The Best Garmin Smartwatches

Garmin Smartwatches – Garmin has come a long way from making car and boat navigation devices. Today, they produce wearables for a myriad of fitness activities from golf to running. If you are looking for a fitness smartwatch, we can guarantee that Garmin has what you are looking for in their extensive line-up. However, you cannot go in blind and choose a Garmin Smartwatches from their selection without contemplating which fitness activities you will be participating in the most, as well as the smartwatch features, you would prefer. To save you time, we’ve rounded up the best Garmin Smartwatches for every fitness activity. All you must do is go to the right fitness category and browse our carefully curated selections.

To save you time, we’ve rounded up the best Garmin Smartwatches for every fitness activity.

GARMIN FĒNIX 6 PRO SOLAR

The Fēnix 6X Pro Solar is a premium watch with more sport and fitness-related functions than one person can possibly use, but what we love most is the insane battery life. On a full charge, the watch claims 14 days of it, but consistent exposure to direct sunlight significantly extends the amount of life on a single charge. Wearing the watch full time and recording rides with it, we’re consistently getting three weeks out of a single charge. It can pair to ANT+ sensors in addition to Bluetooth ones. For power nerds (TrainingPeaks upload or it didn’t happen), this means you can use this watch as a substitute for your normal bike computer if you either forgot to pack it or simply don’t want to use it on some days. The watch records sleep and stress data, which you can easily access along with a bevy of other health stats in the Garmin Connect app, and you can auto-sync with a wide variety of third-party apps

GARMIN FORERUNNER 945

The Forerunner 945 takes all that we love about the 935, which was already loaded with just about everything you could possibly want in a smart watch, and incorporates some new functions for athletes. In addition to Wi-Fi, ANT+, and Bluetooth connectivity and loads of preset activities and tracking functions, the 945 gets more accurate GPS and adds navigation capabilities. On the training front, you get a pulse oximeter, Strava integration and live segments, and downloadable workouts so you can leave your bike computer at home and still record your workout. And that’s just skimming the surface. It’s not a discount watch, but the seemingly endless list of features for casual and elite-level athletes make it worth the investment.

After a year, the 945 has earned its place as one of our go-to watches for hard training. It’s lighter than some of the more expensive watches, retains all of the critical features for tracking workouts, and the battery life is still good enough to record multiple rides on a single charge.