Running Workout with the Samsung Gear S3 Frontier

Tracking fitness levels and goals has become much easier with the introduction of smart phones, but running with a bulky phone strapped to your arm or in your pocket is a real pain! Thankfully, most tech companies have been releasing watches that will do this all for you, although they are not all created equal. We took the Samsung Gear S3 Frontier out for a run, and were thrilled with the feedback we got during our run, and after. Let’s take a look!

Setting Up Your Exercise

While the default for the watch will be set to running, when you enter the Samsung Health application on the watch, you can choose from a number of activities, including biking, walking, and much more. For this review, we stuck with a simple basic run, which allows us to track multiple categories. Should you wish, you can focus your run on other areas, whether that be burning calories, maintaining a certain pace, or going a certain distance. The watch will recognize which type of run you are attempting to perform, and push you notifiactions for that specific target.

Once you’ve set up your exercise – we chose the basic run for this – it’s time to watch the counter go from 3 to 0, and off you go!

On the Run

The watch will continue to provide you feedback as you go, allowing you to adjust what ever you need to do in order to hit certain target goals you have set for yourself. By turning the bezel of your watch, you can view your heart rate, pace, calories burned, steps, distance, number of floors you’ve climbed, and more! What’s more, Samsung has built into the application interface a permanent statistic and then of course the statistics you can change. For example, if you always want to know how long you’ve been running, you can setup your application to display your run time constantly on the bottom, while viewing your other statistics on the top by turning the bezel.

I did notice some fluctuations in many of the statistics I was getting, wherhe my pace would quickly drop off faster than it should have, and where my heart rate didn’t seem to make much sense. When I tightened the watch to my wrist, it did seem to rectify the problem, although made the watch more uncomfortable to wear. Since pace and heart rate were not as important to me as distance, time, and calories burned, I didn’t mind the fluctuating numbers and preferred to have the watch looser on my wrist.

Conclusion

I’m loving the Gear S3 Frontier from Samsung. It is the best watch I’ve used that tracks all of these fitness goals. With an array of Under Armour applications to go along with the Samsung Health App – my favourite being My Fitness Pal – there really isn’t a reason to go with anyone else.