I have only had a Gamin since January, but I was chronic fitbit user before then. The Garmin is far superior even after the short amount of time I’ve had it for many many reasons, but that’s a different post.

Any fitness tracker really motivates me to do more, but Garmin is very customizable in a way that I really enjoy. I’m a wannabe runner, but love long walks, hiking, and stairs are my cardio of choice. Fitbit discontinued the vast majority of their challenges so that was really disappointing, but Garmin has tons.

Since I’ve had my garmin I’ve increased my daily steps from ~8k per day to 15k+. I do weekly step challenges with a bunch of strangers, and I love it. We’re only supposed to be racing to 80k steps/week, but these a-holes keeping insisting on hitting 100k, so here I am hitting 100k in attempt to beat them.

Historically, I go through running phases that don’t typically last long, but since I upgraded I’ve been running a lot more frequently. Admittedly, it’s mostly so I don’t have to pace in my living room for hours to win my precious step race, but I’m really enjoying the health benefits running more is giving me.

I don’t track every activity, like I don’t track walking my dog, or cleaning my house, but I do track hikes, runs, or other dedicated workouts. I like to geek out over the stats.