For many years, I have been using a MiBand (1, 2, and then 4) fitness tracker. It helped me to switch my sleeping routine from going to sleep at 2 a.m. to waking up at 4:30 a.m., tracking my steps and trying to get my target every day, and crazy useful phone notifications, weather, music control, and of course, heart monitoring. Also nice battery life (3 weeks at the beginning, one week after many years).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was really nice and practical, and I finally decided to buy something more sport-focused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And I found a nice used Garmin Forerunner 45.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
I know, it is pretty old (they are the first round watches from Garmin!), but they have got a lot of features! And I wanted to see if they could somehow replace my MiBand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oh boy, they are really nice. Negative: less than a week of battery life; not-so-convenient music control; weather available only through the widgets (and not on the main screen); notifications filter and alarms are not really customizable (for MiBand I’ve used a third-party app “MiBand Notifications”, which is incredible)…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But everything else is crazy. Constant pulse monitoring, measurements every second (and not every 10 minutes); built-in GPS (it was soooo unusual to run without a phone); Garmin Connect platform is nice (crazy how much statistics I can get here!)… <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And now I’m using Garmin Coach to prepare myself for the 5km run. I’m really curious, how it will go. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For many years, I have been using a MiBand (1, 2, and then 4) fitness tracker. It helped me to switch my sleeping routine from going to sleep at 2 a.m. to waking up at 4:30 a.m., tracking my steps and trying to get my target every day, and crazy useful phone notifications, weather, music … <\/p>\n