Apple Watch vs Garmin for Runners - Don't Waste Your Money! — Transcript

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1. 0:00okay today we're going to tackle that
2. 0:01age-old question that I get asked on a
3. 0:04routine basis from friends and family
4. 0:06and here on YouTube in the comments
5. 0:08which one should you go for an Apple
6. 0:10Watch or a Garmin this is going to be a
7. 0:13deep dive let's talk about it this video
8. 0:14is designed for the person just starting
9. 0:16to explore the options when it comes to
10. 0:19GPS multisport watches smart watches
11. 0:22that sort of thing and one of the
12. 0:23questions that you'll quickly realize
13. 0:26when you're getting into this mess is
14. 0:28that it's really hard to decide which
15. 0:30way to go should you go for an Apple
16. 0:31Watch with all the Smartwatch
17. 0:33capabilities and cellular connectivity
18. 0:35and apps or should you go for something
19. 0:37like a Garmin which is a little bit more
20. 0:39focused on being a fitness watch rather
21. 0:42than a smartwatch now truth be told
22. 0:44there are no bad options here all the
23. 0:47watches I have on the table here are
24. 0:49really nice the thing is when it comes
25. 0:51to either a Garin or an Apple Watch
26. 0:53there's always going to be a sacrifice
27. 0:55there's going to be pros and cons to
28. 0:57both and it's really going to boil down
29. 0:58to your specific use case as to which
30. 1:01one's right for you now my goal in this
31. 1:03video today is to run through all the
32. 1:06differences all the variables and try to
33. 1:08help you decide which one is the right
34. 1:10tool for the job and keep in mind as we
35. 1:12go through this that I'm not going to be
36. 1:14talking about specific models in general
37. 1:17we're going to keep this pretty high
38. 1:18level so we can actually get through
39. 1:19this video so looking at my table here
40. 1:21you can see there's a lot of garments on
41. 1:23the left side of the screen here and
42. 1:25that's because Garmin makes a lot of
43. 1:26different watches at a lot of different
44. 1:28different price points it's very
45. 1:30confusing now if we look at the right
46. 1:31side of the table here it's it's much
47. 1:33simpler I've got two apple watches out
48. 1:35of the three current models that are
49. 1:36available from them they've got the base
50. 1:39model which is the Apple watch SE coming
51. 1:41in at
52. 1:42$249 that's retail price then the middle
53. 1:45of the road would be the Apple Watch
54. 1:47series 9 which comes in at around
55. 1:50$399 and then finally the most expensive
56. 1:53option would be the Apple watch Ultra 2
57. 1:55which comes in at $800 or $799 here in
58. 1:58the USA keep keep in mind that's not
59. 2:01sale pricing that's going to vary
60. 2:02wherever you are in the world so Apple
61. 2:04basically offers three different models
62. 2:06at three different price points and
63. 2:07within those three different models
64. 2:08there's even more variables like a
65. 2:10stainless steel version of the Apple
66. 2:12Watch series 9 versus the aluminum and
67. 2:14cellular versus versus non- cellular and
68. 2:16all of that will change the pricing
69. 2:18accordingly on the other hand if we go
70. 2:20over to the Garmin side of things Garmin
71. 2:22just makes a lot of different models for
72. 2:24example they have watches starting at
73. 2:27$249 like this Vivo active 5 I have here
74. 2:30but on the same token they also have the
75. 2:31Garmin Foreigner 165 which again is $249
76. 2:36both watches are the same price they
77. 2:38just vary in what features are offered
78. 2:40so on the Vivo active 5 for example it's
79. 2:43more of a wellness device while on the
80. 2:45Gman forigner 165 it's more designed for
81. 2:48runners the point I'm trying to get at
82. 2:50here is you're going to notice in the
83. 2:51Garmin camp that there's going to be
84. 2:53silos there's going to be like Adventure
85. 2:55oriented watches like this Garmin
86. 2:57Instinct 2x here that's going to going
87. 2:59to be lumped in with something like the
88. 3:01Garmin epics Gen 2 or the Phoenix 7
89. 3:04these are all like hiking outdoor style
90. 3:06watches that can sort of do it all then
91. 3:08there's the forer lineup which is the
