Suunto Movescount Review: A Comprehensive Look


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The two biggest factors needed to get people moving are motivation and accountability. Working out with a friend is always easier. They encourage you, keep you focused on your goal, and–let’s be honest–no one wants to fail when someone is watching. But in the real world, we don’t always have a partner we can meet up with every day. Suunto Movescount does a good job at giving you the motivation and accountability you need whether or not you have someone by your side.

What Is Suunto Movescount?

Suunto Movescount can be described in three steps. First, wear your Suunto watch while you exercise. The watch tracks all of your activity. Second, sync your watch with Suunto Movescount using a USB cable or Bluetooth. The Suunto Movescount site can be accessed on a computer or smartphone via an app. Third, view, analyze and compare all your fitness data to those on the online community. This is the part that makes Suunto Movescount such a successful fitness tool.

The online community allows you to join a community of people who are doing the same activities as you. You can track your progress against those people, get recommendations for training, join groups, get training programs and view maps of places where people enjoy running, hiking or biking.

Product Specs

In order to utilize Suunto Movescount, you must purchase a Suunto fitness watch. There are a variety to choose from. The fitness watches have GPS navigation, are water resistant, and track your heart rate. The watches also track your activity through step counters, calories, burned, altitudes climbed, ascents and descents, speed and distance, laps, strokes, and intervals. This data is all tracked within the different sport mode capabilities of the watch.

Community

To achieve your best workout and reach your goals, you need to engage in the community, which provides you with plenty of motivation and accountability. Once you have synced your watch to Movescount, you can access all your data and compare it to that of others.

Suunto Movescount lets you connect with members. You can also become part of a group, such as a training group for a marathon, or you can group your member friends by different activities, such as a cycling, where you can track their progress and compare your results.

Suunto Movescount lets you track your progress against others in the following activities:

  • Running
  • Trail Running
  • Triathlon
  • Cycling
  • Mountain Biking
  • Swimming

Within each of these activities, you can compare your progress with other people to see how they are performing. For example, you can view data for people training for a 10k. You can view how people reached their goal and what they did to train. You can see how many times a week they trained, the duration of each workout and the distance. To put the data in perspective, you can see the total moves, total training hours, average age, and average weight of the people who performed the activity.

Training Program

There are training programs available for every activity tracked on Suunto Movescount. These training programs provide guidelines for how many days you should train, distances, durations and intensity. There is also a place for the community to discuss the training programs, offer suggestions or ask questions. All the work you do for the training program is logged and can be compared to that of others in the community.

Maps

One of the cool features that set Suunto Movescount apart is their heatmap. Heatmaps show actual maps you or others have used in their activity. You can search for maps in a certain area or based on what users in your community have used. The maps can show where people have run, hiked, biked, or trained for races. This is a great visual tool to help on days when you want to get outside but don’t know where to go, or if you want to find a more challenging course.

Apps

As with most technology today, you have the ability to customize your watch and Movescount community to meet your specific training needs. You can customize your experience by downloading apps. There are apps that track the sunset and sunrise, storm alert apps, incline tracking apps, beers burned off, interval training, and much more. There are over 500 apps to choose from on the Movescount community. This makes for endless possibilities for customizing your fitness program.

If you’re not sure which apps you need, you can select apps that other users in your community have selected or you can search for apps based on category, sport, most used or latest available.

Events

There is a place within the community to list fitness events in your area, or events that members in your community are attending. You can search based on the activity, training program, or members attending.

Pricing

The Suunto Movescount community is free to those that have a Suunto fitness watch to sync with, and all the apps and features of Suunto Movescount are free. The price range of a Suunto fitness watch ranges from around $200 to $700, depending on the style, features and materials used in the watch.

How It Compare

We picked a few similar websites available on the market to see how they compare.

  • MyFitnessPal
  • FitBit
  • Fitocracy

Suunto Movescount

Price $$

The pricing model for the Suunto fitness watch allows you to get a watch at the lower end of the spectrum for around $200 or the high end for around $700. Once you have a Suunto fitness watch, you can fully access Suunto Movescount and utilize all of its features.

Ease of Use (4 out of 5 stars)

The design of the graphs and maps is simple and sleek. They are easy to read and understand. The online community can get as complex as you like depending on how many apps you download and how many types of activity you track.

Website Features (5 out of 5 stars)

Suunto Movescount tracks almost everything you need in order to track your fitness. You can track different goals and view all the data needed to determine how you can reach that goal. You can even track how you felt about a workout.

Community (5 out of 5 stars)

The community provides good interaction between you and the people you connect with. You can share workouts, tips, maps, events and discuss programs that did or did not work for you.

