Watch Series 10

I returned the mk3i 43mm. It’s heavy for daily use and the screen is small for diving. So trying to do everything but it’s not good at anything. I got the descent x50i instead and just use the super light Apple Watch 10 for everything else. The Apple Watch Ultra was also too heavy for me. To me heavy is ok for just a fashion watch. But for a fitness watch I don’t like it.

I came from an Apple Watch series 10 a couple months ago and I wish I would’ve switched sooner. If you’re looking for a reliable fitness watch, there’s just no competition. I even wore both for a few days and I noticed that Apple Watch was constantly giving me credit for calories I burned doing absolutely nothing and by the end of the day my calories burned were hundreds higher than the Garmin. I love that the Garmin is a lot more conservative with their calories Not to mention when I did a workout Apple Watch and their metrics seems so basic. It was literally just calories burned and heart rate and how long I worked out where I was Garmin even showed the sweat loss and estimated to how much my water intake should be.

Do it man. I switched from a series 10 and the battery life is the strangest thing to get used to. It’s like if you have a car with a standard gas tank you have to fill up every week. Then going to a car you only fill up every 6 months. I fully charged my forerunner 970 last night and it’s a day later. What’s my battery at? 95%

I have the 970. I first switched from an Apple Watch series 10 to a venu 3 before switching again to a 970. I like even the small things like step cadence and estimated sweat loss. If I do a workout it estimates how much sweat I lost and changes my hydration goal

Both me and my wife switched from Apple Watch Series 10 to a venue three and we couldn’t be happier. I thought I would miss my Apple Watch so much more but the more I thought about it the more I realized all I use my Apple Watch for was phone calls, and texting notifications and timers. All stuff that I can do on my Garmin watch but better. And the fitness tracking actually seems way better. The Apple Watch would always have my calories way too high, and I would always question it and not believe it whereas the Garmin is a lot more conservative and I actually believe the numbers

Yeah, I always had better luck with the sleep tracking on the Garmin after switching from Apple Watch. My Apple Watch sleep tracking was so basic and I felt the duration times were so off. And I’m hearing from the new videos on Apple and their sleep scores say that it factors in less things like it doesn’t counter HRV while you’re asleep it goes off consistency, duration, and that’s it. I set my Garmin to sync to Apple health and I got a sleep score and it was so wildly far off. It was insane lol one day I only got 3 1/2 hours of sleep and I got a 95 sleep score on Apple lol the Garmin was correct in telling me I got shit sleep. Definitely happy with my decision to stick to Garmin.

For me, my Apple Watch never knew when I woke up or did anything and the timing was always off. Where is my Garmin is dead on with pretty much everything. Idk 🤷‍♂️

🤷‍♂️ came from Apple Watch last spring. It might be cheaper but it doesn’t seem better. Sleep tracking (for me) was far worse on the Apple Watch, fitness tracking is better on garmin, calorie burn, calculating tdee, etc. just everything is better for me. So meh

Personally, i had Apple Watch only since the very beginning. That’s 10 years of being stuck on one platform. Same watch faces. Slow to roll out features. But the biggest for me was: sleep tracking sucked ass on my Apple Watch and the calorie burn was just laughable. The calorie burn on a totally lazy day on my AW put me in the “moderate exercise” category. It was just silly. My wife got a garmin last spring and i got jealous. It had a lot more features that i considered health centric that i liked. The calorie burn made sense. The metrics it gave were just plain cool to look at. It integrated well with the loseit app. The watch face store is just amazing. Makes my garmin feel new all the time. Everything i wanted out of the Apple Watch needed an app and usually a subscription to do. Sleep tracking? Have fun with the pillow app. Subscribe to premium to unlock basic features even the garmin has for free! Calorie tracking beyond some rings? Download bevel. Subscription though! Hydration tracking? Water minder app. Like there’s apps to do stuff, but i just find the functionality on the base garmin experience to be preferable. I just like it. It’s nice.

I wear both an Apple Watch and a Garmin. But honestly, if I had to choose one, it would just be the Garmin. For health data and hell even just telling time the Garmin is miles ahead of Apple. Great thing about Garmin is that they hit pretty much every price point. You can get one of their fitness bands for as low as $150 or more expensive watches.

