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0:00this is your complete beginnner guy the
0:01complete users guy whatever you want to
0:03call to the Garin Instinct 3 Series both
0:05the solar Edition as well as the AMOLED
0:07Edition I've been using the watch for a
0:09while now not just myself but also my
0:11wife putting it through its Paces over
0:12the course of a whole bunch of different
0:14sports and activities with that I've got
0:16a bunch of experience with this watch
0:17but also with Garmin watches for the
0:19last like decade and a half or so so I'm
0:21going to talk through every single
0:23feature on this watch well the majority
0:24of the features there's like a thousand
0:25features on this watch but I'm going to
0:27talk through how to use this watch from
0:28start to finish starting off with Which
0:30models you have kind of your options for
0:32displays the pros and cons to that
0:34getting into activity tracking and Sport
0:36tracking and navigation and all the GPS
0:38settings some of the training readiness
0:40features and all the things you need to
0:42know to use this watch it's as simple as
0:44that now not this is not my full review
0:47where I talk about what's good and bad
0:48that's up in the corner there though I
0:49will certainly talk about what's good
0:51and bad but the majority of that good
0:52and bad thing is in the video up there
0:54this is more about how to use the watch
0:56as a guide it should be about 45 minutes
0:58long we'll see once I'm done recording
1:00it and it's designed to be a long form
1:01beginner guide but one quick thing to
1:03not is this video is sponsored by
1:04Precision Fuel and hydration more about
1:06them a little bit later on in the video
1:08okay with that just simply dive into it
1:10the very first thing to know is there
1:11are two display options on the Instinct
1:133 there's an AMOLED display seen on the
1:15left and then there's a solar display
1:17seen on the right right there the solar
1:19display is a mbased display or a memory
1:21and pixel display like all past Instinct
1:23lineups versus the AMOLED display is
1:26what you might have seen on the new 4965
1:28or 265 kind of very similar to an Apple
1:31Watch display in a nutshell AMOLED
1:32displays are much more brilliant much
1:34more vibrant have all these colors in
1:36the case of the mbased display on the
1:37Instinct it is a black and white
1:39monochrome display though Garmin does
1:41have other color mbased displays but not
1:43in the case of the Instinct with the
1:45mbased display you're going to get a lot
1:47longer battery life uh for that and you
1:49can see the battery chart right here uh
1:50note also the mbased display has a solar
1:53panel on top of that all of the Instinct
1:553 editions with MIP have solar there are
1:57no non-solar editions of the Instinct 3
2:00from a myip standpoint versus the AMOLED
2:03has no solar panel it uh but you know
2:05what it still gets great battery life
2:07I've been primarily using the AMOLED
2:08Edition uh day after day and I'm getting
2:10like a Solid 5 six days easily on this
2:13watch and that's with workouts of 1 to 3
2:164 hours a day uh no problems at all so
2:18garmin's AMOLED display battery life is
2:20really really good arguably industry
2:22leing and it's not really a limiter here
2:24it's really about what kind of display
2:26type that you want equally from a
2:27visibility standpoint the AMOLED
2:29displays of today not like the ones of
2:30even just 3 or 4 years ago uh you can
2:32see these AMOLED displays in all liting
2:35conditions without any problems at all
2:36uh gesture base means as soon as you
2:38turn your wrist like this the emol
2:39display will go to full brightness and
2:41you put it back down again and it kind
2:43of dims out a little bit more so it
2:44saves some battery likewise at night
2:46with an AMOLED display it goes into a
2:48sleep mode uh you can basically just
2:50press a button there to turn that back
2:51out that way it doesn't blind you in the
2:52middle of the night where it just like
2:53you put your wrist up and it's like uh
2:55instead you just simp you Tap a button
2:57to see that and you can also exit that
2:59sleep mode if you want on to entirely
3:01meanwhile on the solar Edition they
3:02changed out that display on the Instinct
3:043 compared to the 2 and the 2x uh it is
3:06now much much more clear just really
3:08really sharp you can see kind of some
3:10comparison bits there point is you have
3:12two options there I will dive into the
3:14solar bits a little bit later on in
3:15terms of houseo works all that kind of
3:16stuff but you have your options there
3:19within that you also have two sizes for
3:20each one you have a 45 mil and you have
3:22a 50 mil so you can see right here on
3:24the AMOLED the two sizes side by side uh
3:27the one my wife's been using on the left
