With Elevate™ wrist heart rate technology³, you can ditch the chest strap and measure heart rate from the wrist. Using heart rate data, vívoactive HR provides calories burned information and quantifies the intensity of your fitness activities, providing better credit for your efforts.
All Your Active Moments
Run, bike, swim, golf, ski and more with vívoactive HR. Its GPS-enabled built-in sports apps track your stats while smart notifications allow you to stay connected — all so you can keep your life in balance. vívoactive HR continues to track activity³ throughout your day by counting steps and floors climbed as well as monitoring sleep and calculating intensity minutes. You won’t have to worry about this watch keeping up with you. The rechargeable battery lasts up to 8 days² in watch/activity tracking mode or up to 13 hours using GPS.
Insights from Garmin Connect
Throughout your day, vívoactive HR automatically syncs¹ to Garmin Connect. Garmin Connect is the only free app that gets to know you and then delivers the insights to help you beat yesterday. These include cues to move if you’re not on track to meet your step goal — or shoutouts when you do hit those milestones. Plus, you’ll get healthy tips from experts that become like virtual coaches.
Hit the Ground Running
Using its built-in accelerometer and GPS, vívoactive HR allows you to run both indoors and out. You can set up vibration alerts for heart rate, pace, run/walk intervals and more. Other training features include Auto Lap® and Auto Pause®. Provides post-run summary with stats such as total mileage, calories, average pace and overall time.
Dive In
Hit the pool’s lap lanes and see detailed stats like total and interval distance, pace, stroke count, stroke type and more. Let the swimming app calculate your efficiency with swolf, which adds the time and the number of strokes it takes to swim a pool length. Interval Count lets you seamlessly pause and then resume your workout. At the end of a workout, view your summary data, which includes interval and session averages, overall time and personal records.
Tee Off
Play new courses every day by downloading 1 of 40,000 course maps worldwide from our golf course database. The golfing app can show a simplified view of the green and help you track your score, letting you see if you’re under or over par.
Row, Row, Row
If you like to paddle board and row — indoor or open water — the built-in paddle boarding app tracks and displays all your stats. See pace, overall time, distance and stroke all at a glance when out on the water or in the gym.
On the Slopes
For a day of skiing or snowboarding, vívoactive HR measures your 3-D speed by calculating the speed and distance on an incline versus latitude and longitude. It also provides your splits automatically and gives you the option to turn on Auto Pause, which freezes the timer automatically when you stop or ride the lift.
Stay Connected
vívoactive HR gently vibrates to alert you to all the same notifications you receive on your compatible device¹ —
from phone calls to social media alerts to other alerts from mobile apps. vívoactive HR also displays weather
information, temperature and more. Additionally, it lets you control the music on your phone, locate your phone1, remotely control your VIRB® action camera and let your
friends and family track your activities in real time with LiveTrack. Personalize vívoactive HR with custom watch faces, data fields, apps and widgets from our Connect IQ™ store.
Physical & Performance:
Physical dimensions
Watch only: 1.19" x 2.24" x 0.45" (30.2 x 57.0 x 11.4 mm). Regular fits wrist circumferences 5.39" to 7.68" (137 to 195 mm); X-large fits wrist circumferences 6.38" to 8.86" (162 to 225 mm)
Display size, WxH
0.80" x 1.13" (20.7 x 28.6 mm)
Display resolution, WxH
205 x 148 pixels
Touchscreen:
Yes
Color display
Yes
Weight
Regular bands: 47.6 g; X-large bands: 48.2 g
Battery
Rechargeable lithium battery
Battery life
Up to 8 days in smartwatch mode (with 24/7 heart rate monitoring, No-GPS), up to 13 hrs in GPS mode
Smart notifications (displays email, text and other alerts when paired with your compatible phone)
Yes
Vibration alert
Yes
Music control
Yes
Find my phone
Yes
VIRB® control
Yes
Watch functions
time, date, calendar, and alarm
Maps and Memory:
History:
Save location
Running Features:
Accelerometer (calculates distance for indoor workouts, without need for a foot pod)
Yes
Personal records
Yes
Cycling Features:
Bike speed/cadence sensor
Yes (optional)
Running Features:
Heart rate monitor
Yes (wrist-based)
Auto Pause® (pauses and resumes timer based on speed)
Yes
Auto Lap® (automatically starts a new lap)
Yes
Auto Scroll (cycles through data pages during workout)
Yes
Pace alert (triggers alarm if you vary from preset pace)
Yes
Time/distance alert (triggers alarm when you reach goal)
Yes
Heart rate-based calorie computation
Yes
Calculates calories burned
Yes
Customizable screen(s)
Yes
Shock Resistant
Yes
Swimming Features:
Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count/rate, calories)
Yes
Golfing Features:
Measures shot distance (calculates exact yardage for shots from anywhere on course)
Yes
Yardage to F/M/B (distance to front, middle and back of green)
Yes
Yardage to layups/doglegs
Yes
Digital scorecard
Yes
Activity Tracking Features:
Step counter
Yes
Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal)
Yes
Move bar (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it)
Yes
Sleep monitoring (monitors total sleep and periods of movement or restful sleep)
Yes
Garmin Connect™:
Step counter
Yes
Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal)
Yes
Additional:
Additional
Pairs with your smartphone to gently vibrate and display alerts for incoming calls, texts, emails and calendar items plus notifications from social media and other mobile apps
Connect IQ™ Support: yes (watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps)
Calculates floors climbed: yes
Calculates intensity minutes: yes
Wireless Connectivity: yes (ANT+™ and Bluetooth Smart)
On-device widgets/screens: My day, intensity minutes, heart rate, last sport, smart notifications, weather, VIRB® action camera/remote, Varia remote, music player controls, calendar, steps, calories, sleep, run, bike, swim and golf
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Hit the pool’s lap lanes and see detailed stats like total and interval distance, pace, stroke count, stroke type and more. Let the swimming app calculate your efficiency with swolf, which adds the time and the number of strokes it takes to swim a pool length. Interval Count lets you seamlessly pause and then resume your workout. At the end of a workout, view your summary data, which includes interval and session averages, overall time and personal records. 