Description
Garmin Fenix 5X is a multisport GPS smartwatch that’s fitness-focused and well equipped to track your active life comprehensively with a long battery life that lets you go long from a single charge.
Fenix 5X has an outstanding design and built with some of the most durable materials on the market. The case is made of fiber-reinforced polymer with stainless steel rear cover, and the bezel is made of stainless steel while the 26mm straps are available in silicone or stainless steel materials. The screen is protected by premium Sapphire glass that ensures this watch can withstand some hard knocks.
The 1.2 inches always-on transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP) is bright, colored, and can be read outdoors even under sunlight. It isn’t a touchscreen device, so you’ll have to depend on the 5 physical buttons that no doubt makes navigation very easy. You can also customize the watchfaces simply by downloading your preferred choice from the Garmin Connect IQ store.
This watch will keep you connected to all that matters to you, it equipped tp ensure you don’t get to miss important updates such as SMS, calls, and reminders. You can also respond to notifications by preset text response. The battery life is also impressive, you can expect to get up to 10 days long battery life and over 15 hours with continuous GPS tracking.
It also comes with 12GB onboard storage that allows you to store your favorite tracks on the watch which can be a source of inspiration while training, relaxing, or otherwise.
As a comprehensive activity tracker, the Fenix 5X is equipped with a handful of sensors that includes heart rate monitor, gyroscope, barometer, GPS, compass and thermometer, this all enables it to track a whole lot of activities such as comprehensive sleep tracking, heart rate, calories, fitness level, stress, distance as well as a host of training planning and analysis features. You can find all the activities tracked by this device below.
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Garmin Fenix 5X Activity Tracking Features
| Activity Tracking Features | Garmin Fenix 5X |
|---|---|
| Smart Features | |
| Connect IQ (Downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets, and apps) | Yes |
| Text response/reject phone calls with text (Android only) | Yes |
| Calendar | Yes |
| Weather | Yes |
| Battery saver - customizable low power watch | No |
| Controls smartphone music | Yes |
| Find my phone | Yes |
| Find my watch | Yes |
| Virb remote | Yes |
| Safety and Tracking Features | |
| Livetrack | Yes |
| Group Livetrack | Yes |
| Live event sharing | No |
| Incident detection during select activities | No |
| Assistance | No |
| Tactical Features | |
| Stealth mode | No |
| Night vision mode | No |
| Dual Grid Coordinates | Yes |
| Kill switch | No |
| Activity Tracking Features | |
| Move bar (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it) | Yes |
| Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal) | Yes |
| Sleep monitoring (monitors total sleep and periods of movement or restful sleep) | Yes |
| Calories burned | Yes |
| Floors climbed | Yes |
| Distance travelled | Yes |
| Intensity minutes | Yes |
| Trueup™ | Yes |
| Move IQ™ | Yes |
| Fitness age | yes (in app) |
| Body battery™ energy monitor | No |
| All-day stress tracking | Yes |
| Gym & Fitness Equipment | |
| Available gym activity profiles | Indoor rowing, strength training and cardio training |
| Cardio workouts | Yes |
| Strength workouts | Yes |
| Yoga workouts | No |
| Pilates workouts | No |
| On-screen workout animations | No |
| Automatic rep counting | Yes |
| Training, Planning and Analysis Features | |
| GPS speed and distance | Yes |
| Customizable data pages | Yes |
| Customizable activity profiles | Yes |
| Auto Pause® | Yes |
| Interval training | Yes |
| Advanced workouts | Yes |
| Downloadable training plans | Yes |
| Power modes - customizable in-activity battery settings | No |
| Auto lap | Yes |
| Manual lap | Yes |
| Configurable lap alerts | Yes |
| Heat and altitude acclimation | No |
| VO2 Max. | Yes |
| Training status (lets you see if you’re training effectively by tracking your training history and fitness level trend.) | Yes |
| Training load (your total training load for the last 7 days calculated from estimated epoc) | Yes |
| Training load focus | No |
| Training effect (aerobic) | Yes |
| Training effect (anaerobic) | Yes |
| Primary Benefit (training effect labels) | No |
| Custom alerts | Yes |
| Audio prompts | Yes |
| Finish time | Yes |
| Virtual partner | Yes |
| Race an activity | Yes |
| Auto multisport activities | Yes |
| Manual multisport activities | Yes |
| Course guidance | Yes |
| Garmin Live Segments | Yes |
| Strava Live Segments | Yes |
| Round-Trip course creator (running/cycling) | Yes |
| Trendline™ Popularity Routing | No |
| Touch and/or button lock | Yes |
| Hot keys | Yes |
| Auto scroll | Yes |
| Activity history on watch | Yes |
| Physio Trueup | Yes |
| Heart Rate Features | |
