When swimming we often do drills (only kicks, only one arm, ...) and of course the watch won't be able to know since it can only pick one arm movement.
What most swim watches do (like Garmin Swim 2) is they allow the user to manually enter the drill log by signaling when the drill starts and when it ends and then entering the distance covered.
- Can Amazfit Stratus 3 watch do this too? Or any other?
Here is what Garmin Swim 2 and Forerunner 245 does:
https://www8.garmin.com/manuals/web...UID-A28AE3E4-89B3-41A1-92D5-DAD392C0D5F5.html
Thank you
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Last night I tried to use the Gear Fit for the very reason I bought it... to track my heart rate and calories burned during exercise. This is where I found my first real frustration with the device. I don't run or cycle. I do walk and hike on occasion but not really for exercise, just for fun.
When I exercise I do cardio in my house. I have tried and tried to see if there is a way to track this on the fit, either with just choosing another exercise or by adding a custom exercise. Problem is, if you choose one of the preset choices, it will not track what you are doing (even through it tracks heart rate). It will tell you that you have gone 0 distance and burned 0 calories. I just happened to be wearing my Polar also, so at least I got my readings from that, but I would love to move to using the fit only.
Has anyone found a way to track cardio? If not, this has to be a major oversight on samsung's part. I can't be the only person that wants to track exercise this way.
I'm afraid the GF was designed to be paired to a phone. It acts as a remote for data and control.
I've been using sports trackers for a few years. Try Endomondo, it works seamlessly with your gear fit.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.endomondo.android
endomondo.com
It also supports bluetooth (polar) and Ant+ Heart Rate Monitors.
You can set the Gear fit to record your steps (pedometer) or walking/HR (Exercise>Walking) which it will record but you have a limited history detail and capacity. This needs to sync with Samsung S Health. I have removed S Health from my samsung phone as it is the worst piece of software I have come across.
Good luck
Thanks for the reply. I guess I forgot to mention that I have it paired with a Note 3. I'm just asking about tracking cardio only (HR & calories burned) without trying to choose another exercise and trying to make it work (it doesn't)
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I had this same problem, if you go into the s health app on your mobile, go into more on the top right of your screen, then choose manage items from the list it will show all the trackers that you use, switch on the sports one & this will track your aerobic excercise, although it works through the wrist band you have to activate it from your mobile each time. Hopefully Samsung will get it added to the gear fit if we complain enough lol. Hope that was helpful.
@janet22 how do you get the gear fit to track sport once you've started the activity on the phone in s health?
u can either chose a different sport or sync it with s health
Hi guys,
Yesterday evening I walked for 3 km.,but there the data I recieved i don't think are good:
Distance: 3km
Steps: 1367
Calories: 168
It's impossible for me to have 1367 steps on a 3 km walk and the calories on Google FIt, Fitbit and Strava are arround 300 (I'm 1,8 m - 100 kg).
There is a way to improove this data?
Thanks a lot!
1. Steps:
You seem to walk "wrong" for measuring.
As the watch has to detect your movement, if you don't bounce up and down enough and don't use your arms, it's hard to register that you are moving.
2. Calories:
It is a guess by any hardware and especially software that doesn't measure you co2 emission.
It is calculated by your size, weight and HR.
So you have to find the spot on the arm were the watch can pick up the HR continuously, in my case, I have a small "hollow" behind the wristbone, so i have to put the watch a little higher ( the same with a mio or a fenix 5 ).
And forget that idea to burn a special amount of calories, it is nonsense.
Except for a lab you will never ever get them right.
And Fitbit and strava are way off, to burn 300 you need to do alot more.
https://visual.ly/community/infographic/health/21-ways-burn-300-calories-outdoors
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You're a genius! Thanks a lot. Actually I was walking with my kid (in the stroller) and that is way the hand wasn't moving, because it was on the stroller. I didn't think about this! Thanks a lot!
Have a great day!
I've finally had it with the Stratos. The latest 'your workout was too short to record' message after doing 90 minutes in the gym was the last straw. I've nursed this thing long enough, rebooting before every workout just in case, using a chest strap to get half way accurate data, rebooting when 5 minutes into a workout because my earbuds have disconnected again. The one positive I can say about the Stratos is that it will pair natively with external HR monitors but what's the point if it's 50/50 whether it will record the workout anyway. I've looked at all the other watches on the market and they either don't do music, won't pair with external stuff or are just too expensive. So, I just ordered an arm strap, going back to the phone.
Anyone wanna buy a watch?:fingers-crossed:
Hey guys! I got Amazfit Bip U as a present recently, and I have a question. I was doing some jump rope, and I entered that workout mode on my watch. After I finished, I closed the workout mode, and later I noticed that the watch counted "steps" while I was doing jump rope. So it seems that I burned calories from both jump rope AND walking at the same time. I am new with all that smartwatch thing, so I was wondering if there is some feature that allows me to disable the counter while I am performing another workout, and that I can able it later when I finish. I e-mailed Amazfit support twice already and never got an answer. I am a bit frustrated xD Thank you!
Well it is how it is, you will not be able to disable steps counting during any workout. Your best shot is to go into activities and check your burned calories in there (as for the workout). No way to separate workout and daily kcal tho. Just to clarify - it's the same pattern for all huami watches (other brands too I believe).
Hi there! I'm pretty sure there's no fix for this, but I want to give it a try.
I used to pool swim with my Amazfit GTS and it recorded quite well the activity.
It's now some time that the swimming pool measurements are totally wrong. Like half of the distance, but not even precise.
I tried:
- change multiple times the pool distance parameter
- reset, restart the watch
- calibrate the compass
- try a previous stock firmware, then rollback to the last one
No changes... Any further ideas?
Thanks!
jumpertrekker said:
Hi there! I'm pretty sure there's no fix for this, but I want to give it a try.
I used to pool swim with my Amazfit GTS and it recorded quite well the activity.
It's now some time that the swimming pool measurements are totally wrong. Like half of the distance, but not even precise.
I tried:
- change multiple times the pool distance parameter
- reset, restart the watch
- calibrate the compass
- try a previous stock firmware, then rollback to the last one
No changes... Any further ideas?
Thanks!
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Hi jumpertrekker, I came across your question because I have the same problem. I've been using my Amazfit GTS as a swimming counter for 3 months. Despite during the first 2 months it worked well, in the last one the counter kept counting less than half of the distance. I was wondering if you had found out something about how to fix this issue.
Thanks!!
Same here. After over a year with a GTS well functioning, actually my watch shows about half the strokes, and half the distance (of course half the laps too).
Actually I know it's not a matter of lane length. The very strange thing is happened 5 minutes ago, I'm looking for a solution, and I try to "swim" in my bedroom (moving arms in the air) and it shows the RIGHT LENGTH (for me is 34 strokes = 25 meters) without the need of "hit" the border. I try three sets of 34 strokes each, the first I "hit the border", other I don't (simply I stop "swimming in the air"), but the watch counted regular three "laps".Does it make any sense?
I'll try this afetrnoon in the pool water...
EDIT: After some tests:
1) No matter if you hit the pool's border. It doesn't count the lap
2) In the water the counting of the strokes is wrong, this affects the meters and then the numbers of laps
3) Swimming with a MI band 3 on the right and the Amazfit on the left. Mi Band counted right, Amazfit counted half strokes (and half meters, and half laps)