3:28hand side there and then this one over
3:30here the 50 mil uh just slightly
3:32different in size and that's also true
3:34for the solar side so with that I'm
3:36going to primarily be using the amlet
3:38Edition in this video uh and I will note
3:41cases where things are different but
3:42they are very very similar across the
3:44board maybe for just a minute or two
3:45I'll kind of show you how similar they
3:47are as we walk through them and hey just
3:49a quick note as we go through this if
3:50you find this video interesting useful
3:52just simply watch it all the way through
3:53that is the only thing the YouTube Gods
3:55care about at this point in time is just
3:56watch time and you finishing the video
3:59put it on kind of like a podcast that
4:00you listen to behind the scenes that
4:01would really help out quite a bit so
4:04this is the watch face right there kind
4:05of starting off with some of the basics
4:06right here uh this is the watch face it
4:08is a non-touchscreen on both of these a
4:11little bit of a disappointment there I
4:12think we all kind of hope it be a
4:13touchscreen but you know the first week
4:15or so it was hard to get used to that
4:16coming from every other AMOLED display
4:18especially in the case of the AMOLED
4:20being touchcreen but after a few days I
4:22finally got used to not being out a
4:24touch there and I don't use a touch a
4:25ton on my watch just for maps and stuff
4:27and since this doesn't have Maps it not
4:29a big deal now you can of course
4:30customize this watch face right there
4:32you can change all the different things
4:33on it uh using either the default watch
4:35faces um or using connect IQ that's
4:37their thirdparty App Store and you can
4:39download watch faces onto that uh but if
4:41I were just go ahead and middle left
4:43button right there this one over here
4:44hold on to it you can go into watch face
4:46and then you can change a bunch of the
4:48different settings here you can change
4:49the default watch faces you can add new
4:51watch faces but you can see just a
4:53couple of the ones as I iterate through
4:54this there's only one stock one right
4:56now on this Instinct 3 solar but there
4:58are plenty others that you can download
5:00and you can customize all the different
5:01data fields on there now speaking of
5:03those buttons there are five buttons in
5:04total on the right hand side there are
5:05two buttons right there and the left
5:07hand side there are three buttons right
5:09there uh essentially the upper right
5:10hand button is for confirmation opening
5:12up a sport menu the lower right hand
5:14button is kind of an escape or back
5:16button and these buttons on the side
5:17over here are for navigation through
5:19menus as you saw earlier I can just
5:21simply long hold this middle button
5:22there to open up a settings menu and
5:24then up and down from there in addition
5:26this top left hand button right there
5:27goes ahead and opens up the controls
5:28menu so I can long hold that for a
5:30second and here's the controls menu
5:32that's where I can access a flashlight
5:34or a garment pay or any of sort of the
5:35quick access control features you can
5:37always Escape back out of that by
5:39pressing the lower right hand button to
5:40get back to the watch face now going on
5:42down from that you have the widgets or
5:43the widget glances in this case you can
5:45see the differences right away between
5:47the two different display types um
5:49obviously a little bit simpler there in
5:50the case in the Solar also having solar
5:52but if I were to compare like versus
5:54like so we can crack open the weather
5:55right now I just compare this one widget
5:57area to see what that looks like see
5:59there are slight differences there but
6:01overall very very similar um only in
6:03some of the different panels of that in
6:05more detail information will you see
6:07some of those differences backing out
6:09again all these widgets are customizable
6:11so you can get rid of ones you don't
6:12want you can add ones you want uh you
6:14can tweak um how they display they order
6:16them Etc going down through here this is
6:18both kind of daily activity metrics like
6:20steps and calories and so on uh also
6:22training metrics uh as well as your
6:24calendar you can do moon phases
6:26notifications uh training readiness and
6:29at the very bottom youve got the ability
6:30to go ahead and edit that you also can
6:32add thirdparty ones through the connect
6:34iQ app store so you saw up here I had
6:36the uh one for commot that's for uh
6:38basically downloading Kut routes as well
6:40as Kut Maps that's the only way you can
6:42get maps on this but the Kut mapping
6:44experience not because of Cut's fault is
6:46very hard to use on this because it
6:48doesn't have a touchcreen so you can't
