Hello, I’m looking for a watch for my girlfriend. She is a former elite swimmer. She’s used to working with data—not obsessed with it, but she likes using it for motivation and performance feedback. After ending her career and experiencing burnout, she had a longer break from more intensive sports performance. She recently told me she’d like to take part in an obstacle race like Hyrox within a year.
She uses a Polar Verity Sense and is starting to get used to the discomfort of the H10+ chest strap. We usually train together, and I carry two phones with me—I hold hers and monitor her heart rate.
I’m looking for a watch that works comfortably with Samsung phones. I don’t need any crazy features—no highly accurate GPS, no internal music storage. Basically just a BPM monitor that can display heart rate zones and show her the training target I set in Polar Coach. Ideally with physical buttons, because her hands sweat a lot.
Thanks a lot for any advice.