7 Days Out is an original docuseries from Garmin. Join Wes and Joel on their trek through Nepal’s Langtang Circuit and discover the power of friendship, perseverance and Garmin smartwatches. Learn more: https://www.garmin.com/en-US/7DaysOut/. When Garmin notified me that I’d be going to Nepal to trek the Langtang Valley, I assumed there was a typo in the email address. Surely, they had the wrong guy. Much of my adult life, I’d found regular suburban living to be physically challenging due to a diagnosis of ankylosing spondylitis in my mid-twenties. Now, just six months into my 40s, I was going ..read more

7 Days Out is an original docuseries from Garmin. Join Wes and Joel on their trek through Nepal’s Langtang Circuit and discover the power of friendship, perseverance and Garmin smartwatches. Learn more: https://www.garmin.com/en-US/7DaysOut/. My overwhelming sense since returning from the 7 Days Out experience in Nepal has been gratitude, along with a desire for everyone who feels that call to push themselves outside their comfort zone — to connect with nature, to test their physical and mental resilience to get that opportunity — to go for it. To be sure, hiking in the Langtang wasn’t on ..read more

INDUSTRY: EDUCATION LOCATION: River Falls, Wisconsin ESTABLISHED: 1874 WEBSITE: uwrf.edu STUDENT PARTICIPANTS: 7,800+ NUMBER OF WEARABLES: 7,800+ THE OVERVIEW The University of Wisconsin-River Falls is using Garmin smartwatches along with the Garmin Health API and the Motion Connected platform to help provide a picture of students’ health. EARLY FINDINGS The combination of Garmin smartwatches and Motion Connected enables students to better understand the difference between busy and active moments, empowering them to incorporate physical activity into their daily lives. College Stud ..read more

The Pulse Oximetry, or Pulse Ox, feature on Garmin smartwatches can offer insights to help support overall well-being. Whether you’re an athlete striving for peak performance or an individual focused on overall wellness, the Pulse Ox feature1 on compatible Garmin smartwatches can provide valuable insights into your body’s blood oxygen levels. By estimating how much oxygen is in your bloodstream as it travels around your body, Pulse Ox readings can help indicate whether the cells in your body are getting the oxygen they need to function properly. Also known as SpO2, Pulse Ox uses Garmin sensor ..read more

Garmin pros have now won four of the last five Bassmaster Classic championships. March is a busy month of celebrations for Justin Hamner and his wife Christina. An eight-day span on their calendar includes both of the couple’s birthdays plus their wedding anniversary. Now they can add March 24 to the mix. That’s the day Justin reeled in a victory at the 2024 Bassmaster Classic Championship at Grand Lake O’ the Cherokees in Oklahoma. Using LiveScope Plus live-scanning sonar and several other Garmin marine electronics, Hamner secured a wire-to-wire, career-defying win, notching four Garmin pro B ..read more

The Garmin ECG app enables users to check for signs of AFib and share each recording as a PDF with doctors. That allows Randy Houser to feel more in control of his condition. As a longtime fan and authorized dealer of Garmin products, Randy Houser has come to expect a wide range of fitness and wellness smartwatch features. But he never imagined that his new epix Pro (Gen 2) watch would work hand in hand with an app that could inform him of a potentially dangerous heart condition known as atrial fibrillation1, or AFib. Thanks to the Garmin ECG app and its ability to detect AFib, Houser says he ..read more

From GPSMAP to ECHOMAP to STRIKER lines, Garmin has many great chartplotters and fishfinders for anglers and boaters of all kinds. We’ll help you narrow it down. Whether you’re enjoying a day on your boat, eyeing that next big catch or both, a durable chartplotter is one of the most important components of your boating experience. You may prefer a large touchscreen with the best screen resolution possible, or you need advanced sonar features such as SideVü and ClearVü with LiveScope compatibility. Maybe you just want a fishfinder with GPS and basic sonar. When considering which marine chartplo ..read more

Adrian Abrahams of ROAM Overlanding, a Garmin ambassador, was very thankful when a couple from the Netherlands graciously allowed his group to utilize their bigger campsite during an overlanding trip in Botswana. A few days later, however, Abrahams was able to return the favor in a big way. He shared the story with Garmin. Being friendly can sometimes pay off in ways you never anticipated. Last year, I was on a ROAM Overlanding trip to the Okavango Delta in Botswana. After a week of pushing from campsite to campsite, we arrived at a magical place known as Khwai Magotho Community camp, excited ..read more

Garmin smartwatches are purpose-built to help you live out your passions — no matter what they are. Whether you use your watch to train for marathons, perfect your butterfly stroke, or simply keep close tabs on your health and wellness, you can customize your Garmin watch face to best fit your lifestyle. Personalize a Preinstalled Watch Face Before we dive into the nitty-gritty, all Garmin smartwatch users can take advantage of preloaded watch face options. You can customize the data fields that appear on these, including your step counts or heart rate information. While the path to finding th ..read more

Read our new edition of the Garmin Health Research Glimpse, a journey into the realm of health and clinical research, focusing on the essential yet often overlooked aspect of human well-being — sleep. As we delve into the significance of sleep research, we’ll explore how Garmin is at the forefront, contributing invaluable insights to various studies that aim to unlock the mysteries of sleep and its impact on our health. We’ll explore the impacts of social media detox on sleep in teenagers, a comprehensive investigation into university students’ sleep behavior across the semester using Gar ..read more