6:49really move your way around the map very
6:51easily um so it works in a pinch but
6:54it's not necessarily super amazing uh
6:56any case at the very bottom here you can
6:58see the edit option we can crack that
7:00open uh and you go down to the bottom
7:02again and you can add new widgets so
7:04right there I can add down one more time
7:07there we go and I can create folders if
7:08I want to to go ahead and basically
7:10categorize things like maybe want sports
7:12stuff in one folder and health stuff
7:13another and whatever the case is uh and
7:15you can add all sorts of different
7:17widgets into this uh in many ways this
7:19has almost the same widget list as
7:21something like the Garin Phoenix series
7:23uh but there are a couple more the
7:24Phoenix has but by and large it's very
7:26very similar across the board now going
7:28on back we go down into into the health
7:30panel and this is where you're going to
7:31see most your daily metrics so if I open
7:33this up right there uh you're going to
7:35see the first one is body battery uh now
7:38this is the watch I've been wearing the
7:39AMOLED one all day long so you'll see
7:40that body battery throughout the day
7:42body battery is think of it well just
7:44like it says your body battery
7:45throughout the day you would ideally
7:47start your day relatively high in my
7:49case I started my day at 51 uh kind of
7:51so so sleep last night and then of
7:53course the day different activities will
7:55go ahead and decrease that battery and
7:56then inversely if you were to take a nap
7:58it would increase that battery uh this
8:00does support tracking of naps so you can
8:02do that if you want to uh and if we go
8:04down again you will see some of those
8:06factors in there so you can see the
8:08Sleep Factor uh that is basically if I
8:10open this up um it shows my sleep
8:13details and so on we'll get to sleeping
8:14in just a second but if I had done a
8:16workout here it would show how much that
8:18reduced uh for my body battery I haven't
8:20done a workout yet today so we're not
8:21going to see that right there uh going
8:23on back real quick here we'll go down we
8:25see our sleep information again back
8:27into kind of the health panel if you
8:29will and this is where I can open things
8:30up and see my sleep details uh so sleep
8:33score 73 for the night sleep duration 7
8:35hours and 5 minutes quality fair and
8:37calm I go down I can see my sleep phases
8:40and stages over the course of the night
8:42I don't worry too much about sleep
8:43phases and stages in terms of accuracy
8:46uh it's really hard to judge from an
8:47accuracy standpoint because the
8:48comparative technology just aren't all
8:50that accurate like in the mid 80
8:52percentile range in a best case scenario
8:55uh so instead I really focus on did it
8:57get the time I went to sleep correct and
8:58the time I woke up correct and in the
8:59case of Instinct 3 it's it's nailed all
9:01those I don't tend to have many problems
9:03anymore with gar and watches I have
9:05little kids and they wake up at all
9:06sment uh times the night and it does a
9:09really good job of tracking even if I go
9:10back to bed early in the morning at 5 or
9:126 or something like that uh for another
9:13hour or two it tracks that pretty well
9:16backing out of here uh we can see naps
9:18nap tracking there no naps today you can
9:20either manually start an appp if you
9:22want to that allows you to set an alarm
9:23um or you can just simply fall asleep
9:25and it does pretty good job of that I do
9:27find it tends to do a better job though
9:29when I'm lying down for nap tracking
9:31versus sometimes uh sitting up on a a
9:33couch or whatnot or especially like an
9:35airplane or a train doesn't seem to
9:37track the Naps as well there down below
9:39that we've got the heart rate tracking
9:42this is going to track throughout the
9:43day uh my heart rate obviously I've just
9:44taken this off so you're not going to
9:45see it there but you can see my average
9:47resting heart rate over the last 7 Days
9:50uh and of course the last few hours
9:51backing out again we've got HRV status
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10:59sponsoring this video uh hrb status is
11:01heart rate variability status
11:03essentially it's measuring uh the timing
11:05in between the heart rats uh and you
11:07know people differ a little bit on this
11:09in terms of how their HRV Trends over
11:11time for most people though a lower
11:13value like 20 or 30s uh would indicate
11:16more stress or fatigue uh versus a
11:18higher value tends to be uh more
11:20recovery and again that the scale varies
11:22so the fact that my balanced here is at
11:2450 uh could be quite different than
11:27yours yours could be something like my
11:28wife's balanced is much much higher 60
11:3170 and then one of my friends Dez of
