Garmin Fenix 5, 5s and 5x strength and rep counting beta

Just wanted to share my first impressions about the strength training feature and rep counting. Whilst I appreciate its still in beta at this stage and improvements will be made. I used Rep counting on the Garmin Vivosmart 3 review and I found it “ok” it was hit and miss at times (more hit though than miss). I found that doing for example shoulder press (military style) the workout would be recorded as bench press and I was hoping Garmin would improve the software over time and due to it being a great innovation and very new I didn’t think it performed that bad.

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Garmin Fenix 5 rep counting impressions

My experience with the Fenix 5x rep counting as been impressive and a great improvement over the Vivosmart 3 and this maybe down to the hardware in the Fenix 5x, but still a great improvement

Out of the 5 times, I have used it, I have done 65 sets of 8 totalling a 520 reps. Out of the 65 sets, it miss counted 3 times! This is a dramatic improvement over my previous experience

I did have one issue yesterday when it recorded a 31 min workout and 23 something was rest and around 6 and half minutes as activity time. This was the wrong way around, but putting this down to beta software and its only happened once.

It’s correctly catching exercises and even this time identifying between shoulder press and bench press!

So overall I am happy with the progress made by Garmin and wondered what other experiences people have had? I would love to hear opinions on the experiences so comment below