| HR zones | Yes |
| HR alerts | Yes |
| HR calories | Yes |
| % HR max. | Yes |
| % HRR | Yes |
| Recovery time | Yes |
| Auto max HR | Yes |
| HRV stress test (measures your heart rate variability while standing still, for 3 minutes, to provide you with an estimated stress level; the scale of this is 1 to 100; low scores indicate lower stress levels) | yes (with compatible accessory) |
| HR broadcast (broadcasts hr data over ant+™ to paired devices) | Yes |
| Respiration rate (during exercise) | No |
| Respiration rate (all-day and in sleep) | No |
| Running Features | |
| Available run profiles | Running, treadmill running, trail running |
| GPS-based distance, time and pace | Yes |
| Running dynamics | Yes (with compatible accessory) |
| Vertical oscillation and ratio (the degree of 'bounce' in your running motion and the cost-benefit ratio with stride length) | Yes (with compatible accessory) |
| Ground contact time and balance (shows how much time, in the running motion, your foot is on the ground rather than in flight and lets you check your running symmetry) | Yes (with compatible accessory) |
| Stride length (real time) | Yes (with compatible accessory) |
| Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute) | Yes |
| Performance condition (after running 6–20 minutes, compares your real-time condition to your average fitness level) | Yes |
| Lactate threshold (through analysis of your pace and heart rate, estimates the point where your muscles start to rapidly fatigue) | Yes (with compatible accessory) |
| PacePro™ pacing strategies | No |
| Run workouts | Yes |
| Race predictor | Yes |
| Foot Pod Capable | Yes |
| Golf Features | |
| Preloaded with 41,000 courses worldwide | Yes |
| Yardage to F/M/B (distance to front, middle and back of green) | Yes |
| Yardage to layups/doglegs | Yes |
| Measures shot distance (calculates exact yardage for shots from anywhere on course) | Automatic |
| Digital Scorecard | Yes |
| Custom targets | No |
| Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit) | Yes |
| Garmin Autoshot™ | Yes |
| Full vector map | No |
| Auto Courseview updates | No |
| Green view with manual pin position | Yes |
| Hazards and course targets | Yes |
| Pinpointer | No |
| Playslike distance | No |
| Handicap scoring | No |
| Truswing™ compatible | Yes |
| Round timer/odometer | Yes |
| Automatic club tracking compatible (requires accessory) | No |
| Outdoor Recreation | |
| Available outdoor recreation profiles | Hiking, climbing, mountain biking, skiing, snowboarding, xc skiing, stand up paddleboarding, rowing, jumpmaster, tactical |
| Point-to-Point navigation | Yes |
| Bread crumb trail in real time | Yes |
| Back to start | Yes |
| Tracback® | Yes |
| Ultratrac Mode | Yes |
| Around me mode | No |
| Elevation profile | Yes |
| Distance to destination | Yes |
| Barometric trend indicator with storm alert | Yes |
| ClimbPro™ ascent planner | No |
| Trail run auto climb | Yes |
| Vertical speed | Yes |
| Total ascent/descent | Yes |
| Future elevation plot | Yes |
| Preloaded Topographical maps | Yes |
| Preloaded Ski resort maps | No |
| Downloadable cartography support | Yes |
| Compatible with Basecamp™ | Yes |
| GPS coordinates | Yes |
| Sight 'N GO | Yes |
| Area calculation | Yes (via Connect IQ™) |
| Hunt/fish calendar | Yes (via Connect IQ™) |
| Projected waypoint | Yes |
| Sun and moon information | Yes (via Connect IQ™) |
| Xero™ locations | No |
| Expedition GPS activity | No |
| Tides | Yes |
| Cycling Features | |
| Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories) | Yes |
| Courses | Yes |
| Cycle map (routable cycling-specific street map) | Yes |
| Available cycling profiles | Biking, indoor biking, mountain biking, triathlon |
| Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor) | Yes |
| Race an activity | Yes |
| FTP (Functional Threshold Power) | yes (with compatible accessory) |
| Compatible with Vector™ (Power Meter) | Yes |
| Power Meter compatible | Yes |
| Compatible with Varia Vision™ (head-mounted display) | Yes |
| Compatible with Varia™ Radar (Rear-Facing Radar) | Yes |
| Compatible with Varia™ Lights | Yes |
| Speed and cadence sensor support (with sensor) | Yes (ANT+® and Bluetooth® Smart sensors) |
| Swimming Features | |
| Available swim profiles | Pool swimming, open water swimming, swimming/running |
| Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories) | Yes |
| Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories) | Yes |
| Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only) | Yes |
| Drill logging (pool swim only) | Yes |
| Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only) | Yes |
| Countdown start (pool swim only) | No |
| Pool swim workouts | Yes |
| Time and distance alerts | No |
| Underwater wrist-based heart rate | No |
| Heart rate from external HRM (real-time during rests, interval and session stats during rests, and automatic heart rate download post-swim) | Yes (with HRM-Tri™ and HRM-Swim™) |
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