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Originally Posted by Badhobz
i dont usually wear my watch during workouts so i only have a few tracking of my runs, but it says heartrate 78-120bpm for a 40 minute run at 5mph on the treadmill last week.
Same with this elliptical thing yesterday. feels weird wearing a watch during the gym. Are these dumb things even accurate?
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For heart rate and cardio tracking the Apple Watch is accurate enough (some say it's quite accurate) that you can get useful data from it. Cardio tracking (V02) only works on walks/runs which is a bummer - if you don't run you don't get great data but it does seems accurate. My pal runs marathons and is a 55 V02 which maps well to his runs.
Resting heart rate can be a bit spotty (like I'll get a reading 15bpm higher than the trend once in a while) but the trend is useful.
Stuff like exercise minutes or calories burned can be easily manipulated and stuff like the standing up tracker is pretty useless.