Apple Watch vs Garmin (Don't Make This Mistake)

After a year of wearing both the Apple Watch and the Garin while training for the London and New York marathons

this

year, I want to

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sure you don't

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the same costly

mistake

I did. I trained almost 3 to 4 hours. per day with the goal of running a sub three hour marathon one day because I want to see what my body is capable of Garmin and Apple are two of the biggest

watch

players in the game, there is a ton of marketing around all of these features sophisticated, but In my opinion, the most important thing is that it is easy to start your training.

You can see the data you need while you exercise and then you can easily review all the data once you are done with your workout? Speaking of specific

watch

es, I'm going to talk about the overall experience of Garmin watches in general versus Apple watches in general because for the most part they're pretty close. Thank you Shopify for sponsoring

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video first. Can I easily start a workout without frustration? How does it work on Garmin? I raise my watch. I press the start and stop button. I don't even have to look at the screen until this view appears.

I see the type of training I want to do. I select it and now I just wait for the GPS once it's ready. I can keep my eyes closed and all I do is press this start and stop again and the workout has started, when I'm done I press it again and it stops a workout I never had to do. look at the screen, there's audio, there's haptic feedback to notify that the workout has started and stopped, so it's super easy and effortless. I don't have to use the touch screen at all unless I absolutely want to.

I can actually scroll with these side buttons. Here now, for the Apple Watch, if you have the Ultra, you can press the action button or go ahead and just open the workout app by scrolling and using the touch screen. I find the type of training I'm doing. I have to select it. With the touch screen there is no way to use physical buttons to do it once started. Now I can wait for GPS on the ultas while on the series and SC watches I don't have this feature once I am ready on the ultas I can press the action button to start the workout and on the series watches it will count down 321 once the workout starts if I want to pause I just press two buttons it doesn't matter which two as long as one of them is the action button or on a series 9 or SE watch you press these two side buttons and that can start and stop your training.

You may also have screenshots linked, so from a starting a workout standpoint, I love that all the Garmins are going to wait until you've gotten a good GPS signal, while Apple just looks at the latest. If you have activated precision start here, you will be able to wait and start your workout with the action button or else it will count down from 321 as soon as possible. As you touch on the type of training, from a hardware point of view, I really prefer to have buttons that I can press and not have to look at the screen, get physical and audio feedback to know that I started to stop my training, while the ultra button is the action button to start. the two press buttons to stop the action button to create a segment or a lap, it gets a little confusing in terms of which buttons I have to press because the start stop is not the same in most types of training that I've only found in swimming and certain custom workouts where the action button itself will act as a stop button, which is confusing as a user because I'm not really sure which button I should press, so there is a slight frustration on the side.

With the Apple Watch, there is an issue I've had with both watches when it comes to starting my workouts effortlessly on the Garmin, there have been a couple of times where it's like it restarts right at the beginning when I was trying to start a workout without effort. be sure what it was about. I haven't had it. That problem after a while the

apple

watch has an orange screen of death where I can press it and it just shows an orange screen and it doesn't start working but it vibrates like it does that's been a little frustrating because I've lost faith in that the action button actually starts my workout, so now I always check visually or go ahead and swipe to start manually from the touch screen.

Both are very random events, but they can happen from time to time. These are computers. and they don't have perfect battery life now, this is the world's number one argument. Everyone on the Garmin team is going to be like we have battery life. The Apple Watch won't survive a single workout. You are right and wrong at the same time, the new Apple. Look at the 9 and 8 series if you bought them in the last year or two, they will most likely last a half marathon, at least maybe a full marathon depending on what power modes you are using.

I think series 9 will last the entire marathon. 4 or 5 hours, the Apple Watch Ultra will definitely last a full marathon and if you're doing Ultra marathons you need to turn on low power mode, but for every workout I've done I haven't even been at 100% before. During training, sometimes I start working at 50% for 2 or 3 hours and the Apple Watch will still survive, so believe me, the whole battery talk. These two devices are great and will do what you need, it's the charging situation. where it becomes a problem, Garmin has the worst charging experience I have ever seen, it's like the mouse on Apple devices where you have to plug it in at the bottom, but the good thing is I now have 21 days of battery . with these specific features that I've enabled here, if I want to run it, it will actually tell me that I'll have 44 hours of battery just for the GPS, so I can run this watch for 44 hours before it runs out.

