Best Wireless Headset For Workouts

Bluetooth Wireless Headsets

Looking for the Best Wireless Headset for Workouts?  I was too!  Typically, I workout in my home gym, and don’t need a wireless headset. Lately, though, I’ve been needing heavier bar & dumbbell weights and started back at the gym. During those times, I reminded myself how much I love listening to music/audiobooks while working out, and yet, how much I hate each and every time I do a move that JERKS the earphones out of my ears. So frustrating.

After several times of this, I decided to see what Bluetooth options were out there on the market right now. My first attempt was a bust for MY main purpose of using it — workouts. I purchased a Jawbone ICON Bluetooth headset to use with my iPhone 4S.  I tried it with several workouts, in the car, and in the office.  It kept falling off during my workouts.  The volume was good, but didn’t drown the gym out and occasionally was difficult to hear as it was only in one ear.  Also, the earpiece didn’t go deeper into the eardrum, as with the LG Tone, so it was harder to drown things out.  Most people could hear me well, but the Bluetooth had problems reconnecting.  Almost every time I had to forget the device and reconnect it.  Overall, I thought it was a good wireless if you weren’t moving a lot as in the car or office, but not for my workouts.

I went back to the drawing board, Google, and started researching it again. This time I hit gold. The LG Tone 700. I use this in the gym, at work, in the car and LOVE it! Many times I forget it’s around my neck until I talk to someone and I see them glancing at it because the blue light around the Call Button flashes and gets their attention.

One drawback I’ve found so far is when I have to do a move that calls for me to lay down flat, such as a chest press. I have to move it so that the opening is on the side of my neck instead of the front or turn it around so the opening is in the back. If I do this latter move, I have to pull the earphones out, flip it around, and put the earphones back in. Then, when I’m done and sit up, I have to make sure to grab them so they don’t fall off. Most of the time, rotating them 90 degrees instead of the 180 degrees works fine so it’s not too big a deal.

Another drawback is having it flop on your neck when you run or the music cut out occasionally. I don’t run much so this isn’t a problem for me; however, I do have a friend trying one out and is reporting this to me. Personally, they didn’t have an issue with the flopping, but others online have. Many either put it under the collar of their shirt, or put a shirt over it to hold it down. More of a problem to them was the music cutting out occasionally even though the iPhone was in a sleeve on their arm. They’re going to keep trying different locations and in/out of the sleeve to see if that works better; however, I’ve seen others online report this.

Neither of us have had any problems with it cutting out at work, home, or in the car. People are able to hear me easily, the music sounds good. and is loud enough for a gym. It reconnects consistently and easily, has a big range (about 30+ feet at work), is light enough to forget you’re wearing it, and very good battery life (around 10 hours).

So far, a WIN!  I am enjoying the LG Tone 700, and look forward to hearing what you use and like about these or other Bluetooth Wireless Headsets for the Gym.