Garmin Vivofit Sets Goals Tailored to User's Potential

The Garmin Vivofit is a lightweight fitness band that tracks the user's progress and automatically creates personalised goals.

The Garmin Vivofit, Garmin's stylish fitness band that reached yet another market – India – earlier this month, is the only fitness band that automatically creates personalised daily activity goals for users, tracks their activity and progress, and tells them when it's time to move. The Vivofit displays the user's steps, distance, goal countdown, time of day, and calories burned. If the sleep mode is set when going to bed, the device can also monitor the quality of the rest.

Described by the company as a fitness band "designed to turn good intentions into lifelong habits," the activity tracker follows progress around the clock and learns the user's current activity level. Based on this data, it creates attainable daily goals. As these are met, the device creates new goals for the next day, constantly challenging the user to meet and increase his or her potential.

Studies show that sedentary lifestyles and long periods of inactivity decrease the body's production of fat-burning enzymes. This can be reversed with frequent breaks from sitting at a desk and taking short walks throughout the day. Vivofit tracks the user's activity and knows when it's time to get up and walk. When users spend too much time being inactive, the device displays a red bar, which resets once they have spent a couple of minutes walking.

Users can get a complete picture of their progress at Garmin Connect, a free online community where they can also join challenges and create their own competitions with friends. They can join the community by wirelessly syncing their Vivofit with Garmin Connect and accessing the community on their compatible mobile device with the Garmin Connect app.

The Vivofit is water-resistant (50 m) and runs on replaceable batteries that last over a year. It can be used with ANT + heart rate monitors to get more accurate heart rate and calorie burn data for any fitness activity.

To learn more about the Vivofit, watch the video.