Garmin Vivoactive 3 In Depth Review. Its been about 6 weeks since Garmin first announced the new Vivoactive 3 GPS watch. This watch builds upon the Vivoactive HR by adding in more features including things like contactless payments with Garmin Pay, as well as structured workouts. It, of course, retains the sports focused features of previous models as well as the Garmin Connect IQ app platform. Over these last 6 weeks Ive been pounding the pavement and trails with it. From cycling to running on both surfaces, and even a bit of swimming tossed in. All while doing so in the busiest travel season of the year. And the best part For half that time I wore the Fitbit Ionic on the other wrist, before then switching in the last three weeks to wearing the Apple Watch Series 3 LTE concurrently other wrist. Which rounds out the three top competitors for fitness focused smart watches in the mid range market. In the case of the Vivoactive 3, Garmin sent over a loaner to check out. Ill be sending that back to them shortly, and going to go out and get my own through normal retail channels. If you find this review useful hit up the links at the bottom to save some dough and support the site. I appreciate it. With that lets get cooking Whats in the box At this juncture, I actually dont have a final box to share with ya. Instead, Ive got the box contents which is essentially just the watch and the charging cable. Down the road, once I get my own from retail, Ill stick some box shots in here. Theyll be sexy shotsat least as sexy as cardboard can be anyway. Note that the charger cable is the same as almost all of the existing Garmin watches released in 2. Garmin universal charger. This is used in the Fenix 55. S5. XFR9. 35Vivosport, and probably a few others Im forgetting. About the only units its not used on are re incarnations of other older watches like the new FR3. Export Data From Garmin Connect To Trainingpeaks If' title='Export Data From Garmin Connect To Trainingpeaks If' />FR3. Vivomove HR, which was too slim for the new connector fashion focused. The band meanwhile, is a 2. Garmin or otherwise. And finally, Im sure the box will have some paper junk in there like a three line quick start guide. Obviously, after this post its unlikely youll need to consult with such documentation. Weights and Sizes Taking a quick detour to look at the sizes and weights of the watches, Ive lined up the Apple Watch Series 3 LTE with the Fitbit Ionic and Garmin Vivoactive 3. Essentially, what are likely to be the three most popular fitnesssports focused watches this fall for the mid range market the Samsung Gear Sport hasnt started shipping yet. Ps3 Update 4 50 Download Size Limit. Heres how the three look side by side As you can see, theyre all fairly similar in sizes. The Garmin is a bit more rounded than the Apple Watch, while the Fitbit is a touch bit bigger in terms of face. Ultimately though, theyre all fairly similar. Heres a look at them from a slightly different angle Then to take a crack at the weights, I put all three on the scale. I used the sport band in the case of the Fitbit Ionic, merely because I hate the regular stock band. You can check out that in depth review though for weights of all the band types. All the weights are in grams, with the Fitbit and Garmin units being identical at 4. Apple Watch sitting in at 6. Keep in mind this is the 4. Apple Watch, so itd be slightly heavier than the 3. The Basics Im going to start off with the basics, and then well jump into the sport aspects in a section further down. With the Vivoactive 3 being part of the Vivo family, it means that a core piece of that is related to just day to day activity tracking such as steps and sleep. Before that though, lets talk about how to interact with the thing. The unit has a touchscreen display, as well as one button on the right side unless you flip it over, in which case its on the left side, as well as a touch sensitive swipe area on the left side again, unless you flip it over. The touch sensitive area allows you to swipe up and down through pages or menus. What is interesting is the ability to invert the unit so that the button is on your left. This is done via the Garmin Connect app, which simply flips over the screen. Youll also probably want to flip the bands as well, so that the clasps are proper. All of which takes about 3 seconds. Next, by default you have the default watch face shown. Like most Garmin wearables, you can download watch faces from the Connect IQ store as well as create your own with photos and such. If you left it the way you got it, youll see your step, stair, and intensity minutes targets listed on the screen behind the watch face Each of these goals can be tweaked, or left dynamic as is the case of steps, which will automatically shift each day depending on what youve done recently. Walk more, it raises the goal. Fall off the walking boat, and it lowers it. You can swipe updown through the widget pages at any time to see core stats like steps, stairs, weather, and so on. Heres a quick gallery of a few of the default widget pages, though you can certainly add more Garmin and 3rd party ones Youll notice up above ones like steps, which you can then tap on to get a bit more historical detail on. In the case of steps youll see your progress towards your goal steps along the edge 4. I havent walked enough steps lately. Similarly, weve got the 2. HR graph, which by default shows the last four hours But you can tap that and look at aspects like resting heart rate RHR. This is useful for tracking excess fatigue, as well as impending sickness in my case anyway. I wrote a super detailed post on resting HR and 2. While Wahoo claims its new Elemnt Bolt GPS computer and sculpted mount are aerodynamically superior to the comparably sized Garmin EdgeAuthor Ben Delaneyhttp hIDSERP,5163. SyncMyTracks Sincroniza tu actividades deportivasSync your activities of adidas miCoach, Endomondo, Garmin Connect, MapMyFitness, Nike, Polar Flow, Ride with GPS, RunKeeper, Runtastic, Sports Tracker and Strava. Can my data be stored in the cloud or in some data source on the internetHR monitoring here. The heart rate sensor on the Vivoactive 3 follows that of the Fenix 5 and other 2. This is a change from 2. Along the same lines of heart rate, weve got the new stress stats. These were added this past spring with the Vivosmart 3, and have now been carried over into almost all other Garmin wearable devices released this year. These stats monitor how miserable your day has been, and report that back on a numerical scale. The higher the stress value, the more sucky things have gone for you. All of this is then viewable on Garmin Connect Mobile later on as well, so you can track stress over time and across multiple days And thats really the case across all stats, be it walking or calories or stairs Finally, weve got the sleep side of things, which the unit tracks automatically. You simply fall asleep each night, and it tracks it for ya. Note that it doesnt track naps though. If you sleep multiple times in the day, you wont get credit for that. Minor note The sleep times on these screenshots are offset by 8 hours due to an interesting quirk with when you dont update the preferred tracker to a new time zone, and your old tracker isnt used after your transatlantic flight. Totally my fault, but figured Id note in case people wonder. The sleep times startend seem to be pretty accurate within a couple minutes, but I have no tangible way to determine accuracy on the other claims in terms of sleep phasesportions. I am glad to see that, generally speaking, it doesnt false trigger me as asleep if Im just reading on my phone or watching You. Tube videos before bed. Next, to be clear, the Vivoactive 3 does NOT have music capabilities in it. It can control the music on your phone e. Export Data From Garmin Connect To Trainingpeaks If' title='Export Data From Garmin Connect To Trainingpeaks If' />Fitness. Syncer joins your health and fitness clouds into one Dashboard and Stream. Supporting over 4. Fitbit, Garmin Connect, Map. My. Fitness, Microsoft Health. Vault, Run. Keeper, and moreConnect Your Apps. Use your favorite apps, trackers, and devices for each activity. Fitness. 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