There aren’t any useful additional measurements, such as the velocity of your reps that you get from dedicated strength training wearables such as the Beast sensor or Gymwatch it’s literally just the number of reps. However, how useful you’ll find this I’m not entirely sure. While I’m not entirely sure of the accuracy of this approach – most fitness tracker VO2 Max tests require you to jog – it’s at least another metric you can use to measure your health over time.įinally, the Vivosmart 3 also packs in rep counting for strength training. You can manually trigger a test by taking a 15-minute walk while wearing the band it uses your heart rate performance measured against your personal measurements of age and weight. There are also VO2 Max estimations, which work in a similar way to the Cardio Fitness score on the Fitbit Charge 2. Again, all of this data is available in the Garmin Connect app. While it won’t wash away all of your worries, and I do wish some haptic vibrations were used to let you know when to transition between breaths, it remains a nice reminder to slow down.
You can choose a time, such as 2 minutes, and the display will guide you on the length of time to inhale, then hold your breath, then exhale in a controlled manner. In order to try to reduce your overall stress, there are guided breathing exercises you can initiate from the Vivosmart 3. Like your sleep data, the all-day stress readings are broken down to time spent in different levels of rest, low, medium and high stress. My stress rating while queuing to get through airport security for my aforementioned holiday did indeed measure as high, no doubt exacerbated by the slow-moving line and infuriating lack of efficiency exhibited by all. One useful feature the Vivosmart 3 brings to the table is its all-day stress rating, which monitors your heart rate to take a view on your general well-being. A separate chart shows your movement levels throughout the night.Īirports, everyone /vnnPczWQGG You can also dive into each day to get a better idea of your sleep quality and time spent in different sleep stages. It made me feel more inclined to correct any deviations. In particular, I like how easy the bar charts clearly shift to show the times so you can quickly identify if you’re gradually going to sleep later over the past seven days.
The way this sleep data is presented in the app is, to some extent, an improvement over what’s seen from Fitbit. Sleep tracking also measured up, automatically and accurately taking note of when I fell asleep and awoke the following morning. It will let you know when the ‘move bar has been cleared’ as a message on the display, once you’ve accrued enough steps to satiate its appetite. Move reminders – which have become standard across most fitness trackers – feature, too, so the band will vibrate when you’re sat idle for too long. Aside from this, however, the step counting remained consistent against a Fitbit Alta HR I also had on at the time. One point of note is that I did notice the Vivosmart 3 racking up extra steps while I was sat on a speedboat during a recent holiday. So far it’s all par for the course, with the Vivosmart performing as I’d have expected during the day and night. The app also features various screens that breakdown historical data, enabling you to see the time of day you’ve achieved your step goal over the course of a month. In particular, the adapting step goal is a neat way to stay motivated if you find yourself under- or over-achieving day to day. You can expect the usual step counting, compared against a dynamically adapting step goal, alongside flights of stairs climbed and the sleep obtained overnight. When it comes to activity tracking, the Vivosmart 3 ticks all the boxes. Garmin Vivosmart 3 – Activity Tracking and App Activity tracking, battery life and verdict Review.
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