Top 5 Garmin Tips

Once you’ve invested in a watch it can be easy to feel overwhelmed with the amount of features at your fingertips. But how many features on your Garmin do you REALLY understand? And do you know these handy tips and tricks which could completely transform the way you use your watch?

Join Anna and Sarah as they take you through some hacks for your Garmin watch which could transform your running!

↓↓ What’s your favourite Garmin watch feature? Are there any hacks that we missed? Let us know in the comments! ↓↓

What’s in this video?
00:00 Whats in this video?
00:56 The Lock Key
02:35 Custom Run Profiles
03:53 Motivation
05:27 Alerts!
07:18 Shortcuts

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[runningchannel]

What’s your favourite Garmin watch feature? Any hacks we missed? Let us know in the comments!

[andrewkitson]

Pacing tip:
Use the "lap pace" data field instead of the "pace" one as it'll give you an eta for the lap instead of the snapshot of your pace at that instant. I also really like the pacing feature for pool swimming but that's probably for a different channel!

[si]

I just started running and for the first time used a garmin GPS to track my last 3 runs. It's amazing what a little device can do!

[scratchvippy]

For the vivoactive 4 I really like the screen which only shows your hartrate zone and your bpm. If you are going for specific heartrate ranges, my tip is to always use that screen. Less data can sometimes be more!
When I see my speed as well for example i do way worse with keeping to my zone, because I know that I avarage a 6min/km pace on 142bpm I find it really hard not to push for that pace when i am sitting at 6:10min/km with a 140bpm rate and by pushing I then screw my traing over by leaving my zone which makes me drop the pace again which in turn doesn't really help with the whole idea behind these types of runs. As long as I don't know how fast I am going everything is fine :D

Utilizing the heartrate monitor is generally a good idea. It even helps in intervall sessions where lap splits aren't enough to pace yourself because the distance itself is so short. Just relying on the displayed speed can also lead to problems, especially if your gps isn't that great. Sometimes the displayed speed is simply wrong in those cases. Also looking at your rate makes it easy to see whether thats the case or not.
(on some of my intervallsessions where I am not on a track i know that there is this one street that sometimes confuses my gps a lot. When I am going fullspeed on 800m and my watch suddently shows me a speed of 5:30min/km instead of the usual 3:50min/km I than look wether I am above 180bpm or not. If i am i simply keep the pace until my watch eventually catches up again)

[williammorris]

I (and others) were negative about the last watch video you did because it was misleading, but this time you've made it super clear that the content is for Garmin users :) It's really awesome to see that the channel responded to such concerns, very nicely done :)

[alanshrimpton]

My tip is when in a pace workout the value it shows is your lap average pace but when out of range it flashes your current pace. That way you know if you need to speed up or slow down to get back into range

[SubtleForces]

Thanks a lot. 1. On my vivoactive: hold the button and select the lock - lots of long sleeved running in the winter in Canada and I'll absolutely use it: lost a whole run once. 2. Used the custom profiles and I used a lot of them going through 2 garmin coach programs. I personally prefer setting the program up on my computer on Garmin connect web rather than on the watch itself. 3. Alerts: will try them, but not sure how during winter base training. 4. On my vivoactive, the hotkeys are accessed holding the key (lock is on of the options)

[keithfalconer]

Getting a Garmin frontrunner 245 music for Christmas so these tips will help me no end on my training for very first Marathon. Love you guys xx

[stuarthatton]

Thanks ladies, brilliant video, im getting my first watch at christmas which happens to be a garnin, cant wait to get it and have a good play around with it

[lisawirz]

I love these tips, really helpful! I just wish they were a bit longer with more explanations for those of us with less experiences with Garmin watches. 🙂

[kophotography]

HI RC Team, great Garmin Tut...just one for you, the option to set Park Run as KM is a global variable on Fenix 6 series or Venu 2 (not within the Activity (Copy) variable, so you either have to change the device System > Units > Distance from Miles to KM or to see Miles as KM you can do it post run in Garmin Connect. I find this useful. My device is always in Miles, so my Park Runs run in Miles, then I now at 3 miles to stick the hammer down, seems to be working for me anyway, another PB today.

[petraalma]

Thanks! Didn’t know about the custom run profiles. Always use auto lap set at 0.5 mile which gets in the way during interval sessions. Just set up a new custom activity without auto lap on my Garmin now and called it ‘run session’ . That will be so much easier than turning auto lap on and off!

[InfluentialFinance]

These are awesome! Had no idea I could set up different settings for different sessions. Also plan on using the notifications on my next race to remind me to take my gels. Thanks for sharing!

[nehallavey-khan]

Amazing - the parkrun barcode widget is a gamechanger! I saw Anna and Freddie the legendary cameraman today at the Runthrough Olympic Park 5/10k event - was great to see some footage up close and in real life 💪🏾

[chalkus]

HR management training is easily done using workouts!

Love the parkrun tip

[lucy]

Super helpful!! Love my new garmin and appreciate these tips 😃

[rubarb]

Fantastic stuff! I had a Garmin watch for ages and didn't know about any of these things. I have a Polar watch now and it just doesn't have the depth of features that the equivalent Garmin would have. Thinking about going back to Garmin for my next watch.

[reieli]

Great tips, tip number one could not have come at perfect time. It happen to me today and two days before 😅. Love playing around and organizing my hot keys. And one tip id suggest is custmize your power modes a) for the whole watch b) for certain actvivties. You dont need all your functions running and can save you battery life. My first tip I learned from Anna is always charge your garmin before you shower. Still my favorite tip when first got my Garmin. 😁

[richskater]

If you take the time to build a custom workout with heartrate zones on the app and send it to your watch, you can unlock a cool HR data page on your watch. It sort of shows like a speedometer for your HR and can be adjusted by setting specific values or by zone when you build the workout. To my knowledge this page doesn't become available if you just use the alert method via the watch interface, only by creating a custom workout and syncing your phone. Some third-party workout builders will also work, I know FinalSurge's builder is compatible. Can't say that it's a must have, it just makes you look at your watch more often, but it's fun to look at.

[ralfw.]

Thx RCT very useful tips I´ll use on my Garmin. One challange still exists for me when you like to record a session which might use different profiles. I often like to do workouts (predefined on my garmin) which is best to do on a track course. But the run to and from the track i normally use as warm up and cool down session. So I cannot use the track run profile for this. Do you have a solution how to record this in one file without stopping the overall training session?