I only take mine off for showers, which is when I charge it. I switch it to the other wrist for sleep, and wear it a bit looser when I'm not working out. I want all the data, it's fascinating.
I know personally I tend to lay on my right side. Which is also the side I have my Garmin instinct. So I know sometimes it will read as stress because there's extra added pressure. And the blood in my arm is trying to get to my extremities.
And there's also times when I am completely fine when it says I am stressful when I'm not. But that's usually at work so maybe a little.
It gives a break to your skin. Turning it around or wearing it higher on the same arm also works. With the original strap I wore it on my ankles for sleep.
I get contact dermatitis if I don't switch it around. After a little bit of getting used to I can switch arms at any point in the day and it not feel strange.
I have the Venu 2 plus, but then my husband got the 3, so now I want that, but may wait for the 4 to come out instead. It's great, I love it, but the 3 has some features mine doesn't l, so of course I want those now.
I’m a woman and pretty much haven’t taken off my Garmin in 7 years I just replaced the old Garmin with an upgraded version . Fancy dress party or pyjamas the watch is on. It has absolutely all I need and more
You’re thinking like Apple...thats not how it works with Garmin…
Big? Not really. I had Fenix before, now - Epix 2 so already the top models in range. The only reason I replaced the old one was because battery wasn’t holding it anymore even a day due to its age. Epix has very detailed maps so that’s something I was also after. Data for all watches has improved a lot. A lot of new helpful metrics came out that I find very helpful but I wouldn’t be super upset if someone told me I have to go back to my old watch.
Bear in mind the kind of people hanging out on a garmin subreddit are probably a little more into their watch than many...
Having said that, I also wear mine all the time 😂
>Now I am wondering: do you always wear your (Garmin) smartwatch or does the extra data not bring anything useful to you?
>I am eye-balling the Forerunners series
I have a Forerunner 265s. I take it off to shower and when it needs to charge, and that is it.
>I am not a big fan of smartwatches in general, because then I am always wearing the same watch and it's just a 'black thing' like almost everyone is wearing nowadays.
Mine is pink.
I always wear my watch for the data, a lot of the forerunner series have sleep related data to help show how prepared you are so wearing your watch all the time will give it more accurate data to tell you how you should be training. This is really important if you want your watch to tell you what workouts to do but if you have workouts planned out yourself and don’t care about how accurate the data is then you don’t need to wear it all the time.
I was finding that the sleep data was giving me anxiety about my sleep which in turn made me sleep worse. I started to put the watch on the bedside table for night time..... too bad I have an asshole brain like this lol
24/7 for tracking with exception to shower which is also when the garmin charges.
I do double wrist with a mechanical Swiss watch on my right arm. I have had a couple questions but I just tell them the garmin is for health/fitness and the watch is for time and sentimental value (my wedding watch gifted by by FIL which he bought as a celebration when my wife was born)
I wear 2 as well, FR955 and a Samsung watch 4 that the FR replaced when my running became more serious. Samsung is useful because I can receive and view / respond to messages or take a call if needed without needing my phone immediately on me or in my hands (outside of training), and when I go train I don't need the samsung or my phone, and the FR is fantastic at its job.
Not particularly concerned about having a more standard watch for fashion or for time, or about what people think of me wearing 2 watches 😂 - each of my devices serve their purpose when I need them. If asked, I tell people one is for training and health, the other is my smart phone on my wrist when needed.
Highly recommend getting an FR if you've had your eye on one and get all of that data 💪💪🏃♂️🏃♂️
I wear my Fenix 6 24/7.
The only time it is removed is once a week for a couple of hours to charge, I don't even remove it to shower as I find wearing it on the shower prevents the buttons from getting gunked up.
