What Does the Garmin Connect App Do?
The Garmin Connect mobile app can track and analyze the health and fitness activities recorded by your compatible Garmin golf watch. It can help you keep track of calories burned, total distance, time, and running pace and you can also use it to help you create some new workouts. You can even sync your Garmin Connect account to your MyFitnessPal account to get your calorie data. The Garmin S4, S5, S6, S10, S12, S20, X40, S40, S42, S60, and S62 are all compatible with the Garmin Connect mobile app.
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Some of the other reasons the Garmin S62 is the best golf watch and fitness tracker with heart rate monitoring on the market are that the Garmin S62 makes it easier to get hazard distances and it has a virtual caddie feature and really long battery life.
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The Garmin Connect mobile app comes with the following features:
* Heart Rate information including average heart rate, resting heart rate, and highest heart rate
* Records total steps taken, distance, and pace and even has an adjustable daily step goal that will help you meet your daily goal each day
* Records intensity minutes per week, number of minutes with moderate activity, and number of minutes with vigorous activity
* Records total number of minutes sleeping, number of hours and minutes of R.E.M. sleep, deep sleep, and light sleep
* Monitor your body battery energy levels
* Monitor stress levels including the number of hours and minutes at rest, low stress, medium stress, and high stress
* Keeps track of your hydration levels
* Keeps track of your workout schedule
* Keeps track of your fitness activities and goals including goals you set for distance (miles), time, calories, pace (minutes per mile), and elevation gain (feet)
* Create customized workouts that will help you reach your goals
* Import data from other fitness tracking apps like Apple Health, MyFitnessPal, and Strava into the Garmin Connect mobile app
* Earn badges when you reach your goals
* Compare your performance to the performance of other Garmin Connect users by looking at Garmin Connect Insights which is a program that will give you advice on how to meet your daily health and wellness goals.
Garmin Connect Insights uses data collected from members of the Garmin Connect community to give you personalized recommendations to enhance your performance. The personalized recommendations that are displayed are based on the user’s Garmin Connect data. It can include information about getting up and going for an extra walk if you are in danger of missing your daily step goal. This data includes the sleep data, step data, etc. from thousands of people each day.
Garmin Connect Insights will also show users how their performance compares to the average person of the same age and gender.
Garmin Connect Insights will provide you with congratulatory messages when you meet certain milestones which is a great motivational tool for trying to beat your previous best benchmarks. It will also provide you with many tips from health experts including helpful videos and news articles.
