Adam Kos If you still think that wearables won't get you moving, you'd be right if you don't do something about it yourself. So you can still perceive the Apple Watch as just an extended hand of your iPhone, on the other hand, it can also be a professional device providing you with full-fledged and useful feedback. After all, even top athletes use them.
The Xiaomi Mi Band, worth a few hundred crowns, will encourage someone to be active. But others are tired of using only fitness bracelets and want a more sophisticated device. Of course, there is a range of products from Garmin, whose smart wearable electronics pay for the one that provides the most comprehensive information about your training, but the Apple Watch is definitely not just for amateurs.
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This is also proven by the Australian national swimming team, which uses the Apple Watch in combination with an iPad to improve its performance. And if you think it's done in some super expensive and unique way, it's not entirely true. It uses the standard application in the Apple Watch - Exercise.
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Australian Dolphins coaches use Apple Watch to more accurately capture the overall picture of their athletes' health and performance. They only use their own apps on the iPad. However, the entire Apple ecosystem provides coaches with important data and measured analyzes of athletes in real time, in which they can immediately work with the given performances. It is easy for athletes to immediately show where they have reserves, where they can improve, where they switch unnecessarily, etc.
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The data being collected is a key component for athletes in designing their ideal performance. In addition, there is a clear motivational element, which is not necessarily the defeat of world records, but the defeat of personal ones that the watch keeps presenting to you. Even world record holder and gold medalist in swimming Zac Stubblety-Cook relies on the Apple Watch. Clear and immediate, they give him instant feedback throughout the day so he can better manage his training load and recovery to ensure he arrives at the races at peak performance.
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It is the training load that must be balanced with ideal regeneration, otherwise there is a risk of overtraining and fatigue syndromes. Apple published about the connection of the Australian swimming team with its products article, in which Zac mentions: "Being able to accurately measure heart rate between sets is a really valuable piece of data for me and my coach to understand how well I'm responding to training." Of course, other wearables would give him the same data, but once you're in the Apple ecosystem, why get out?
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Apple is quite aware of the power of its watch and the platform itself, and stories like this simply humanize its technology. In addition, new swimming improvements will be introduced in watchOS 9, including the addition of detection of swimming with a kickboard (a swimming aid in the shape of a plate, not a three-wheeled scooter, of course), which helps many athletes during swimming training. In addition, Apple Watch automatically detects its use based on the swimmer's movement. They will also be able to monitor their efficiency using the SWOLF score – the number of strokes combined with the time in seconds needed to swim one length of the pool.
I can already see like a watch in salt water 🤣
In salt water without problems.
Tested repeatedly.
It's really ridiculous how this pen completely biasedly commands apple, often even at the expense of garmin, which with the measurement of sports metrics and ais can last for miles :) I think he will get an apple 8 pro for valuable services :))
I don't know about you, personally, I recently replaced Fenix with AW and I can't really complain about the measurements. In a direct comparison, they measure plus or minus the same in terms of endurance. Yes, Garmin is much better, but what's the point? Like 99% of athletes, I don't need to measure more than one day's activity, and when I take a bath in the evening, I don't care if I put my Garmin on the table or the AW on the charger. Personally, I would rather have higher durability than battery life.
I also more or less replaced the Fénix 6tky with the AW7, at first I wasn't really excited about it, but then I got used to it and got used to it... I alternate the watches between them depending on my mood.
However, the fact is that as a sports diary, Garmin's ecosystem is kind of unrivaled, they have it almost perfect. AW cannot properly evaluate any activity, but they bring other benefits and in the end, if you are not an athlete at the top, the most important thing in sports is the joy of movement, so either way, neither watch is a bad choice... :-)
@Martin: I agree that Apple doesn't really have this done and I don't use their Health much myself. Anyway, as they shortened the number of characters in the name of the activity in Garmin Connect, their website became quite unusable for me and I was forced to switch to Strava. But you can easily drag it from Health to both Strava and GC, so it's not a problem.
For me, the Gramines are excellent sports testers, but a bad smartwatch, while the AW are an excellent smartwatch and an above-average sports tester, and somehow I found out that I will use those smartwatches more than the ultimate sports tester...
God, that's nonsense... If someone writes about precise measurement of tf via an optical sensor on the wrist, they have no idea what it is. Even an amateur who really wants to watch tf can't do without a chest strap and it doesn't matter if he has an apple watch or a €1000 Garmin. Such stupid PR can't even impress a teenager from McDonald's anymore.
Well, I will also tell you that I have changed about 8 chest belts and I can say that when I take the average of the results of the optical sensor on the watch and the chest belt and I already know approximately what I have to move in, the chest belt is a waste of money for me because I move with a tolerance of plus or minus 5%. Garmin Fenix 7X. And I must also point out that the longevity and measurement of those 8 chest belts of mine is woefully weak.
I've already drowned two AW6s. First in the sea, second in the pool. It will be replaced under warranty. So it doesn't even go into the water by chance... but otherwise it's a great watch
Unfortunately, I also drowned my AW4 in the sea. Now I don't even wash them under running water.
great! I like to swim with a swimming board, and every other training session I'm angry that I don't count the half kilometer with my legs..
Otherwise, I have an AW SE and the detection in the water is great, not even the garmins could distinguish the individual styles so accurately (the AW recognizes the crawl from the breast, sign).
I would still need a triathlon mode.
And for the inline skate mode to turn on the GPS (otherwise I have to use cycling)
Heh, after all Apple doesn't allow soaking in AW 😂 otherwise Garmin top, but even Xiaomi Mi Watch will last, great endurance and can withstand waterfall and diving. even survive spa spring baths carbonated with co2