Anyone use a Fitness Band or Fitness Watch?
I’ve been looking for one but I can’t find one that fits my needs. A significant portion of my fitness activities involve weightlifting. My research seems to indicate that these products fail to accurately/effectively deal with this activity. Also, I’m not sure something around the wrist is a great idea as I use lifting straps for shrugs and back exercises.
The only products I see that do weightlifting are sleeves which are well, just no (if you are a weightlifter you’ll understand on sight).
I don’t need it to even track a workout. I really would just like it to accurately reflect cardio and calories burned during the weightlifting. I guess to do all that it might need to track a workout, I dunno.
I also don’t want to stand there fumbling with the product before each set.
Does anyone have any input on this?
Edit 04FEB2019
I give up. All I wanted was a watch that accurately measures cardio and calories burned across all my activities. Especially and including weightlifting. I don’t need a coach, or advice. I don’t want to input my reps. I could live with a external monitor of some kind tied to the watch but not an arm or chest band. AFAIK the device I want doesn’t exist.
Garmin Vivoactive HR is said to have the best wrist HR reading during weightlifting. I have the polar m600 and HR is not acurate during weightlifting or even pushups. I use it with Polar h10 to get acurate results. Also you can check Polar OH1.
Still looking at the possibility of straps. I have fairly large arms so I’m gonna say no to the Polar OH1. Not sure about chest straps yet.
I’ve noticed that nothing I’ve seen mentions weight training, everything else but not that.
I’m guessing that I am not going to find what I want.
TBH there truly nothing that will work for weight lifting. The only thing that does is printing out weight work our sheets and writing your results down. When you get home then you can crunch the numbers of calories burn. As a fellow weight lifter myself that works the best for me. I hope this helps because honestly this area of working out is an untouched market.
I’m not finding an accurate device. I don’t need a coach, rep counter, gps, music… *sigh*
Fitbit has a weightlifting tracker, but it only tracks heart rate and calories burned. You set it to weight lifting and start it before you work out and stop at the end of the work out. It is a watch on the wrist so if you use straps it might interfere with your weight lifting. Fitbod app has a good workout app for weight lifting, but it does not track it on your body you have to enter it in the app.
Thanks!