Know the real you with the Venu 3 smartwatch, the ultimate on-wrist coach designed to support your goals — whatever they may be. Featuring a bright, colorful display and up to 14 days of battery life, this GPS smartwatch is purpose-built with advanced health and fitness features to help you better understand your body. Body Battery energy monitoring helps you keep your energy levels in check with personalized insights based on sleep, naps, stress, workouts and more. Improve the quality of your sleep with personalized sleep coaching and nap detection plus even more details such as HRV status (data presented is intended to be a close estimation of metrics tracked). During the day, switch up your activities with animated workouts and more than 30 built-in sports apps — including for active wheelchair users — plus advanced training features to keep you going strong. With its built-in speaker and microphone, the Venu 3 smartwatch makes it easy to make and take calls right from your wrist when paired to your smartphone — and even reply to texts by using your phone’s voice assistant. Plus, enjoy connectivity features such as music storage, Garmin Pay contactless payments (with a supported country and payment network) and more. 

General features:

• From durable Corning^® Gorilla^® Glass 3 to the sleek stainless steel bezel and comfortable silicone band, this smartwatch is ready for anything.
• Track more health stats, and get a closer look at what’s going on inside your body.
• Find new ways to move your body with more than 25 preloaded sports apps.
• Want some coaching? Follow along with animated workouts right on your wrist.
• Store music on the watch so you can leave your phone behind.
• Tap your wrist at the register to pay¹. Easy and touch-free.
• Bright AMOLED display and up to 11 days of battery life? Yes, please! A beautiful AMOLED display brings this watch to life, even under bright sunlight. Try always-on mode to keep the display visible at all times.
• Lens material: Corning® Gorilla® Glass 3
• Bezel material: Stainless steel
• Strap material: Silicone
• Fits wrists with a circumference of 135-200 mm
• Quick release bands (22mm, industry standard)
• Dimensions: 45.4 x 45.4 x 12.2 mm
• Weight: 46 g
• Display-tipe: AMOLED; optional always-on mode
• Display size: 33 mm diameter (1.3'')
• Display resolution: 454x454 pixels
• Battery life: Smartwatch mode: Up to 14 days, GPS mode with music: Up to 11 hours, GPS mode without music: Up to 26 hours, Battery Saver Smartwatch Mode: Up to 26 days
• Water rating: 5 ATM (swim, shower or spa)
• Memory/History: 8 GB
• In the box: Grmin Venu 2 black/slate, Charging/data cable, Documentation

Body and mind features:

• Health Snapshot™ feature - Log a 2-minute session to record key stats, including heart rate2, heart rate variability, Pulse Ox3, respiration and stress. Then generate a report with those stats via the Garmin Connect™ app on your compatible smartphone to share.
• Body Battery™ energy monitoring - See your body’s energy levels throughout the day so you can find the best times for activity and rest.
• Pulse Ox sensor - Use the Pulse Ox sensor3 to spot check your blood oxygen saturation at any point during the day, or for part of the night as you sleep, to show how well your body is absorbing oxygen.
• Stress tracking - Find out if you’re having a calm, balanced or stressful day. Relax reminders will even prompt you to do a short breathing activity when the watch detects that you’re feeling stressed.
• Women’s Health Tracking - Use the Garmin Connect app to track your menstrual cycle or pregnancy. Log symptoms, get exercise and nutrition education and more. Even see and log details on your wrist with the Women’s Health Tracking app.
• Hydration tracking - Log your daily fluid intake as a reminder to stay hydrated. You can even have an auto goal for hydration that adjusts based on how much you sweat during activities.
• Respiration tracking - See how you’re breathing throughout the day, during sleep and during breathwork and yoga activities.
• Sleep score and advanced sleep monitoring - Get a score for your sleep’s quality and insights on how you can do better. Even keep track of the different sleep stages as well as heart rate, stress, Pulse Ox3 and respiration.
• Wrist-based heart rate - The watch constantly samples your heart rate2 and will alert you if it stays too high or too low while you’re at rest. It also helps gauge how hard you work during activities — even while swimming.
• Mindful breathing - When you want to relax or focus, you can start a breathwork activity, and this watch will track your stress and respiration to help you get a better understanding of how you’re breathing.
• Fitness age - This feature uses chronological age, your weekly vigorous activity, resting heart rate and BMI or body fat percentage4 to estimate if your body is younger or older than you are. And you can get tips to lower your fitness age.

Workout features:

• Animated, on-screen workouts - Easy-to-follow, animated cardio, strength, yoga, pilates and high-intensity interval training (HIIT) workouts come preloaded on the watch, and you can download more from the Garmin Connect app.
• Built-in sports apps - Track all the ways you move with more than 25 preloaded GPS and indoor sports apps — including walking, running, cycling, pool swimming, golf and more.
• Advanced strength training - This detailed activity profile puts scaling and strength PRs right at your wrist plus graphics that show what muscle groups you worked.
• Hiit workouts - Use this new activity profile with different timers to track your HIIT workouts, including AMRAP, EMOM, Tabata and custom. Set the number of rounds, work/rest intervals and more.
• Create workouts - Choose from more than 1,400 exercises to build your own workouts in the Garmin Connect app on your compatible smartphone. Then download them to the watch.
• Garmin Coach - Get a personal running coach on your wrist, for free, to help you train for your next 5k, 10k or half-marathon.
• Intensity Minutes - We’ve updated our intensity minutes feature to give you a better idea of when during the day you earned them and during what activity. You can even view them as a data field during timed activities.