92. 3:10Garmin forigner 265 or the 965 I'm
93. 3:13wearing here which are more in the
94. 3:15running lineup and then there's Wellness
95. 3:17devices like the Garmin venue series I
96. 3:19have here or the Vivo active 5 I have
97. 3:22here which are more designed to help
98. 3:24with like day-to-day wellness and
99. 3:25fitness and the moral of the story here
100. 3:27is that both apple and Garmin offer
101. 3:30devices ranging from $250 all the way up
102. 3:33to like ,000 so it's really gonna depend
103. 3:35on your budget and what you're looking
104. 3:37for okay I hope that helps hey there
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117. 4:00right along into the next topic let's
118. 4:01talk about design and size options and
119. 4:04the form factor so again between these
120. 4:06two different brands there's going to be
121. 4:08various sizes to choose from and that's
122. 4:10going to be important depending on the
123. 4:12size of your wrist for me for example I
124. 4:14have 16.5 cm circumference wrist and
125. 4:17this is the Garmin Foreigner 965 which
126. 4:20comes in at 47 mm in diameter however if
127. 4:23I was to take the Garmin Epix Pro 51 mm
128. 4:25here you can see it's quite a bit bigger
129. 4:27it's a much chunkier watch and on my
130. 4:29wrist it's a little bit big and that's
131. 4:31really going to boil down to your
132. 4:32personal preference and how big your
133. 4:34wrists are and the nice thing about
134. 4:36Garmin is that they actually make small
135. 4:37versions of most of their bigger watches
136. 4:40for example there's a 265 and then a
137. 4:43265s which is 42 mm in diameter when it
138. 4:46comes to sizing when we jump over to the
139. 4:48Apple side of things you do have some
140. 4:49sizes to choose from there as well if
141. 4:51you go with that Apple watch SE or an
142. 4:54Apple Watch series 9 both of those
143. 4:55models do have two different size op
144. 4:57options to choose from now this one here
145. 5:00is an Apple Watch 45 mm form factor and
146. 5:03you can see on my 16.5 cm circumference
147. 5:05wrists it fits me pretty well now
148. 5:08jumping all the way up to the Apple
149. 5:10watch Ultra 2 here this watch only comes
150. 5:13in one size form factor and that is 49
151. 5:16mm so it is quite a bit bigger than the
152. 5:19smaller Apple watches but then again
153. 5:21it's still not like crazy bulky for my
154. 5:23size wrist so I can wear this day today
155. 5:26without a problem the other thing to
156. 5:27consider when it comes to size though is
157. 5:29the form factor or the aspect ratio of
158. 5:31the watch where Garmin are typically
159. 5:33round for the most part they do have one
160. 5:35square watch but generally all of their
161. 5:38modern day watches are round this is the
162. 5:40Epic Pro 51 mm on the left here while
163. 5:43apple on the other hand makes
164. 5:45rectangular watches there are some pros
165. 5:47and cons to both for me I do like the
166. 5:49look of a standard round watch however
167. 5:52the Apple watch does provide a little
168. 5:53bit more screen real estate because of
169. 5:56that square shape design moving right
170. 5:58along into the next top topic let's talk
171. 6:00about the user interface between Garmin
172. 6:02and Apple watch and how they differ the
173. 6:04user user interface on the Garmin
174. 6:06watches will vary depending on the model
175. 6:09that you purchase you can see here I've
176. 6:10got a 4Runner model and an epics model
177. 6:12but if I scroll down between these two
178. 6:14models the user interface like looks a
179. 6:17little bit different it's very similar
180. 6:18but like the animations are slightly
181. 6:20different now on the Apple side of
182. 6:21things the user interface across all
183. 6:24Apple watches is the same you could have
184. 6:25an Apple Watch series 5 or like a really
185. 6:28old Apple watch it'll look nearly
186. 6:30identical to how this Apple watch Ultra
187. 6:332 looks when you're using it and
188. 6:34scrolling through the menus the next
189. 6:35thing I want to talk about is actually
190. 6:37interacting with these watches and how
191. 6:39that differs between Apple and Garmin as
192. 6:41well so for example on the Apple watch
193. 6:44it basically leverages the touchcreen