I want to combine those 21 days plus the 44 hours and you'll probably get maybe 2 weeks of battery life on the current configuration. I'm going to achieve maximum precision on this, but this can take up to 30 days if you don't. any GPS tracking, while the ultra lasts me about a day and a half, I usually take it off in the morning and at night while showering or using the bathroom, let it charge for 30 to 45 minutes and that gives me enough power To get to the next charging point, one thing that is interesting is that the charging experience in the watch app is much better.

I take off my watch and with a magnet I drop it and now the garment is charging. I have to take off my watch. I have to find the port to find the cable, make sure the port fits the cable and then it's charging obviously with the magnets. If for some reason you hit it there and the magnets aren't on properly, your watch may not be charging, whereas with the cable, as long as you stuck it in there, it will charge if you don't have an Apple Watch and you don't have the daily habit of charging your watch, that's something new that you'll have to adopt, whereas the Garmin I I can travel for a weekend, sometimes even a week, somewhere and I won't be carrying the charger.

On the other hand, I feel so confident that this battery lasts forever. I don't check the battery before I go on a trip and it died in the middle of a trip and I didn't bring the charger, so it will be unique to your personality and your charging habits and style, as you probably know when I make videos about watches or any other product. on my channel I tend to say click the link in the description because they help boost the channel. These are generally affiliate links where, at no cost to you, I may earn a commission so I can continue making videos like this and some of these links are powered by Shopify who is the sponsor of this video.

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Learn more about Shopify and Shopify collaborations, visit shopify.com. Sherven collab creators with at least 1,000 followers on a single platform are eligible to join. Thank you Shopify for sponsoring this video so many of the workouts that I do and most people will do. What you do will be based on distance, pace and sometimes heart rate, and for these three main variables I like to have different pieces of hardware that help make the watches a little more accurate and you should put them on before doing exercise. Make sure they are connected to your watch, so if you are a data geek like me, you need to make sure it really connects easily to your device, as the Garmin heart rate strap will work with my Apple watch, the strap Polar heart rate monitor will do it.

I work with Garment and Apple Watch, the Stride pedometer for better distance and pace accuracy when I'm doing a treadmill, my core body temperature sensor just to see heat stress, all these devices I like to plug in before go to my run in the Garin and you can see there is a blinking heart, a blinking shoe and a blinking M2. Those are my three external devices, so as soon as I start the workout I can see if that device is connected or not. I'm missing two of those devices. it's very easy to know that things are connected and if they're not, I can go ahead and go into my settings and go ahead and make sure my sensors and accessories know why they're not connecting.

I can try to find them or search for them while on the Apple watch, as soon as I start the workout, I have no idea, so every time I run and I want to make sure my heart rate monitor is connected, I have to go to the home screen . I have to use the I tap the button, then I have to go to settings and then go to Bluetooth, scroll to the bottom because that's where the health devices are, find my heart rate monitors and if it says not connected, I have to tap it to show connected because I have no idea if it's actually connected right before you run and it doesn't show it on the workout screen, so that's one of the downsides of the Apple Watch when you're trying to use external devices.

The second piece is the Apple Watch pedometers. It natively supports the D stried footpod within its training app, so I have to load the stride training app on my Apple Watch instead of the native training app to avoid using the action button. I scroll down to find stride and then I can select run, I could do an open run and it could be indoors and now I just need to make sure, so I'll go treadmill running if I'm doing an open run workout indoors and then I just need to. connect my stride to the watch to start it and I'll just get different screens of data.

Different information will be documented and recorded for indoor workouts. Use stride as distance and pace for outdoor workouts. It uses GPS, so I figured it out from a usability point of view. External pieces of hardware, Garmin just displays them more easily before starting the workout and just integrates with more pieces of hardware, even for bikes and bike computers, they both connect, but it's easier to know the garment is connected before start the workout, while on the Apple Watch I have to go to the Bluetooth settings, blah, blah, blah, and verify that it's actually connected. Doing an open race is not the only way to exercise, but rather personalized workouts.

Personally I have a trainer and he writes my workouts. Inside this app called Training Peaks it will have everything I need to do as well as a description of what I need to do and this information is automatically sent to both my Garmin and my Apple Watch so I'm happy that they bothare compatible. this integration, here you can see it is sent to the Apple Watch or it is automatically sent to my Garmin and the workout distance, stick and time durations are sent and my watches will beep as I do the workout and this does effortless. because I know I need to do this workout today, what does it look and feel like on my watch?

The Apple Watch is. I go ahead and press the action button to open the workouts under Training Peaks, if I have a workout that day it will show up. With any workout, I can see the distance, the pace, and all that information, and if I want to start that workout, I just tap Start. I select whether it is an indoor or outdoor race. I usually run outside and then it actually goes to guide me through the workout while I do it on the Apple Watch. It's very focused on actual distance, so the information I can see here is purely distance.