PROS

  • Ability to track all your fitness needs in one place
  • Option to export your data from Suunto Movescount to other programs
  • Provides good motivation and accountability

CONS

  • Must purchase a Suunto fitness watch to utilize Suunto Movescount
  • Interface can become overwhelming for those looking for simple workout information
  • There could be more help and documentation available on how to fully utilize all of the features

MyFitnessPal

MyFitness Pal is an app and website tool that allows you to track your nutrition. This tool tracks how many calories you consume every day and your nutrition intake. You log meals and set goals for yourself. The tool calculates how many calories you intake and calculates needed activity to burn off those calories to meet your goal weight. You can also connect with friends and accountability partners.

Price (4 out 5 stars)

The app and website are free to users. To fully utilize all the features, you would need a fitness watch to import your activity data so that you can track your activity to calculate your goals. You can link the MyFitnessPal to a FitBit, Jawbone, or Apple Watch.

Ease of Use (3 out of 5 stars)

The tool itself has clean and simple charts and data entry forms. The navigation through MyFitnessPal is easy to use for all skill levels.

Website Features (3 out of 5 stars)

This site is mostly used for those looking to lose weight and track their calorie intake. The site has thousands of entries for food items and a detailed calorie counting system.

Community (4 out of 5 stars)

The community on MyFitnessPal is a great motivator to stay on track with your calorie intake. Users can share tips and recipes and hold each other accountable for meeting their weight goals.

PROS

  • Free to use, just need to access website or download app onto your smartphone
  • Great sharing ability among the community
  • Easy to use calorie counter

CONS

  • So many entries for food items that you have to make sure you choose the exact item you ate
  • To utilize all the features you really need a fitness watch to help track your activity
  • Not the best tool to track fitness goals

FitBit

FitBit offers a fitness watch and online community to track your progress and connect with others online. In order to use the FitBit online community, you must purchase a FitBit watch. The watch tracks your steps, heart rate, activity, distance and duration. Once you sync your watch to the online community, you can create challenges with your friends and set goals for yourself.

Price $$

In order to access and utilize the FitBit online community you must purchase a FitBit fitness watch. Depending on the style and features of the watch, they range from around $100 to around $300.

Ease of Use (4 out of 5 stars)

The FitBit dashboard has a clean, simple design and an easy-to-use dashboard where you can view your data or connect to the online community.

Website Features (4 out of 5 stars)

The online community can be accessed through their website or an app downloaded onto your smartphone. The site features goals, progress, maps, events, races and challenges.

Community (5 out of 5 stars)

The online community is great for connecting with your friends. This tool makes it fun to challenge your friends to a race or to see who is first in meeting their goal.

PROS

  • Great for connecting with your friends to make exercise fun
  • Navigation on dashboard is simple
  • Tracks all of your activity

CONS

  • Must purchase a FitBit watch to utilize the online community
  • Watches are more complicated to use and there is a learning curve
  • Users have reported trouble syncing data

Fitocracy

Fitocracy is an online community meant to motivate you to get you in shape. The tool provides fitness assessments, workouts, nutritional information and coaching. The tool is completely customizable to your skill level and your workout goals.

Price $

Fitocracy is free to download and use. If you want to access the coaching feature it starts at around $1 a day and goes up from there, depending on your coaching needs.

Ease of Use (3 out of 5 stars)

The tool is easy to use, but it doesn’t break down all the data points in an easy-to-read display. There is also a lot of manual entry needed, such as starting and stopping workout times.

Website Features (4 out of 5 stars)

The tool lets you earn rewards when you meet goals. You can share your success with friends. There are also lots of exercise programs available.

Community (3 out of 5 stars)

You can connect with members of your group and compete against them.  You can view your progress against those like you.

PROS

  • Great motivation and accountability
  • Customized workouts just for you
  • Track all your progress

CONS

  • Lots of manual entry to go through exercise programs
  • Coaching can get expensive
  • Need to use it frequently to get the best results from the tool

Conclusion

Finding the right motivation to get you working out is key. But even if you have no problem getting off the couch, finding new challenges and tracking your progress are important. We give the Suunto Movescount online community 5 stars for its great ability to not only track all your progress but also for making it easy to find new challenges. With all the fitness data tracked and apps available to download, you are sure to find the motivation you need to keep going.

Jack Thompson

Jack Thompson, a scuba diving enthusiast from San Diego, has spent over a decade exploring the underwater world across the globe. Sharing his passion through captivating stories and informative articles, Jack aims to inspire others to embark on their own scuba diving adventures and uncover the ocean's hidden treasures. Follow Jack on Twitter, Pinterest, Reddit, and Facebook or email him at Jack@diving-info.com

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