194. 6:45for everything you do not everything
195. 6:47we'll talk about that in a minute but
196. 6:49most things you do on the Apple watch
197. 6:51you're going to need to use the
198. 6:52touchscreen for example if I'm scrolling
199. 6:54through the menu here and I want to
200. 6:56select I don't know the sleep app for
201. 6:58example there's no button here to select
202. 7:00that particular thing I can't just like
203. 7:02push a button on the side here to select
204. 7:04sleep I have to physically tap on sleep
205. 7:06and that will open the app not a huge
206. 7:09deal but if you're out on a hike or a
207. 7:12run for example and you've got wet
208. 7:13sweaty hands using a touchcreen can be a
209. 7:16little bit of a hassle on the other hand
210. 7:18on the Apple watch Ultra 2 for example
211. 7:20you do get an extra button on this watch
212. 7:22and as you can see on the side here this
213. 7:24orange button that they call the action
214. 7:26button can be mapped to various things
215. 7:28so for me I've actually map that to
216. 7:30launch my my workout activities so I can
217. 7:32click on that it'll open up the workout
218. 7:35app now I can choose run for example
219. 7:37again I can't just select run by using a
220. 7:39button I have to physically tap on it
221. 7:41but now that I'm in there I can actually
222. 7:43use the the action button to start my
223. 7:45workout as you can see there it just
224. 7:47started I can Mark a segment with that
225. 7:49button and I can even pinch two buttons
226. 7:51at the same time to pause my workout
227. 7:54however I can't end my workout with
228. 7:56buttons I still have to swipe over and
229. 7:58click the end button physically there to
230. 7:59end the workout so as you can see it's
231. 8:01kind of like a hybrid of using buttons
232. 8:03and screens to get things done now if we
233. 8:05go over to the Garment side of things
234. 8:07that's where things are a little bit
235. 8:08simpler so if you're looking to use more
236. 8:10of a tactile button-based user interface
237. 8:13that's where Garmin excels so as you can
238. 8:16see here if I scroll through this epics
239. 8:17Pro I can do everything with the buttons
240. 8:20I can go into my last activity there
241. 8:22click on that now I can scroll down and
242. 8:25I can look into different activities I
243. 8:27can open up the maps from that activity
244. 8:28or look at my heart read zones
245. 8:30everything on this watch can be done
246. 8:31from the buttons and not only that I can
247. 8:34actually disable the touchscreen
248. 8:35entirely if I don't want to use it again
249. 8:37though this is going to vary depending
250. 8:39on what Garmin watch you choose for
251. 8:40example the Garmin venue 3 here which is
252. 8:43more of like a smartwatch Wellness watch
253. 8:45kind of situation only has three buttons
254. 8:47on the side so you can't do everything
255. 8:49on this watch from the buttons on this
256. 8:51Garmin occasionally you will need to use
257. 8:53the touchcreen so it's going to boil
258. 8:54down to what model you choose if it's an
259. 8:57epics or a 4Runner it can be completely
260. 8:59button based and touchcreen based if
261. 9:02it's a venue 3 or a Vivo active then
262. 9:05you're going to have to use the
263. 9:06touchcreen for most things and if you
264. 9:08have an instinct series that's where
265. 9:10there's no touchcreen at all and you
266. 9:12will be using the buttons for absolutely
267. 9:14everything confused yet I am too let's
268. 9:16move on now let's talk about the actual
269. 9:18user interface between Apple and Garmin
270. 9:21because they are very very different so
271. 9:23on the Apple watch it could be an Ultra
272. 9:252 a series 9 a series 8 series 7 they're
273. 9:28all kind of the same their user
274. 9:29interface is quite different it's
275. 9:31basically like having an iPhone strapped
276. 9:34to your wrist if I dive into my app menu
277. 9:36here you can see that it's really
278. 9:38reactive and there's lots of animations
279. 9:40and colors and everything just looks
280. 9:41really nice the controls are super
281. 9:44smooth there's no delay no lag no
282. 9:47waiting for anything to happen this is a
283. 9:49really Snappy user interface however in
284. 9:51here you'll find things like you know
