Best Buy is currently discounting nearly every model of Garmin Watch, making it the best weekend of smartwatch deals we’ve seen this year. If you’re mainly familiar with Samsung and Apple smartwatches, let us show you why a Garmin watch fits your lifestyle and budget a little better.
Garmin Venu Square – $120, used to be $200
Perfect for anyone dipping their toes into the world of smartwatches, the Garmin Venu Sq has all the essential features. It offers health monitoring such as providing you with the body battery energy level, tracking breathing, hydration, stress levels and sleep cycles. With up to six days of battery life, it also tracks your heart rate, steps you take, etc. for a variety of workouts and exercise plans. It can also help coach you through training plans so you know exactly how to achieve your goals.
Garmin Forerunner 45 – $140, was $170
Garmin Forerunner 45 is one of Garmin’s most popular watches. It’s designed for runners, enabling them to monitor their daily steps, distance, calories burned, and even stress levels throughout the day. With Garmin Coach 2.0, you can choose a running goal and Garmin will teach you the best way to achieve it, providing you with an adaptive training plan and step-by-step instructions. There are also profiles for many other sports along with built-in GPS and useful notification tools.
Garmin Instinct – $180, was $230
The Garmin Instinct is one of the best Garmin watches out there, and it’s a solid piece of equipment. It has a fiber-reinforced polymer shell and a water-resistant design created to US military standards. If you are a keen hiker, swimmer, or adventurer, this is a watch that was built to last. It also has a battery life of 14 days, so it’s good for travel purposes. The watch can track distance, time, speed, calories burned, activity levels, sleep activity, heart rate, and many other stats. GPS and compass are integrated while Garmin’s TracBack feature is present to help you navigate the same route back to your starting point. It is ideal for hikers.
Garmin Vivoactive 4S – $200, was $350
The Garmin Vivoactive 4S is typical of the looks of many of the best smartwatches, and it’s a stylish watch with some great features. It is able to track your blood oxygen saturation levels as well as regularly check your heart rate and let you know how intense you are exercising. Advanced sleep monitoring is available thanks to these sensors while it can also track acclimatization at high altitudes. The enhanced outdoor navigation system comes with GPS, GLONASS, and Galileo, so it’s great for hiking off the beaten path. If you are serious about your activity levels, this is a good watch at a great price.
Garmin Venu 2 – $320, was $350
The Garmin Venu 2 delivers everything you can expect from Garmin from tracking all your vital stats to monitoring your blood oxygen saturation levels. It adds to this by being extremely durable with a Corning Gorilla Glass 3 display, stainless steel frame, and silicone band. The Health Snapshot feature means you can record a two-minute session to instantly see your key stats right down to your heart rate variability. Also useful are stress tracking, women’s health tracking, and advanced sleep monitoring. Intense HIIT workouts are also available to keep you moving at the right pace. Consider this a personal trainer on your wrist.
Garmin Epix (Gen 2) – $900, was $1,000
Garmin Epix (Gen 2) is the perfect smartwatch for active users. It offers an impressive battery life of up to 16 days in smartwatch mode. Besides, you can enjoy up to 42 hours of GPS battery life in gesture mode or up to 30 hours in always-on mode. There is also GNSS technology for better and more accurate positioning in challenging environments. You can also use SkiView for ski resorts, CourseView for golf and a host of other sports applications. If you just can’t stay still, this is the device for you.
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