit Sense
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The Fitbit Sense has the first ever electrodermal activity (EDA) sensor in a wearable, a function used to measure the body's response to stress. The Sense also boasts a new ECG app to assess the wearer's heartbeat to detect abnormalities known commonly as atrial fibrillation, or AFib, while a new on-wrist temperature sensor tracks changes during sleep to monitor trends over time that could help to catch problems early. The device was created using "a new design language" for the brand, with a rounded-corner square watch face that is sleek and functional.
6) Garmin Forerunner 745
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The Garmin Forerunner 745 has top notch fitness tracking, a solid battery life, and also comes with suggested workouts for a smart training plan. The preset watch face provides uncluttered essential data at a glance. Hardcore exercisers will especially appreciate the 745's fixation on high-level data. The training load stat uses EPOC data to provide a measure to help understand the effects of the volume of your workouts.
7) Garmin Venu Sq
Garmin USA
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With a 1.3-inch color LCD touchscreen protected by Gorilla Glass 3, the Venu Sq is a bit larger than more simple fitness trackers. It has all the information you’d come to expect from a smartwatch such as heart rate and step counts, but also proprietary features like Body Battery, a score that monitors your energy levels throughout the day to help you optimize when to rest and when to get active. It has a robust suite of specific fitness activity trackers for workouts like running, cycling, and swimming (it’s waterproof up to 5 ATM) to more specialized activities like stand-up paddleboarding, cross-country skiing, and yoga.
8) Fitbit Versa 3
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Fitbit’s Versa 3 is a solid option for anyone, especially since the device brings built-in GPS tracking to the Versa line—and its price, which is much lower than some of its contemporaries, makes it even more compelling. You’ll get top-notch activity tracking, sleep tracking, an always-on display, and more.
9) Polar Vantage M
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This smartwatch from Polar is built for just about any activity you want to track (the watch offers over 130 different sport profiles), but it stands out most as your go-to running companion with its Smart Coach feature. You can also keep track of sleep, heart rate, your training load, and more.
These best smartwatches for fitness tracking from brands like Apple, Fitbit, Suunto, and Garmin record your heart rate, map running routes, and more.
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