285. 9:53Apple music or messages to check your
286. 9:55text messages you can scroll down and
287. 9:57you can open up the phone app to make a
288. 9:59phone call right from the watch without
289. 10:01even having your phone on you you can
290. 10:02open up Apple photos and look at recent
291. 10:04photos you took with your iPhone and it
292. 10:07ties into the Apple ecosystem really
293. 10:10tightly so if you get a text message on
294. 10:12your phone it's going to pop up on here
295. 10:14instantly you can reply to your text
296. 10:15messages from your watch you can stream
297. 10:17music to your watch using cellular data
298. 10:19again just keeping this pretty high
299. 10:20level to keep things moving I'll just
300. 10:22summarize the Apple watch by saying it's
301. 10:24a lot like your phone just really tiny
302. 10:26and strapped to your wrist now jumping
303. 10:28over the Garmin watches here here that's
304. 10:29where the user interface is a little bit
305. 10:31different because if you scroll down
306. 10:33you'll notice that the Garmin watches
307. 10:35prioritize your health and fitness over
308. 10:37everything else so the first thing you
309. 10:39see are things that will assist you in
310. 10:41your health and fitness here we've got a
311. 10:43weather widget then we've got the sunset
312. 10:45and sunrise widget but if I scroll down
313. 10:47you'll see my weekly mileage here this
314. 10:49is my last activity which was running
315. 10:51you'll see uh Health which will show me
316. 10:53my body battery which is a metric used
317. 10:55to try to help you identify how much
318. 10:58energy you have left in your day you've
319. 11:00got my sleep data there my heart rate
320. 11:02throughout the day my HRV status that's
321. 11:04heart rate variability that'll let you
322. 11:06know how your HRV is doing from dayto
323. 11:08day and whether or not it's declining or
324. 11:10going up you've got your step count and
325. 11:12your spo2 data there as well but it
326. 11:14doesn't just end there with like
327. 11:16wellness data if I scroll down you've
328. 11:18also got things like your estimated V2
329. 11:20Max here this is a good gauge on your
330. 11:22Fitness level and how your training is
331. 11:24helping your Fitness improve if I back
332. 11:26out of there I've even got things like
333. 11:27the hill score and then there's this
334. 11:29metric here called training readiness
335. 11:31which is one of my favorite metrics on
336. 11:33Garmin watches if I dive into this you
337. 11:35can see it says my training readiness is
338. 11:37moderate and if I scroll down it shows
339. 11:39all the factors that play a role into my
340. 11:41training readiness so that's my sleep my
341. 11:44recovery my HRV status my training load
342. 11:47my sleep history my stress history and
343. 11:50all those things roll up into that one
344. 11:52score that is training readiness to help
345. 11:54you identify how ready you are to take
346. 11:56on more training on a given day and then
347. 11:59on the the garments you do have tools
348. 12:00like training status and training status
349. 12:02will basically aggregate all of your
350. 12:04recent activities and let you know if
351. 12:06it's improving or productive to your
352. 12:08Fitness or decreasing or you know
353. 12:10straining your Fitness level because
354. 12:12you're overtraining or you're not doing
355. 12:13enough to be clear even though the Apple
356. 12:15watch doesn't present all the same data
357. 12:17that the Garmin do front and center
358. 12:20right on the watch itself it still does
359. 12:22collect all of that data including your
360. 12:24sleep your daily Wellness your step
361. 12:26count and even more advanced metrics
362. 12:28like the V 2 max for example and that's
363. 12:31all viewable within the Apple Health app
364. 12:33however it's still missing features like
365. 12:35body battery and training load but
366. 12:37that's where third-party apps come in to
367. 12:39sort of fill the gaps so even though the
368. 12:41Apple watch prioritizes smart functions
369. 12:43like phone calls and text messages and
370. 12:45streaming and all that stuff it can do a
371. 12:48whole lot more because the Apple App
372. 12:50Store has thousands of apps that you can
