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Accessories Does anyone use Android Wear, like the Moto 360 while exercising?

I do know that there is a heartrate monitor on the Moto 360, for example, though I'm not sure who actually uses it for regular exercise. Are you accumulating a fair amount of wear and tear? Does the size or shape somehow get in the way of your exercises, like bench pressing? I likely won't use my watch like that, but it irritates me to think that I need to buy a different fitness tracker when the watch seems to do that as well.
 
I used my moto 360 with sportstracker while running.
I have a chest strap (Zephyr HXM) heart rate monitor.
So I didn't want to use the heart rate capabilities of the Moto 360, I just wanted to use it as a display of heart rate.

It seemed to jump oddly from my actual heart rate (130) down to 50 at the same time that my phone was reading the correct heart rate. I think maybe the moto 360 heart rate monitor got in the way. I switched my watch to display total time and left it there.
 
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The cheststrap b/t HRM is the crucial part of the setup. ( the wrist HRM built into a smart watch is for spot-checks vs continuous monitoring and is not very accurate).

So if you're not sure about the watch, you can start out buying the chest strap b/t HRM and see how you like it jogging while watching your phone. I did that for over a year before I got my watch. But I liked it much better after I added the watch to the setup... it is much more natural to look at your watch frequently than your phone. And personally I love all the other things the watch can do. At $99 for Moto 360 G1 or $130 for a Zenwatch, it's a bargain imo but I guess it's not for everyone.
 
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