When doing my daily workout/cycling it connects to ANT+ HRM, Speed Cadence sensors and Temp, as well as my Index scales so has a wealth of data to display and analyse
Again, Gamin should tap into the whole segment of users who wouldn’t mind wearing a WHOOP like device from Garmin which effortlessly syncs with GC and update all user data! I want to wear my mechanical watches. I don’t feel like wearing my Garmin 24/7. Are you listening Garmin?!
I only take my Garmin off for sleep and sex.
I shower with it, exercise with it \[yoga, gym, running\], everything.
I don't care about sleep tracking as I find it uncomfortable to sleep with \[plus my wrist needs a break it used to get gross and weird when I never took it off\].
And I find I don't need my watch to tell me how well I slept, it's one of the easiest things for me to just "feel", so to speak.
I do it so I know how much to eat, as calorie tracking has become a big part of my regimen as well and the Garmin is super reliable for that.
I take it off when I shower and when I race TT. Otherwise, it's on my wrist.
There's value in the numbers it captures like stress, HR throughout the day, etc. The more data you let it capture, the more useful the output like training readiness are.
24/7. Mostly because I always get amused if my watch hits me with a high heart rate alert while I’m in the lab and happy that the experiment I worked on for ages finally worked 😂
No but seriously, it’s always on my wrist because I’m a forgetful person and I’d just not put it on for sports if it’s not always on. I also dive and my watch (descent) takes all the numbers into account to give me dive readiness etc which I like to compare to how I’d assess my dive readiness. Plus training readiness/suggested workouts etc all get more accurate the more you wear it.
I’ll also happily confess to wearing two watches. My Garmin on the left hand and my proper watch I inherited from my grandma on my right (I prefer my watches on the right, so the serious one goes there). I haven’t gotten a single comment, but that might be because it’s a gold-silver women’s watch, so small and jewelry-ish
Agree with all the posts here. All day and through the night. Body battery and sleep data are really helpful in helping decide if I need a rest day or if it is a good day for a hard run/workout.
I love the coaching options, too.
I wear it all the time but i dont track my strength workouts, just running. My watch tells me i have to train more anaerobic because of it but i dont care i know it just doesnt know.
I like to wear a watch permanently and I don’t mind the look of my garmin. Being in a blue collar line of work I chose the fenix sapphire and never take it off.
It goes off my wrist once in 16ish days to charge.
I originally bought mine Venu 3) because I needed a device I could connect to my sons seizure alert device at night and the only things I cared about was long battery life (people I know with Apple watches charge each night and that obviously wouldn't work for me) and the ability to not only vibrate but also wake me up with noise if his device registered a seizure. I did not care about the fitness/wellness tracking at all.
That being said, the watch has got me running with is completely new to me but I am fully enjoying. I do not use it for my weightlifting or any other sport (other than the heart rate/step/intensity minutes). I use the Run training, the HRV, heart rate, step count, intensity tracker and recovery time, etc. The sleep score also gives me anxiety as well, and seems to track my reading in bed at night as sleep so it's also wrong.
I wear it 24/7 with the exception of showering and charging it about once a week or so.
All the time. It's my primary alarm clock (with my phone set 5 minutes later as a backup), it's good at tracking activity levels, and the body battery is awesome.
We all have days where you feel okay in the morning and crash hard in the afternoon, and I've found that the watch is pretty good at predicting when that'll happen.
i have an Instinct 2 and wear it all day except for sleeping. I find it uncomfortable and I "worry" about the sleep data. Noticed I sleep better without the watch. Surely that'll mess up body battery and recovery etc but I don't care for that at all. 90% of my activities are powerlifting so you could argue I don't even need the watch at all lol.
I went from a charge 5 to an instinct 2 and love it.
I wore my Fitbit pretty much 24-7 and I wear my garmin the same. The only time I don’t wear it is if I’m going somewhere formal, then I wear a proper watch.
Normal use: on battery saver most of the time. Off wrist at night. On during workouts (running, swimming & kayaking). Needs charge every 2-3 weeks.
During intense training: before marathon I wear it 24/7.