The only downside to the Apple Watch is that I can only really see the distance. I stayed for that segment of the training, while I think the Garmin does it a little better, so on the Garmin I would do the same. I would move forward with my career, if I have a workout that day, he'll say, "Hey, you got it." a workout today, you would like to do it, but since I don't, I'm going to train on calendar C. You can find a workout that has information like 5 thousand with strides. I would say exercise and now the workout is loaded on my watch when I start the workout on Garmin.

The only advantage I think it has is that I have a specific rhythm that I have to follow for this and it's actually going to show my rhythm right here, saying, "hey, you need to." be within that 757 10 minute pace and it's like a dial, it's very easy visually to see that information while I'm running, it will also send me notifications if I'm within that pace or what the pace is for that segment. It must be that the buttons are not perfect. I guess Garmin takes a little while to react, which can be a little frustrating if you're moving really fast, whereas the Apple Watch tends to be a little faster, so on the Apple Watch if I start the workout it will show me the paces which I need to see only at the beginning, so it's a little frustrating because now that I'm running I don't really know what the pace I need for this segment is and if I hit the next interval and I can see 3 mil at a pace of 605 to 640, but I honestly don't know if I'm in that rhythm.

I have to memorize that information for the three miles, whereas on the garment I can write. I'll see a red in the yellow zone and I'll get notifications if I fall outside of that on both watches, but on the Apple Watch there's no ability to look during training to know if I'm within that pace or not when it comes to diving. in more detail while I exercise or run and look at this information. I can see my heart rate zones on both watches. They have sort of a color code for those heart rate zones. I can see my pace live in terms of how fast and good they are. able to upgrade to my newer Pace with any type of watch there will be a little bit of a lag so keep that in mind and it looks mostly good there's quite a bit of room uh there will be more smoothness as you can see.

The blue is the Apple Watch and the purple is the Garmin, so the Apple Watch just has more smoothness to it as these corners are rounded and the lines are straighter, whereas the Garmin will have a little more jaggedness and that can impact. your distance, yes, so it looks like there's nothing else on the dock, but it definitely is. I walked and circled this boardwalk. It seems like both watches put me in the water for a second, but then I was back on the boardwalk. It's still pretty close. So both conditions once again, yeah, here the Apple Watch decided to take shortcuts and put me through the water, so if you add that up to several miles and several companions, oh, cut the corner around this dock too look, here it is where they run the 20 miles. where I lost almost half a mile of distance on the appat and didn't actually finish a full 20 miles, but for the most part I have noticed that they are very much on par with each other while running, just being on the treadmill can be drastically different and the General distances for the most part are good in a good GPS area and if my software is updated and the time watches are better at tracking time you will have very consistent seconds hours minutes on both watches and an added bonus is that Garmin counts the reps, so if you're doing any type of weightlifting you can count your reps in the gym, it requires a bit of a longer setup process so I never use that. feature there are some applications in the App Store on the Apple Watch we will do an automatic repetition count and the same configuration process friction points that I do not use either now that we finish the training what is the user experience how both watches will be displayed your distance your pace average of the entire race elevation that day's temperature times power and some other advanced metrics as well as the Apple Watch.

I can go ahead and just scroll once I'm done with my workout to see that information and then the Garmin goes to It automatically scrolls itself through that stuff and also shows a visual map of where I've run, so sometimes it's great to take Instagram photos of that visual map on the Garmin and post them, while the Apple Watch now only shows text. If you are doing any type of heart rate based training I prefer to use a heart rate chest strap, Garin and Polar are pretty good, they are actually very good, some of the best ones will use electrical signals from your heart to tell your heart rate which will update faster in terms of giving you your current heart rate at that moment, while the watches will use light and algorithms to guess your heart rate and are pretty good at getting close if you've seen videos from the quantified scientist desfit DC Rain maker, especially Rob the quant scientist, shows that Apple watches when it comes to heart rate accuracy are some of the best, I just know they will fall behind and be a little slower, especially when doing anything. type of training where it fluctuates a lot but steady state workouts with a little bit of movement you'll get the best information, like riding a bike, but when I'm running and I'm trying to do very specific heart rate zone workouts, I'll use these you just need make sure to wet them on both sides and then connect them via Bluetooth or ant, but I found that for the most part the heart rates are pretty close to each other, it depends on the color of your skin, the tightness, the profusion of the skin depending on the Si If you have tattoos, chances are they won't work, so this is your next best alternative.

