Garming Strength Training Popularity and the Badges, You Never Knew You Needed
Recently, Garmin has published its regular “A year in review“, with different data showing how people use Garmin devices. I like this type of information and appreciate that Garmin shares it.
According to the report, polarity of strength training has increased again.
I assume this happens because more and more Garmin watches support it. Probably “Garmin Strength Coach” helped as well, but, honestly, I doubt that.
However, this trend makes me optimistic. I hope Garmin will finally implement very-needed features to the strength training, like adding another set to a group, increasing the rest timer, or using reasonable defaults (20 seconds is not a reasonable default) for rest time when you create a plan in Garmin Connect (see more in “Strength Training with a Garmin: In a Gym“).
Another interesting fact I found in the report: people Garmin users in Hong Kong walk 10,663 steps/day on average – this is really a lot!
On the same day I found another interesting Garmin article – “The 25 Garmin Connect Badges You Never Knew You Needed” from the middle of 2024 – but it is still relevant. That interesting that I decided to check which badges from that list I already have. This are my results:
It looks like I collected most of them – 19/26. The few that are still waiting are really difficult to get.
What badges from the “you never knew you needed” list do you have collected?
