Download garmin vivofit app

It's the only training bracelet that gives you a personal goal for the day, following your progress and reminds you when it's time to move. At Garmin Connect, Garmin free training community, you can get virtual awards, watch your progress and share with others if you want.

Research shows that longer periods of inactivity, such as sedentary at a desk, reduce the body's production of fat-burning enzymes. You can counteract that effect by taking regular, short walks during the day. For every day kids meet their goals, they advance through the story and uncover new app adventures and icons. Search abandoned starships for missing parts with BB-8, meet the smuggler queen, Maz Kanata, and much more. Take the fuss out of household responsibilities by letting the app do the work.

Assign chores right from the app by choosing from a preloaded list or creating your own. Choose how many virtual coins each task is worth, and set them to recur daily or weekly. You can also set schedule alerts that appear on their devices to remind them — along with an icon. Kids can see on their band the number of completed tasks for the day and the number they still have to complete. The app lets you designate custom rewards that youngsters can score in exchange for their hard-earned virtual coins.

Kids can easily check their virtual coin caches right on the bands, and giving them goals to work toward will motivate them. The app experience corresponds with the style of band you choose. That means the fun never has to end. Not to mention, accurate. Similar to the vivofit, this is another case of not having to worry about keeping the battery charged, and aside from some initial size adjustments — using the heart-rate monitor takes little effort. Once you have the heart-rate monitor strapped on it is just a matter of waiting the few seconds it takes to pair up.

And for those who may not be as familiar with heart-rate monitoring, the Garmin will create default zones based on your age. You can also further customize items such as your resting and max heart-rates as well as for each of the five zones. Also worth mentioning, while the vivofit is sold with an optionally bundled heart-rate monitor, all Garmin HRMs are compatible.

The Garmin Connect app will need to be downloaded from the Play Store. The initial launch requires you to create a user profile with some basic information, and also to pair up the vivofit on your wrist. Those personal bits include a name, username, gender, height and weight. The settings part of the app is also where you would go to add start and stop times for sleep, and adjust those heart rate zones.

The Home portion is where the app launches, and also the place where you can see all the key details. The key here though, you are able to connect with other Garmin users, which in the end, should help to encourage some additional activity. This is just a matter of pressing and holding the button on your vivofit for 2-seconds. This page will also show in gray, for disconnected, and in green for connected.

Once the vivofit has been connected, the sync will begin and you will see a progress bar along the bottom of the screen. The vivofit will automatically disconnect when the sync is completed. Similar to using the band itself, using the app comes with no real issues. We liked the overall layout the left-side navigation for the four main sections and also liked that we could customize which widgets were displayed.

As well as the order of those widgets. After all, some sections are likely more important to others. Lastly, LiveTrack is one that sounds like the name would suggest. Here users can share details in real time. Basically, you invite people to the application, and then start the LiveTrack session.

All said and done, we liked much of what the Garmin vivofit has to offer. We like the simplicity in terms of both setup and use. Plus, the heart-rate monitoring was a solid perk. Granted, a perk that comes at an additional cost, but one that steps up the fitness monitoring quite a bit. Garmin has a solid name, and have been around producing quality gear for runners as well as cyclists, and more for quite some time now.

Lastly, one point not mentioned earlier is the selection of colors. The Garmin vivofit is available in purple, blue, aqua, gray and black. Sign in. Forgot your password?