Garmin vívoactive® 5, Health & Fitness GPS Smartwatch, 42mm, Ivory

This replaced my Garmin Forerunner 55 which served me well but stopped counting laps. This beauty looks surprisingly elegant for a sports watch. My only criticism is the band is better suited for a larger-boned individual. As a slender female with small wrists I am almost on the last slot on the band.Nice evaluation of sleep mechanics and energy. Looking forward to using with sports.

I got my wife the Garmin vívoactive 5, and she absolutely loves it. From the moment she started wearing it, it became a part of her daily routine in a really positive way. The watch looks great with its clean ivory design and bright AMOLED display, and it’s comfortable enough that she wears it all day without thinking about it.What’s been most impressive is how it’s encouraged her to stay more active in a natural, healthy way. She enjoys tracking her steps, workouts, and daily movement goals, and it’s motivated her to take more walks, be more mindful of her activity, and stay consistent without it feeling like a chore.The battery life has also been a big win, going many days between charges, and the GPS and fitness tracking features have been accurate and easy for her to use. It strikes a great balance between being a smartwatch and a health companion without feeling overly complicated.Overall, it’s been a great purchase. She genuinely enjoys wearing it every day, and it’s helped her build healthier habits in a way that feels fun and sustainable.

I purchased this watch for my wife and she loves it! It's a great watch with amazing battery life. Easily allows you to view all your health information. The screen size is perfect and it's very easy to adjust the band to fit around varying wrist sizes. Overall, great product!

Battery last week over a week. Great quality, reliable, has many features that I haven’t taken advantage of yet.

I’m someone who really really did not want a watch of any sort, especially not an Apple Watch or anything else that is bloated with unnecessary hardware that needs to be charged every single day. Charging a phone every day is enough of a pain without needing to add any other junk, so no thanks to the useless gimmick-loaded “smart” watches.But I really needed to do fitness tracking because without some sort of gadget I just have zero idea how lazy or not lazy I’ve been lately and whether or not I need to get at least some minimal exercise.And my #1 must have feature is week-long battery charge life. This watch is good enough, even though the battery life might be more like 5 days in some cases if you’re using it for activities a lot where the gps is turned on. But for those not running with the gps every day or constantly tinkering with it a full battery charge seems to last a week. That is, charge it for an hour on Sunday and no need to charge it again until the same time next Sunday. You could get the battery to last longer if you’re willing to shut off absolutely everything that might use more power.I started out with a Garmin vivosmart 5 because I didn’t think I needed anything beyond that, but I have sleep problems and decided I needed better sleep tracking. So I ended up with this one even though I don’t really care about random silly “apps” on a watch.Overall this watch has been excellent. It has a very good UI and the fitness tracking features a quite good. The sleep tracking is decent, but still has its issues that hopefully Garmin will fix with software updates. In particular the “nap tracking” doesn’t seem fully baked yet, and things like laying back in a recliner reading a book or watching TV can get falsely detected as a “nap”. Then there’s no way to delete a false nap on the watch or in the Garmin Connect app.There are still a few minor bugs that some people will run into but they seem to be things that can be fixed with firmware updates and I haven’t run into anything completely feature-breaking.If you feel like messing with it you can also install some “apps” like custom watch face designs or sunset/sunrise times, more detailed weather and such. But even without installing anything the watch does everything needed for health and fitness stuff.Almost all of the apps that come with the device can be uninstalled, so if you don’t need “women’s health tracking” for example then you can just remove that to free up space.Their mobile app is pretty well designed and only awkward in some parts of the configuration.The watch reliably synchronizes as long as you leave the phone app running in the background and I’ve never had any Bluetooth connection failures, lag, or lost pairings.Things that the watch is not good for are things that you’d typically use a phone for like communication, turn by turn navigation, maps, games, and such. But I don’t want a watch to do any of that stuff and I’d rather have it save its battery charge so I don’t have to charge it constantly.So overall, this is “the” watch you want if you want as little nonsense as possible and don’t want to worry about battery charge all the time but still need full health and fitness tracking stuff beyond what the $75-150 models offer. And there are also no subscriptions required.

Update. The warch did an update this week and the battery seems to be lasting a lot longer. I'll test how many days exactly and post another update.I like the look and style, however, the battery does NOT last 11 days. I received the watch yesterday, late afternoon, and charged it. Its battery was down to 15% by lunch today. I did not do any activities yesterday that would have drained the battery. My set notifications only include my phone calls and text messages - no emails.Update. Recharged a couple of hours ago and already down almost 50%

I absolutely love this watch! I have had mine for about 6 months and got my husband the same one. I love that it gives me language and data behind how I am feeling. The body battery is incredibly validating. I am constantly exhausted even if I think I'm getting the proper amount of sleep. I love that it explains how my sleep isn't restorative enough to support full recovery from my stressful daily life. Contrasting this, my husband has a labor-intensive job but always feels fine. We will go to sleep and wake up around the same time, but my sleep scores are usually in the 50s-70s and his is almost always in the high 90s. I wake up with my body battery around 30-50%, and he wakes up fully recharged at 90-100%. It's really helpful to see how my nervous system impacts my energy levels. I can even see direct effects of mindfulness and meditation in my metrics so it helps me see progress even if I don't immediately feel it.I also do strength training, hike, walk, bike, and swim, and this is pretty good for all of those things! I like seeing what zone I am in for workouts, tracking my heart rate, and seeing my recovery data.

