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Garmin today announced its new multisport connected watch vívoactive HR which now incorporates Garmin Elevate wrist heart rate technology. It collects and analyzes the different activities throughout the day and night: number of steps taken, calories burned, intensity and type of sports activities, sleep analysis, etc.

vívoactive HR has a new Chroma anti-glare touch screen that allows you to follow its activities
at any time. Garmin, always looking for technological innovations to improve its products, has set out to offer a connected watch with an autonomy of 8 days in watch mode and activity monitoring (including continuous heart rate monitoring), and up to 'at 13 p.m. in GPS mode.

Andrew Silver, Fitness Product Manager at Garmin, is delighted: “The vívoactive HR builds on the versatility and quality of the previous model, while adding heart rate technology to the wrist as well as a barometric altimeter. Users can track even more data essential to the effectiveness of workouts and daily activity. "

The user follows his performances and his evolution thanks to the different sports applications
integrated:

• Running - With its built-in accelerometer and GPS, users can track their runs both indoors and out. Additional features of the application include Auto Lap, Auto Pause, as well as alerts for heart rate, cadence, walking / running intervals, etc. At the end of the race, users have access to statistics such as distance, distance calories burned, average cadence and total time.
• Cycling - This app measures time, distance, speed and calories. It is compatible with Garmin speed and cadence sensors.
• Swimming - The app tracks intervals and overall training time, distance, cadence, number and type of arm movements, and makes it easy to pause the device during a recovery period. It also offers calculations of rest time and measures swolf, a parameter of efficiency in swimming.
• Golf - Users have the possibility of viewing a simplified view of the green, measuring the distance of the strokes and being well oriented thanks to the PinPointer function when they play on one of the 40 courses listed in the world, including the map is available for free download from the Garmin database.
• The Up Paddle and Rowing stand - To easily follow and consult the pace, time, distance, number and rhythm of paddle strokes, as well as distance per stroke. By training indoors on a rower, users can also track the time, number and pace of strokes.
• Skiing and snowboarding - The ski and snowboard application measures pace by calculating speed and distance on a slope relative to geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude). It automatically calculates intervals and offers the Auto Pause feature to automatically stop the stopwatch when users stop or take the ski lifts.

The vívoactive HR also includes Garmin Move IQ, a new feature that continuously tracks periods of sustained activity. Thanks to Move IQ, the watch automatically detects different activities such as walking, running, cycling, swimming and elliptical training without the user having to select a new activity.

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To stay connected

Vívoactive HR receives Smart Notifications from a smartphone1 to report incoming calls, texts, emails, calendar reminders, social media alerts and more. It also integrates other features to allow users to consult the weather forecast, control music on their smartphone, control a VIRB camera, find a lost smartphone and share their activities with loved ones in real time thanks to LiveTrack.

Throughout the day, the vívoactive HR automatically synchronizes with the Garmin Connect Mobile app to offer users a global overview of their activities, follow their workouts, analyze their activities, participate in online challenges with friends and win virtual badges.

Garmin Connect Insights offers directions to help people achieve their goals and congratulatory messages to encourage them, as well as expert health advice.

Compatible with Connect IQ platform, the vívoactive HR offers a number of downloadable customization options. Users can download a variety of free apps, widgets, watch faces to make their watch perfectly suited to their desires.

The vívoactive HR will be available from April at the recommended retail price of € 269,99. To personalize the watch, straps will be available in black, white, intense yellow and bright red at the recommended retail price of € 29,99 each.

More information in all good pro-shops and on www.garmin.com/en