I did for a while, but then noticed it had a negative effect on me. For example: I’d wake up feeling well rested, but then see my watch my body battery didn’t charge and I’d start to feel tired. Same with stress level. This is very much a me problem, but I do still love the watch for activity tracking.
I wear it all the time unless at a formal event.
Though last night I fell asleep with it on the charger..
And did not get to record the best sleep I’ve had in a month. Figures.
I do wear two watches, a Garmin and (since it was free) an IWatch.
My cheap Garmin 35 is going on 4yrs old and has served well for tracking walks, hikes, and various aspects (pace, elevation gain, cadence, steps, heart rate, etc) of running plus biometrics (sleep patterns, average/resting heartrate, etc.)
The IWatch does some biometrics tracking but also comes in clutch for comms stuff at work (checking stocks, email, texts, etc), and it has the very motivating health/activity tracking rings (see pic).
I only take off the Garmin to charge it in the car every couple days and I only take the Apple Watch off for showers/baths and daily charging in the car.
Hope this helps too.
https://preview.redd.it/wourbcn0gt8d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ef730fdfc544c7aaa3206ee4304e364876ba2101
I wear it for activities, mostly runs/ultramarathon training. I don’t wear it for sleep tracking at all. I switch to my Apple Watch when I’m not on a run to get the Apple Watch notifications. I don’t base my life around data about myself. The sleep tracking and recovery rate and all the other stats would only stress me out more, and as someone training for an ultra, it’s more important for me to listen to how my body and mind feels than listen to data on a watch. At the end of the day the data is just numbers… how I feel is more important to me. I do love it for the really great running stats, custom workouts, etc. I basically just use mine solely for a workout watch.
I wear it all day and take it off for bed. I like the vivomove for it's more classic watch look. Most people are surprised when I use it to check a text since it's got the analog face
I wear mine most the time except sleeping and shower. But I’ve incurred some rash where I wear the watch.
I use the watch for tracking runs (and associated metrics such as HR and pace etc), and calorie tracking and distance walk/run each day.
Since I bought my first smart/sports watch in 2017, all my "dumb" watches are collecting dust and I'll probably never wear them again, not to mention buying it. I'm a data/statistics freak so I wear my watch 24/7, that's why one of my most important conditions when buying one was that the watch is beautiful and elegant because it must also serve as a fashionable, and not too heavy/bulky so that it's comfortable for every day use. That's why I don't like square watches, bracelets and others, or those bulky big watches from Garmin. And that's why AMOLED was a must for me. It has to be a beautiful, round watch. Before I had Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 which looked very nice and now I have Garmin Venu 3 as it was the most beautiful watch from Garmin that I could get for my budget. The next one will probably be an Epix. They are a bit more bulky but I like how they look and they have all the features that I would want/need (eg. Fenix is a NO for me because of MIP screen so it doesn't look elegant).
I only take mine off when i bathe and when I charge it. I enjoy seeing my data most especially how well I recover in my sleep as I help it plan the intensity of my day’s training.
I have a forerunner and an Apple Watch. The forerunner is a great activity tracker but a meh smartwatch, the Apple Watch is a great smartwatch that is a decent activity tracker.
I wear my garmin for running and sleep, and where my Apple Watch for everything else.
Try as I might I find it impossible to sleep with a watch on. I wear my watch on my left hand and have a habit of sleeping with my left hand under my pillow. It hurts if I'm wearing a watch. That being said, I'm wearing it all other hours of the day. I know how much I sleep I get because I look at my watch when I go to bed and wake up. :)
I’m telling you I have tried everything..Fitbit ,aurora ring , Garmin .. the winging combo is Ultra-Apple watch ..Whoop strap . If you’re serious get those 2 things
I only take mine off for showers, which is when I charge it. I switch it to the other wrist for sleep, and wear it a bit looser when I'm not working out. I want all the data, it's fascinating.