Connectivity features:

• Smart notifications - Receive emails, texts and alerts right on your watch when paired with your compatible smartphone. You can even respond to texts if you have an Android™ phone.
• Music - Download songs plus playlists from your Spotify®, Deezer or Amazon Music accounts (subscription may be required). Use wireless headphones (sold separately) for phone-free listening.
• Safety and tracking features - When your watch and phone are paired, your live location can be sent to your contacts manually or — during select outdoor activities — automatically with built-in incident detection5.
• Garmin Pay™ - Breeze through checkout lines and select transit systems with Garmin Pay contactless payment solution1 through participating providers.
• Connect IQ™ store - Download custom watch faces, add data fields, and get apps from the connect iq store.
• Sync with Garmin Connect - See your health and fitness information all in one place. The Garmin Connect app is a thriving online community where people on the go can connect, compete and share.

Clock features:

• Time/Date
• GPS Time Sync
• Automatic daylight saving time
• Alarm clock
• Timer
• Stopwatch
• Sunrise/sunset times

Health monitoring:

• Wrist-based heart rate - constant, every second
• Daily resting heart rate
• Abnormal heart rate alerts - high and low
• Respiration rate (24x7)
• Pulse ox blood oxygen saturation - spot-check, and optionally all-day and in sleep
• Fitness age
• Body Battery™ energy monitor
• All-day Stress tracking
• Relaxation reminders
• Relaxation breathing timer
• Sleep (advanced)
• Sleep score and insights
• Hydration
• Women's Health
• Health Snapshot

Sensors:

• GPS, GLONASS, GALILEO
• Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor
• Barometric altimeter
• Compass
• Gyroscope
• Accelerometer
• Thermometer
• Ambient light sensor
• Pulse OX blood oxygen saturation monitor

Daily Smart features:

• Connectivity: Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi®
• Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps)
• Smart notifications
• Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only)
• Calendar
• Weather
• Controls smartphone music
• Plays and controls watch music
• Music Storage: up to 2000 songs
• Find My Phone
• Find My Watch
• VIRB® Camera Remote
• Smartphone compatibility: iPhone® and Android™
• Compatible with Garmin Connect™ Mobile
• Garmin Pay™

Safety and tracking features::

• Livetrack
• Incident detection during select activities
• Assistance

Activity Tracking features:

• Step counter
• Move bar (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it)
• Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal)
• Calories burned
• Floors climbed
• Distance traveled
• Intensity minutes
• TrueUp™
• Move IQ™
• Garmin Connect™ Challenges app

Fitness Equipment/Gym:

• Available gym activity profiles: Strength, Cardio, HIIT and Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor Rowing, Yoga, Pilates and Breathwork
• Cardio workouts
• Strength workouts
• HIIT workouts
• Yoga workouts
• Pilates workouts
• On-screen workout animations
• On-screen workout muscle maps
• Automatic rep counting

Training, Planning and Analysis features:

• HR zones
• HR alerts
• HR calories
• % HR max
• HR broadcast (broadcast HR data over ANT+ to paired devices)
• Respiration rate (during exercise) - yoga and breathwork only
• GPS speed and distance
• Customisable screen(s)
• Customisable activity profiles
• Auto Pause®
• Advanced workouts
• Downloadable training plans
• Auto Lap®
• Manual lap
• V02 max (run)
• Touch and/or button lock
• Auto scroll
• Activity history on watch
• Physio TrueUp

Running features:

• Available run profiles: Running, Indoor Track Running, Treadmill Running
• GPS-based distance, time and pace
• Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute)
• Performance condition (after running 6–20 minutes, compares your real-time condition to your average fitness level)
• Run workouts
• Foot pod capable

Golfing features:

• Yardage to f/m/b (distance to front, middle and back of green)
• Yardage to layups/doglegs
• Measures shot distance (calculates exact yardage for shots from anywhere on course) automatic
• Digital scorecard
• Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit)
• Garmin Autoshot™
• Green view with manual pin position
• Hazards and course targets
• Pinpointer
• Round timer/odometer
• Automatic club tracking compatible (requires accessory)

Outdoor Recreation features:

• Available outdoor recreation profiles: Hiking, Indoor Climbing, Bouldering, Skiing, Snowboarding, XC Skiing, Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing
• Back to start
• Total ascent/descent
• Area calculation via Connect IQ
• Hunt/fish calendar via Connect IQ
• Sun and moon information via Connect IQ

Cycling features:

• Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories)
• Available cycling profiles: Biking, Indoor Biking
• Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar)
• Compatible with Varia™ lights
• Speed and cadence sensor support (with sensor)

Swimming features:

• Available swim profiles: Pool swimming
• Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (swolf), calories)
• Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only)
• Swim efficiency (SWOLF)
• Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only)
• Time and distance alerts
• Underwater wrist-based heart rate

Kid activity tracking features:

• Toe-to-toe™ Challenges app (optional via Connect IQ app)

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