Apple Watch Ultra V Garmin Fenix - After SIX Months

Six

months

ago I bought the Apple Watch Ultra, it has a photo of my dog ​​on it. The plan was to review it right away and decide that I was nowhere near being able to replace my Garmin yet. A Phoenix has been with me through deserts, mountains and throughout my fitness journey, it is simply unbeatable and then I return it, but this took me by surprise and just three

months

later it had become my daily

watch

. In my last video on this, I had to admit that Apple had finally produced a smart

watch

that was of real use to someone other than a person who simply wants to make contactless payments for their plant-based wrap at Starbucks and then check their step count for the day this was useful for athletes, so where does that leave me today?

Well, very light. From all the Garmin Fanboys and the disappointment of one or two vegans at Starbucks, I've changed my mind, but not in the way you might think when I made that last video three months ago explaining that I now used Apple all the time. It made it very clear that it was not the best sports watch. This is a Garmin Fenix ​​7x. In my opinion, it is the best sports watch you can buy today. However, it did do some things that Garmin simply couldn't do and those things were pretty important. For me, I've forgiven its weaknesses in other areas, it gets the job done, but in short, it's an iPhone on your wrist and that's beneficial enough for me that I can tolerate looking a bit geeky using this device now.

In that video I also made it clear that the particular requirements I have for a watch may be very different to yours and therefore, while the Apple Watch is perfect for me, it may be completely useless for you, for example, some People said it didn't occur to them. anything worse than going for a run and having your phone with you they wanted that time to be undisturbed they didn't want people to grab them they wanted to enjoy the quiet of silence while they exercised. I have a whole bag with their name on it, they're probably the kind of people who take a cold bath daily and do breathing exercises and that's fine, it's not the clock for them, so what's changed for me, well, no So much so, I still think Garmin is by far the best sports watch and I think Apple's ability to allow me to leave my phone at home and go for a run with just this and still have the phone able to receive and send text messages, streaming music, GPS, is incredibly useful, so for example, I recently ran in the mountains of Wales, where a mobile phone had to be carried in the gear bag anyway and my watch had to be a tracking device foolproof, certainly with a Garmin, but when I go for a 10k run at night around the block with the dog and there's nothing to track but distance and time while listening to some Springsteen the block is perfect but it What's different now is that having owned both watches I've obviously focused a lot of attention on what they do best and as I explained that's pretty clear, but I've also spent quite a bit of time looking at the additional features they both offer to try and see which one works best if I choose one. of this.

I'm going to miss something buried deep in each other's menu options that I couldn't live without if I knew, so I've seen every 20 things you didn't know about Apple Watch videos and the 10 coolest features. With Garmin videos I become an expert on the little things that differentiate them from each other and I have decided that I don't care when I am halfway up a hill and I want to know how much further I have to go because I can. I don't see because of the freezing fog the Garmin will tell me and it will be accurate and I like that and when I'm at the gym doing 20 minutes on the rower and I want to tell Siri to start playing the next track once I send her a text to Jen telling her I'll be home soon so stay in the sauna, Apple has it covered and I like that but when it comes to which she tells me I've had enough REM sleep or my heart rate variability indicates it, then I should be training with great enthusiasm today or whenever my pulsiox levels suggest whatever the pulsiox levels suggest.

I'm just not interested. I spent weeks going through a bunch of different apps on the Apple Watch to try to replicate the Garmin's body battery features and got stuck on the Garmin's resistance prediction settings and eventually found myself thinking what are you doing, you're almost 50 years old? you woke up feeling good yes you feel energized yes you have a free hour yes good To go to the gym, you don't need permission from one of these first, maybe if you were a high level athlete who wanted to extract every last ounce of performance, I might be more inclined to pay more attention to those things, but still, here's a good one.

For example, I did a VO2 test in a lab connected to enough technology to send a man to the moon. I also had my nearly thousand pound Garmin estimate my VO2 max for many hours evaluating my physiological metrics and then I ran. around a track for 12 minutes I looked at my results on a graph invented in 1955 and got the same number. I didn't need the technology and yet what is the VO2 number I got? Tell me anyway that for a big old lump, it was pretty fast running a relatively short distance. I know here I am at my local Duck Pond beating foreign ER ducks from my age group in a 10km race with 500 meters to go, someone bigger and fatter than me passes, all is not well, there are some things just I don't need technology to help me exercise.

Interestingly, I recently made a video about how my dog, who doesn't wear any sports tracking devices because he's a dog, still loves to go for runs, doesn't track any. metric when he works out, he just runs around and has a lot of fun. In that video, many people said that they had also given up their obsession with tracking every last detail of their exercise and that we are just finding simple enjoyment in the activity instead of the data, they called it running naked, hey honey, I like it so much the idea of ​​Jen and I doing a race tomorrow like this, the first time I'll run a race without a watch, is highly unlikely to be my normal approach.