373. 12:52download to your Apple watch there's
374. 12:54just about an app for everything
375. 12:55imaginable I have an app on mine to like
376. 12:57open up my garage doors so like I said
377. 13:00the appw watch doesn't prioritize the
378. 13:01health and wellness data like right off
379. 13:03the bat but if you download an app like
380. 13:05athletic or Elite HRV they can get the
381. 13:07job done too in a very similar way to
382. 13:10Garmin watches they're just doing it
383. 13:12with a third-party app and that's kind
384. 13:14of what Apple does with everything Apple
385. 13:16basically gives you the foundation which
386. 13:18is the Apple watch itself with a really
387. 13:20slick looking user interface and then
388. 13:22they rely on thirdparty developers and
389. 13:24apps to kind of fill in the gaps for
390. 13:26what you want to do jumping back over to
391. 13:28the Garmin watches here there is an app
392. 13:29store for Garmin as well it's called
393. 13:31connect IQ or Garmin Connect IQ the
394. 13:34difference here is that on Garmin
395. 13:35Connect IQ first of all there's a lot
396. 13:37less offerings there there's not a lot
397. 13:39of thirdparty Developers for Garmin but
398. 13:42if you are looking for a watch face
399. 13:44there are thousand thousands of them you
400. 13:45can download to your watch another thing
401. 13:47you can download is data fields and data
402. 13:49fields are little Snippets of
403. 13:50information that can show up during an
404. 13:53activities so if you're out on a run and
405. 13:55you want a data field to show your
406. 13:56elevation data on a little graph you'll
407. 13:58probably find that on the connect IQ
408. 14:00store and that just allows you to
409. 14:02customize your activity data Pages what
410. 14:04you actually see when you're out on a
411. 14:06run so to summarize the Apple App Store
412. 14:08with the Apple watch there's a ton of
413. 14:10apps out there thousands of them to do
414. 14:12just about everything you can imagine
415. 14:14where on the Garmin Connect app store
416. 14:16it's really focused on watch faces and
417. 14:19some simple apps along with data fields
418. 14:21moving along to the next topic let's
419. 14:23talk about activity profiles and
420. 14:25recording activities with the Apple
421. 14:27watch and the garments so again this
422. 14:29ation will tie into Apps a little bit as
423. 14:31well because you know for the most part
424. 14:33I like to use the built-in default app
425. 14:35for working out from Apple which does
426. 14:37have a lot of activity profiles from
427. 14:39indoor running outdoor running and
428. 14:41everything in between you can even go
429. 14:42down and click add workout and you'll
430. 14:44see things like badminton bar basketball
431. 14:47soccer dancing American football archery
432. 14:50you name it apples probably got it
433. 14:52there's a lot of activity profiles here
434. 14:54for just about everything now the nice
435. 14:56thing about Apple is that if it's
436. 14:58missing an activity profile you can
437. 15:00probably find an app for that so if
438. 15:02you're somebody who's like playing
439. 15:04pickle ball or something and you
440. 15:05couldn't find that in this list you'll
441. 15:07probably be able to find a pickle ball
442. 15:09app on the App Store to fill that Gap
443. 15:11and another nice thing about the Apple
444. 15:12App Store is that there's thirdparty
445. 15:14apps for recording activities like
446. 15:17workout doors which is one of my
447. 15:18favorites for example it costs like five
448. 15:21bucks and it's a way better workout
449. 15:23experience compared to the native
450. 15:25built-in workout app on the Apple watch
451. 15:27in my opinion at least because it does
452. 15:29have built-in mapping and navigation
453. 15:31when you're out on your trail run or
454. 15:33hike which I find really valuable again
455. 15:35there's just a lot of flexibility when
456. 15:37it comes to the Apple watch and the App
457. 15:38Store there's a lot more you can do
458. 15:40there now on the Garment side of things
459. 15:42again there are a ton of activity
460. 15:43profiles to choose from within the
461. 15:45workout app here so if I scroll down
462. 15:47you're even going to see things like
463. 15:48soccer and football American football
