I greatly appreciate this video, stumbled on thos probably due to the algorithm but either way you're step by step tutorial was thorough and helped get and even bigger use out of my garmin watch. Definitely worth watching the vid 👍
Newly subbed! Thanks for the great reviews. You channel is just what I've been looking for. I was thinking about a whoop strap but the subscription was not for me especially when you can pay for a good watch in under a year. I've been considered the Garmin Forerunner 245 since watching your video. Keep up the great content!
tallen316 thanks so much! Glad the reviews are helpful. Yes the Whoop can’t pair with a chest strap so it lacks the accuracy for workout tracking as well. The 245 is a good one!
FltGearHunter, have you thought about sharing your Garmin workouts? It would be awsome if there would be a public gallery fo CF workouts you could just import in. Especially with Covid and lockdowns having an option to select a workout rather than keep creating them would be very usefull.
So, it does automatic rep counting (for some exercises) when you start this playlist? How does it interact with manual rep counting with that button? I mean with button do you add one-by-one rep or mark whole set as done? Also, in tracking, can i see how my heart rate increased with each step? Like some markers in HR to show correlation between the exercise and the increase/decrease?
This is awesome man. I am new to Garmin, coming from Whoop. I dont't do CrossFit but, I will definitely be using this in my lifting routine. Great video
Dan Bradley so glad it helped! Garmin definitely has created a great base platform with it all. It’s definitely not perfect, but can definitely be used for training. Thanks for commenting!
This is so helpful! I didn't realize I could specify what movement I'm doing in anything other than a strength workout. How would I program repeats for a certain amount of time? Such as Cindy workout where I'm doing 5 pullups, 10 pushups, 15 air squats all repeated for 20 minutes? Should I just do a generic cardio and do laps? I wish I could specify movements so Garmin could know which parts of my body are being trained/recovered...
I try it today, unfortunately the device do no count repetiong correctly, in example: back squat, the device count 1 repetition when I put my hand on the barbell, I do all my reps (10) he missed two reps, and do not switch to the other exercise (in my cases, a pause between the series). At the moment, I'm not sure it is so useful. Thanks for the nice video :)
Good job with all of this videos. I would like to ask what chest strap to buy for my garmin 245? I don’t want to pay fortune for it, the cheapest one but also to not break down after a month :). Thanks 💪
Igor Poposki sure thing. For lowest cost I would recommend a Garmin ANT+ old-school strap because they’re super cheap. Otherwise I would go with the polar H9 for cost as well. Thanks!
Hi, thank you for the video. Can you set training up in this kind of format: 30 seconds of an exercise. 30 seconds rest. 30 seconds of a different exercise. 30 seconds of rest. And so on.... And would the watch alert you when 30 seconds are up? Thanks
Hey! Great question - I’ll have to test that - I’m not exactly sure if it will auto-transition you to the next movement or rest like a tabata- good question.
Hey man, im thinking about getting a fitness watch, the main thing im looking for is good rep tracking for street exercises (pullups pushups etc..) what fitness tracker would you recommend for that sort of training. Great videos keep em up🙌
Dan Ushomirsky hey! Great question - I would say Garmin over Coros or Fitbit. Coros does rep counting in the Strength profile, but it doesn’t calculate workout intensity off of it. Fitbit does as well but you can’t get workout higher level details with them either, and can’t connect to a chest strap for heart rate monitoring. The Garmin Forerunner series does all of these things BUT - none of the are highly accurate for rep counts, especially for static wrist movements like pull ups and push ups unfortunately.
I tried the strength profile many times on my VA3. For me, it was just too clunky and inaccurate. I’d have to manually enter the weight and reps after each set, and that was too distracting. I eventually started using the cardio profile and stuck with that.
hey !! I have a question: Does the garmin watch (specifically the garmin 945) have the option to do "free" strength training? or does it have to be with rep counting? I mean, can I just put the strength training option on and train? or do clocks only have the option to count repeats?
