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Marking Laps
You can set your watch to use the Auto Lap
This feature is helpful for comparing your performance over different parts of an activity.
NOTE: The Auto Lap feature is not available for all activities.
1 From your Garmin Connect device menu, select Activity Options.
2 Select an activity.
3 Select Auto Lap.
Activity Tracking Settings
From your Garmin Connect device menu, select Activity Tracking.
NOTE: Some settings appear in a subcategory in the settings menu. App or website updates may change these
settings menus.
Daily Steps: Allows you to enter your daily step goal. You can use the Auto Goal option to allow your watch to
determine your step goal automatically.
Weekly Intensity Minutes: Allows you to enter a weekly goal for the number of minutes to participate in
moderate to vigorous intensity activities. The watch also allows you to set a heart rate zone for moderate
intensity minutes and a higher heart rate zone for vigorous intensity minutes. You can also use the default
algorithm.
Move IQ: Allows you to turn on and off Move IQ events. The Move IQ feature automatically detects activity
patterns, such as walking and running.
Auto Activity Start: Allows your watch to create and save timed activities automatically when the Move IQ
feature detects you have been walking or running for a minimum time threshold. You can set the minimum
time threshold for running and walking.
Custom Stride Length: Allows your watch to more accurately calculate the distance traveled using your custom
stride length. You can enter a known distance and the number of steps it takes to cover the distance, and
Garmin Connect can calculate your step length.
User Profile
From your Garmin Connect device menu, select User Profile.
VO2 Max: Allows you to see your current VO2 max. and when it was last updated
Estimate,
page 17).
Fitness Age: Allows you to see your current fitness age
Display Name: Sets the display name used in your morning report and alerts
Gender: Sets your sex
(Gender Settings,
Birth Date: Set your birth date.
Height: Sets your height.
Weight: Sets your weight.
Wrist: Allows you to select which wrist you wear your watch on.
Heart Rate Zones: Allows you to estimate your maximum heart rate and determine custom heart rate zones
(About Heart Rate Zones,
Gender Settings
When you first set up the watch, you must choose a sex. Most fitness and training algorithms are binary. For the
most accurate results, Garmin recommends selecting your sex assigned at birth. After the initial setup, you can
customize the profile settings in your Garmin Connect account.
Profile & Privacy: Enables you to customize the data on your public profile.
User Settings: Sets your sex. If you select Not Specified, the algorithms that require a binary input will use the
sex you specified when you first set up the watch.
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feature, which marks a lap automatically at every kilometer or mile.
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(Viewing Your Fitness Age,
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(Getting Your VO2 Max.
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Customizing Your Watch
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