11:33desfit is balanced just more like 30 or
11:35so so again the actual numbers aren't as
11:37important it's kind of where you vary uh
11:39but in a nutshell to get your HRV status
11:41you need essentially 19 nights of sleep
11:43first with your garmar and watch um or a
11:45gin watch and then it'll keep that data
11:47from there on out and start to kind of
11:48build out your profile within that I can
11:50look at any given night so here's last
11:52night's HRV status over the course of
11:54the night and then we go down again uh
11:56you can see the 7-Day average uh and
11:58then down again my Baseline over the
12:00last four weeks uh now there are some
12:02good scenarios where you see the
12:04difference between uh the AMOLED and the
12:06solar Edition and this is one of them
12:07right there uh this chart right there
12:10the bottom one right there does not
12:11exist on the solar Edition for whatever
12:14reason I don't really know why but it
12:15doesn't show up on solar Edition uh so
12:18that's something to keep in mind I find
12:19HRV tracking a really good General
12:21indicator especially recovering from
12:23sickness or going into sickness and so
12:25you know there are a lot of factors for
12:26HRV that will impact it so one of them
12:28is how much sleep you got of course uh
12:30fatigue jet lag drugs alcohol and drugs
12:33being both like good normal drugs you
12:35may be taking or maybe not so good drugs
12:37whatever you want to classify that as um
12:39all those things will absolutely impact
12:40your HRV status just because the number
12:42goes down doesn't necessarily mean a bad
12:45thing like if you had a really hard
12:46training session you did like a crazy uh
12:49Trek or something like that your HRV is
12:50going to plummet because your body's
12:52recovering uh so you have to know why
12:54it's actually dropping whether it's
12:55because you're not feeling well or
12:57because as you just did some hard
12:58workouts last few days days and your
12:59body needs more time to recover so
13:02backing out of there real quick we'll go
13:03back out to here here you can see of
13:05course your steps and of course across
13:07the entire day I can go down again see
13:09my day streak doing a lot more riding
13:11last week or so so we're seeing less
13:12steps this week uh and then the distance
13:14for each day going on back again go down
13:18to psox uh this is the feature I tend to
13:20leave off pulsox is your blood
13:22oxygenation levels at night but it burns
13:24the crap out of batteries especially on
13:26Garr watches and so Garr has a much
13:28higher granularity level when it comes
13:29to uh the pulse ox or blood oxygenation
13:32level compared to most of their
13:33competitors uh but that comes at the
13:35cost of a lot more battery by default it
13:37is off and I leave it off for both sleep
13:39and uh regular wear so just my my
13:42recommendation there um but that is your
13:44stats within this from a General Health
13:46standpoint there are gazillion other
13:48stats that you can do like respiration
13:49rate and you can Trend this Etc you can
13:51see this on the watch or you can see all
13:53these stats in the Garmin Connect Mobile
13:55app just like these screenshots right
13:56there and you can then Trend them over
13:58very long for the time if you want to so
14:00everything is in the grma Connect Mobile
14:02app you know people have varying
14:03opinions on that app uh but there's no
14:05app in the sports fitness world that has
14:08as much depth as the G Connect Mobile
14:10app does whether or not you find that
14:12depth a bit too deep if that makes sense
14:15um is up to you but you can customize it
14:17quite a bit now the last thing to talk
14:19about is kind of related to that which
14:20is settings uh you can change settings
14:22on the watch by just we'll Escape back
14:23to the watch face real quick so we're
14:25back to here and then we'll long hold
14:27this middle left hand button to get the
14:29settings menu and then we'll just simply
14:30go down using the lower left hand button
14:33this is where all the different settings
14:34are and just like the G mobile app there
14:36are a million settings on our Garin
14:38watch some people think there's too many
14:39settings but I think most people kind of
14:41get used to that over time you can
14:42change those settings on the watch or on
14:44the Garment Connect Mobile app that's
14:46something garment add in the last couple
14:47years and now virtually every single
14:49setting you can change on the mobile app
14:51or change on the watch it's really your
14:52choice okay so let's talk about one of
14:54my favorite features which is the
14:55flashlight I know this will sound
14:57inspector gadgy to some people and I say
14:58this all the time but it is by far my
15:01favorite feature on this watch and for a
