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    • cosme.costaC Offline
      cosme.costa @Jamie BG
      last edited by cosme.costa

      @jamie-bg IF works for you you should use it, more in your case that you have some pathologies and you have found a tool that help you to deal with them.

      IMHO most of these features doesn’t give any or much value but well, its my opinion. I have changed my 7 field screen in the watch for a five field because I didn’t need to deal with more information while training or racing. I have a Garmin bike computer and some of the metrics aren’t useful at all some are a good idea but doesn’t work well or aren’t reliable.

      You say that the watch helped you to be motivated but I think it is more involved to the body chemistry of doing exercise, to start doing exercise you need some motivation but once started with some consistency our body frees some hormones that helps us to keep up and continue doing exercise.

      BTW, I do not know in the S7 but in the Spartan and S5/S9’s you can set targets (pace zones, HR zones, power zones), and the watch will tell you if you are over or under. You can also set time or distance targets and the watch will tell you when you have reached half of the target and the end of it.

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      • ChrisAC Offline
        ChrisA Platinum Member @cosme.costa
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        @cosme-costa I agree with you and @Brad_Olwin, that it seems to be helpful to have real basic training foundation and a clear goal to make progress. I am a very inexperienced runner and can’t give any tips here, but I am a experienced martial arts practitioner and there it’s the same: novice students often come and want to do all the fancy kicks and techniques they see in the movies much too early. But while it’s ok also to try a difficult 360 degree kick or a knife disarm in the beginning , the main goal first is to stand rooted to the ground and do simple punches and straight low and medium kicks for quite some time, at least the first year as your main training part. And I don’t know about experienced runners, but I guess - and see in SA, that they too will do basic training and recovery as a reasonable part of their training as well as black belts in martial arts still train basic techniques regularly

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        • ChrisAC Offline
          ChrisA Platinum Member @Jamie BG
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          @jamie-bg that’sthere on the Suunto too and IMO the best solution compared to the gauges of Garmin, Polar or Coros

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          and you can also set alarms for a certain HR zone and get notifications to slow down or run faster and - at least in my experience - I found the Suunto 9 better here reacting on HR changes than Garmin, where it always took some more time for the Fenix 6 to react to changes in HR.

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          • Brad_OlwinB Offline
            Brad_Olwin Moderator @cosme.costa
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            @cosme-costa Well said! And agree with you @ChrisA. I never show HR value in a screen, just use the outer ring to stay in the zone.

            Vector/T6c/Ambit 3 Peak/S5 Copper/S3/S7 Ti/S9 baro Ti/S9P Ti/S9PP Ti/Vertical Ti/Race Ti/RaceS/Ocean/Wing

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            • lexterm77L Offline
              lexterm77 Bronze Member @Brad_Olwin
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              @brad_olwin

              I got the book, reading since evening at about 1/3 finished. Book is excellent. I recommend reading to everyone before coming here to argue about anything. You do need base line training not only below aerobic threshold but some zone2-3 biology also 😁

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                Brad_Olwin Moderator @lexterm77
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                @lexterm77 said in Suunto 7 Successor:

                @brad_olwin

                I got the book, reading since evening at about 1/3 finished. Book is excellent. I recommend reading to everyone before coming here to argue about anything. You do need base line training not only below aerobic threshold but some zone2-3 biology also 😁

                If your aerobic base is solid.

                Vector/T6c/Ambit 3 Peak/S5 Copper/S3/S7 Ti/S9 baro Ti/S9P Ti/S9PP Ti/Vertical Ti/Race Ti/RaceS/Ocean/Wing

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                • lexterm77L Offline
                  lexterm77 Bronze Member @Brad_Olwin
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                  @brad_olwin said in Suunto 7 Successor:

                  @lexterm77 said in Suunto 7 Successor:

                  @brad_olwin

                  I got the book, reading since evening at about 1/3 finished. Book is excellent. I recommend reading to everyone before coming here to argue about anything. You do need base line training not only below aerobic threshold but some zone2-3 biology also 😁

                  If your aerobic base is solid.

                  I meant Zone2-3 Biology course :laugh: you need to understand words author is saying to make sense of it.