464. 15:50basketball baseball team sports but more
465. 15:53simple things like running and cycling
466. 15:55as well and then on top of that you will
467. 15:56find you know crazy things like X
468. 15:58edition if you're climing climbing Mount
469. 16:00Everest this particular activity profile
470. 16:02will only ping a GPS satellite every few
471. 16:05hours to conserve battery life so you
472. 16:07can go on a super long hike without
473. 16:09killing your battery so there's more
474. 16:11like Niche activities I think on the
475. 16:13Garmin side of things where the Apple
476. 16:16watch is a little bit more basic when it
477. 16:18comes to activity recording and on the
478. 16:19activity tracking side of things let's
479. 16:21talk about navigation and mapping if you
480. 16:24are a hiker a trail Runner somebody who
481. 16:26goes off the beaten path and you want to
482. 16:28navigate around by using your watch
483. 16:29instead of getting your phone out every
484. 16:312 seconds that's where it's sort of a
485. 16:33landslide victory for Garmin because
486. 16:35they have built-in offline maps that are
487. 16:37for your entire region so if you need to
488. 16:40find a waypoint you can look it up right
489. 16:42on your watch tap on it click go and
490. 16:44it'll actually give you turn BYT
491. 16:45directions without a cellular connection
492. 16:47to wherever you're trying to get to and
493. 16:50the mapping and navigation on Garmin is
494. 16:52really Advanced on the Apple side of
495. 16:54things it does have mapping and
496. 16:55navigation in fact a little while ago
497. 16:57they introduced offline mapping and
498. 16:59navigation to the Apple Watch series
499. 17:01however the offline mapping relied on
500. 17:03your phone I don't know why they did
501. 17:05this but instead of having the maps
502. 17:07downloaded right to the watch you still
503. 17:09needed your phone on you even if you're
504. 17:11like in the back country looking up a
505. 17:13map on your watch that being said if you
506. 17:15are used to something like Google Maps
507. 17:16or Apple Maps for example the mapping
508. 17:19experience on the Garmin watches can be
509. 17:21a little bit frustrating because as you
510. 17:23can see it's not like crazy fast
511. 17:25responsive it's a little bit laggy and
512. 17:27that's just the case because these
513. 17:29watches have a slower computer inside
514. 17:31slower Graphics handling and because of
515. 17:34that it's a little harder to navigate
516. 17:35through the mapping totally usable once
517. 17:37you get used to it but it is something
518. 17:38to consider if you're used to like an
519. 17:40Apple Watch or navigating on your phone
520. 17:42for example and finally on the topic of
521. 17:44navigation and mapping one more thing I
522. 17:46should mention is that it gets a lot
523. 17:48more confusing on the Garmin watches as
524. 17:50to which ones have mapping and which one
525. 17:52don't for example if you buy the Garmin
526. 17:55Vivo active 5 here this watch has no
527. 17:57mapping or navigation despite being a
528. 17:59Garmin watch but if you buy something
529. 18:02like the Garmin Foreigner 265 here this
530. 18:04has bra basic breadcrumb navigation
531. 18:07which means you'll be able to see a
532. 18:08little squiggly line of where you've
533. 18:09gone so far you'll be able to use that
534. 18:11line to get back to the beginning of
535. 18:12your activity but you won't have any
536. 18:14context around you you want to have a
537. 18:16base map that will show you like other
538. 18:18Trails or waterways or roads or anything
539. 18:20like that and then finally you do have
540. 18:22the Garmin Phoenix the epics the Garmin
541. 18:24forer 965 here and all these watches do
542. 18:27have that full-blown color mapping
543. 18:29capabilities so again it's important to
544. 18:32focus in on what product you're actually
545. 18:34looking at from Garmin and what features
546. 18:36you need and now that we've talked about
547. 18:38the activity tracking apps let's talk
548. 18:40about accuracy how accurate are the GPS
549. 18:43antennas on these watches and what kind
550. 18:45of tracks can you get from any of these
551. 18:47watches including all these other
