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Garmin Fenix 7 Sapphire Solar GPS watch review - MBR

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Last updated 03 mai 2024

Garmin Fenix 7 Sapphire Solar GPS watch review - MBR

If you’re looking for a versatile, multi-purpose GPS smart watch that will help you boost your training, navigate your rides and more, then the Garmin Fenix 7 Sapphire is up there with the best mountain bike GPS computers. Back in the 90s training to ride your mountain bike was anathema. Drinking beer, staying up all night and smoking fags was far more popular, and that was just in the pro ranks. Today attitudes to fitness, strength and practice have undergone a revolution, it’s now normal for riders of every level to put a few hours in off the bike, and the most basic tool for cardiovascular training is a heart rate monitor. The Garmin Fenix 7 is a multisport GPS watch that will help you do this, but it’s not basic by any stretch of the imagination. It can record and analyse huge amounts of data about you and use that to tell you when to train, how hard and for how long, how much to sleep, the recovery you need, and even how to relax and focus when you’re stressed. To do this it’ll measure your heart rate, heart rate variability, breathing rate, blood oxygen levels, sleep (REM, deep and light) and plenty more, packaging it up into neat little graphs and pithy explanations to help you train. Garmin has made some improvements to the Fenix 7 to make it much more user friendly than past versions. The screen is bigger and clearer and for the first time touchscreen, but most importantly you can now change almost all the settings and navigate around the watch from your phone, and really that hugely improves usability. The Fenix 7 runs a series of widgets, or apps, so you just need to choose the sport you’re doing that day. Press play on your chosen sport and it’ll record the activity and display useful information like total ascent, speed, distance, lap time, and so on ad nauseum – you can customise it to display pretty much anything you want. Then it packages up the data and presents it to your phone, where you can view your route and all kinds of insights about the activity and how your body coped with it all. The most important are estimates of your Vo2 Max, training load to tell you whether you have a shortfall or you’re overextending, and the recovery time indicator. The latter worked well and generally predicted accurately when it would be optimal for another ride, and times when I ignored it would see me over-tired afterwards. The watch also spotted that I needed more low-intensity aerobic exercise to boost my fitness, and would have planned out a training session to cover that (if I’d let it). Less useful is the Stamina widget (there are endless widgets by the way, but you can also download third-party apps like Kamoot and Strava). It’ll tell you how much juice you’ve got left in your tank, how much time you can pedal at that effort, or …Continue reading »