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as brisk walking, or 75 minutes per week of vigorous intensity
activity, such as running.
The device monitors your activity intensity and tracks your time
spent participating in moderate to vigorous intensity activities
(heart rate data is required to quantify vigorous intensity). You
can work toward achieving your weekly intensity minutes goal by
participating in at least 10 consecutive minutes of moderate to
vigorous intensity activities. The device adds the amount of
moderate activity minutes with the amount of vigorous activity
minutes. Your total vigorous intensity minutes are doubled when
added.
Earning Intensity Minutes
Your vívoactive 3 device calculates intensity minutes by
comparing your heart rate data to your average resting heart
rate. If heart rate is turned off, the device calculates moderate
intensity minutes by analyzing your steps per minute.
• Start a timed activity for the most accurate calculation of
intensity minutes.
• Exercise for at least 10 consecutive minutes at a moderate or
vigorous intensity level.
• Wear your device all day and night for the most accurate
resting heart rate.
Garmin Move IQ
™
The Move IQ feature automatically detects activity patterns,
such as walking, running, cycling, swimming, and elliptical
training, for at least 10 minutes. You can view the event type
and duration on your Garmin Connect timeline, but they do not
appear in your activities list, snapshots, or newsfeed. The Move
IQ feature can automatically start a timed activity for walking and
running, and it appears in your activities list. You can view the
full details of timed activities on your Garmin Connect account.
Activity Tracking Settings
Hold the touchscreen, and select Settings > Activity
Tracking.
Status: Turns off the activity tracking feature.
Move Alert: Displays a message and the move bar on the
digital watch face and steps screen. The device also vibrates
to alert you.
Goal Alerts: Allows you to turn on and off goal alerts, or turn
them off only during activities. Goal alerts appear for your
daily steps goal, daily floors climbed goal, and weekly
intensity minutes goal.
Move IQ: Allows you to turn on and off Move IQ events.
Turning Off Activity Tracking
When you turn off activity tracking, your steps, floors climbed,
intensity minutes, sleep tracking, and Move IQ events are not
recorded.
1
Hold the touchscreen.
2
Select Settings > Activity Tracking > Status > Off.
Widgets
Your device comes preloaded with widgets that provide at-a-
glance information. Some widgets require a Bluetooth
connection to a compatible smartphone.
Some widgets are not visible by default. You can add them to
the widget loop manually.
Notifications: Alerts you to incoming calls, texts, social network
updates, and more, based on your smartphone notification
settings.
Calendar: Displays upcoming meetings from your smartphone
calendar.
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Music controls: Provides music player controls for your
smartphone.
Weather: Displays the current temperature and weather
forecast.
My day: Displays a dynamic summary of your activity today. The
metrics include your last recorded activity, intensity minutes,
floors climbed, steps, calories burned, and more.
Steps: Tracks your daily step count, step goal, and distance
traveled.
Intensity minutes: Tracks your time spent participating in
moderate to vigorous activities, your weekly intensity minutes
goal, and progress toward your goal.
Heart rate: Displays your current heart rate in beats per minute
(bpm) and a graph of your heart rate.
Last sport: Displays a brief summary of your last recorded sport
and your total distance for the week.
VIRB controls: Provides camera controls when you have a
VIRB device paired with your vívoactive 3 device.
Calories: Displays your calorie information for the current day.
Golf: Displays golf information for your last round.
Floors climbed: Tracks your floors climbed and progress
toward your goal.
Stress: Displays your stress level and provides a breathing
activity to help you relax.
Viewing Widgets
From the watch face, swipe up or down.
Customizing the Widget Loop
1
Hold the touchscreen.
2
Select Settings > Widgets.
3
Select an option:
• Select an item to show or hide it from the app list or
rearrange the app list.
• Select Add Widgets to add an item to the widget loop.
About My Day
The My Day widget is a daily snapshot of your activity. This is a
dynamic summary that updates throughout the day. As soon as
you climb a flight of stairs or record an activity, it appears in the
widget. The metrics include your last recorded sport, intensity
minutes for the week, floors climbed, steps, calories burned, and
more. You can tap the touchscreen for an option to improve
accuracy or to view additional metrics.
Viewing the Weather Widget
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From the watch face, swipe to view the weather widget.
2
Tap the touchscreen to view hourly and daily weather data.
3
Scroll down to view daily weather data.
Heart Rate Variability and Stress Level
Your device analyzes your heart rate variability while you are
inactive to determine your overall stress. Training, physical
activity, sleep, nutrition, and general life stress all impact your
stress level. The stress level range is from 0 to 100, where 0 to
25 is a resting state, 26 to 50 is low stress, 51 to 75 is medium
stress, and 76 to 100 is a high stress state. Knowing your stress
level can help you identify stressful moments throughout your
day. For best results, you should wear the device while sleeping.
You can sync your device with your Garmin Connect account to
view your all-day stress level, long-term trends, and additional
details.
Widgets
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