552. 18:49garments I have here so instead of going
553. 18:50through every single model and telling
554. 18:52you how accurate or inaccurate it is I'm
555. 18:54just going to generalize this and say
556. 18:56that if you're a beginner looking to get
557. 18:58into a Garmin or an Apple Watch I
558. 19:00wouldn't even worry about GPS accuracy
559. 19:02at this point most of the watches on the
560. 19:04table here have something called dual
561. 19:07band multi-band multi signal
562. 19:09multifrequency it's a nice way of saying
563. 19:12that they're some of the most accurate
564. 19:13on the market and yes some are better
565. 19:16than others for example I've had really
566. 19:17good luck with the Apple watch Ultra 2
567. 19:19the Garmin forer 965 here the Epic Pro
568. 19:22are all really good when it comes to GPS
569. 19:24accuracy but largely all the watches I
570. 19:26have here are pretty good and if you buy
571. 19:28a recent generation Garmin or Apple
572. 19:31watch I would not worry about GPS
573. 19:33accuracy again there's going to be some
574. 19:35Nuance there like some are better than
575. 19:37others but if you're just getting into
576. 19:39this it's not something that's going to
577. 19:40really matter to you with GPS accuracy
578. 19:42out of the way let a good segue into
579. 19:44Optical heart rate sensor accuracy
580. 19:46because of course all these watches do
581. 19:48have a heart rate sensor on the back of
582. 19:50them however they're not all created
583. 19:52equal and that's where things again get
584. 19:54a little bit confusing on the Garment
585. 19:55side of things because they've had so
586. 19:57many different heart rate sensors
587. 19:58throughout the years now for the purpose
588. 20:00of this video we're just going to focus
589. 20:01on their latest generation of heart rate
590. 20:03sensors and here I have the Gen 5 sensor
591. 20:05on the left on this epics Pro and on the
592. 20:07right we have the Gen 4 heart rate
593. 20:09sensor there are some differences
594. 20:10between the two on the New Gen 5 sensor
595. 20:13there's a couple of new features for
596. 20:15example the Gen 5 sensor can pick up
597. 20:17your skin temperature while you're
598. 20:18sleeping throughout the night and that
599. 20:20can determine whether or not you're
600. 20:22coming down with something and getting
601. 20:23sick or even if you're overtraining the
602. 20:25Gen 5 heart rate sensor also has ECG or
603. 20:27electrocardio built-in while the Gen 4
604. 20:30heart rate sensor does not now in my
605. 20:32testing so far both of these sensors
606. 20:34have performed really well but again
607. 20:36there are a lot of variables that play
608. 20:38into accuracy with Optical heart rate
609. 20:40sensors from having tattoos to the color
610. 20:42of your skin to how dense the hair is on
611. 20:44your skin there's a lot that plays a
612. 20:46role in it so something that works well
613. 20:47for me might not work well for you all I
614. 20:50can do here is share my opinion and what
615. 20:51I've seen in my testing so far jumping
616. 20:53over to the Apple watch side of things
617. 20:55of course they do have Optical heart
618. 20:56rate sensors as well and if you buy an
619. 20:58Apple watch Ultra 2 or the Apple Watch
620. 21:00series 9 these will come equipped with
621. 21:02ECG or electroc cardiogram built in just
622. 21:05like on the Garmin gen5 sensor another
623. 21:07weird thing that happened on Apple watch
624. 21:09is that they were actually sued by a
625. 21:11company called Massimo a little while
626. 21:13ago they kind of blew up and they ended
627. 21:15up having to remove the feature of their
628. 21:17spo2 sensor or blood oxygen saturation
629. 21:20sensor from the back of the watch and
630. 21:21they did that from a software level if
631. 21:23you had a watch prior to this it would
632. 21:25still work and if you buy a used watch
633. 21:27with it enabled it'll still work for you
634. 21:29but if you go out to like Apple store or
635. 21:31Best Buy or whatever you're not going to
636. 21:32have that feature so again just keep
637. 21:34that in mind is it useful for everybody
638. 21:37some people yes but for me I never
639. 21:39really use the spo2 feature so I'm not
640. 21:41really worried about it and when it
