Garmin - Venu 2 Plus

My Garmin Venu 2+ gets 9 days with all regular sensors on.

what are you talking about? same use cases for both but the Garmin is better looking and has longer battery. the Fenix is for a while different market demographic, irrelevant to bring up tbh. Comment I replied to was deleted. Whatever reddit back to your basements

I use a Garmin Venu 2 plus and I'm happy with how it tracks things in the pool. I think most Garmin watches with pool function track very well. Not all Garmin watches have open water swimming though. Mine for instance doesnt.

Which Garmin are you using? And are you looking for a fitness watch with smart capabilities or a smart watch with fitness capabilities? I have the Venu 2 Plus and it's great, wish I could upgrade to the Venu 3 for a few more smart watch capabilities, but I can't really complain.

The Venu 2 Plus has 95% of what the Venu 3 has (including ECG), and can be had for about the price of the Vivoactive 5. But I’d still go to your nearest Apple Store and see what they can do for you - in my experience they’re pretty good. If you get a replacement (even a refurbished one), you can sell it if you’ve lost faith with them.

Make sure it’s the 2 Plus not the plain 2 you look at; there’s quite a difference.

Love my Garmin - on my third one, a Venu 2 Plus. Great for tracking runs, and tracks strength training as well. It does an okay job of guessing what exercises are, and you can enter reps and weight. It works better if you create your own workouts, and there are some existing workouts you can choose from. I find it helpful to track my progress, although someone laborious in that except for tracking some benchmark exercises, there is no place to track progress on individual exercises. I have created a series of workouts I like, and then each time I do the workout I open the previous time I did the workout on my phone so I can use that as a baseline.

garmin - pick your flavor. i have had garmin for over 10 years, various models . i have the venu 2 plus

Most people coming from apple go vivo active or venue. Venue being closest to a smart watch. Personally, I'm a instinct guy. Although I'm wearing a Fenix today since I didn't charge my Instinct for 2 weeks and it died before bed. I've swam tens of thousands of meters (more like hundreds but..) in pool, open and salt water with my Garmins. Done free diving (only to about 40ft, I'm not very good) and press the buttons regularly sub surface. I've also done cliff jumping with every watch, and haven't lost a garmin to water intrusion. I would definitely select a 100m rated model for water sports. Any watch can fail but I've had 6 garmins and none have. I also had a bunch of Casio and Timex over the years and not one failure.

From what you have written, budget is not a constraint for you. I'd go for a watch. Tracking sleep is very useful. I am implementing small changes to improve sleep and the data from the watch is helpful. Eventhough it's not perfect. If i could afford it, I'd buy a Garmin Venue right now. Also, while a chest strap may be a tad bit more accurate for heart rate tracking, it is not something you want to wear for hours at a stretch every day. There a watch is useful.

People have to stop comparing these. These are for two different people. I would never wear an Apple Watch based on battery life alone. I specifically got the Garmin for a wrist based gps and mapping tool to track and orient myself. You buy an Apple Watch to use smart features and be connected to your phone. Garmin has never been in that market. It’s a whole company based on gps systems for outdoor activities . You buy an Apple Watch to have Apple ecosystem. you can’t use half the feature of the fenix on an iPhone bc they only want you to use their watch… Garmin are all specifically made for their audience even down the the model . Apple watches are just to keep you plugged into your phone and have no bearing on actual outdoor activities despite calling it ultra. The Millitary has been orienteering with Garmin wrist based gps systems forever. You’d never catch an Apple Watch on patrol in Afghanistan. 😂