Use it and you'll override the heart rate data and get very accurate information about what the experience is like when I'm actually exercising and can. I see the data I need while running, swimming, cycling. I would say running is probably the hardest exercise for looking at things like your watch or your phone because you're just moving up and down while you're cycling. You are more stable and with swimming you have to stop at the wall to look at your watch and lifting weights is much easier than everything else, so running is the hardest. I want to be able to absorb information quickly while I'm running and I've noticed that when I have personalized workouts on Garmin and I have that barometer like the red one on the sides and the green one in the middle, it's a lot easier to know if I'm hitting my pace, if I'm on track. within my heart rate zone with that simple image. color perspective where I don't have to actually read the information.

I can take a look and know what's going on. The Apple Watch doesn't have as good of a feature, it does have a pace feature but it's specific to the pace of your entire workout not that segment of your custom workout and the heart rate zones on the Apple Watch are pretty good because I can know what color tone I'm in, but sometimes those square blocks are too small, so when you're running you may not be able to tell what heart rate zone you're in, so at a glance, Garmin wins , but when I want to get more detailed information, both offer the ability to customize your data screens.

Customize the number of data screens on the Garmin I can press buttons without looking at the screen and review my different data screens on the Apple Watch. I would use the digital crown to scroll. It can be a little frustrating to scroll a digital crown when you're running, while pressing buttons can be a little frustrating. a little easier, especially when you don't have to look at the Apple Watch screen, the screen only needs to be active for you to scroll and scrolling takes a couple of milliseconds longer than pressing a button, so it's a little easier. harder, but for the most part I'm not switching screens because I'm tired, I'm exhausted, I'm sweaty, and I'm focusing on doing the workout with maximum effort instead of trying to look at information and when I try.

To make that look, how nice and bright the screens are, they are both bright and colorful. I think the Epics is much better than the Phoenix, but the Apple Watch is definitely very bright with the new 3000 nits. Arguably there is no drastic difference between the two. In terms of, can I see the screens when I'm running outside, as long as I get some of the newer models, including the new Garmin 965? All those screens are now very bright, very colorful. The older Garmin may have issues with screen brightness, but the newer Garmin. and almost all Apple watches will have great screens, the touch screens, the touch screen on the Apple watch is much more responsive, it feels like an iPhone, whereas on the Garmin there is just a slight delay, it feels like an Android, but when you start a training on

garmin

it will automatically lock the screen this is native to how it comes when you first buy it on the

apple

watch it doesn't automatically lock the screen nor is there a feature you can activate to do that me as a sweaty man man who sometimes wears long sleeves in the winter that long sleeve, as well as my sweat, can stop the workout pause the workout end the workout change my data screens, so I've learned that whenever I'm training, one important thing to do is turn on the lock water I press the control center, turn on the water lock and now I can't touch the screen.

I can't do anything with it, but all my buttons on the Apple Watch work, so I can still scroll right. I don't use the touch screen but I can use the digital crown and I can use the action button so I can start, stop and pause workouts and I'm not actually using the screen so that's just one thing I have to remember turn on the water lock I did a half marathon race one time where I forgot to open the water lock I was sweating I had long sleeves and it stopped my training and I was looking at my watch to see my pace and there was no training running and It was like no, my street is not going to show a full 13 miles.

I'm going to have 6 miles and then like 4 miles. I've been a little disappointed since then, I always wear two watches now to have some redundancy and then because I've worked well, I have to think about straps and sweatpants, always take off your watches, dry them, look at all that, look at that sweat that comes from sitting here in this hot room right now, you want to make sure it doesn't. You only check the hands of your watch, but you also allow your skin to breathe. It can be quite bad if you always wear your watch and don't allow it to breathe and moisture builds up.

There are different things on your skin, so take these watches off and use straps that are breathable, like this Ocean strap, which has some bumps, so more air can pass through and water can evaporate. The Garmin one also has some holes. I love Nike straps because they have a lot of holes and they can breathe the flexible straps can hold water sometimes they can dry faster but they only hold water on your skin so you really want to let them dry after you've worked out just make sure you get good straps for both and for the most part they have an easy on and off system, like here.

I can take off the strap and change it for a different strap. Apple Watch same thing, just press a button and slide it off. I have an easy system to turn them on and off, definitely on the newer Garmin and all the Apple watches, some of the older Garmins might have a different system now that we're done training. What is the user experience with sleep tracking and general training information? lots of wearables I'm always tracking my recovery Prep whatever you want to call it Garmin has a bunch of those things now they have like body battery they give you this as prep for thetraining where it says oh, you're unproductive you're productive, you're overtraining, you're detraining the Apple Watch doesn't natively have anything other than showing my sleep stages and total sleep time.