Fairly new to Apple Watches. I got the Apple Watch 10 as my first watch only a few months ago. I love it. But wondering if I want the ultra. I use it for running and would love the longer battery life. Any suggestions one why I should or shouldn’t upgrade from the 10? With the new sleep score be available on the 10? And the blood pressure update is only on the new watches correct?

Had AW 6, 7, 10... Had Garmin Fenix 7 somewhere between AW... Now with Garmin instinct 3. ALl has pros and cons. none is perfect. For me it's great to switch from time to time... I would happily do the same between iphone and android, but the cost of switch in terms of software is crazy...

Se 3 or s10 very good watch I have the 10 very good watch if you are not a keen sports fan

Wahoo Element Bolt for road cycling, Garmin Edge 520 for MTB, Garmin Forerunner 735XT for Triathlon and Apple Watch Series 10 for everything else. Have a hate relationship with my Garmin devices (which is why I got the Bolt when my 520 decided that properly recording altitude data was not in its best interest), but who’s to say that they don’t go after Wahoo next for some idiotic reason?

Hi all! I’ve been wanting to write this post for a while in order to share the way I keep track and analyze my fitness data. The goal is to both share my inputs and hear some feedback to sss what works for others. **Hardware:** **Apple Watch Series 10** I use this for the vast majority of my day as it has all the important sensors and it writes everything in Apple Health of course. In terms of workouts, I use it for the gym, padel and running - workouts I need to be able to check the time, pace and other important metrics at a glance. **Amazfit Helio Strap** It’s been called the Whoop Killer. It’s super lightweight, has no screen just like the Whoop but the main difference is that you only pay the hardware itself (100€) with no yearly fees. It’s been having monthly updates so far and one of the main ones is the ability to write HRV in Apple Health as well. I use it to sleep (much more comfortable than the AW) and for CrossFit (as I don’t want to damage my AW) - all the metrics (REM sleep, time slept, BPMs, SPO2, etc) are transferred via Zepp (the devices’ app) to Apple Health as well. **Software:** **Bevel** The best discovery of 2025 by far. I come from using Athlytic and MyFitnessPal and Bevel just combines all in one in an amazing, elegant and very useful interface. It gives you recovery, sleep and strain levels, the AI chat definitely need some improvements (it’s kind of robotic and repetitive) but it works, and it even gives you a daily score based on the food you eat. I’ve been tracking my macros for years on MyFitnessPal and never thought any other app would even compare to it, but Bevel does. The app’s database is insane, it has AI recognition if you take a picture of your food and it even scans barcodes. I also log my gym workout routines there to see what muscle groups need more work - Bevel also has an exercise library that’s quite complete and it even gives you workout suggestions. It’s my holy grail and of course reads ALL the data (weight, water intake, sleep, daily steps, etc) from Apple Health that is necessary. **Water Tracker** I’ve tested dozens of apps to track my water intake and I kept coming back to this one. The UI is a little too “fun” for my taste as I want things simple but it has some cool widgets, it gives you weekly and monthly averages and has a lot of different kind of beverages you can choose from, which give you different kind of water percentages. Things like coffee, decaf, energy drinks, alcoholic beverages and juices are obviously included. **Apple Health** It’s basically the hub that collects all the data from both wearables and other apps and writes it into other apps that I need to (Bevel). I don’t really open it as much - only when I write manually my weight and waist circumference) **Zepp** Again, I only use this to transfer the data from the Helio Strap to Apple Health. It has some really cool (and Whoop like) features like Biocharge, Exertion and Stress levels, but given I don’t use it 24/7 I don’t really rely on it too for daily analysis. The user interface is super nice tho. **Apple Fitness** It’s super basic, disappointing even. It doesn’t even have a decent way to connect to friends like Whoop does for example. But I take a look at it from time to time to check if I’m closing my rings (which the Helio Strap can contribute to but only while working out, not for the rest the day’s active energy) And that’s it. I’m no Bryan Johnson but I like to keep track of this as much as I can. Let me know if you have any suggestions! **UPDATE:** Since working out with the Helio Strap won't contribute to Apple Fitness Rings and the data Zepp sends to Apple Health is very limited, I added another app for that. It's called HealthFit, it allows the manual workouts import to Apple Health/Fitness, it fills Apple Watch's exercise and active rings (only with workouts) and it provides some cool data and statistics.