Touchscreens can be very intuitive and easy to use off the bike, but when you're riding they can be awkward to operate, so having buttons as well is useful as a fallback. Some smartwatches have a touchscreen interface, although most work with an array of buttons. They're usually waterproof enough for diving too. Most sports activity trackers are designed rugged, so that they will withstand knocks and shocks. You get an overall status that Garmin calls Body Battery, which tells you when you need to recover and when you’re ready to train again. For example the Garmin Enduro watch has an in-built optical heart rate monitor, so it can track your heart rate 24/7 without needing a strap it can give you a detailed breakdown of your sleep quality, it can track hydration by estimating sweat loss and it even tracks your breathing.
Depending on the model there's navigation too and top spec sports oriented smartwatches will supply all the metrics that a cycling computer does.īut where smartwatches really excel is in the sheer amount of data they can collect. Just like bike computers, GPS smartwatches will pair with peripheral sensors such as power meters and heart rate monitors, and they now almost all have built-in wrist-based optical heart rate monitors. It's not going to get as mud-splattered as a computer if you go off-road either. Because they’re on your wrist they’ll track pretty much any sport you do, whether that’s running, swimming, hiking, rowing, skiing or even golfing! You don't need a bike mount (although that's an option with some) and don't need to worry about removing it from your bike when you stop.
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