Fenix 8 Strength Activity - Slider

Also, I'm a gym rat too! I totally agree with you. The slider isn't very precise, and sometimes I have to adjust the number of reps by 1. You have to be careful not to change the value too much.

I posted a similar thread about this two days ago, also mentioning replying to messages with the keyboard, which was available on the Venu 3. I shared this through the suggestions form as well, so hopefully someone from Garmin will see it.

I didn't know if there was a more formal suggestion pathway, if you have a minute to share please do, otherwise I'll try to find it and post there as well.

There is a page for sharing ideas www.garmin.com/.../ but I am not sure if they read them all 

6011745 said:

The slider isn't very precise, and sometimes I have to adjust the number of reps by 1. You have to be careful not to change the value too much.

Good feedback. On these screens, you can also tap the number above or below the highlighted number to increase/decrease the number by one instead of sliding. A good alternative if you need to be more precise.

Thanks just checked and it really works that way :) Nevertheless I agree with post author that numpad would be better especially for customizing weight.

Can't hurt to try! I'll post one there as well.

This is great in the event you need to move 5 or less lbs. But adding 25lbs to a large lift or supersetting body weight with a weighted lift means sliding through a ton of numbers instead of typing 0 and 50 for instance.

A lot more workout time spent playing with the watch now.

Really on the F7 you would edit each digit individually, so it is not that time consuming, did they change that? 

In Venu 3 for example you have a numpad which is sooo faster to type 425 than edit 3 digits separately by sliding

In F6 Pro you were able to scroll each of the three numbers on weight and two numbers on reps individually, on F8 the weight is adjusted by scrolling two digits; hundreds of kg and the single and dozen digits is scrolled as "one number". To me this combination of "single digits" and "dozens" felt slower than the old approach, especially when jumping tens of kg (e.g. when switching to next exercise or moving from warm up sets to working sets). I'd appreciate if at least there was a strength workout option where one could perhaps choose if you want to treat the "single digits" and "dozens" as one number or the "traditional Fenix way" as individual numbers you can choose. Perhaps a third option would be to have the option to choose the weight/rep via "numpad" (for those who keep touch enabled during workout - for me personally it is too much tinkering to unlock the touch screen each time when interacting with the watch during the strength workout, and too risky to leave it always unlocked).