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Discuss: The one setting you should change on your Garmin watch Sign in to comment. Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic. We delete comments that violate our policy, which we encourage. Garmin Forerunner review wareable. Running Indoors with the Garmin Forerunner is very easy and the accuracy is of a level good enough to see your training effect and capture relevant data to use help improve your training.
Running is one of the easiest sports there is. A 5 mile run hardly Garmin Forerunner is a fitness watch and activity tracker that offers versatility and options no matter how many miles you run.
This comfortable and light watch offers the ability to tracks all the important data, including distance, heart rate, and calories, as well as so many more items like VO2 max, cadence, and sleep just to name a few. As mentioned, it only works on select devices that offer music player support. Read this: How to connect Spotify to Garmin watches. Download Spotify Connect IQ app. If you're planning to use your Garmin for multi discipline pursuits, this app can make it a whole lot easier to display all legs of your endurance event.
It supports activities that are made up of two and five sports, which includes running, cycling, swimming and skiing. It works on a bunch of Garmins that don't have dedicated triathlon modes, including the Forerunner and the Venu, which is nice to see. When you're on the piste, this dedicated app for snow sports lovers dishes out metrics from your session including distance, speed and ascent.
There's also support for the ability to guide you back home when you've had enough of the skiing or boarding action for the day. You'll need to do a bit of playing around to get the best out of its new mapping features, but it's an essential for skiers and snowboarders. If you're all about your heart rate training, this app provides an alternative way to display and absorb your HR data during a workout.
Splitting your intensive training into a color coded pie chart, it will flash to indicate your current heart rate zone and offers six different screens to view your data. There's a surprising amount of customization available here too, but in its simplest form it's a really useful tool if you tap into the HR on your Garmin watch. Remember this one from school? Yes, you can put yourself through the agony of a beep test, setting up your watch to create 20 meter shuttle run that should quickly give you a sense of whether you need to spend a bit more time in the gym or in your running shoes.
For HIIT lovers, 7-Minute Workout takes you through a series of exercises to get the heart pumping, including jumping jacks and push-ups, while factoring in rest times and displaying real-time heart rate data.
The UI looks great and it'll help you mix up that training when you're struggling to put aside time. One for cyclists, runner and hikers, this helpful app lets you view routes on your watch screen, letting you zoom in four different ways, view current position and even showing you a breadcrumbs trail.
You'll need to go to the dwMap web page to set up routes, then sync it to the watch before you go out exploring. Download dwMap Connect IQ app. If you want your Garmin to be a better fit for the gym, this is one of the better apps on the Connect IQ Store to help you. Those calorie calculations are based on a formula from the Journal of Sports Sciences, so should serve up reliable data to represent how hard you've worked out.
Pretty much all of Garmin's watches are waterproof and for swimmers this is one of the best apps we've found on the store. It's built for open water swimming, displaying key metrics like speed, pace and distance along with offering customizable data fields. There's also the option of displaying heart rate data when your watch is paired with an external sensor to deliver that accurate HR data in the water.
Another strong option for swimmers, particularly for open water lovers, this app offers an alternative way to track your time in the water. It features eight different profiles, offers five different lap methods and puts plenty of metrics on view during your swim. Enter coordinates in any format, in any datum. All of your data is automatically reprojected to the new format and datum. As you move over the map, the current township, range, and section is displayed.
With ExpertGPS, you'll be able to view all of your hiking trips over the aerial photos in Google Earth, showing exactly where you went. This feature is so popular in ExpertGPS, we've added a hot key F7 that will automatically launch Google Earth and zoom in on your hiking waypoints and tracklogs. Here you can adjust the length of the pool, turn on Autolap, and customize the data screens that are displayed when you're working out. However, this app doesn't have access to all of the features of your watch.
For example, it cannot display the Distance and Speed fields. These always remain at 0, even when you analyze your data afterward in Garmin Connect. This is a limitation Garmin imposes on Connect IQ apps. The good news is that if you bring your Pool Swim workouts into SportTracks , this data is displayed and is fully available for analysis. Another interesting feature of Pool Swim is that it utilizes heart rate data, which isn't common in swim tracking. If you use the Garmin , the app uses the built-in heart rate monitor on the watch.
In a way, apps like Pool Swim are one of the best reasons to use Garmin devices. Even if you aren't an active swimmer when you purchase the watch, you can still track pool workouts later — thanks to the power of the Connect IQ app platform.
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