Would love to see an up to date review, if something changed in the app. Thanks for all your work. Very rare to find someone who is merely focused with strength training! Heads up
Great video, which model is this and is the training customisation common to the low & mid range Forerunners too? I am worried that the Forerunner 255 (one I want to get) won't have such detailed strength training profiles. Thanks.
Nice video as always! Can you please tell me if it's possible to make a workout schedule for the month (assign a different workout for a specific day of the month) and then follow it from the watch? If I'm not wrong this is possible in coros app.
Hey! That’s a great question - I’m not sure if it can do that. The way I set it up myself is to make the workout title have the date in it - like “CF WOD 8-27”. That way when you go to pull a workout for the day you can choose the day’s date. That make sense?
@@fitgearhunter makes perfect sense. If you check this coros video th-cam.com/video/3690M5tf4hI/w-d-xo.html around 1min mark they show some calendar plan features but I don't have a coros watch myself to test it.
Good question! I would recommend the Garmin 245! Unless you couldn’t afford it. But if I had to choose between the two I would probably go with the 735, but it’s difficult to say that because it lacks a lot of the newer functions and capabilities and has the old optical heart rate sensor that I did not like very much.
is there a way to make it so it shows you how many reps you did last time you were in the routine? i use 'strong' at the moment and i find this to help me push myself to beat my last workout
Great question - I really don’t think so. That would be really helpful to have but I think you would have to look up your last workout with that area and make note - not as helpful. Thanks for commenting!
sorry for delay - good question. I think if you pre-load your workout training plan then you can simply follow the same path, but otherwise I think it has to be identified each time. Thanks!
Hey! Yes I believe sounds are possible on the Garmin line up with the strength profile and programming your own workouts. I haven’t used the sounds for cues so I can’t say exactly how functional it is, but I know it has them
Hmm, i think i find it easier to just follow my gymlify app on the phone and simply just not playing around with the watch as it occasionally counts reps wrongly on the top of that.. I bought that the watch for £315 but still haven't decided I gonna keep it or not. Looks good on hand but you know..
so my question is : can i make a custom workout ? having premade exercises not feel like custom to me... i mean lets say i want to do L sit and have all of my callisthenics exercises just written not count them...just a reminder of what i have to do. cant i type down my own exercises?
Yes you can. I have maybe 20 strength workouts that I created from scratch in the app itself. The only I I don’t like is that Garmin took away the audio set count. Which I loved.
Hey! It’s the Fenix 6S sapphire. And yes the strength training is on all but you have to go forerunner 245 or higher or Fenix 6 to get the advanced training details. Thanks!
when you create a workout in Garmin connect, how do you count the weight of dumbells? the weight of each one or both ones? like if my dumbells are of 2 Kg, what should I register on the app? 2kg or 4 kg?
Hey good question. Do you actually can register whatever you prefer for your own recordkeeping because the weight entry is for your own personal tracking. I would enter the total weight lifted for each movement, unless you were doing individual single arm curls with a weight in each hand but doing the repetitions and counting them one at a time per arm. Does that help?
@@fitgearhunter thank you very much! I thought it was fundamental for the calorie count system in the Garmin app, but now i realize i was wrong. Thank u and happy new year.
Yes I never really bothered with it other than testing it a few times. The easiest way is just to start a strength sport profile and do the reps and then update the app later with what exercises and weight you performed. I've got a buddy that does that in the CrossFit class every day and likes tracking the overall workouts, but never programs it in ahead of time
A million times over the forerunner or above series. It includes advanced training metrics and analytics at the venu and vivoactive do not include. These are super helpful for CrossFit training because they include functions like training affect from your work out, recovery time recommendations between workouts, and training load to evaluate how much work you’re putting in overtime. I’ll send you the recent review I did highlighting what I think are the best watches for Crossfit.
@@fitgearhunter thanks!! nice video!! in brazil there is little information about the garmin watch at crossfit !! I was thinking about buying the venu because I wanted a smart watch for everyday life but that I could have correct information about my training, I am not an athlete, but I would like to have accurate information. so would you still indicate the forerunner line instead of the venu line if my goal is a smart watch with connectivity to my cellphone but with accurate information about training, caloric expenditure etc ...?