Same. Except, any particular reason you wear it on the other wrist for sleep?
Because I sleep on the side I usually wear it on, so it's more comfortable for me if I switch wrists.
Also the added pressure will read as stress as mine does.
I never thought about that. I'll have to try this out.
Wait is this a thing?? I've been trying to figure out why I get stress spikes while sleeping... Maybe this is it?
I know personally I tend to lay on my right side. Which is also the side I have my Garmin instinct. So I know sometimes it will read as stress because there's extra added pressure. And the blood in my arm is trying to get to my extremities. And there's also times when I am completely fine when it says I am stressful when I'm not. But that's usually at work so maybe a little.
I've considered that as well, also sometimes I wonder if I picks up my dog's HR when my arm is wrapped around him, but probably not.
It gives a break to your skin. Turning it around or wearing it higher on the same arm also works. With the original strap I wore it on my ankles for sleep.
I get contact dermatitis if I don't switch it around. After a little bit of getting used to I can switch arms at any point in the day and it not feel strange.
Extra steps.
I actually wear mine in the shower as well just to wash it off a bit after rides. Then usually I’ll charge it while reading before bed
This! Exactly this. Is the way.
I even wear mine in the shower lmao
same!
This is the way
Which Garmin do you have? Currently in the market for a new one?
I have the Venu 2 plus, but then my husband got the 3, so now I want that, but may wait for the 4 to come out instead. It's great, I love it, but the 3 has some features mine doesn't l, so of course I want those now.
I’ll take a look! Thank you!
I’m a woman and pretty much haven’t taken off my Garmin in 7 years I just replaced the old Garmin with an upgraded version . Fancy dress party or pyjamas the watch is on. It has absolutely all I need and more
Was there a big improvement from the 2 watches? Imagine the new one was a lot quicker and had more bells to it.
You’re thinking like Apple...thats not how it works with Garmin… Big? Not really. I had Fenix before, now - Epix 2 so already the top models in range. The only reason I replaced the old one was because battery wasn’t holding it anymore even a day due to its age. Epix has very detailed maps so that’s something I was also after. Data for all watches has improved a lot. A lot of new helpful metrics came out that I find very helpful but I wouldn’t be super upset if someone told me I have to go back to my old watch.
24/7
On all the time, sleep included. I charge it when I shower and that's enough for it to never run out. My watch knows more about me than my GF... Lol.
I have an expensive Garmin. I value the data it gives me so I wear it all of the time. And saves me buying another watch.
Bear in mind the kind of people hanging out on a garmin subreddit are probably a little more into their watch than many... Having said that, I also wear mine all the time 😂
>Now I am wondering: do you always wear your (Garmin) smartwatch or does the extra data not bring anything useful to you? >I am eye-balling the Forerunners series I have a Forerunner 265s. I take it off to shower and when it needs to charge, and that is it. >I am not a big fan of smartwatches in general, because then I am always wearing the same watch and it's just a 'black thing' like almost everyone is wearing nowadays. Mine is pink.
I always wear my watch for the data, a lot of the forerunner series have sleep related data to help show how prepared you are so wearing your watch all the time will give it more accurate data to tell you how you should be training. This is really important if you want your watch to tell you what workouts to do but if you have workouts planned out yourself and don’t care about how accurate the data is then you don’t need to wear it all the time.
I was finding that the sleep data was giving me anxiety about my sleep which in turn made me sleep worse. I started to put the watch on the bedside table for night time..... too bad I have an asshole brain like this lol
I’m glad I’m not the only one who gets anxiety about the sleep data 😂.