15:02lot of people it's like a hard stop now
15:04for my wife she is hard stop she will
15:06not use a was without a flashlight
15:08anymore so the way the flashlight works
15:10on this watch is it's actually a real
15:11flashlight on the top if I were to
15:13double tap this up there you'll see the
15:14flashlight turns on I can double tap
15:16this one uh it is both a red and a white
15:18flashlight so if I were to double tap
15:20this to turn it off and then turn it
15:21back on again just so you can see the
15:22settings control menu there um you'll
15:24see the bottom I can increase this from
15:26the one red setting to four different
15:28White settings uh so you can go ahead
15:30and change the brightness level uh that
15:31way you can see it and I find this most
15:33useful obviously in dark scenarios at
15:35night but not just like hiking intense
15:37and crazy adventure things but more
15:39practical things like getting around a
15:41hotel room in the middle of the night uh
15:42as I mentioned earlier on Jumping On a
15:44Plane here and I've got like four
15:45different hotels over the next week also
15:47though in the sport modes you can have
15:49the flashlight automatically sync to
15:51your Cadence so if you're running and
15:53maybe it's a bit dark uh and you forgot
15:54a light or whatever the case is you can
15:56turn on the flashlight and have it
15:57essentially syn to your Cadence and act
15:59as a bit of a strobe light so people
16:00around you can see you you can also
16:02access the flashlight using the controls
16:03menu long hold up here uh and then go
16:06down to Flashlight right there then you
16:08got this menu to turn it on and you can
16:09go up and down here let's turn off the
16:11flashlight now and go into the sports
16:13menus so I'm just going to skate back to
16:15the uh watch face right there and then
16:17press the upper right hand button and on
16:19a Garin watch that will always get you
16:21to the sport menu uh and here is all the
16:23sports that you can choose from on the
16:25screen right now so plenty of sports to
16:27choose from right there uh you can go
16:29and pin these Sports to the top of this
16:30list if you want to uh based on what
16:32your favorites are so you can see I've
16:33pinned hike and run and bike and pool
16:35swim and Open Water Swim trailer run
16:36stand paddle board and so on but if I go
16:38on down from there I've got more options
16:40down at the very bottom the little plus
16:41I'm just going to move that one out of
16:42the way for now uh and you can see all
16:44different sports by categories Garmin
16:46typically will add sport modes over time
16:48I would expect to see more sport modes
16:50added over time uh to these watches
16:51garmin's actually added a lot to the
16:53Instinct 2 Series for example over the
16:55last couple years and I would expect the
16:57same for the Instinct 3 now going on
16:59back here I'm just going to start over
17:00again and choose the run to go into show
17:02some options so I'll tap this again to
17:04select it uh this point is going to give
17:05my daily suggested workout which today
17:07is telling me to rest which I'm good
17:09with and the reason of course it's
17:11telling me to rest is because I've had I
17:12think like four or five straight days of
17:14pretty hard trainer workouts back there
17:16uh and now it's like yo you've you've
17:18probably done a little bit too much
17:19right now uh which is fine I can also
17:21say nah I'm good with that and go to
17:23more suggestions and see what else will
17:24give me uh and it's got a base workout
17:26for tomorrow a rest day a Sprint workout
17:29and if I open that you can see this
17:30workout for running and the Sprints that
17:32it's got there uh so the way this works
17:34on a Garmin wash these daily suggested
17:36workouts is by default it's just going
17:38to try to make you stronger and stronger
17:40over time relatively straightforward and
17:42it's going to use all of your data
17:43history to do that and so it's going to
17:45give you workouts that are appropriate
17:47uh for your history based on what it
17:49knows about you thus if you've just
17:51started with the watch it's going to
17:52take a few weeks really it kind of Finds
17:54Its its uh Groove at about the 4-we
17:56marker when it's got plenty of data on
17:58your athletic history to figure things
18:00out but the second way you can do this
18:02if you put items on your Garmin Connect
18:04calendar events or races so you can go
18:06in the Garmin Connect app you can add an
18:07event or race to it just like that right
18:09there and when you do that it'll go
18:10ahead and automatically start changing
18:12your workouts either bike or run for
18:14that event it could be a marathon it
18:15could be a a bike race Etc I put it on
18:18the counter it's going to do a taper for