@@gabrielferraz2981 great question. The 245 has some good enhancements- body battery, music version (if you want that), improved HR sensor, pulse ox for sleep, respiration tracking, and improved review time (all of these are great) - but if you need maps it’s a tough call - I still lean towards the updated tech personally. Good luck!
@@fitgearhunter Prior to the most recent update, on my 5X I was able to hear my set and time audibly whenever I pressed the lap button during my strength training workouts . Now on my Fenix 6 I have noticed that I can no longer hear this, And it appears the option itself has even been removed. I wish that Garman would include about other forms of fitness not just cardio-based. Fitness is not always just runners and bikers (which I also do, ) but As a lifter and I would appreciate being able to have at least some of the bells and whistle‘s that cardio enthusiasts receive, not the few amenities that have been scantily afforded and now taken from the lifters. I still love Garmin though.
@@dslapster64 could not agree more! It's frustrating that they haven't evolved. Now that being said - Garmin is the only one (mainly) that has released sport specific tracking for rowing, mountain biking, surfing, link to concept 2 rower, etc. - they are at least doing some expansion, but that is so frustrating they took that voice cue away! No reason!
So I have a question. Is it possible to put in allvthis information retrospectively? I go to functional fit classes, and don't know till I get there, what we are doing. I also often find not all the moves we do there are on the app, with no option to simply write in what the move was called. Any help?
Hey! Yes and no, but I haven’t used it honestly. I know you can enter movements after the workout though, I just don’t know if it flows into heat map after. I’ll see!
Yep. I just started a Strength workout and let the time elapse. Then ended and went into Garmin and added movements w reps and time and weight, and the body heat map updated.
And with movements that aren’t in there you just have to get close. I did chest to bar pulls ups yesterday and just test-entered them as pull ups since same muscle groups
Thanks. Thats what I've been doing. I did get In touch with garmin support who simply said that yes it would be good to include a crossfit option specifically, but no plans to as yet unless there is demand I guess.
This is more of a gimmick. I have it on the garmin 6x pro and it is so inaccurate. Some exercises are worse then others you can keep.track of your workout but the rep count is trash. Sorry. I wish it worked they way they say it does.
I greatly appreciate this video, stumbled on thos probably due to the algorithm but either way you're step by step tutorial was thorough and helped get and even bigger use out of my garmin watch. Definitely worth watching the vid 👍
Newly subbed! Thanks for the great reviews. You channel is just what I've been looking for. I was thinking about a whoop strap but the subscription was not for me especially when you can pay for a good watch in under a year. I've been considered the Garmin Forerunner 245 since watching your video. Keep up the great content!
tallen316 thanks so much! Glad the reviews are helpful. Yes the Whoop can’t pair with a chest strap so it lacks the accuracy for workout tracking as well. The 245 is a good one!
Thanks for your information!!!
FltGearHunter, have you thought about sharing your Garmin workouts? It would be awsome if there would be a public gallery fo CF workouts you could just import in. Especially with Covid and lockdowns having an option to select a workout rather than keep creating them would be very usefull.
Thanks a lot for this video. I´ve just got a FR245 and my first workout was just a mess 🤣
Ha! Hope the video helps and things get better over time
So, it does automatic rep counting (for some exercises) when you start this playlist?
How does it interact with manual rep counting with that button? I mean with button do you add one-by-one rep or mark whole set as done?
Also, in tracking, can i see how my heart rate increased with each step? Like some markers in HR to show correlation between the exercise and the increase/decrease?
This is awesome man. I am new to Garmin, coming from Whoop. I dont't do CrossFit but, I will definitely be using this in my lifting routine. Great video
Dan Bradley so glad it helped! Garmin definitely has created a great base platform with it all. It’s definitely not perfect, but can definitely be used for training. Thanks for commenting!
Ur reviews is not focus on fancy presentation it is deepest and the most informative
Mussab Gasmelseed thank you! Definitely not fancy haha. Glad you find them helpful!
