Apple Watch Series 6 VS Galaxy Watch 3 VS Fitbit Sense - Fitness watch showdown! | The Gadget Show By The Gadget Show

This is Sam Briggs, a CrossFit games champion who's been crowned the fittest woman on earth who better to help me find out, which is the best smartwatch on the market for fitness fanatics and the three smartwatches, are a Fitbit sense released in 2020. It's packed with sensors that monitor heart rate body temperature and blood oxygen levels. Next is Samsung's galaxy watch 3, which boasts military-grade toughness and has 120 built-in workout programs and last up the Apple Watch Series. Six, it's the most expensive on test, and it's marketing blurb suggests it's the future of health on your wrist, but which is best, let's find out with the help of Sam test. One comfort are things like comfort and ergonomics. Important, definitely a lot of what we do involves wrist extension, so something that allows for that is very important for this test.

Sam's got some serious exercise plan. First, the Fitbit, which comes with a flexible silicon, strap and is the lightest watch on test weighing just 46 grams. Like the others, it's got. A bright touch screen display, but the touch sensitive bezel is causing Samsung bother as I'm doing the handstand push-up. It's wanting to do different things, but the Fitbit seemed to behave itself on both the pegboard and during the muscle ups.

Next, the Samsung Galaxy. That's supplied with a style focused leather strap, but fitness fanatics like Sam would probably want to upgrade to the rubber sports band costing another 34 pounds so how's the galaxy, even though it's got physical buttons, I actually didn't feel it. So it seems to be very well and last up the Apple Watch like the Fitbit. It sports a square design but also comes with a traditional looking crown to control the watch, but does it get in Sam's way that was comfy? So what's the overall verdict on comfort? For me, the Samsung's a little too bulky. So it's a close call between the Apple Watch and the Fitbit.

The Fitbit is a little smaller and lighter so based purely on comfort. I would have to go with the Fitbit on to the next test, which is accuracy all three have built-in GPS. So I'm expecting some reliable results to find out which watch is the most accurate Sam's going to run a 1.2 kilometer course, which I've measured out with a digital land survey measuring wheel. Three two ones. First up the Fitbit which claims to use your step count to calculate your distance if your GPS signal becomes too weak.

Ah, how was the run pretty easy? Oh, good! Well, I'm glad there's a couple more to go on to the next one. The galaxy. The galaxy has a feature that helps improve your running style by detecting your stride and whether you're too stiff, while clocking up the miles splendid onto the Apple Watch. Just like the other watches, the apple has an always-on display feature allowing you to check your workout stats at a glance, but it will shorten battery life. All three watches can sync their GPS data with their phone apps, so you can see exactly where you've run splendid but which watch was most accurate when tracking Sam's 1.2-kilometer run first up the Fitbit. If you look closely at the map, you can see that the path doesn't follow the road that we were running against.

In fact, it only recorded 1.07 kilometers, making it 11 shorter than the actual route, so if you're doing much longer runs, for example, that difference could be quite significant onto the Samsung, this one's a little better than the Fitbit coming in at 1.1 kilometer, making the galaxy eight percent shorter than the route uh. Looking at the map it looks like it does, follow the route a lot more accurately, ah right, and how does the apple compare? So the Apple Watch has come in the most uh accurate coming in at 1.18 kilometers. That's only two percent shorter than the route Sam actually ran and makes the Apple Watch the most accurate on to test three fitness data. All the watches on test today claim to offer fitness data that until recently was only available to top athletes visiting sports labs, but this data is only useful if it's accurate, so for this test, we're going to be comparing watch stats against professional and medical grade equipment with the help of sports performance expert Luke hall Luke is a specialist in this field, providing cardio metabolic testing to high performance athletes. First up spo2 a measure of how much oxygen is in the blood which, for a normal, healthy person, is 94 percent.

I'd, expect kind of Sam's blood oxygenation to be anywhere between kind of 97 to 100 and Luke's right. His lab gear gives Sam a benchmark of 99, but how accurate are the watches the Fitbit comes in with 96. And Sam had to wear the Fitbit overnight to get a reading, whereas the other two give you readings live just taking the reading on the Samsung and that's coming at 95 onto the apple, we'll see what it does and that's saying 100. So the apple's, the closest let's move on to the vo2 max vo2 max, is a measurement of how efficient your body is at using oxygen when you're working out the higher the number the fitter you are time for another workout Sam. What exactly is your wonderful apparatus doing here? It's measuring the amount of oxygen, that's being pulled into that flow sensor there and then the amount of carbon dioxide.

That's coming out the other side as well, keep breathing focus on that breathing sterling work beautiful there we go wow. So what's the figure we got a measured vo2 peak there of 58.1 milliliters per minute kilogram. This puts Sam in a very high fitness category, with an average woman of Sam's age scoring around 35 milliliters, now bear in mind that this is a true reading, whereas the watches only predict vo2 max results. They do this by calculating heart rate and pace data while doing a rigorous outdoor walk or run at the moment. This is the next best way of measuring vo2 max levels compared with Luke's method, so the Fitbit came in at 48.

And the Samsung. Unfortunately, the Samsung's asking for more data- I don't know if something's gone wrong, but unfortunately we have a zero for the vo2 max and the apple. The apple comes in at 47.47. So when it comes to vo2 max, none of our smartwatches were quite able to hit the mark, but after putting them through their paces, which watch does Sam think is best. For me, it's going to have to be the Apple Watch.

It came second close to the Fitbit on the comfort. It won the accuracy test, and it's won the extras test. I got a fitness watch for Christmas, turns out. I'm not okay, john important point: Sam took the Samsung away after filming and did the vo2 max test again, and she managed to get a prediction from the Samsung. It was roughly only in line with the other watches, though so not terribly accurate.

It's interesting that Fitbit were innovators, but now the Apple Watch, somehow just is a bit smoother a bit more accurate. They seem to. They seem to have nailed it a bit better yep and for me, what gives the Apple Watch the edge is that it seamlessly integrates with their new apple fitness subscription service. So you get all your stats and that comes up on screen when you're doing those at-home workouts, you don't have to spend a fortune on these fitness watches. You know I mean this.

A maze fit here which was launched at the recent Consumer Electronics Show is only 40 quid that's good, and it gives you know it monitors your heart rate. It monitors your sleep. It's got a kind of old-fashioned casinos islands, 40 quid, not bad. That's good and john you're going to test that, for us, aren't you I am and upload the results on our YouTube channel. So keep your eyes peeled.

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