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See the Important Safety and Product Information guide in the product box for product warnings and other important information.
Always consult your physician before you begin or modify any exercise program.
To get the most out of your activity tracker, you should pair it with your smartphone or computer and complete the setup process with your free Garmin Connect™ account.
NOTE: Until you pair your device and complete the setup process, it has limited functionality.
Select an option:
Make your vívofit 3 device part of your active lifestyle by wearing it all day, and syncing your data often with your Garmin Connect account. Syncing allows you to analyze steps and sleep data, view totals, and get insights into your activity. You can use your Garmin Connect account to participate in challenges and compete with your friends. You can also customize your device settings, including watch faces, visible screens, auto-sync frequency, and more.
Your vívofit 3 device must be paired directly through the Garmin Connect Mobile app, instead of from the Bluetooth® settings on your smartphone.
After setup is complete, the device continuously tracks your daily activity. You should sync your device often to review your progress in the app.
You should manually sync your data to track your progress in the Garmin Connect Mobile app. Your device also periodically syncs data with the Garmin Connect Mobile app automatically.
You can use an optional USB ANT Stick™ to pair your device with your computer. Go to buy.garmin.com, or contact your Garmin® dealer for information about optional accessories and replacement parts.
You should sync your data regularly to track your progress in the Garmin Connect application.
Sitting for prolonged periods of time can trigger undesirable metabolic state changes. The move bar reminds you to keep moving. After one hour of inactivity, the move bar appears. Additional segments appear after every 15 minutes of inactivity.
You can reset the move bar by walking a short distance.
Icons appear at the bottom of the screen. Each icon represents a different feature. You can press the device key to scroll through the different features.
The current date. The device updates the time and date when you sync your data with a smartphone or computer. | |
The total number of steps taken for the day. | |
The number of remaining steps needed to reach your step goal for the day. When you use the auto goal feature, the device learns and proposes a new goal for you at the beginning of each day. | |
The distance traveled in kilometers or miles for the current day. | |
The amount of total calories burned for the current day, including both active and resting calories. | |
Your weekly intensity minutes total. | |
Your current heart rate and heart rate zone. Your device must be connected to a compatible heart rate monitor (optional). |
Your device creates a daily step goal automatically, based on your previous activity levels. As you move during the day, the device counts down the number of remaining steps in your daily goal. When you reach your step goal, the device displays , and begins counting the number of steps taken that exceed your daily goal.
If you choose not to use the auto goal feature, you can set a personalized step goal on your Garmin Connect account.
To improve your health, organizations such as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Heart Association®, and the World Health Organization, recommend at least 150 minutes per week of moderate intensity activity, such as brisk walking.
The device monitors your activity intensity and tracks your intensity minutes. You can work toward achieving your weekly intensity minutes goal by walking briskly for at least 10 consecutive minutes.
You can hold the device key to scroll through the menu options.
START | Starts a timed activity. |
STOP | Stops a timed activity. |
SYNC | Syncs data with your Garmin Connect account. |
PAIR | Pairs your device using Bluetooth wireless technology. |
ABOUT | Displays device and regulatory information. |
You can record a timed fitness activity, such as a walk or run, which can be sent to your Garmin Connect account.
While you are sleeping, the device automatically detects your sleep and monitors your movement during your normal sleep hours. You can set your normal sleep hours in the user settings on your Garmin Connect account. Sleep statistics include total hours of sleep, sleep levels, and sleep movement. You can view your sleep statistics on your Garmin Connect account.
NOTE: Naps are not added to your sleep statistics.
At any time, hold the device key to turn on the backlight.
The backlight turns off automatically.
To keep the device secure, you should lock the clasp while wearing the device.
Your device keeps track of your daily steps and sleep statistics, as well as your timed fitness activities and optional ANT+® heart rate information. This history can be sent to your Garmin Connect account.
Your device stores your activity data for up to 4 weeks.
NOTE: When using a heart rate monitor, your data storage is reduced.
When the data storage is full, the device deletes the oldest files to make room for new data.
You can connect with your friends on your Garmin Connect account. Garmin Connect gives you the tools to track, analyze, share, and encourage each other. Record the events of your active lifestyle including runs, walks, rides, swims, hikes, triathlons, and more. To sign up for a free account, go to www.garminconnect.com/start.
You can customize your device settings and user settings on your Garmin Connect account.
After customizing settings, sync your data to apply the changes to your device (Syncing Your Data with the Garmin Connect Mobile App, Syncing Your Data with Your Computer).
From your Garmin Connect account, select Device Settings.
From your Garmin Connect account, select User Settings.
Your device can be used with wireless ANT+ sensors. For more information about compatibility and purchasing optional sensors, go to http://buy.garmin.com.
Before you can pair your heart rate monitor, you must enable the heart rate data screen on your vívofit 3 device. For more information about customizing the visible screens, see Device Settings.
Pairing is the connecting of ANT+ wireless sensors, like your heart rate monitor, with a Garmin compatible product. After you pair the first time, your Garmin product automatically recognizes your heart rate monitor each time it is activated.
NOTE: Using a heart rate monitor decreases battery life.
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.
Knowing your heart rate zones can help you measure and improve your fitness by understanding and applying these principles.
If you know your maximum heart rate, you can use the table (Heart Rate Zone Calculations) to determine the best heart rate zone for your fitness objectives.
If you do not know your maximum heart rate, use one of the calculators available on the Internet. Some gyms and health centers can provide a test that measures maximum heart rate. The default maximum heart rate is 220 minus your age.
