EPIX vs Polar Grit HR Sensor Tech

Just curious, does anyone know any difference between the polar HR sensor vs the garmin one? Is one better than the other?

I know there's a "scientific guy" on youtube but I never saw the "polar grit" reviewed in comparison with the epix. I believe he usually uses a polar chest strap for his testing and uses older firmware (7.xx). Anyone have both of these watches who has compared?

I was just poking around and saw their HR sensor video (below) and was a bit impressed with the look of the sensor visually. It has those 4 pegs, but according to some site online it doesn't measure pulse ox or ECG so I wasn't sure what they did.

Tbh, I wish garmin has upgraded their marketing some too. I think the epix is really an amazing watch.

0 jaamgans over 2 years ago

QS while interesting to watch would never base any decision on his reviews as they are heavily flawed - with the biggest flaw being he is basing his review on a couple of days, usually with less than 7 events of data, and his testing methods are often heavily flawed too (especially for a fitness watch).

Much better off watch/reading reviews from the fitness guys like DC Rainmaker, DesFit, 5k Runner (though HR is an issue as he has problems with that on most watches) where they are testing devices for at least a month (often longer) and are basing their reviews on +20 events worth of data making it much more likely they have a full understanding of the capablities of the watch (they also tend to test it against comparable watches and known gold standards and base their assessments off those).

https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2021/10/polar-grit-x-pro-watch-review.html

https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/01/garmin-epix-in-depth-review.html

I know that from reading quite a few reviews that most of the fitness guys are generally not impressed with Polar HR readings and generally find that Garmin OHR does a better job.

0 Josh over 2 years ago in reply to jaamgans

jaamgans said:
I know that from reading quite a few reviews that most of the fitness guys are generally not impressed with Polar HR readings and generally find that Garmin OHR does a better job.

It just looks impressive i guess!