Garmin Vivosmart 4: A Comprehensive Review

Advantages of the Garmin Vivosmart 4

Style and Design

Indulge in style and intelligence with the Garmin Vivosmart 4. Its slim wristband design, available in multiple colors, complements your personal style with its distinctive design, metal trim accents, and a bright and easy-to-read display. The display is intelligently designed to be on only when needed and auto-adjusts to ambient light levels, ensuring excellent visibility even under bright sunlight.

Pulse Ox Sensor

Experience the convenience of having a Pulse Ox sensor at your wrist. This feature estimates your body’s blood oxygen saturation level, providing insights into how well your body is absorbing oxygen. Turn on the feature to gauge your SpO2 levels overnight, or use it for spot measurements throughout the day, giving you a better understanding of your body.

Advanced Sleep Monitoring

Enjoy advanced sleep monitoring capabilities with the Garmin Vivosmart 4. It tracks your light, deep, and REM stages of sleep, as well as your movement throughout the night. For additional insights, activate the Pulse Ox feature to view your blood oxygen levels during sleep. Upon waking up, easily review and compare your sleep statistics in the Garmin Connect™ Mobile app.

Body Battery Energy Monitoring

Optimize your body’s energy levels with the Body Battery energy monitoring feature. By utilizing a combination of stress, heart rate variability (HRV), sleep, and activity data, it provides real-time information about your body’s energy reserves. This allows you to plan your day, optimizing times for activity and rest. Furthermore, Body Battery helps you recognize patterns over time, enabling you to understand how previous days influence your current well-being.

All-Day Stress Monitoring

Track your stress levels throughout the day with all-day stress monitoring. By tracking your HRV (time interval between each heartbeat), Garmin Vivosmart 4 activity tracker smartwatch calculates and displays your stress level, providing valuable insights into your daily stress levels. You can also activate the optional “Relax Reminder” feature in the Garmin Connect app. If your stress level becomes elevated, Garmin Vivosmart 4 activity tracker smartwatch will provide a vibration alert on your wrist and display a message (“Take a moment to breathe?”) to remind you to relax.

Activity Tracking

Effortlessly keep track of your active life with the Garmin Vivosmart 4. It sets a personalized step goal for you each day and tracks your progress towards achieving it. In addition to steps, the tracker monitors floors climbed, calories burned, intensity minutes, and more. You’ll also receive vibration alerts to remind you to move when you’ve been inactive for too long, keeping you motivated to stay active throughout the day.

Accurate Workout Monitoring

Accurately monitor your workouts with the preloaded activity timers. Whether it’s strength training, walking, swimming, cycling, or elliptical training, the tracker captures your exercises, reps, sets, work and rest times. The Move IQ™ feature automatically detects select activities such as walking, swimming, cycling, and elliptical training, and starts timing them even if you forget to initiate the timer and synced to Garmin Connect, our online community, where you can review, edit, and share your achievements with friends and connections.

Fitness and Wellness Monitoring

Benefit from daily fitness and wellness monitoring through the Elevate™ heart rate data collected from your wrist. The Garmin Vivosmart 4 provides an estimate of your current fitness level based on your VO2 max. As your aerobic fitness improves, your VO2 max tends to increase as well. Using this information, the tracker also estimates your fitness age, a statistic that may decrease over time with consistent exercise and hard work.

Connectivity and Convenience

Stay connected and active simultaneously with the Garmin Vivosmart 4. Check the weather, control your music, receive smart notifications, locate your phone, reply with preset text responses (Android only), and receive social media notifications directly on your tracker’s display, all while keeping your smartphone safely stored away.

Social Engagement

Share and compete with others effortlessly using Garmin Vivosmart 4. The tracker automatically syncs to Garmin Connect, our online community, where you can review your progress, join challenges, earn colorful badges, and even share your achievements on social media. Garmin Connect is available for free on the web and as a smartphone app through Garmin Connect app.