So far it’s been awesome. I was such a die hard Fitbit fan just because I had YEARS of data. But I finally got sick of them dying right away after a few years of use. I decided to invest in this watch since I use an Apple phone and didn’t want to get an android based watch that wouldn’t show my iMessages. So far the only complaints are that the screen is getting really scratched up from daily wear (i tried to capture it in the photo) and that the distance at which it disconnects from my phone is pretty small—so I’ll get a notification if I step into another room or out of the house that it’s disconnected from my phone. Other than that, though, it’s been awesome. I can use it to set my alarms so I don’t have to be reliant on my phone too! I also gravitated towards this because I don’t like the look of square smart watches and wanted something with a smaller clock face for my arm so it wouldn’t take up my entire wrist and also something with a longer battery life. I like how easily you can personalize the face of the watch and the set up, and choose whether or not you want it to be on at all times or just on when raised or tapped. I also love the stopwatch function. I don’t really use it to track anything other than my heart rate, so I’m not sure how accurate the other health/fitness type features are. I do like being able to track my sleep hours as well.

Opinie piszę po około 3 tygodniach od zakupu, więc zdążyłem już dobrze zapoznać się z zegarkiem. Produkt jest rewelacyjny i spełnia moje wszystkie oczekiwania, a nawet więcej. Świetne wykonanie, zegarek jest lekki, a pasek bardzo miękki, dzięki czemu praktycznie nie czuć go na ręce. Rewelacyjny wyświetlacz, na którym wszystko idealnie widać nawet w pełnym słońcu. Przy ciągłym pomiarze tętna, włączonych powiadomieniach ze smartfona, rejestracji kilku aktywności i dokonywaniu nim kilku płatności dziennie, zegarek wytrzymuje na jednym ładowaniu 7 pełnych dób i zazwyczaj jeszcze jest około 20-30% baterii. Jak dla mnie wynik rewelacyjny. Świetne modyfikowalne tarcze, które możemy za darmo pobrać ze sklepu Connect IQ. Zegarek sprawdzi się w przypadku osoby która chce mieć nieduży i lekki zegarek z płatnościami zbliżeniowymi, z ciągłym monitorowaniem stanu zdrowia i rejestrowaniem aktywności. Oczywiście dla wyczynowych sportowców Garmin ma lepsze urządzenia, jednak dla amatorów jest to bardzo dobry wybór.

I’ve been using the watch for a while now. It’s amazing and well worth the price. Highly recommend

So far good. Size just nice not too big or too small. comfortable to wear all day in and out. For health enthusiasts. Sufficient data work as it is. Not too many unwanted features which could confuse and hard to navigate around. My second simply watch for health tracking purposes

Great product and great seller would definitely use this seller again

Review after <1 week of use. For background, my fitness routine is currently weights training around 1 hour 2 times per week and occasionally a 1-2 hour casual walk at the weekend. I wanted a smart watch that could track my overall health, fitness and my workouts, but not something with crazy accurate GPS and gate analysis etc for runners.For my use, it’s perfect so far.Mostly easy to setup using the Garmin Connect app, and found a good watch face that matched the info I wanted displayed using the Garmin Connect IQ app which is a separate app that you can use to customise the watch and the data it displays. Slightly annoying there’s a second app for this but not the end of the world for something that once you set up you may not change for a while.One barrier to updating the watch face is that the watch needed a firmware update as most tech does, but to do this update I had to connect to my laptop and download the Garmin Express software, there were a few updates to run but all was easy.The charging cable is USB C, so consider if you need an adaptor. The end that attaches to the watch is secure. Extremely secure. It fit so well that when I unplug it I’m worried that I’m going to cause damage because of how hard I have to pull it. I guess I’d rather it was tight than loose and didn’t charge well.I’ve turned off the always on display and turned off gestures so that the watch doesnt light up when I turn my wrist in order to preserve battery longer. I just have to tap the screen or press a button the activate the screen.On full charge it said on screen the battery would last 12d, that seems to be tracking accurately 4 days later.One small annoyance I have is the “play” in the side buttons. You can press them in but not enough to actually activate the click which is frustrating. I’m used to it now and just have to be more firm, but it would be nice to have more responsive buttons.The watch tracks your calories burned during the day and during activity, this needs to be calibrated by tracking a 10-15 minute walk or run which is easy to do. The Garmin Connect app can link to apps like MyFitnessPal so when I’ve done activity it’ll update my calories in MyFitnessPal so I can see my deficit easily.The watch sleep tracking I’m not convinced on accuracy yet, last night for instance it thought I fell asleep an hour after I actually did.Overall great watch I’d highly recommend, it has many inbuilt workout routines & sports tracking I’ll never use but it doesn’t feel I’m missing out of functionality. It does exactly what I’m asking of it brilliantly