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Switch up your routine with the vívoactive 3 Element – a GPS smartwatch with the essentials that you need to keep moving to unlock new adventures and achieve more goals – the key to living your life the best you can, while staying in style with easy-to-swap bands in fun colours to match your mood.
- Personalize your watch with thousands of free watch faces, apps and widgets from our Connect IQ store
- More than 10 preloaded GPS and indoor sports apps, including yoga, running and more
- Monitor your fitness level with VO2 max and fitness age estimates, plus keep an eye on how you handle stress1
- Get connected features³ such as smart notifications, automatic uploads to Garmin Connect, LiveTrack and more
- Battery life3: up to 8 days in smartwatch mode; 13 hours in GPS mode
Make It Yours
vívoactive 3 Element is compatible with our Connect IQ store, where you can download watch faces, widgets and apps that make it go from smartwatch to your watch. Turn on your lights at home with the SmartThings app, and even use the AccuWeather MinuteCast app to find out when the rain will start. You can also use our free Face It watch face app to add personality to your device that’s uniquely you. Just download the app, choose any image from your photo library, make your customizations, and set it as your watch’s face.
Play More Sports
More than 10 preloaded GPS and indoor sports apps, including yoga, running, and more. Finding a fun way to stay active is easy. When you head outside, built in GPS lets vívoactive 3 Element track the details of your chosen activity-with no phone connection required.
Fits You and All You Do
Feel free to take this watch outside in all kinds of weather. Not only is it safe for swimming and showering, its Garmin Chroma Display is easy to read — even in direct sunlight — and housed under extra-durable chemically strengthened glass.
Download and Create Workouts
Keep your workout schedule fresh and invigorating. Create your own custom running, cycling, cardio workouts, and download them to your watch. Then, your vívoactive smartwatch will keep track of the exercises.
Daily Fitness and Stress Tracking
With help from Elevate wrist-based heart rate technology², vívoactive 3 Element lets you monitor key aspects of your fitness and stress to show how your body responds under various circumstances. For example, it’s able to estimate your VO2 max and fitness age — 2 indicators of physical fitness that can often improve over time with regular exercise. It also tracks your heart rate variability (HRV), which is used to calculate and track your stress level. vívoactive 3 Element can make you aware when physical or emotional sources cause your stress level to rise so you can find a way to relieve the pressure.
Always Connected
Life doesn’t have a pause button, so stay connected with your vívoactive 3 smartwatch while you’re playing hard or working out. Once paired with your compatible smartphone, you’ll be able to receive and even respond4 to text messages and see social media updates, emails and more right on your wrist. Find your phone, access music controls and let friends LiveTrack your sports. Your finished activities will even automatically upload to our Garmin Connect online fitness community.
Share and Compete
Syncing your activities to Garmin Connect is for more than just storing your data. Garmin Connect is a thriving online community where people on the go can connect and compete by joining challenges, encourage each other’s successes and even share their triumphs via social media. Garmin Connect is free and available on the web or on your smartphone with the Garmin Connect Mobile app.
1Activity tracking accuracy
2When paired with a compatible smartphone
3Under typical use; battery life may vary depending on usage and selected performance mode
4Responding capability available for Android customers only. Android is a registered trademark of Google Inc.
