If you see me walking down the street, and I start to cry, it’s probably because I’ve lost count of how many steps I’ve taken for another one of these Tom’s Guide walking challenges. Here at the fitness desk, we love nothing more than testing the newest tech on the market, but one simple way we gauge a new smartwatch's accuracy is to see how well it counts steps.
Of course, both the Apple Watch Series 11 and the new Garmin Forerunner 170, released on May 15, do an awful lot more than just count steps. However, the watches' step-counting abilities often indicate how accurately they calculate cadence.