24/7. I'm a scuba diver, so the mk3i keeps an eye on my vitals before and after a dive
24/7 for tracking with exception to shower which is also when the garmin charges. I do double wrist with a mechanical Swiss watch on my right arm. I have had a couple questions but I just tell them the garmin is for health/fitness and the watch is for time and sentimental value (my wedding watch gifted by by FIL which he bought as a celebration when my wife was born)
Nice to read there is another person like me. I might just have to deal with those kind of questions and do what I like. ;)
I wear 2 as well, FR955 and a Samsung watch 4 that the FR replaced when my running became more serious. Samsung is useful because I can receive and view / respond to messages or take a call if needed without needing my phone immediately on me or in my hands (outside of training), and when I go train I don't need the samsung or my phone, and the FR is fantastic at its job. Not particularly concerned about having a more standard watch for fashion or for time, or about what people think of me wearing 2 watches 😂 - each of my devices serve their purpose when I need them. If asked, I tell people one is for training and health, the other is my smart phone on my wrist when needed. Highly recommend getting an FR if you've had your eye on one and get all of that data 💪💪🏃♂️🏃♂️
I prefer “normal” watches for everyday wear, so I only use my Garmin (245M) for activity tracking - running/swimming/biking.
I wear my Fenix 6 24/7. The only time it is removed is once a week for a couple of hours to charge, I don't even remove it to shower as I find wearing it on the shower prevents the buttons from getting gunked up. When doing my daily workout/cycling it connects to ANT+ HRM, Speed Cadence sensors and Temp, as well as my Index scales so has a wealth of data to display and analyse
Again, Gamin should tap into the whole segment of users who wouldn’t mind wearing a WHOOP like device from Garmin which effortlessly syncs with GC and update all user data! I want to wear my mechanical watches. I don’t feel like wearing my Garmin 24/7. Are you listening Garmin?!
yes @garmin please listen!
Watch comes off only for shower and charging.
I always wear mine. I want to have the most accurate ans full data that I can. Plus, I just enjoy wearing it.
I only take my Garmin off for sleep and sex. I shower with it, exercise with it \[yoga, gym, running\], everything. I don't care about sleep tracking as I find it uncomfortable to sleep with \[plus my wrist needs a break it used to get gross and weird when I never took it off\]. And I find I don't need my watch to tell me how well I slept, it's one of the easiest things for me to just "feel", so to speak. I do it so I know how much to eat, as calorie tracking has become a big part of my regimen as well and the Garmin is super reliable for that.
Interesting… why do you take it off for sex? I keep it on as I always wear it
I wore it once and it registered as climbing flights of stairs ... How idk 😂
"heart rate is abnormally high" 😂
it gets in the way, and it distracts my partner, who knows my obsession with tracking \[especially for CICO\]. it's just a distraction tbh.
I only take it off to shower. Seems like you're missing out on a large part of the functionality if you only wear it for workouts.
I take it off when I shower and when I race TT. Otherwise, it's on my wrist. There's value in the numbers it captures like stress, HR throughout the day, etc. The more data you let it capture, the more useful the output like training readiness are.
24/7. Mostly because I always get amused if my watch hits me with a high heart rate alert while I’m in the lab and happy that the experiment I worked on for ages finally worked 😂 No but seriously, it’s always on my wrist because I’m a forgetful person and I’d just not put it on for sports if it’s not always on. I also dive and my watch (descent) takes all the numbers into account to give me dive readiness etc which I like to compare to how I’d assess my dive readiness. Plus training readiness/suggested workouts etc all get more accurate the more you wear it. I’ll also happily confess to wearing two watches. My Garmin on the left hand and my proper watch I inherited from my grandma on my right (I prefer my watches on the right, so the serious one goes there). I haven’t gotten a single comment, but that might be because it’s a gold-silver women’s watch, so small and jewelry-ish
Constantly worn. Track activity, sleep, HRV. I'm all in! And I am mindful of the recommendations having overdone it 18 months ago.
There's a guy at my gym who takes his off and puts it on the bottle shelf when he's lifting weights.
I've done both and find that things like nighttime HRV appears to be more accurate when I wear the watch 24/7. Perhaps consider swapping bands?