18:19you and you'll see the different phases
18:21or stages within that so you'll see for
18:23example your build phase and your uh
18:24kind of peaking phase and Recovery phase
18:26all within the watch it's super cool in
18:28the the suggestions it gives are very
18:30legit like it'll do a really good job of
18:32getting you ready for that race in
18:34general though it'll error slightly on
18:37the side of caution in terms of uh
18:39favoring a little bit more recovery and
18:40rest than going towards too hard and
18:43getting you injured which I think is a
18:44fair thing you can though also add a set
18:47training plan if you don't want like the
18:48nebulousness this where it'll change it
18:50automatically in the fly if you had poor
18:51sleep or you did too much yesterday
18:53whatever the case is you can do a
18:55structured set schedule or calendar uh
18:57for that race you can go in the gar app
18:59you can choose what event type you're
19:00doing and it's just going to put a whole
19:02slate of workouts on your calendar
19:04regardless of what your what's going on
19:05in your life versus with the daily
19:07suggested workouts and you put an event
19:09on your calendar it'll automatically
19:11change based on what's Happening and you
19:12can choose for example what day you're
19:14long run is or you can choose uh what
19:16days you want to skip and so on any case
19:18skipping out of this for right now we'll
19:19go back into run uh and then this is the
19:21Run screen where you can see my GPS
19:23status at the top the battery uh as well
19:25as any sensor connectivity if I had any
19:27sensors connected right now I don't so
19:29no worries about that uh versus if I
19:31were to go ahead and go into bike mode
19:32it would connect to some of those
19:33sensors back there on the bike meanwhile
19:36if I hold the left- hand button for a
19:37second we can go into the Run settings
19:39uh here you can change all of your
19:40individual run settings I open this up
19:42one more time you can change your data
19:44screens you can go down further you can
19:46add data screens you can tweak data
19:48screens so going on down to the very
19:50bottom I can choose to add a new data
19:51screen I can choose custom data and you
19:54can see the number of fields I want to
19:56put on each individual one you can have
19:58numerous different different uh data
19:59pages and then each one can have up to
20:02six data fields per page in different
20:04configurations so for example this six
20:06field one versus this six field one and
20:08you can change every single field that
20:10you put on there so I just confirm this
20:11right now I can choose data field one go
20:14through all the different data fields
20:16here uh and again there are tons and
20:17tons of different data fields to choose
20:19from covering pretty much everything you
20:21could possibly want I can also Escape
20:23back out of this back on more time and
20:25you can choose kind of more generalized
20:27data screens so for example gr Dynamics
20:29virtual partner Compass elevation music
20:32clock and then on mine already I have
20:34for example the heart rate gauge there
20:36set up I've got the map page and map in
20:38this case just simply means a a blank
20:40slate where You' have a route drawn on
20:41we'll talk about that a little bit later
20:43on I go up here again time of day uh and
20:46these are the the lap page there as well
20:48as the base page and again you can
20:50customize these back into the Run
20:51settings you can add alerts uh for
20:53example you can add a Cadence alert or
20:55distance alert or time alert a heart
20:56rate alert Pace alert uh and so on you
20:58can go down here go back one more time
21:01uh you can turn on and off the metronome
21:02if you want to try to you know be pacing
21:04your Cadence to a given uh beat you can
21:07turn on autol app by default set for one
21:09mile or one kilometer depending on
21:11whether you have metric or imperial
21:12setup or statute setup you can do auto
21:15pause Auto climb uh turn on and off
21:17running power uh have the lap key and
21:20you can broadcast your heart rate
21:21broadcasting heart rate is cool when you
21:23have a thirdparty app for example uh
21:25I've got my trainer back there and I use
21:27whift with it on an iPad this allows me
21:30to connect up to zift and broadcast my
21:32heart rate into the app exact same thing
21:34on pelaton where you want to go ahead
21:35and just have it use the optical heart
21:37rate on your wrist and then peleton can
21:38read that it does that across both amp
21:40plus as well as bluetooth smart in the
21:42next one there there's that strobe
21:43option that I mentioned earlier on so go
21:45ahead and turn on the strobe you can
21:47choose based on Cadence um or on a
21:49couple different kind of pulse types if
