This Garmin Fitness Smartwatch Is $100 Off Right Now
If you’re looking for a wearable device that combines fitness tracking with smartwatch functionality, the Garmin Vivoactive 5 is a good choice, especially at its current pre-Black Friday price of $199.99 ($100 off retail).
It’s only available in one size – 42mm – but has a 1.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen with a crisp 390 x 390 pixel resolution, so you won’t have any problem viewing stats and notifications. If you’re into swimming, it’s rated at 5 ATM water resistance, which means it’ll do just fine for aquatic workouts unless you’re diving below 164 feet, which I’m guessing you probably don’t do regularly.
Besides the usual smartwatch features like GPS and notifications, which work with both Android and iOS (though you can only respond to notifications directly on the watch using Android), it offers plenty of health tracking capabilities, including oxygen level monitoring blood, calories burned. , heart rate, menstruation and sleep cycles and much more. You also get access to Garmin Pay, real-time location sharing, and the ability to download music for on-the-go listening.
Garmin claims the Vivoactive 5 can last up to 11 days on a single charge. However, with real-world use—say, two to three workouts per week and GPS turned on—according to PCMag’s review , the average goes about eight days between charges.
This model also provides sleep coaching, including automatic sleep detection, improved Body Battery metrics, and daily morning reports on your sleep and overall health. You’ll also find guided meditations, more than 30 pre-loaded activity options (plus the ability to customize your own), a wheelchair mode for tracking daily pushes, and wheelchair workouts. However, it lacks a barometric altimeter for tracking stair climbs and on-screen workout animations, features available on other Garmin models like the Vivoactive 4 ($247.41, down from $329.99).
You can get detailed access to all your metrics using the Garmin Connect app, which also lets you customize which apps and metrics show up on your watch. Unlike Fitbit, which locks some features behind a premium membership, Garmin offers all of its best features for free.