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Which fitness tracker/watch for my Polar H10 and specific requirements?

Hello everyone,

I would like to start sport again after a long break. It's important for me to customise my training and get an overview of the relevant measurements.

Garmin has an extensive range of watches and trackers, but as a layman I'm a bit lost and am turning to you.

The following points should be fulfilled when choosing a suitable watch:
- I have the Polar H10 as a chest strap, which should then display the heartrate (HR) on the watch during training
--> I have at least heard that the HR then replaces the watch's own value, but that all other values on the screen display remain unaffected. Is that correct?
- I would like to be able to call up and start training plans created in Garmin Connect on the watch (e.g. interval training)
- Display typical sports data on the watch during training (speed, pace, time, distance)
- for running, cycling, hiking
- I would like a slim watch for my narrow wrist
- Price up to 80€, second-hand watch

I have my eye on the Vivoactive 4S and the Forerunner 45S. The Vivoactive can do a lot more than I actually need, but can't display pace as far as I know. And the Forerunner is probably not supposed to fully integrate the HR values from the chest strap into the screen display? Surely you know better.

I look forward to tips and suggestions :)

Greetings

  • You can't pair a chest strap to the Vivoactive 4S at all. So it is the Forerunner... The price is very limiting, but if you are in that age range, get a Forerunner 745. It has everything you could ever need, very accurate GPS and is small as well...

  • the 745 seems to be a very good one! Costs a bit more than I actually wanted to spend, but could be worth it.

  • if you are considering x45 generation, I can recommend forerunner 245, has lot more than 45, probably way cheaper than 745. May be worth comparing fr 245 to 745 to newer 55 to see what you will gain. I remember 745 had worse time on gps, while 245 had no swimming tracking. 55 is newer gen, but may be missing bunch of metrics like training status and vo2 while the other two have it