21:50you will and then you can say you know
21:52what I want it on only after Sunset um
21:55or off Etc so it's not something I tend
21:57to use but it's kind of need to have
21:59that feature there if you want it uh now
22:01next you got the satellite type by
22:03default it's going to use something
22:04called Auto Select uh and we're going to
22:06talk about that a little bit later on so
22:07hang tight for that one there and just
22:09remember where that's setting is for
22:10later uh beyond that you can add
22:12structure training to it uh so for
22:14example you can go ahead and add
22:16different structured workouts ones that
22:17you download from Garmin Connect as I
22:19mentioned earlier ones that you create
22:21on the Garmin Connect app like this
22:22right here or you get created from a
22:24thirdparty platform like trending Peaks
22:26or whatever it may be push to your watch
22:28those are all here you can also do a
22:30quick workout where you just simply make
22:31intervals based on time and distance and
22:33whatnot and just simply get out the door
22:35so I tend to use structure workouts
22:37downloaded uh from garment connect via
22:39training Peaks or other platforms uh but
22:41again the world's your oyster there once
22:43you're ready to actually do that workout
22:44you just go up to the top here back one
22:47more time and just simp be pressed this
22:48top right hand button uh and then you're
22:50often running quite literally uh so here
22:53you'll see your data Pages I'm going to
22:54put some on the screen right now to what
22:56it actually looks like while you're out
22:57running uh as you configure them it's
22:59really as simple as that you can always
23:01pause your workout at any point in time
23:03by pressing the upper right hand button
23:04just simply pauses it and then you can
23:06go ahead and either resume that if you
23:08want to you can save it you can also
23:09resume later let's say you're hiking or
23:11whatnot and you want to Simply pause it
23:13for the night you want one big thing
23:14over the course of multiple days you can
23:16do that um or if you're just stopping
23:18for a few hours you don't want it
23:19accidentally like bumped or ended or
23:20whatever um just hit resume later and
23:22then go back into the sport menu
23:24afterwards to resume that particular
23:25activity once youve completed your
23:27activity you hit the save button instead
23:29and you get a summary on your watch
23:30you're going to see basically your
23:32totals at the top and then all the
23:33different categories as you scroll
23:35through this list here will show you the
23:36stats for those categories uh now
23:38there's a lot of stats here but there's
23:40even more stats in the Garmin Connect
23:42app so you can open up the Garmin
23:43Connect app and you can see all those
23:45stats there you can dive into them and
23:47of course if you do have a connection to
23:48strav or trening Peaks or whatnot it'll
23:50go ahead and sync to that as well
23:52automatically within like 3 seconds it's
23:54very very quick uh and you can see those
23:56stats there again just like with the G
23:58connect a mobile app for General Health
24:00stats there is a gazillion stats here
24:02some people find it overwhelming but
24:04most find they've done a pretty good job
24:05of boiling the most important stats at
24:07the top and you can dig as deep as you'd
24:09like to to go ahead and get the rest of
24:10those stats now as I mentioned earlier
24:12one of the things that you can tweak is
24:13that satellite mode I want to mention
24:15this very quickly because it's super
24:16super interesting so if I go back here
24:18and I just open up the sport settings
24:20middle left hand button there run
24:21settings and I go down to satellite mode
24:25there we
24:26go satellites you've got a couple
24:28different modes here by default you will
24:31be in called Auto Select which garment
24:33also from a marketing standpoint called
24:34s IQ what s IQ does is it automatically
24:37uses all the satellites that you have
24:39available to you U multiband or dual
24:41frequency satellites uh when it needs it
24:44like for example up against a rock cliff
24:46or you know next to a cave or whatever
24:48the case is in hard conditions uh in
24:50buildings in you know downtown New York
24:51uh it'll use that but that of course
24:53costs more power and it reduces your
24:55battery life versus the other end you
24:57have something like GPS only which is
24:59very very basic and has an amazing
25:00battery life but the accuracy may not be
25:02quite as good in complex situations but
25:05in really easy situations like an open
25:06field or just you know very light tree
25:09cover it's going to have no problems and
25:11so it's going to automatically
25:12dynamically switch between the different
