The Garmin Venu 3 Fitness Smartwatch is Garmin’s lifestyle smartwatch, and it runs for up to 14 days on a charge in the 45mm size. The display is a 1.4-inch AMOLED at 454 by 454 pixels under Gorilla Glass 3, with a stainless steel bezel. A speaker and microphone are built into the case, so you can take calls on your wrist and talk to your phone’s voice assistant. More than 30 sports apps are preloaded, including wheelchair-specific activities. Sleep Coach and nap detection handle the rest overnight.
Head over to Amazon to get the Garmin Venu 3 Fitness Smartwatch for just $300, down from its usual price of $450. That’s a $150 discount and 33% off.
A sleek fitness tracker that looks as put-together as a regular watch
Garmin has done the majority of the new work here with sleep. Sleep Coach takes a look at what type of activity you’ve had recently, your recovery level, and how many hours of actual rest you’ve been getting, then tells you exactly how many hours of sleep you’ll need that night rather than giving you a score when you get out of bed in the morning. The second piece of the puzzle is nap detection. As soon as Garmin detects you napping, usually within minutes of you falling asleep, it adds that nap into your recovery metrics immediately. Most fitness trackers don’t even detect that you fell asleep at all, let alone add it to your recovery totals.
Garmin’s Body Battery assesses your energy level by evaluating both your heart rate variability and your stress levels throughout the day. It also evaluates your sleep and the activities you complete each day. The Body Battery score ranges from 1 to 100. Body Battery scores typically increase when you’re resting and decrease when you’re engaging in strenuous physical exercise. Checking your Body Battery prior to a high-intensity workout tells you whether your body is ready for the activity or whether you’d be better off waiting another day.
The speaker and microphone are worth highlighting too. You can take calls directly from your wrist while your phone sits in another room. You can also speak to Siri or Google Assistant on the watch to send messages and set reminders without pulling out your phone.
The watch includes over 30 preloaded sports apps, including running, cycling, pool swimming, golf, HIIT, yoga, strength training, and more. On-screen animated workouts also guide you through each movement as you complete it. It also includes wheelchair mode, which lets wheelchair users track pushes instead of steps, along with workouts designed for wheelchair users.
Beyond tracking physical activity, Morning Report provides information on sleep, recovery levels, HRV status, and upcoming events when you wake up. You can choose to view either one or multiple categories based on your preferences. The Garmin Venu 3 Fitness Smartwatch is $300 right now instead of $450, and battery life drops to about 26 hours if you run GPS the entire time instead of wearing it as a regular watch.