641. 21:42comes to heart rate sensor accuracy from
642. 21:44both Garmin and Apple watch which one is
643. 21:46better well again this is kind of go
644. 21:48going to go back to the conversation I
645. 21:50had with GPS accuracy if you're just
646. 21:52getting into this and you're not
647. 21:53somebody who's going to be looking at
648. 21:55every little nitty-gritty detail you
649. 21:57know looking at every run or ride in
650. 21:59analyzing that heart rate track the
651. 22:01accuracy is not going to be something
652. 22:02you're even going to notice and the
653. 22:04final Topic in this video that we have
654. 22:06to talk about is going to be battery
655. 22:08life that's where Garmin is basically a
656. 22:10landslide Victory when it comes to
657. 22:12battery life because most of these
658. 22:14watches I have here will last you on a
659. 22:16single charge you know 5 days up to 30
660. 22:19days without even batting an eye they
661. 22:21they're really good in terms of battery
662. 22:23life now if we go over to the Apple side
663. 22:25of things that's where things get a
664. 22:26little less impressive because something
665. 22:29like the Apple Watch series 9 the series
666. 22:318 the series 7 that'll last about a day
667. 22:33on a single charge so with these watches
668. 22:35you will need to charge them up every
669. 22:37single day to keep using them and on the
670. 22:39Apple watch Ultra 2 here you can get two
671. 22:42to three days out of it it has a much
672. 22:43bigger battery but again not super
673. 22:45impressive when you compare it to
674. 22:47something like the epics Pro 51 here
675. 22:49which can go about a month on a single
676. 22:51charge that's using it regularly for
677. 22:53runs as well okay with all that being
678. 22:55said with all those topics out of the
679. 22:56way which one is right for you and like
680. 22:59I said at the beginning of this video I
681. 23:01can't really answer that for you however
682. 23:03I can summarize in my opinion who these
683. 23:06two watches are designed for so on the
684. 23:08Garmin side of things Garmin are really
685. 23:10designed for Fitness and Wellness
686. 23:12focused people at their Forefront if
687. 23:14you're somebody who's an avid Runner
688. 23:16cyclist climber Trail Runner whatever
689. 23:18the Garmin watch is probably going to
690. 23:20suit you a little bit better than the
691. 23:22Apple watch on the other hand if you are
692. 23:24somebody who's very active maybe you are
693. 23:26a runner you're running a few times a
694. 23:29week but you also want a really useful
695. 23:31Smartwatch you don't want have to bring
696. 23:32your phone with you everywhere you want
697. 23:34to play back music to your earbuds phone
698. 23:36free and take and make phone calls
699. 23:37without having your phone on you that's
700. 23:39where the Apple watch is a really
701. 23:41compelling option because it does a lot
702. 23:43more as a smartwatch compared to a
703. 23:45Garmin but it's not quite as Fitness
704. 23:47focused first compared to a Garmin with
705. 23:49that said though that's not to say one
706. 23:51is better than the other or one can do
707. 23:53things that the other one can't because
708. 23:54again with the Apple App Store you can
709. 23:56download an app for just about
710. 23:58everything there's so many apps out
711. 23:59there to fill the gaps and with enough
712. 24:02apps on the Apple watch Ultra 2 you can
713. 24:03basically have the same functionality
714. 24:05between both watches and at the end of
715. 24:07the day it's really going to boil down
716. 24:09to your personal preference and which
717. 24:11one's right for you all I'm trying to do
718. 24:13here is lay out the facts and share my
719. 24:15opinions on who is right for these two
720. 24:17watches and hopefully hopefully that
721. 24:19helped you in some way okay that was a
722. 24:21lot that was a long- winded video and
723. 24:23I'm sorry for the dense nature of this
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725. 24:27answer all the questions I'm sure I
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743. 24:57concludes this video I hope you found it
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745. 25:00one bye
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