Garmin - vívosmart® 4

I have a Vivosmart 4 too and you can customise what shows on your watch! So you can set it to be steps and make that the first thing you see on it! :) In the top right corner of the app on your phone, click on the picture of your watch, then click it again on the next screen. Next, select Appearance. Change “Home Widet” to Steps. You can also go to just “Widgets” there to choose what other things you want to see on your watch screen, and what order you want to see them in :) Hope this might be helpful!

I wouldn’t feel silly about it - I use the app often and it took me ages to find how to do this even knowing it was there. I think the app is really not designed well, not intuitive at all. But so glad it was helpful! I think it’s such a good tracker and love how small and comfortable it is.

Actually not all Garmin's have built in GPS which is quite shocking actually, the Lily does not unless you look at the Lily Active 2. The Vivomove watches and the Vivosmart 4 and 5 also do not have built in GPS.

The first thing I used was a Garmin Vivosmart 4. It was a thing fitness band, so turning it inside on my wrist wasn't too uncomfortable. Then I got a Polar H10 chest strap. First tracking using my phone in the Polar Beat app. I think this is the only option if you want to use the "save on device" feature. Which is useful if you're going to be doing something like martial arts training. Now I use my Polar H10 paired to my watch (Polar GritX Pro). I think this is the best of the options I've used. I put the watch beside me on the ground and still use the buttons to count sets (I'm surprisingly bad at this when my heart rate gets high).

Not anymore. I used to when I had a cheap one (Garmin Vivosmart 4). I'd keep a container of cold water and dunk a wristband over it every once in a while. Then I got an expensive watch and I didn't want to chance it. If you feel like you need HR data in the sauna, get something like a Polar H10 chest strap. You can use their app to save to device if you want. Then you don't need to bring your phone or watch in to the sauna. Although I don't mind wrapping my phone in a towel and leaving it on the bottom bench.

I use a Garmin Vivosmart 4 with my analogue watches. You can buy the current Vivosmart 5 or even the Vivofit 4.

Venu 2 daily and a Vivosmart 4 to wear with analogue watches!

Hi everyone! I'm looking to upgrade my watch, at least a bit, to pace more effectively. I currently have a Garmin Vivosmart 4, which has been very good, but it's biggest drawback is it doesn't display steps, and I'm thinking I'm at a point where keeping a limit on my steps should help quite a bit. Ideally I'd like one that displays HR and steps on the homescreen along with the time, but it's not necessary, especially if I can get something on the cheaper end of things (ie not $400+! -- yikes) Also a must is that it has a built in timer, as that is definitely my most used feature in my current watch. Another feature I'd like is a HR alert, an alarm that goes off if your HR is too high. Especially if it's an immediate alert, not only after 10 mins of it being high, as it is in my Vivosmart. Anyway, I'd love to hear everyone's recommendations, and what feature you find most useful for pacing!

Try the Garmin Vivosmart. The more recent 5 is a bit bigger than the recently discontinued 4, but you can still get the 4 on Amazon. I use mine (a 4) when I want to keep the stats going but fancy wearing a mechanical watch on the other wrist.

My wife wears a ~~Lily 2~~ (me bad, she wears a) Vivomove Trend on office days, not when she takes activities. Which may explain the lack of reviews. There isn't much to review on this watch. It's capabilities are like a Vivossport 4 or 5 band (which I wear when I want to wear a normal watch), you only use them for activities when you have somehow left behind your real Garmin. My wife's Vivomove does have actual watch hands, which is cool. And the features make it double as a fitness band in a pinch. In reality, it's an expensive step counter that displays phone notifications.

Hi, I still wear a Vivosmart 4 xl on days I don't wear my regular Garmin watch. I got mine used (Kleinanzeigen) as they are pretty expensive new. If you are not dead set on the Garmin ecosystem, rather get a Mi Band from Xiaomi. I had those up until version 4 and they only lacked GPS (but could use the GPS of a phone, just like my Vivosmart 4). They have way more functions and activities than the Garmin bands. And are cheaper. And the newer ones have GPS of their own now. Also no subscription required.

Only got the 4xl recently. Bought used, display wasn't ok. Garmin sent me a refurb - so my battery is new. I had a Vivosmart 3 before that lasted about 4 years before the display became veeery dim. Probably related to battery swelling? I do not wear them often, as I wear my Forerunner 265 usually. (Vivoactive 4 before)

Lily is a "wear it to the office to not lose your step count" watch. I do this with a Vivosmart 4 band. Never track anything more serious with it than walking the dogs in case I forgot to charge my Forerunner (which is my daily watch). Of course you can use it to track a run in a pinch (say you are on a business trip and only brought your Lily/band.

I used a Garmin Vivosmart 4 (I think? Maybe 5?) watch for awhile. Like you, I don't wear bracelets/watches/rings because they're annoying, but it didn't bother me. The band is pretty thin, doesn't have sticking out bits that catch on stuff, and can easily be cinched down so it won't move around, but even skin tight it's not so tight as to be restrictive. It's also sorta rubbery, so you can put it pretty much anywhere on your arm and it won't slide, but not so rubbery that stuff sticks to it. The texture on the band was kinda fun to stim with too. The one downside is that it got itchy if the skin underneath got wet, but drying the band and moving it up or down my arm a bit would fix that. The Garmin app on Android is pretty solid and easy to use as well.

What do you want it for? I wanted a fitness tracker and a discreet way to check messages/peep who was calling so I've been using the Garmin Vivosmart 4 and now the 5. Pretty much just lives on one wrist and I still can wear my more fashionable mechanical watches on the other.

I'm a subscriber to the endurance training platform intervals.icu. Every morning, I use a Shortcut to run a questionnaire in which I enter my Vitals heart rate and then a survey of subjective recovery metrics: sleep quality, mood, stress, soreness, motivation, injury, and notes. The only numerical value is my Vitals HR, which represents the early morning, just-before-waking heart rate. This is by far a better predictor of my training readiness and health than any numerical value spat out by any algorithm I've ever tried. It's a much better way to track my long-term health context. I still have a Garmin but I ignore everything except Body Battery, which I actually do think does a great job of capturing my sleep quality and training status. If you listen to top endurance coaches, they don't use any of the numerical, algorithmic values from any devices, other than maybe resting heart rate. What they use is conversations with athletes, questionnaires, and whether the athletes have been adhering to their training schedule.