Garmin Connect

Garmin Connect is Garmin's companion platform for syncing device-recorded activities, reviewing trends, planning workouts on a calendar, and managing challenges and badges. It supports per-activity exports in formats like FIT, TCX, and GPX plus broader account-level data exports, making it a common source of truth for Garmin-based training history.

Swimming Laps

Swimming laps is pool-based conditioning built from repeated lane lengths to accumulate time, distance, or structured sets. You can swim steady for aerobic base or use intervals to control intensity and preserve technique, with progression coming from small changes in volume, pace, or rest.

AR and Location-Based Exergaming

AR and location-based exergaming turns real-world walking routes into repeatable training by adding map objectives and place-based goals on top of planned movement. The best sessions start with a time and intensity target, use talk test or RPE to stay honest, and treat intersections and hazards as phone-down zones.

AR Walking Setup for Location-Based Exergaming

A good AR walking setup focuses on battery, location accuracy, data planning, and fewer distractions so outdoor play stays workout-like and safe. Start charged, manage brightness and carry comfort, use sensible location permissions, prep updates on Wi-Fi, and use Focus-style notification control to reduce mid-walk screen time.

Active VR Games

Active VR games make whole-body motion the core input, using actions like stepping, reaching, squatting, dodging, and repeated strikes to drive gameplay. They often deliver a real aerobic stimulus and coordination demands, with safety depending heavily on space setup, boundaries, and comfort with VR aftereffects.

Orienteering

Orienteering is a navigation sport where you use a detailed map (and usually a compass) to find control points in terrain as fast as possible. The challenge is the mix of route choice, rapid map reading, and staying physically efficient while moving through real ground features.

Polar Flow

Polar Flow is Polar's training platform (app + web service) for tracking, analyzing, and visualizing training, activity, and recovery data from Polar devices. It includes day-based Diary/Calendar views, load tools like Training Load Pro and Cardio Load Status, recovery features such as Nightly Recharge and Recovery Pro (Orthostatic test), and supports syncing via the Flow app or USB FlowSync plus exports of sessions (GPX/TCX/CSV/zip) and broader personal-data downloads from the Polar account site.

Apple Health

Apple Health is the Health app on iPhone and iPad that centralizes health and fitness records stored in HealthKit, combining data from iPhone, Apple Watch, compatible apps, and accessories under permission-based read/write controls. It manages source prioritization when multiple providers write the same metric, supports iCloud syncing with encryption conditions, offers a full export of health and fitness data in XML via 'Export All Health Data', and can include clinical Health Records from participating institutions using FHIR-based integrations.

Buying guides

Wearable buying guides focus on tradeoffs: matching device capabilities to your use case, comfort and sensor fit, accuracy needs for how you train, ecosystem compatibility with your phone and chosen data hub, and data portability through exports and integrations. Practical comparisons also consider total cost of ownership (accessories, subscriptions, support), battery behavior in real usage, and how to avoid duplicates by choosing a primary source of truth for each metric when multiple apps and devices are connected.

Buying guides

Wearable buying guides are about tradeoffs: match the device to your use case, prioritize comfort and sensor fit, pick accuracy tools that suit your training, confirm ecosystem compatibility with your phone and chosen data hub, and plan for data portability through exports and integrations. Good comparisons also consider total cost of ownership (subscriptions and accessories), battery behavior in real usage, and avoiding duplicated data by choosing a clear 'source of truth' when multiple apps and devices can write the same metrics.