Hey folks
I have a fitbit, which I use for HR, step tracking, and HIIT workouts I do on off days, and I use Jefit for my main strength training. With some recent changes to increase effort/HR during my strength training, the extra sweatiness of me is making my fitbit not work as well for HR during workouts.
I have specific cardio goals to meet, so getting relatively good data on my HR is important to me. I have a Polar H10 I could use, but I’d need to use Beat/Flow, which will then cause sync issues with Jefit and its own data going to Google Fit (I’ve had fun with this in the past).
I don’t have this issue with Fitbit, since rather than a Fit sync, its Health Connect, and just syncs the data throughout the day in the background, and I don’t sync activities from Fitbit.
Any ideas?
There has been quite a bit of interest on polar forums to support health connect - I’m almost at the point of dealing with Polar’s SDK just to do it myself and be done.
The list isn’t exactly small though - aside from Fitbit (which obviously would support it, because Google), Samsung Health, MyFitnessPal, Peloton, Flo, Signos, Proov, Tonal, Oura, Withings, etc all support Health Connect already. Not exactly a small list. Fitbit and Withings are two I use regularly
In my opinion, despite liking their physical products, Polar has always lagged behind pretty far in the app realm.