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Everything you need to know about Garmin Connect
If you own a Garmin watch, Garmin Connect is indispensable. It?s the app you?ll use to manage your wearable from your phone and gives you a complete view of your daily activity and overall health. In essence, it?s a lot like Fitbit?s app, albeit with a few more features. Discover everything you need to know about Garmin Connect in our guide.
What is Garmin Connect? According to Garmin, Connect is ?the tool for tracking, analyzing, and sharing health and fitness activities from your Garmin device,? and that?s as brief an explanation as you can get. While the app puts your fitness and health data front and center, it also houses important Garmin device settings. In this sense, it?s a hub for your well-being data and a control panel for your Garmin watch. Garmin Connect also has social features, allowing users to connect with and challenge friends. This, combined with training analysis, route planning, and built-in training features, makes Connect one of the more feature-packed health apps on the market. But it?s not just available on your phone. Garmin Connect is also accessible from any web browser. It?s also worth noting that all Garmin ?fitness, wellness, and golf devices? are compatible with Garmin Connect. No devices from other smartwatch companies are supported, but you can import Fitbit data manually if desired. What does Garmin Connect track? Credit: Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority Garmin Connect tracks a wealth of health and fitness metrics. It has the basics, like heart rate and sleep covered, but it also monitors and calculates granular statistics. These are the main metrics tracked by Garmin Connect:
Navigating Garmin Connect Garmin Connect can be overwhelming at first. Even once you know the app well, spending a few moments to find the exact setting, metric, or toggle should be expected. Thankfully, it?s also customizable, so you can choose which stats to display on the home page or which tabs are available on its tab bar. Garmin Connect?s top shortcuts You?ll find four icons right at the top of the app.
When opening Garmin Connect, the first page you?ll encounter is My Day. This is a comprehensive summary of your primary health and fitness metrics, including heart rate, Body Battery, and respiration. You can choose which metrics ? or cards ? to display by scrolling to the bottom of the page and tapping on Edit My Day. This page also displays a summary of the data garnered the previous day, and an average for the past seven days. Tabs At the foot of Garmin Connect, you?ll find the Tab bar. It?s visible on all screens in the app, and allows for quick navigation to specific sections. My Day and Notifications are the two permanent tabs, but users can select the other three. You can choose between the following tabs:
To edit the tab bar, tap on the three-line menu icon, then select Edit Tabs. Training and workout features Credit: Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority Garmin Connect isn?t just an excellent health monitoring app, but it?s also great for those serious about improving their fitness. There?s room for beginners and more experienced users alike. You can access Garmin Connect?s training features by tapping on the three-line menu icon, then Training & Planning. You?ll find four menu items here.
Golfers can also take advantage of specific features, including Scorecards, Golf Course Stats, and Overall Stats in this section. These menu items are shortcuts to features within Garmin Golf, so you?ll need to download that app separately. Setting goals in Garmin Connect Credit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority We recommend setting goals manually if you just bought your first Garmin watch. Adjust step goals
Now for a really curious design decision. You can only see and set workout goals using Garmin Connect?s website. It?s odd, but here?s how to do it:
Apps and services compatible with Garmin Connect Credit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Garmin Connect can sync with a host of third-party websites, apps, and services. The company officially lists the following:
Notably, MyFitnessPal, Strava, TrainingPeaks, and Zwift are the only services that send and receive data from Garmin Connect. The others listed will only receive data. See also: The best fitness apps for Android More... |
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