I think most of this information can be interesting tidbits, but it shouldn't decide how you feel. And I try to determine how I really feel and not let wearables decide how I feel that day, but one thing I love about the garment is that it has a morning report, so every time I wake up in the morning it will say Hello, good. tomorrow you have a morning report this is how you slept last night this is your preparation for training today this is your HRV and this is the weather it's a little cool it's clean but I would never let these things define how you feel and how you actually train It's just a fact .

Sometimes when I'm overtraining it can be nice to know that you're running too fast and too hard, but the one value I love is the V2 Max metric. I look at it a lot because I'm trying to increase my V2 Max and we all know that's a very important health metric and on the Apple Watch everything says 52 so it's definitely increasing. I'm trending up and both devices definitely say I'm above average. I'm not exceptional yet. Both watches will give you all this other information. It's like it's not necessary. You need the basics you need to be able to track your training.

You need to be able to do your training and you need to review it. and look how you did it, that's really all that's important, all this other stuff is fancy, it's like the cherry on top of the cherry on top of the other cherry, but I like to look at the race predictor here like it's almost in a sub . 25k supposedly this is all good, nice to have, I think I can do a 329 marathon, let's see if that's true when I do it in London in just 10 days, subscribe to watch that video, turn on your notifications below the straa integration, I think this one is huge. um, I think it's important to post your workouts online.

Don't know. I think it's cool to be able to see what other people are doing and also show what you're doing. It is inspiring. It can be a little competitive, but it's also fun. of these watches will take their native data from the Garmin app and the Apple training app and you can publish it to your Straa. They work exactly as they say and they don't, there are two things that I have noticed that I don't like about both: one, Garmin sends your data from your watch to your phone to Garmin servers and then Garmin servers will send that to Strava.

I found it very good because if the app doesn't work better, as long as the Garmin server works, it's on Straa, but there are cases where the Garmin servers go down, so sometimes you have to do it. wait a day, maybe two days before that job is posted on Strava or you can do it manually, Strava, you want to verify me. I love it, but you can follow me on Shervin Shares on Strava and the way you publish your Apple workouts is actually through Apple Health, so it will send it from your watch to your iPhone and store it in Apple Health and then you can upload it automatically or manually to the Strava cloud from the Strava app on your iPhone, so now I have both Apple Health. and Garmin connected, as you can see, my Garmin will automatically send that data to Straa.

I have them as public so you can see most of my runs. If I want to change the name, change the shoes I wore in that training. I have to do it. I open the app and update the Apple Health ones when I set it up manually. I would go ahead and manually import just my runs, so those are the ones with the shoes angled up, you can have auto uploads, but I prefer to do manual things. so I don't have to send everything and on my garment I only track runs anyway, the only problem I've had is that sometimes Apple Health can be a little weird when working with other apps.

I've had this on straa. in addition to training Peaks, but the solution I found is that as long as you delete the app, reinstall it and get permissions to improve health, then it can work and the automatic uploads are not perfect, that's why I choose manual uploads. Because it seems to work every time, so that's where I prefer the Garin I know. Whenever I open the Garment app, I sync it with my Garin app and it will be sent directly to Strava. I don't have to think about it. the specific settings on my iPhone final thoughts I'm 10 days away from the London Marathon which watch am I going to wear on my wrist because I want to make sure I have redundancy but if you follow me on straa Please note that I actually switched to using my Garmin as my main device and there are only a few reasons for that.

I've had too many occurrences where I accidentally ended the workout. I had issues where even though the GPS is locking the pace and distance data it was a little out of place on my ultra 2 and also adding the Hardware Integrations piece where I can see my heart rate strap, my pedometer is connected so soon as I start running while on the Apple Watch. I have to go to settings and it just creates extra effort to start my workout and because of that experience over the last year, I've decided to make the G my primary running device.

Now I think these things only matter when you're actually training and there are specific numbers you need to hit if you're super busy and don't have time to deal with tech issues. I will always use both. I will continually test them. Use the device that Having the Apple Watch is still amazing, they are both great devices. I would recommend either if you're someone just starting out training, but I have specific needs and the garment works best, so I've made that my primary career. device since you enjoyed this video, make sure to turn on notifications, subscribe below, follow me on all social media at Shervin Shares and check out my video where I compared the best smartwatches linked here.