Your blood oxygen level is monitored at intervals throughout the day and at night while you sleep. Watch as your stress level starts to climb as deadlines draw near, which in itself leads to increased stress levels. There’s your heart rate, which is constantly monitored on your wrist, your “body battery” (which monitors your energy levels throughout the day) and your stress levels, which were fairly spot on during my testing. The app will walk you through how to navigate the system, however. It’s not the most intuitive system: I’m used to one button for the menu, another for selecting or going back. The display is touch sensitive, unlike some of Garmin’s other devices, and there are two buttons on the side: one to access your favourite activities and one that can be used to access the main menu. It’s so light though that it is quite easy to forget you are wearing it. It comes with Gorilla Glass too, though experience has taught me that the display will inevitably pick up scratches just from everyday use. It’s a bit like the Apple Watch but less expensive. Garmin has given the always-on 1.3-inch display an aluminium frame – in this case rose gold – that gives the Venu SQ more of a premium look. That means the phone can stay at home while you go for a run and completely switch off, something that is an increasingly attractive prospect at the moment.Īesthetically, it is a bit on the chunkier side of things with an angular watch face. The Venu SQ Music not only monitors your activity, heart rate, respiration rate and sleep, it also has built-in GPS, measures your stress levels and links to your Spotify, Deezer or Amazon Music account for offline music while you work out. The Venu SQ Music is a bit more budget friendly at €252 and its colour touch screen is a little easier to decipher, allowing you to see your health data at a glance.īut it still does a lot. Weeks after setting up the more expensive Fenix 6S Pro, I was still finding options I hadn’t seen before.Įnter the Venu SQ, Garmin’s answer to the Fitbit. But it is reassuring that should I get the urge to find out what my VO2 max is, it’s available.īut those serious watches also come with a serious price tag and you need to spend a bit of time with them to fully understand all the data they produce. The devices have a mind-boggling array of information accessible from your wrist, probably a little more than I need if I’m honest. When you think of Garmin watches, the first thing that usually comes to mind is serious athletes.
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