I've been using various Garmin devices for over 10 years now and am in the market for a new watch.
Do any of the watches offer a daily activity challenge like the Apple Watch does yet?
Posted Jan 25, 2023, 7:48 AM UTC
All there watches offer activity challenges, but none are daily as that isn't the point - as sometimes you need recovery days.
There is the weekly step goal challenge which puts you in with randoms based on your goal target.
On the challenges section of the app you can sign up for whatever that months challenges are - which usually includes an activity challenge i.e. 20 activities in a month.
You can create your own challenges - and select your connections and can choose between steps, running, cycling and or swimming, and it can be for a day, weekend, week or for custom dates.
Then you can create your own goals on Connect web and see your progress against these by setting them up on your dashboard. You can set it up for any activity type that Garmin offers (including hunting) - and is based on hours, distance, calories or number of activities to acheive - across 7 days, 30 days, 1 month or 1 year - and then select the start date.
Then there are of course your badges which you get when you acheive specific challenges - on Connect web you can see avilable ones to target - under menu - badges - select available - hover over badge or click on it to see details i.e. you can get a Higher, Further, Faster badge - but only if you own the Captain Marvel and add it to your account and then there are subsequent challenges off that. or the Zombie badget - do a challenge with someone who already has the badge - there are loads and loads for a huge variety of activities.
There’s some watch faces that you can setup something similar, the Goals series of Watch faces you can, I believe the developer is up to their 5th version.
But nothing officially like the rings that’s a Garmin supported feature.
I think the closest thing to the "3 rings" Calories widget. To shows your active and rest time in a ring. And you can compare on the watch the last 7 days..
You can have a daily step and stairs climbed goal. Then there is the "Move bar" that fills up when you sit still for over an hour or so. This plus the weekly activity minutes will be displayed in various combinations on the watchface. There are 3rd party watchfaces that have them in concentric ring form.
The Forerunner, Fenix and Epics line also have a daily suggested training (at least the newer models, my Vivoactive doesn't have this, sadly), which usually is a full fledged running unit.
It's not the very same like on the Apple watch, but something similar to "get you going", literally.
Thanks. I have steps and stairs, plus the move alert on my current watch, but I don't find it nearly as effective a motivator as the "Close your rings" mechanic. With that, you can look back over the last month and see how you succeeded (or not!). The rings mechanicsm is very satisfying.