Battery type | User-replaceable CR1632 battery |
Battery life | 1 yr. |
Operating temperature range | From -10º to 60ºC (from 14º to 140ºF) |
Radio frequency/protocol | 2.4 GHz ANT+ wireless communications protocol Bluetooth wireless technology |
Water rating | 5 ATM[1] |
[1] The device withstands pressure equivalent to a depth of 50 m. For more information, go to www.garmin.com/waterrating.
You can view the unit ID, software version, and regulatory information.
When a software update is available, your device automatically downloads the update when you sync your device with your Garmin Connect account.
A progress bar appears during the update process. When the update is complete, your device restarts.
NOTICE
After cleaning, allow the device to dry completely.
TIP: For more information, go to www.garmin.com/fitandcare.
Contact your local waste disposal department to properly recycle the batteries.
The device uses one CR1632 battery.
Go to buy.garmin.com, or contact your Garmin dealer for information about optional accessories.
NOTICE
Do not attach the belt clip to objects thicker than 6 mm.
You can use the optional belt clip to attach the device to your waistband, belt, or shirt pocket. Go to buy.garmin.com, or contact your Garmin dealer for information about optional accessories.
For more information about activity tracking accuracy, go to garmin.com/ataccuracy.
If your step count does not seem accurate, you can try these tips.
NOTE: The device may interpret some repetitive motions, such as washing dishes, folding laundry, or clapping your hands, as steps.
The step count on your Garmin Connect account updates when you synchronize your device.
The device updates the time and date when you synchronize your device to a computer or mobile device. You should synchronize your device to receive the correct time when you change time zones, and to update for daylight saving time.
The vívofit 3 device is compatible with smartphones using Bluetooth Smart wireless technology.
Go to www.garmin.com/ble for compatibility information.
You can turn on the device and use it with limited functionality, until you complete the setup process on a smartphone or computer. Prior to setup, you can use only the step count, auto goal, and move bar. Your device resets your step count once a day. The device attempts to reset your step count while you are sleeping, based on your inactivity level from your first day of use. Your device does not store any history data until setup is complete.
Set up the device on a smartphone (Smartphone Setup) or computer (Computer Setup) to use additional device features.
NOTE: Setup is a one-time process, and it allows you to use all available device features.
If your device no longer turns on, you may need to replace the batteries.
Go to Replacing the Battery.
If the device stops responding, you may need to reset it. This does not erase any of your data.
NOTE: Resetting the device also resets the move bar.
You can pair your vívofit 3 device with multiple mobile devices and multiple computers. For example, you can pair your device with a smartphone and a tablet, and your home and work computers. You can repeat the pairing process for each additional mobile device or computer (Pairing with Your Smartphone, Pairing Your Computer).
Zone | % of Maximum Heart Rate | Perceived Exertion | Benefits |
1 | 50–60% | Relaxed, easy pace, rhythmic breathing | Beginning-level aerobic training, reduces stress |
2 | 60–70% | Comfortable pace, slightly deeper breathing, conversation possible | Basic cardiovascular training, good recovery pace |
3 | 70–80% | Moderate pace, more difficult to hold conversation | Improved aerobic capacity, optimal cardiovascular training |
4 | 80–90% | Fast pace and a bit uncomfortable, breathing forceful | Improved anaerobic capacity and threshold, improved speed |
5 | 90–100% | Sprinting pace, unsustainable for long period of time, labored breathing | Anaerobic and muscular endurance, increased power |
Software License Agreement
BY USING THE DEVICE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE FOLLOWING SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT. PLEASE READ THIS AGREEMENT CAREFULLY.
Garmin Ltd. and its subsidiaries ("Garmin") grant you a limited license to use the software embedded in this device (the "Software") in binary executable form in the normal operation of the product. Title, ownership rights, and intellectual property rights in and to the Software remain in Garmin and/or its thirdparty providers.
You acknowledge that the Software is the property of Garmin and/or its third-party providers and is protected under the United States of America copyright laws and international copyright treaties. You further acknowledge that the structure, organization, and code of the Software, for which source code is not provided, are valuable trade secrets of Garmin and/or its third-party providers and that the Software in source code form remains a valuable trade secret of Garmin and/or its third-party providers. You agree not to decompile, disassemble, modify, reverse assemble, reverse engineer, or reduce to human readable form the Software or any part thereof or create any derivative works based on the Software. You agree not to export or re-export the Software to any country in violation of the export control laws of the United States of America or the export control laws of any other applicable country.
© 2016 Garmin Ltd. or its subsidiaries
All rights reserved. Under the copyright laws, this manual may not be copied, in whole or in part, without the written consent of Garmin. Garmin reserves the right to change or improve its products and to make changes in the content of this manual without obligation to notify any person or organization of such changes or improvements. Go to www.garmin.com for current updates and supplemental information concerning the use of this product.
Garmin®, the Garmin logo, ANT+®, and vívofit®are trademarks of Garmin Ltd. or its subsidiaries, registered in the USA and other countries. Garmin Connect™, Garmin Express™, and USB ANT Stick™ are trademarks of Garmin Ltd. or its subsidiaries. These trademarks may not be used without the express permission of Garmin.
American Heart Association®is a registered trademark of American Heart Association, Inc. The Bluetooth® word mark and logos are owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and any use of such marks by Garmin is under license. Other trademarks and trade names are those of their respective owners.
This product is ANT+®certified. Visit www.thisisant.com/directory for a list of compatible products and apps.
M/N: A03009
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