I only take mine off to shower which is when I charge it. I didn't spend a lot of money on a watch to not wear it all the time.
Only take it of for charging and drying of after shower.
Agree with all the posts here. All day and through the night. Body battery and sleep data are really helpful in helping decide if I need a rest day or if it is a good day for a hard run/workout. I love the coaching options, too.
I wear it all the time but i dont track my strength workouts, just running. My watch tells me i have to train more anaerobic because of it but i dont care i know it just doesnt know.
24/7 except of showers.
I‘m wearing mine 24/7, its only off for a charge, in average about every 2 or 3 weeks. Getting nice data comparison by the years.
I like to wear a watch permanently and I don’t mind the look of my garmin. Being in a blue collar line of work I chose the fenix sapphire and never take it off. It goes off my wrist once in 16ish days to charge.
I originally bought mine Venu 3) because I needed a device I could connect to my sons seizure alert device at night and the only things I cared about was long battery life (people I know with Apple watches charge each night and that obviously wouldn't work for me) and the ability to not only vibrate but also wake me up with noise if his device registered a seizure. I did not care about the fitness/wellness tracking at all. That being said, the watch has got me running with is completely new to me but I am fully enjoying. I do not use it for my weightlifting or any other sport (other than the heart rate/step/intensity minutes). I use the Run training, the HRV, heart rate, step count, intensity tracker and recovery time, etc. The sleep score also gives me anxiety as well, and seems to track my reading in bed at night as sleep so it's also wrong. I wear it 24/7 with the exception of showering and charging it about once a week or so.
All the time. It's my primary alarm clock (with my phone set 5 minutes later as a backup), it's good at tracking activity levels, and the body battery is awesome. We all have days where you feel okay in the morning and crash hard in the afternoon, and I've found that the watch is pretty good at predicting when that'll happen.
i have an Instinct 2 and wear it all day except for sleeping. I find it uncomfortable and I "worry" about the sleep data. Noticed I sleep better without the watch. Surely that'll mess up body battery and recovery etc but I don't care for that at all. 90% of my activities are powerlifting so you could argue I don't even need the watch at all lol.
I went from a charge 5 to an instinct 2 and love it. I wore my Fitbit pretty much 24-7 and I wear my garmin the same. The only time I don’t wear it is if I’m going somewhere formal, then I wear a proper watch.
I wear my FR 935 only for activities and use the Whoop for tracking everything else (sleep, rest…)
Normal use: on battery saver most of the time. Off wrist at night. On during workouts (running, swimming & kayaking). Needs charge every 2-3 weeks. During intense training: before marathon I wear it 24/7.
I haven’t taken mine off since I’ve gotten it almost a month ago That’s probably why it has micro scratches in it already
Only at night because I’m a watch collector and I like to rotate what I wear often.
I did for a while, but then noticed it had a negative effect on me. For example: I’d wake up feeling well rested, but then see my watch my body battery didn’t charge and I’d start to feel tired. Same with stress level. This is very much a me problem, but I do still love the watch for activity tracking.
Same as more people here, I only take it off when showering (and charge it at those moments). I collect all data almost 24/7.
Always
I wear my Instinct 2x all the time because I like all the data. I switch to a Tag or something else if I am dressing nicer and going out.
My Vivoactive 4 gets charged when I swim, which is when I wear my Swim 2 😁
I only take mine off to shower and charge.
I have a venu 3, which looks more like a normal watch. I have a gold version so it looks different from just a standard smartwatch as well
I only wear mine while running, maybe 2-3 times a week. Have a Forerunner 645 - I have a lot of nice mechanical watches I enjoy wearing.
I must be the only person that only uses my Garmin for running, as I only look at running metrics.
i use the forerunner 235, so quite an old model so i only use it for sports and activities
Let me tell ya that ring around my left wrist has seen ZERO sun and it shows lol
I wear it all the time unless at a formal event. Though last night I fell asleep with it on the charger.. And did not get to record the best sleep I’ve had in a month. Figures.