This is so helpful! I didn't realize I could specify what movement I'm doing in anything other than a strength workout. How would I program repeats for a certain amount of time? Such as Cindy workout where I'm doing 5 pullups, 10 pushups, 15 air squats all repeated for 20 minutes? Should I just do a generic cardio and do laps? I wish I could specify movements so Garmin could know which parts of my body are being trained/recovered...
Great review. New sub.
C Miclat awesome - thank you!
I try it today, unfortunately the device do no count repetiong correctly, in example: back squat, the device count 1 repetition when I put my hand on the barbell, I do all my reps (10) he missed two reps, and do not switch to the other exercise (in my cases, a pause between the series). At the moment, I'm not sure it is so useful. Thanks for the nice video :)
Good job with all of this videos. I would like to ask what chest strap to buy for my garmin 245? I don’t want to pay fortune for it, the cheapest one but also to not break down after a month :). Thanks 💪
Igor Poposki sure thing. For lowest cost I would recommend a Garmin ANT+ old-school strap because they’re super cheap. Otherwise I would go with the polar H9 for cost as well. Thanks!
Hi, thank you for the video.
Can you set training up in this kind of format:
30 seconds of an exercise.
30 seconds rest.
30 seconds of a different exercise.
30 seconds of rest.
And so on....
And would the watch alert you when 30 seconds are up?
Thanks
Hey! Great question - I’ll have to test that - I’m not exactly sure if it will auto-transition you to the next movement or rest like a tabata- good question.
Hey man, im thinking about getting a fitness watch, the main thing im looking for is good rep tracking for street exercises (pullups pushups etc..) what fitness tracker would you recommend for that sort of training. Great videos keep em up🙌
Dan Ushomirsky hey! Great question - I would say Garmin over Coros or Fitbit. Coros does rep counting in the Strength profile, but it doesn’t calculate workout intensity off of it. Fitbit does as well but you can’t get workout higher level details with them either, and can’t connect to a chest strap for heart rate monitoring. The Garmin Forerunner series does all of these things BUT - none of the are highly accurate for rep counts, especially for static wrist movements like pull ups and push ups unfortunately.
started callisthenics and i wanted a watch like that so badly xD
got garmin fenix 6 pretty good watch but no good for calisthenics...
I tried the strength profile many times on my VA3. For me, it was just too clunky and inaccurate. I’d have to manually enter the weight and reps after each set, and that was too distracting. I eventually started using the cardio profile and stuck with that.
You can use the strength profile and go into the strength profile settings and turn off auto rep/rep tracking
hey !! I have a question:
Does the garmin watch (specifically the garmin 945) have the option to do "free" strength training? or does it have to be with rep counting? I mean, can I just put the strength training option on and train? or do clocks only have the option to count repeats?
Great question - yes I believe so. It should count the movements once you start an exercise, but regretfully I didn’t test it! Sorry
Would love to see an up to date review, if something changed in the app. Thanks for all your work. Very rare to find someone who is merely focused with strength training! Heads up
So glad you felt like it was helpful! I did an updated review I think six months ago? I'll see if I can find it
Here is the comprehensive one I believe looking at COROS, WHOOP, and then Garmin.
th-cam.com/video/KwbVbTWA580/w-d-xo.htmlsi=AfW2s70_Tt_MJo44
Love it, cheers @@fitgearhunter
Great video, which model is this and is the training customisation common to the low & mid range Forerunners too? I am worried that the Forerunner 255 (one I want to get) won't have such detailed strength training profiles. Thanks.
Hey! The 255 will have all the profiles you'll need I'm sure - just not some of the map-based ones (skiing, golf, etc). Hope that helps!
I love your "luminor" watch face Fit Gear Hunter! is it available to download? what is the name?
Hey! Yes it is, but it has been so long I don’t remember anymore - so sorry
Why I can't name my own execise? I have to choose from the list they have is super annoying
Lookin at the forerunner 55 does these features work on that watch? As well as recovery and heat muscle maps?
55 has no strength training. You need to get a 245 or a 255 if you really want it.
