I bought my Garmin Venu 3s to replace a Fitbit that I had become frustrated with. There are things I like and things that I don’t like because they don’t make sense or are not useful to me. The watch synchs flawlessly (so far) with the app—that’s great. There’s lots of good information to dig into and use for fitness/heath improvement. The bad: Sleep scores do not take individual sleep needs into account. I have never slept more than 7 hours in my entire life, but Garmin arbitrarily decided I need 8 hours 40 minutes sleep and consistently downgrades my sleep score and tells me I slept poorly, despite excellent ratings for deep, light and REM sleep, along with waking up feeling refreshed and energetic after 6.5-7 hours. I practice good sleep hygiene and already engage in all the recommendations to “improve” my sleep quality. On fitbit with similar metrics, I consistently earned scores in the high 80s and low 90s. My Venu scores are in the mid 60s to low 70s with ratings of poor or fair. Despite claiming to track multiple types of exercise, tracking for yoga, strength training or barre classes is useless, because you have to hit start and stop after each pose, set or exercise and enter what you did, which disrupts the flow of your workout. It is only useful for tracking cardio. It is unclear what metrics it uses to determine your “stress” level, as it indicates high stress at times when I am calm, peaceful and relaxed. I have not decided if it is a good fit for me. Overall the Fitbit charge model seems like the better product.

I have spent my entire professional career as an analyst, reviewing the data to make informed health policy recommendations/ decision. As I have venture in a fitness/wellness program, this device collects the data I need to accomplish my goals. Data that reminds me where I may not have put enough energy into my wellness plan or the correct data that lets me know I am on track.

I got my watch for Christmas, as I had been debating upgrading for months. I had the 2S and I will say I wish I hadn’t waited! The ecg app is great for anyone with heat issues my cardiologist had recommeded! The insights and the features and the clarity on the screen very much upgraded.

I purchased this watch because I wanted something that would pair heart rate with the Edge 820. I like wearing it when I downhill ski as it does not track the chair lift rides as skiing. I'm getting some information about how terrible my sleep is, which has been useful in making some changes. I use it for strength training as well. Sadly, I'm not a runner, (bad knees) so this seemed like a good fit over the Forerunner. I like the data this provides and I have been more aware of my activities. Also, looks nice and the watch surface so far has been scratch resistant.

I’ve been using the apple watch for exercise for a long time. One of the drawbacks Was that it didn’t stay charged as long as the Garmin. This is a phenomenal feature of the Garmin has to stay charged for a week or more. The Garmin has so many more features, but this makes the watch quite complicated to use. It’s not as intuitive as the I watch for this reason I give it a middle rating for those who have time to go through and figure out-I would suspect it has a superb rating.

Really enjoy this watch, it does everything I was hoping it would do. You can customize which information you see during exercise, which is really helpful. The route that an exercise maps out is very accurate. The battery lasts a very long time. Almost everything is spot on. The flights of stairs has been off with the last update, but I'm sure they will get that fixed. I am a woman with a small wrist and the watch doesn't overwhelm it at all, so I don't look like I'm wearing my dad's watch. I've tried the Garmin coach for running and it's a good program. I did wear it snorkeling many times while on vacation in the Virgin Islands. The route it mapped was very accurate. I did get a couple scratches on the glass during that vacation, but that was my own personal experiment. I don't like the watch band, it didn't hold the tail in very well. I was able to get an after market silicone watch band off etsy that's really pretty and the tail clips in.

I love this new Venu watch!! Way more informative with my runs and more workout options to have your watch follow. Love the sleep tracking, how the watch can get less bright and change to a more subtle. My biggest complaint is that no one has ever told me that the heart rate monitor will NOT be accurate if you have a tattoo on your wrist. That being said, I did purchase this thinking my old one didn’t work but it would have if I had worn it on my other wrist. Not money wasted but might have waited a little before this expensive purchase. Worth the money but don’t like it on my right wrist cause that’s backwards for a right handed person. The tracking is spot on and hasn’t dropped my heart rate at all so major plus. Enjoy

I have always had an Apple Watch...ever since the first one came out. I decided to try something else. I love this watch. It is less cluttered and easy to use. I run, bike, ect and I love the metrics on this watch. I works seamlessly with my iPhone as far as getting messages ect.

I've had the watch for a couple of months now, works as advertised and has been a really good investment. Mostly got it for the heart rate monitor, but have found I like many of the other functions, and am still discovering more regularly! I went with the smaller version because I have pretty small wrists for a dude, and the 44mm would have looked like a sundial on my wrist.

I love my garmin Venue S3 so much! It’s an absolutely beautiful more sleek edition which I love (somewhat of a girly girl) and I still get all the benefits of an advanced sports/atheltic/outdoorsy watch along with it being waterproof, tracking sleep, menstruation and the list goes on! The only downside I can mention is that I can’t figure out how to download music from my Spotify to the Spotify on my watch. Went through all the steps to add it to my watch etc but it keeps rebooting or unloading my apps. I would love help from Garmin with this!! 10/10 recommend best watch I’ve ever owned, thanks to my husband for the birthday gift.