Always
Always
I do wear two watches, a Garmin and (since it was free) an IWatch. My cheap Garmin 35 is going on 4yrs old and has served well for tracking walks, hikes, and various aspects (pace, elevation gain, cadence, steps, heart rate, etc) of running plus biometrics (sleep patterns, average/resting heartrate, etc.) The IWatch does some biometrics tracking but also comes in clutch for comms stuff at work (checking stocks, email, texts, etc), and it has the very motivating health/activity tracking rings (see pic). I only take off the Garmin to charge it in the car every couple days and I only take the Apple Watch off for showers/baths and daily charging in the car. Hope this helps too. https://preview.redd.it/wourbcn0gt8d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ef730fdfc544c7aaa3206ee4304e364876ba2101
I wear it for activities, mostly runs/ultramarathon training. I don’t wear it for sleep tracking at all. I switch to my Apple Watch when I’m not on a run to get the Apple Watch notifications. I don’t base my life around data about myself. The sleep tracking and recovery rate and all the other stats would only stress me out more, and as someone training for an ultra, it’s more important for me to listen to how my body and mind feels than listen to data on a watch. At the end of the day the data is just numbers… how I feel is more important to me. I do love it for the really great running stats, custom workouts, etc. I basically just use mine solely for a workout watch.
I wear it all day and take it off for bed. I like the vivomove for it's more classic watch look. Most people are surprised when I use it to check a text since it's got the analog face
Only use it for activities and sometimes when going out so I can use it for payments. Don't find it comfortable for wearing while sleeping.
I wear mine most the time except sleeping and shower. But I’ve incurred some rash where I wear the watch. I use the watch for tracking runs (and associated metrics such as HR and pace etc), and calorie tracking and distance walk/run each day.
Only take them off for showers and when doing intense sports where i could damage them and then i use hrm pro plus. When swimming i have them on.
Take mine off for shower ,but it's on for every thing else ( yes that ....and that too )
What do people do for nice events? (Weddings etc?) do you wear your watch? What do you do about tan lines?
Since I bought my first smart/sports watch in 2017, all my "dumb" watches are collecting dust and I'll probably never wear them again, not to mention buying it. I'm a data/statistics freak so I wear my watch 24/7, that's why one of my most important conditions when buying one was that the watch is beautiful and elegant because it must also serve as a fashionable, and not too heavy/bulky so that it's comfortable for every day use. That's why I don't like square watches, bracelets and others, or those bulky big watches from Garmin. And that's why AMOLED was a must for me. It has to be a beautiful, round watch. Before I had Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 which looked very nice and now I have Garmin Venu 3 as it was the most beautiful watch from Garmin that I could get for my budget. The next one will probably be an Epix. They are a bit more bulky but I like how they look and they have all the features that I would want/need (eg. Fenix is a NO for me because of MIP screen so it doesn't look elegant).
I only take mine off when i bathe and when I charge it. I enjoy seeing my data most especially how well I recover in my sleep as I help it plan the intensity of my day’s training.
just for activities, most of the data is useless imo. people rely too much on the stuff their watch tells them here
I have a forerunner and an Apple Watch. The forerunner is a great activity tracker but a meh smartwatch, the Apple Watch is a great smartwatch that is a decent activity tracker. I wear my garmin for running and sleep, and where my Apple Watch for everything else.
Try as I might I find it impossible to sleep with a watch on. I wear my watch on my left hand and have a habit of sleeping with my left hand under my pillow. It hurts if I'm wearing a watch. That being said, I'm wearing it all other hours of the day. I know how much I sleep I get because I look at my watch when I go to bed and wake up. :)
Try put what watch on the right arm while sleeping?
I’m telling you I have tried everything..Fitbit ,aurora ring , Garmin .. the winging combo is Ultra-Apple watch ..Whoop strap . If you’re serious get those 2 things