It’s a good time to be a home fitness app – although a little less so now Apple has entered the fray with its Fitness+ service, announced in September and launched on 14th December. The service is limited to Apple Watch owners, but that’s still a substantial chunk of the market, and there are blindingly […]
If you’re looking for a running watch in the Black Friday sales, then Amazon has come up trumps with handsome deals on two of the very best around. The Garmin Forerunner 45, which we rate as the best beginner running watch and one of the top budget options is now legitimately in the budget bracket £109 […]
The Black Friday sales begin in earnest today with a rush of savings on top-notch trackers and there’s a deal on the best of them all – the Apple Watch. Amazon has taken more than £100 off the price of the Apple Watch Series 5 (GPS + Cellular). That’s the more expensive version which includes […]
As part of her SELF October cover, actor and advocate Angelica Ross decided she wanted to be filmed getting a buzz cut on set. The result is a moving, honest video where Ross describes her relationship with her hair as a trans woman and how her perspective on hair and womanhood has radically changed over […]
The update to 2018’s Samsung Galaxy Watch has arrived, and Samsung has decided that it’s a big enough update to call it the Galaxy Watch 3, skipping the number two altogether (presumably to avoid confusion with the Galaxy Watch Active 2). While it’s not as sporty-looking as the Active models, the Galaxy Watch 3 appears […]
Once you’ve resolved to do something to get fitter, one of the hardest things can be knowing what to do. Or, almost as importantly, what not to do, because it’s very easy to go in all guns blazing and either injure or overwork yourself, nipping your new-found determination in the bud all too soon. You […]
If you’re looking for a beginner running watch then you need the Garmin Forerunner 45. It has built-in GPS, a heart rate monitor plus excellent run tracking. It also allows you to set up interval workouts and, with the included Garmin Coach feature, full training plans for 5K, 10K and half marathon races to follow […]
In our eyes the Apple Watch is the undisputed champion of fitness smartwatches, combining genuinely useful smart features with accurate heart rate and GPS tracking hardware. The one glaring omission in its suite of features, compared with virtually every other health wearable, is sleep tracking – perhaps because the Apple Watch’s battery life hasn’t been […]
Now that many of us have gotten into the rhythm of at-home workouts, or have taken up running in isolation, you may be looking to invest in a tracker that can help you monitor your pacing (and set personal records). We couldn’t help but notice that there are lots of Garmin watches on sale as […]
The last time Polar launched an entirely new tracker it came as a very pleasant surprise. The Ignite watch cost less than £200 but was full of clever features to help you get fitter, including guided workouts that were tailored to how well you’d recovered overnight, alongside staples like built-in GPS and heart rate monitoring. […]
Donald Trump picked the wrong Democrat to attack Friday. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo slapped back at criticism from the president by suggesting Trump watch less TV and “get up and go to work.” The putdown came after Trump tweeted that Cuomo should focus on “doing” and not “complaining” in his battle against COVID-19. The […]
For some colorful relief amid the gloom of the coronavirus pandemic, Italian social media is exploding with scenes of the nation’s mayors’ outraged skewering of people who dare to hang out on the street, party, or make repeated trips to the store for cigarettes when they’re supposed to be staying home to stop the spread […]
The Apple Watch is the most popular wearable in the world, and that’s in no small way because of its sports and activity tracking features. Strava, for its part, is one of the most popular activity sharing apps in the world. Considering those two facts, it’s been more than a little annoying not to be […]
There are better running watches than the Garmin Forerunner 35 available in the Black Friday sales this year, but there’s nothing else out there that represents such good value now it’s been reduced to £82.99 on Amazon. The 35 has recently been superseded by the Forerunner 45 in Garmin’s line-up, with the latter also reduced […]
Black Friday has properly kicked off with a very worthwhile deal – £100 off the Apple Watch Series 4. Amazon has reduced the price on the 40mm from £399 to £299 and the 44mm from £429 to £329, the cheapest it’s ever been and one serious bargain. Buy on Amazon | £299 (40mm), £329 (44mm) That’s because […]