Controlling A Virb Action Camera During An Activity; User Profile; Setting Up Your User Profile; Viewing Your Fitness Age - Garmin FORERUNNER 255 Series Owner's Manual

Controlling a VIRB Action Camera During an Activity

Before you can use the VIRB remote function, you must enable the remote setting on your VIRB camera. See the
VIRB Series Owner's Manual for more information.
1 Turn on your VIRB camera.
2 Pair your VIRB camera with your Forerunner watch
When the camera is paired, a VIRB data screen is automatically added to activities.
3 During an activity, press UP or DOWN to view the VIRB data screen.
4 If necessary, wait while your watch connects to your camera.
5 Hold UP.
6 Select VIRB Remote.
7 Select an option:
• To control the camera using the activity timer, select Settings > Recording Mode > Timer Start/Stop.
NOTE: Video recording automatically starts and stops when you start and stop an activity.
• To control the camera using the menu options, select Settings > Recording Mode > Manual.
• To manually record video, select Start Recording.
The video counter appears on the Forerunner screen.
• To take a photo while recording video, press DOWN.
• To manually stop recording video, press STOP.
• To take multiple photos in burst mode, select Take Burst.
• To send the camera to sleep mode, select Sleep Camera.
• To wake the camera from sleep mode, select Wake Camera.
You can update your user profile on your watch or on the Garmin Connect app.

Setting Up Your User Profile

You can update your gender, date of birth, height, weight, wrist, heart rate zone, power zone, and Critical Swim
Speed (CSS) settings (Recording a Critical Swim Speed Test, page
calculate accurate training data.
1 Hold UP.
2 Select User Profile.
3 Select an option.

Viewing Your Fitness Age

Your fitness age gives you an idea of how your fitness compares with a person of the same gender. Your watch
uses information, such as your age, body mass index (BMI), resting heart rate data, and vigorous activity history
to provide a fitness age. If you have a Garmin Index
instead of BMI to determine your fitness age. Exercise and lifestyle changes can impact your fitness age.
NOTE: For the most accurate fitness age, complete the user profile setup
1 Hold UP.
2 Select User Profile > Fitness Age.

About Heart Rate Zones

Many athletes use heart rate zones to measure and increase their cardiovascular strength and improve their
level of fitness. A heart rate zone is a set range of heartbeats per minute. The five commonly accepted heart
rate zones are numbered from 1 to 5 according to increasing intensity. Generally, heart rate zones are
calculated based on percentages of your maximum heart rate.

User Profile

(Pairing Your Wireless Sensors, page
User Profile
41). The watch uses this information to
scale, your watch uses the body fat percentage metric
™
60).
(Setting Up Your User Profile, page 65).
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