I actually did a run in the park today where I was looking to get a very specific time, so I was watching my watch closely, but it will be good to know that sometimes I can run without data, so what does that mean that I do now regarding to choose between these two and, as I explain this, I am aware that I speak as someone who obviously owns both devices, so I will conclude by choosing only one. My recommendation will not be both. He said I use both as needed. It actually means they both spend most of their time sitting charging now, if I'm going to run around the block I'll take the Apple for a short 10K run, probably Garmin's mid distance, probably Garmin's actual long distance run.

Apple that I carry a the phone is normally part of the rules anyway I will probably go back to using the Garmin multiple different types of cardio at the gym Apple Watch with the Work Outdoors app that tracks all of that perfectly I love using it because we will meet with friends in the pub probably a Seiko that is rude Pub G-Shock went out to dinner Friend went out to dinner somewhere rude I don't go out to dinner in places that are rude I sit at home doing nothing fastening my seatbelt without looking nothing happens to her to my body While I was watching Netflix and eating Doritos with chili and a homemade avocado dip that I need to keep up with a watch, someone asked me a good question the other day: How can I collect data from both?

I am currently using Peaks for cardio only. Someone too. I was asked how I track my lifting workouts. I have a little notebook and I write things in it if I need to. They told me: Oh, don't use the rep counting function on watches. So no, I don't know what the rep count is. The function of a clock is like that of my car, if I move my fingers like this in front of the stereo, some camera sensor raises or lowers the volume. I think this silences it and this turns it up. I don't know, there's a button.

Also, although on, off, up and down, just because your technician has a feature doesn't mean you have to use it and I understand the temptation to use the feature when I bought the car. I sat on the road for an hour learning the ropes. signals I look like Matthew Broderick and Project remo sends the data back to Training Peaks, so all my information is there and I have to say it's liberating to not be tied to a clock 24/7 for the first time in years. There's a small part of me that still sees the appeal. of a device when it's all me 24/7, especially when I turn on the Garmin and information pops up about how my training is off or my readiness is low because it doesn't know those things because the person isn't with me. most of the time. the moment and momentarily I think it would be nice if he knew me better, but I ignore him, tell him I'm going for a run and continue with it, so in summary, my recommendation really hasn't changed since the last video.

I simply want the best sports watch you can get, no doubt, it's still Garmin. If you need the phone on your wrist, the capabilities of a smartwatch, the Apple Watch Ultra is the best you can get. If I could only have one, I would still have it. It's probably Apple simply because there are so many things Apple can do that Garment simply can't and they're things I use almost daily, in contrast Garmin definitely does some things better than Apple seems to. Decent sports watch for one, but those are things it's doing better than Apple, they're not necessarily things Apple can't do at all, the only thing Garmin really does for me that the app just can't is Monitor. and follow me in an extreme or long distance event where the information is quite Mission critical if I'm doing any type of event that lasts more than a few hours a 50k race definitely a 100K Ultra I'm using Garmin I'm running a I downloaded the map on it , all the data I need right where I want it and I know it will work, Apple could do it, but in my opinion it is starting to lose its depth and at least I don't want to be.

After 10 hours of running, I don't have to start checking things like battery life; In fact, if I only had the

apple

and I was doing a 100 km race, someone would lend me a Garmin to do the race, so three months ago I said that for me it was Apple 99 of the time, but now I've really made up my mind for probably 50 Apple 20 Garmin the rest of the time, a normal watch or nothing at all, as always I reserve the right to change my mind, this channel is only about What am I doing now? If in the future a different kit suits my needs better or my needs change I will update accordingly and lastly some people asked me last time if Apple paid me to stop using the Kit.

Garmin the answer is no, I buy my watches with my money and if I were creating a video for Apple where I said what I said in that last video, I don't know who I would recommend this to four other than people. those who like coffee shop avocados and counting their steps and me, I'm not sure they consider them worth their money, so there's no way Apple and Organ probably know who I am, however, if they're listening, this is what they could do to change. how I use your devices Garmin needs to do whatever it takes to make this work on the cellular network.

I mean, if you could do that, just take my money. Manzana. I mean, they have somewhere to go. They could really begin. just making it look cooler I was at a family meal recently. I looked around the table and realized that more than half of the people there had Apple watches on, these are not athletes, if there is much tracking of their steps I would be surprised. They are probably more excited about the possibility of having a photo of their Cocker Shitsu on the screen saver than anything else. It has a photo of my dog. If Apple could make its watch look really sporty, that would be amazing.

I wanted to look at home on Arnold's wrist, not just Uncle Arnold's wrist, okay, that's it, I'm out of here.