Beyond the Wrist: Innovative Ways to Wear Your GARMIN Fitness Tracker

Does the name Garmin conjure fitness and health monitoring technology in your mind? Well, it does for a good deal of the population. Sure, the majority of fitness tracker users stick with the wrist-worn devices that are native to the industry. However, there’s also a large portion of the general populace that would prefer to wear them in alternative ways than just strapping them to the wrists. This has led to some pretty darn ingenious workarounds and inventive ways to wear your step-counting, sleep-tracking heart rate monitor, without having it mounted to your wrist. This article will show you a few innovative ways to keep your Garmin handy, without having to strap it to your wrist, so that you can continue to have all of your step counts, sleep stats, and heart rate tracking right at your fingertips.

Clip It, Forget It: The Clip-On GARMIN Vivosport

If you want discretion without sacrificing functionality, the clip-on Garmin Vivosport is a great choice. This tiny device can easily clip onto a belt, waistband or even secured onto a bra, letting you track your day while staying stylish. Garmin Vivosport is also made with the minimalist user in mind. Your fitness tracking can be unobtrusive if you like, and you can match it to any outfit.

GARMIN Meets Fashion: Smart Jewelry Options

Where tech fashion and health tracking meet is a new niche: smart jewellery. Smart jewellery adds jewellery functionality to track your fitness, and is available as pendants, brooches or rings. Garmin doesn’t offer smart jewellery itself, but you can connect your watch with third-party accessories so you can get the best of both worlds.

Step Tracker on Your Ankle: The Flexibility of Ankle or Calf Straps

And if you find wristbands a bit intrusive or want to get better step counts (particularly for activities such as cycling), it’s simple to use Vivosport for ankle or calf straps too. Wearing your Garmin on your ankle or calf is comfortable and discrete, and it might give better data for certain kinds of exercise.

The Invisible Tracker: Pocket or Bag Carrying

If wearing anything at all sounds a bit confining, use the strap simply to carry your Garmin in your pocket or bag (which has the benefit of making it easy to check in on your activity at any point in the day, rather than just periodically). In this way, users of non-wearable Garmin devices benefit from the Garmin device’s precision in tracking body movements without body-based placement. In fact, this use of a Garmin device still counts as wearing, by the logic that most people engage with fitness trackers that can be placed on the body outside of the body anyway. By wearing a Garmin in a non-bodily manner, users can still take advantage of the form factor that allows for the experience of immanent embeddedness and constant surveillance that are unique aspects of the popular imagination of what a fitness tracker does.

The Future of Fitness: Smart Clothing

Years of developing wearable technology has led to a new type of fitness device: smart clothing. Featuring Garmin-compatible sensors embedded directly into the garment, fitness bras, obsessive socks, and even shoe-ins have dramatically changed the way we can monitor our health metrics. Garmin doesn’t manufacture much smart clothing itself, but several companies make athletic apparel with such features that can be synced to a Garmin device, allowing you to enjoy a futuristic form of fitness tracking.

Why Choose GARMIN?

Precision and Innovation

What gives Garmin its edge in the market for fitness trackers is that it never lets up with this attention to detail – each tracker is designed for maximum accuracy in tracking, maximum number of health metrics, and maximum ease of use.

Versatility

There is no doubt about it, one of Garmin’s biggest strengths, is that they’re for everyone. If you are an amateur athlete, a professional athlete, or simply someone who wants to start paying more attention to your wellness, Garmin has a device for you.

Community and Support

But Garmin has a strong user and customer relations community, where you can connect with fellow Garmin users, share your accomplishments, and compete with others in challenges. There’s also dedicated customer service, which helps to guide your use of your device.

Longevity

But what makes Garmin devices especially valuable for continuous tracking is their toughness and their battery life – often up to six months on a single charge. Needless to say, a tracker that lasts years is one that you’ll be able to afford.

A World of Possibilities

More than a pedometer that tells you how many steps you’ve taken today or a sleep-tracker that will monitor your REM cycles, your Garmin will connect you to a range of health and fitness data that registers your every move during and after each activity, recorded against your previous performance and aptly scored in terms of improvement over time. Chart your runs and mountain climbs; tag your actions in the sea below the waves; analyse your golf swing: no matter where you roam, your Garmin will tell you how you can do better next time.

Overall, the conclusion from what Garmin have created is that they offer a flexible and innovative solution – one that doesn’t require a watch or bracelet to be worn. Whether you go for one of the clip-on variants, use smart jewellery integration, wear their devices around your ankles or bring in smart clothing, there’s a solution nearby. Buying a Garmin device is really buying into a lifestyle, one where a community and technology can help drive you to your health and fitness goals.