Nice video as always! Can you please tell me if it's possible to make a workout schedule for the month (assign a different workout for a specific day of the month) and then follow it from the watch? If I'm not wrong this is possible in coros app.
Hey! That’s a great question - I’m not sure if it can do that. The way I set it up myself is to make the workout title have the date in it - like “CF WOD 8-27”. That way when you go to pull a workout for the day you can choose the day’s date. That make sense?
@@fitgearhunter makes perfect sense. If you check this coros video th-cam.com/video/3690M5tf4hI/w-d-xo.html around 1min mark they show some calendar plan features but I don't have a coros watch myself to test it.
For crossfit training would you rather recommend the Amazfit Stratos 3 or the Garmin Forerunner 735xt?
Thank you 🙏🏼
Good question! I would recommend the Garmin 245! Unless you couldn’t afford it. But if I had to choose between the two I would probably go with the 735, but it’s difficult to say that because it lacks a lot of the newer functions and capabilities and has the old optical heart rate sensor that I did not like very much.
@@fitgearhunter thank you so much 🙏🏼
@@matildebarros9069 sure thing!
is there a way to make it so it shows you how many reps you did last time you were in the routine? i use 'strong' at the moment and i find this to help me push myself to beat my last workout
Great question - I really don’t think so. That would be really helpful to have but I think you would have to look up your last workout with that area and make note - not as helpful. Thanks for commenting!
@@fitgearhunter thanks for the reply
which watch is that?
If I do another training with an exercise I already did, does it show the last reps & weight?
sorry for delay - good question. I think if you pre-load your workout training plan then you can simply follow the same path, but otherwise I think it has to be identified each time. Thanks!
Hi, I need help to buy a wach that tells me example: weightlifting for 3 minutes and rest for 1minute. Without looking to the wach. Using sounds.
Hey! Yes I believe sounds are possible on the Garmin line up with the strength profile and programming your own workouts. I haven’t used the sounds for cues so I can’t say exactly how functional it is, but I know it has them
Hmm, i think i find it easier to just follow my gymlify app on the phone and simply just not playing around with the watch as it occasionally counts reps wrongly on the top of that.. I bought that the watch for £315 but still haven't decided I gonna keep it or not. Looks good on hand but you know..
Yes totally - good approach! Let me know what you decide!
I have the forerunner 55 and it doesn’t seem like I can do my strength training on here. Any idea ?
Good question! It might not offer it but I’m actually not completely sure. Sorry!
so my question is :
can i make a custom workout ?
having premade exercises not feel like custom to me...
i mean lets say i want to do L sit and have all of my callisthenics exercises just written not count them...just a reminder of what i have to do.
cant i type down my own exercises?
Yes you can. I have maybe 20 strength workouts that I created from scratch in the app itself. The only I I don’t like is that Garmin took away the audio set count. Which I loved.
@@dslapster64 thanks for reply man. sorry to hear that !
What watch is that? Is it applicable to all higher end Garmin Forerunners?
Hey! It’s the Fenix 6S sapphire. And yes the strength training is on all but you have to go forerunner 245 or higher or Fenix 6 to get the advanced training details. Thanks!
when you create a workout in Garmin connect, how do you count the weight of dumbells? the weight of each one or both ones? like if my dumbells are of 2 Kg, what should I register on the app? 2kg or 4 kg?
Hey good question. Do you actually can register whatever you prefer for your own recordkeeping because the weight entry is for your own personal tracking. I would enter the total weight lifted for each movement, unless you were doing individual single arm curls with a weight in each hand but doing the repetitions and counting them one at a time per arm. Does that help?
@@fitgearhunter thank you very much! I thought it was fundamental for the calorie count system in the Garmin app, but now i realize i was wrong. Thank u and happy new year.
