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That's since the Charge 4 can only hold 6 faster ways to workout modes on the device itself. However, you can add a quite total quantity of sports varying from HIIT, circuit tracking, spinning, weights and even golf by heading to the Fitbit app and selecting Account > Charge 4 > Workout Shortcuts, swiping left to delete a sport and then replacing it with one from the list.

It's helpful these are called, however, as it's great to see workouts properly tagged in the app. Running has always lived on the Charge series but it previously needed a mobile phone to come along for GPS which does create problems of precision depending where that phone is put. Now it can do that alone.

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Battery, nevertheless, was more of an issue. Priced estimate battery life is five hours on GPS, which is simply not representative of our testing. We drained the battery around 30% on a 45 minute run, on 3 occasions. That's not fantastic, so make sure you have over 50% prior to heading out for a run.

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You can see your split times per kilometer or mile, and your heart rate zones, which we'll come onto next. Fitbit's  Fitbit charge 4 review  for runners, since ALL exercise is logged, so you'll find a great deal of random auto-tagged walks in among your runs and there's no genuine focus on how you're progressing as a runner, just how that exercise is affecting your health.

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If you run competitively, and by that we mean you have an interest in your performance as a runner, there's insufficient here for you. You can always opt to combine Fitbit with Strava, then you get the finest of both worlds. A word on auto-tagging: runs and strolls were routinely auto-detected and visited the app, however we did a 45 minute HIIT session and while heart rate zones were logged, and we got the requisite Active Zone Minutes, it never looked like a tagged workout.

Across a number of consistent runs, we were actually pleased how it carried out compared to a chest strap, even in the 190+ bpm variety. It suffered on extremely quick fluctuates in heart rate on hill repeats where it simply couldn't deal with the rapid rise in heart rate, and the Apple Watch Series 5 definitely managed that much better.