I got an Apple Watch from my son and like a few things about it, like playing music and sleep tracking. I also like wearing a garmin to exercise or a normal watch.
Is it just too professor gadget to wear two at once?
Asking for a fiend.
It’s not uncommon, especially if you are DC Rainmaker!
I got the Fenix 6x Pro to use for music (need to download) and I don’t like to wear a watch for sleep tracking. It sounds like you could just wear your apple watch during the day and use your Garmin for workouts.
Try it and see how your coworkers respond. LOL
I just like a watch with actual hands for no reason other than being sentimental. I’m not sure why I care about measuring sleep either, if I’m tired I did not get enough of the stuff.
I do that exact thing for running and sometimes cycling.
I have my Apple watch on my right wrist for music, and my Coros on my left wrist for all of my run metrics and hr/temp data. Both white bands, so they stand out a bit!
I wear 2 devices most of the time. A Fitbit Inspire 2 is my 24/7 device on one wrist. That is the best-in-class activity tracker. On my other wrist, I wear an Apple Watch most of the day and switch that for my Garmin when working out. I only take off my Fitbit to charge it during my swims.
Nah, you do you.
My wife wears an AW6 as her all-day watch, uses her Garmin 745 for training (only wears it while training). Wears the AW6 at the same time during training.
I wear an AW7 as my all-day watch, use my 945 for training (again, only worn while training). Wear both watches at the same time during training.
For us, the reason for both watches:
- The overall health/wellness metrics that AW captures are better (in our opinions)
- The training data from the Garmin watches (TE, Training Load, etc.) are better (in our opinions)
- Most importantly, the nature of our IT jobs requires us to be reachable 99% of the time…so our AWs have a cellular plan for phone/text/alert functionality even without our phones
The TL;DR is that we wear both watches at the same time when training; we don’t get funny looks, never had anyone say anything, and probably wouldn’t care if they did. 
Do what makes sense for you.
I do the same - prefer the Garmin as a sports watch but like the Music and Apple Pay/Wallet. Saves me taking the phone. Sometimes I put the apple watch into a flip belt.
Waiting for the day when Apple hook up with Garmin to deliver a do-it-all watch.
Ok thanks I am rolling on two watches.
I’d wear both on the same arm…just for the comments
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I’ve been kind of thinking about this (but for different reasons than the ones in the thread).
I have a 955, and you’re supposed to wear it 24/7 so it can capture all these metrics for recovery and performance and what have you (I’m not here to sell it). Anyway.
I am an analog watch guy (and all smartwatches are ugly in my book), but also a metrics person. What if you could wear a watch on your thigh, or your upper arm, or something? I really don’t care about smartwatch functionalities, I just want to be measured 24/7.
Or, I’d totally buy a sensor/brain that you could wear anywhere (I guess kind of like what HRM Pro does these days), and then you’d have a watch like form factor that you could optionally wear for sports usage and what not.
I feel I kind of jumbled my thoughts here, but hopefully you get the gist.
I think that’s the idea of th whoop strap, but it seems a little flawed and expensive
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I think that’s the idea of th whoop strap, but it seems a little flawed and expensive
hadn’t thought about it, but I think you’re right. The only thing missing, from a conceptual perspective (ignoring flaws and price point), is that they I would be able to use it with my Forerunner/Edge.
I wonder if there’s something there… Maybe with all of these watches pushing for 24/7 wearing some company will come out with a solution (not holding my breath).
I like an analog watch that lasts forever but I’m sentimental too…
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Ok thanks I am rolling on two watches.
I often wear two watches. Garmin 945 for triathlon recording on the left, Apple watch with cellular on the right. I do this especially since I workout over lunch hour every day, and need to be able to get an emergency phone call on my Apple watch just in case. Never felt weird about it at all. My daughter did say it made me look kinda like a overserious swimmer though when I wore both on vacation while I was doing open water swimming in Maui!
I’ve been kind of thinking about this (but for different reasons than the ones in the thread).
I have a 955, and you’re supposed to wear it 24/7 so it can capture all these metrics for recovery and performance and what have you (I’m not here to sell it). Anyway.
I am an analog watch guy (and all smartwatches are ugly in my book), but also a metrics person. What if you could wear a watch on your thigh, or your upper arm, or something? I really don’t care about smartwatch functionalities, I just want to be measured 24/7.
Or, I’d totally buy a sensor/brain that you could wear anywhere (I guess kind of like what HRM Pro does these days), and then you’d have a watch like form factor that you could optionally wear for sports usage and what not.
I feel I kind of jumbled my thoughts here, but hopefully you get the gist.
I’m the same way. I like my mechanicals - to me they look and feel better as a watch. But I want to track everything all the time. Would love to just have a tracker implanted and wear my normal watches as normal.
I have a 955, and you’re supposed to wear it 24/7 so it can capture all these metrics for recovery and performance and what have you (I’m not here to sell it).Handy tip… you only need to wear it to to bed (and exercise) to get the majority of the analytics benefits. The daily activity tracking is gravy, but the algorithms get most of their juice from the sleep metrics.
Is it just too professor gadget to wear two at once?
Yes.
Is it just too professor gadget to wear two at once?
Yes.
Ouch. I’m doing it right now on the st Charles streetcar.
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Is it just too professor gadget to wear two at once?
Yes.
Ouch. I’m doing it right now on the st Charles streetcar.
Geek.