@@sandancing_ same to you and happy new year as well!
is it really this complicated? i just want to start the watch and do my gym session, im not gonna use the an app on my phone
Yes I never really bothered with it other than testing it a few times. The easiest way is just to start a strength sport profile and do the reps and then update the app later with what exercises and weight you performed. I've got a buddy that does that in the CrossFit class every day and likes tracking the overall workouts, but never programs it in ahead of time
What the best garmin for crossfit? Venu? vivoactive or forerunner? hugs from brazil
A million times over the forerunner or above series. It includes advanced training metrics and analytics at the venu and vivoactive do not include. These are super helpful for CrossFit training because they include functions like training affect from your work out, recovery time recommendations between workouts, and training load to evaluate how much work you’re putting in overtime. I’ll send you the recent review I did highlighting what I think are the best watches for Crossfit.
th-cam.com/video/NNltNeT5gY8/w-d-xo.html
@@fitgearhunter thanks!! nice video!!
in brazil there is little information about the garmin watch at crossfit !! I was thinking about buying the venu because I wanted a smart watch for everyday life but that I could have correct information about my training, I am not an athlete, but I would like to have accurate information. so would you still indicate the forerunner line instead of the venu line if my goal is a smart watch with connectivity to my cellphone but with accurate information about training, caloric expenditure etc ...?
these settings can be done on the 45?
oh gosh - that's a good question - I would say you might need to look to the 245 or now the 255 and up for that.
qual seria o modelo garmin que mais se adapta ao crossfit? Saudações do Brazil!!
Hola! I can’t understand the exact message because translation isn’t working, but I believe you are asking what model is best for CrossFit?
@@fitgearhunter yes, that's the question
Great - thanks - I think the best model for training and value/cost is the Garmin 245 paired with a chest strap. Thanks!
But if you compare Garmin 245 with 935 would you still choose 245? I am seriously considering the 935 for the similarity of price in Brazil.
@@gabrielferraz2981 great question. The 245 has some good enhancements- body battery, music version (if you want that), improved HR sensor, pulse ox for sleep, respiration tracking, and improved review time (all of these are great) - but if you need maps it’s a tough call - I still lean towards the updated tech personally. Good luck!
Garmin no longer allows the audio set count. Why did they remove it I wonder?
Good question, what is the audio set count you are referring to?
@@fitgearhunter Prior to the most recent update, on my 5X I was able to hear my set and time audibly whenever I pressed the lap button during my strength training workouts . Now on my Fenix 6 I have noticed that I can no longer hear this, And it appears the option itself has even been removed. I wish that Garman would include about other forms of fitness not just cardio-based. Fitness is not always just runners and bikers (which I also do, ) but As a lifter and I would appreciate being able to have at least some of the bells and whistle‘s that cardio enthusiasts receive, not the few amenities that have been scantily afforded and now taken from the lifters. I still love Garmin though.
@@dslapster64 could not agree more! It's frustrating that they haven't evolved. Now that being said - Garmin is the only one (mainly) that has released sport specific tracking for rowing, mountain biking, surfing, link to concept 2 rower, etc. - they are at least doing some expansion, but that is so frustrating they took that voice cue away! No reason!
So I have a question. Is it possible to put in allvthis information retrospectively? I go to functional fit classes, and don't know till I get there, what we are doing. I also often find not all the moves we do there are on the app, with no option to simply write in what the move was called. Any help?
Hey! Yes and no, but I haven’t used it honestly. I know you can enter movements after the workout though, I just don’t know if it flows into heat map after. I’ll see!
Yep. I just started a Strength workout and let the time elapse. Then ended and went into Garmin and added movements w reps and time and weight, and the body heat map updated.
And with movements that aren’t in there you just have to get close. I did chest to bar pulls ups yesterday and just test-entered them as pull ups since same muscle groups
Thanks. Thats what I've been doing. I did get In touch with garmin support who simply said that yes it would be good to include a crossfit option specifically, but no plans to as yet unless there is demand I guess.
@@elliecooke1772 Yes totally! That’s great that you talked to Garmin directly. Thank you so much for sharing!
There is no Devil Press on my Epix Gen2
oh really?! That is dumb - there should be, but honestly I can't say how the strength tracking has evolved, or not evolved
This is more of a gimmick. I have it on the garmin 6x pro and it is so inaccurate. Some exercises are worse then others you can keep.track of your workout but the rep count is trash. Sorry. I wish it worked they way they say it does.