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                  • ChrisAC Offline
                    ChrisA Platinum Member
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                    @suzzlo said in Suunto 7 Successor:

                    Watches don’t run

                    That might become a similar epic „meme“ in the sportswatch area like Bruce Lee‘s „boards don’t hit back“ in martial arts 😅😅😅

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                    • suzzloS Offline
                      suzzlo Moderator @ChrisA
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                      @chrisa 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆

                      Suunto: Race, S9Peak, Spartan Sport Wrist
                      Garmin: FR745, Edge 530
                      SA topics:

                      • Guides - https://forum.suunto.com/tags/guides
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                      • suzzloS Offline
                        suzzlo Moderator @ChrisA
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                        @chrisa probably I can design some T-Shirts this message: “Keep calm, because watches don’t run”

                        😄

                        Suunto: Race, S9Peak, Spartan Sport Wrist
                        Garmin: FR745, Edge 530
                        SA topics:

                        • Guides - https://forum.suunto.com/tags/guides
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                        • isaziI Offline
                          isazi Moderator @suzzlo
                          last edited by

                          @suzzlo and I’m already listening to “Watches don’t run” a cover of “Boys don’t cry”

                          Watch: Suunto Vertical Ti

                          Blog: isazi's home

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                          • suzzloS Offline
                            suzzlo Moderator @isazi
                            last edited by

                            @isazi yes, it is very catchy message

                            Suunto: Race, S9Peak, Spartan Sport Wrist
                            Garmin: FR745, Edge 530
                            SA topics:

                            • Guides - https://forum.suunto.com/tags/guides
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                            • Brad_OlwinB Offline
                              Brad_Olwin Moderator @lexterm77
                              last edited by

                              @lexterm77 Funny, this is stuff I know very well…

                              Vector/T6c/Ambit 3 Peak/S5 Copper/S3/S7 Ti/S9 baro Ti/S9P Ti/S9PP Ti/Vertical Ti/Race Ti/RaceS/Ocean/Wing

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                              • lexterm77L Offline
                                lexterm77 Bronze Member @Brad_Olwin
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                                @brad_olwin

                                It’s similar to other training plans. Majority under AoT, very little between AoT and LT, some Z4 and Z5 intervals. If you put percentage under zones you basically get same numbers 80/20. Part about throwing away watch I liked because watch can’t tell you anything if you never went to a lab. Also I liked how author said the truth about wisely choosing your parents and grandparents and that doing large volume of aerobic stuff at very young age and while growing up has epigenetic effect on how quickly can you adapt to training loads and what can you do.
                                What else, nose breathing or talk test is useless if you are not aerobically trained.

                                When Killian Jornet noted if you train only 600h a year you can be good at short distances was funny.

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                                  A Former User @olymay
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                                  @olymay said in Suunto 7 Successor:

                                  The default map area it downloads is a 54km square centred on your location, so pretty wide

                                  I was reading the thread and my right eye focused on that number: 54km.
                                  I am unable to select an area greater than 42km. Why?

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                                    olymay Gold Members @Guest
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                                    @g-q said in Suunto 7 Successor:

                                    @olymay said in Suunto 7 Successor:

                                    The default map area it downloads is a 54km square centred on your location, so pretty wide

                                    I was reading the thread and my right eye focused on that number: 54km.
                                    I am unable to select an area greater than 42km. Why?

                                    That’s odd, mine defaults at 54km.

                                    Where are you looking to get this?

                                    I go into the following:

                                    Open Suunto App with top right button
                                    Scroll down to ‘Map Options’
                                    Scroll down to ‘Offline Map’ (under this in grey text it says ‘Tap to define’)
                                    This next screen shows my local map with a 54km square. Using the top and bottom buttons on the right hand side of the watch I can zoom in to a minimum of 3km to a maximum of 10,872km (HUGE!). The middle button confirms the selction.
                                    You can also use the touchscreen to pan the map around as well as pinch to zoom in and out.

                                    Hopefully this works for you.

                                    Suunto 7 Graphite Copper
                                    Suunto App Beta (Android - Pixel 6 Pro)

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                                      A Former User @olymay
                                      last edited by A Former User

                                      @olymay said in Suunto 7 Successor:

                                      Where are you looking to get this?

                                      directly on the watch, probably that’s the reason

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                                      • olymayO Offline
                                        olymay Gold Members @Guest
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                                        @g-q said in Suunto 7 Successor:

                                        @olymay said in Suunto 7 Successor:

                                        Where are you looking to get this?

                                        directly on the watch, probably that’s the reason

                                        Yes, this is all done on the watch 🙂

                                        Suunto 7 Graphite Copper
                                        Suunto App Beta (Android - Pixel 6 Pro)

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                                          A Former User @olymay
                                          last edited by

                                          @olymay believe or not, it does not work.

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                                          • olymayO Offline
                                            olymay Gold Members @Guest
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                                            @g-q said in Suunto 7 Successor:

                                            @olymay believe or not, it does not work.

                                            Very odd. In that case, I would suggest contacting Suunto Support.

                                            One last thought…
                                            Is your watch storage full? maybe it is limited on how much storage is left?
                                            I have no music or third party apps installed, so have loads of free space.

                                            Suunto 7 Graphite Copper
                                            Suunto App Beta (Android - Pixel 6 Pro)

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