25:13modes that it needs to to give you the
25:15most battery life and it's really the
25:17only company that does that and it's a
25:18huge Hardware Advantage for Garmin
25:20something they've done in the last
25:21couple years that really helps them from
25:23an accuracy standpoint uh in battery
25:25perspective as well now why I mention
25:28this is because the default is Auto
25:30Select and it does an exceptionally good
25:32job but if you need more battery you can
25:34go down to GPS only and in my review one
25:37of the things I did was I did a bunch of
25:39workouts including a 12-hour 70 km hike
25:42uh in just a GPS only mode to see one
25:44what the battery life was like and two
25:46what the accuracy was like even into the
25:48mountains and it's really impressive and
25:50I would say for the vast majority of
25:52people unless you had a bunch of
25:53different GPS watches at the same time
25:55like I did you would never notice the
25:57difference between the GPS track
25:58now once you get into something like New
26:00York City that's a bit different because
26:03of the reflections and the way things
26:04work and you really want that multiband
26:06or dual frequency uh option there but
26:08for most scenarios you don't need that
26:10now if you did want to force it into
26:12multiband you can do all plus multiband
26:14like you see right there which does
26:16force into multiband all the time but
26:18you're going to burn a bit more battery
26:19life again here's that battery chart
26:21right there just something to think
26:22about note that you can set this on a
26:24per sport profile basis maybe some sport
26:26profiles you want it at a higher setting
26:28what not uh but you can also set it
26:29across the board for all of your
26:32workouts um unless you change it
26:33otherwise by going into settings
26:35satellites and Auto Select as my default
26:37for all profiles and I can have an
26:39individual sport profile override that
26:41okay so now we talked about the sport
26:43side of it we've completed workout we
26:44talked about satellites let's talk about
26:45some of the training readiness and
26:47trending status and trending load
26:49recovery type stats so I'm going to go
26:50back out of this back to the main menu
26:52and I'm going to go down until you see
26:53training there we go uh so opening this
26:56up I've got my training readiness
26:57training St thus uh my FTP and V2 Max
27:01and last activity so we're going to
27:03start off with my training readiness
27:05this is the one that's most applicable
27:06to everyone if you don't care about like
27:08training from a you know you know High
27:11uh performance standpoint trading
27:13Readiness is good across the board and
27:15what training readiness is essentially
27:16telling you is exactly what its name is
27:18your Readiness to train at any point in
27:20time during that day so right now see my
27:23Readiness to train is 42 out of 100 and
27:25the factors that get into that are sleep
27:28recovery time HRV status acute load in
27:30other words how much training have you
27:31done in the last seven days uh as well
27:33as sleep history and stress history the
27:36most important ones for this are really
27:38sleep um and effectively via the
27:39recovery side so if your recovery is
27:41super high and your sleep's bad it's
27:43going to tell you to chill out it gives
27:45you then the score here of 42 the
27:47interesting part though is this score
27:49for most people will slowly rise over
27:51the course of the day because your
27:53recovery time is going down so if I open
27:55this up right now my recovery time uh is
27:5816 hours remaining so as it sticks down
28:00it's basically saying hey you're closer
28:02to being ready to train uh for your next
28:05hard workout that's what recovery time
28:07is really telling you uh but it also
28:08notes that it's delayed by poor sleep
28:10and my sleep wasn't super great last
28:12night some like middle of the night kid
28:13interruptions um so it wasn't amazing
28:16thus it's delayed uh recovery because of
28:18that going on back here you can see my
28:20HRV status we talked about earlier was
28:22good my cute load is optimal right now
28:25this green range right there is called
28:26the tunnel so basically that is my
28:28normal range uh as of last a while uh
28:31generally speaking my green tunnel here
28:33is roughly between 1,000 and 2,000 but
28:36over the holiday so I'm filming this in
28:37early February and over roughly you know
28:39the holiday time period um I reduced my
28:41training load as I usually do and so my
28:44tunnel kind of reduced itself long term
28:46over the course of a 30-day period and
28:48now I'm slowly building that back up
28:49again that little dot dot dot there
28:51though is a last 7 Days uh so you can
28:53see I haven't done a workout yet today
28:55uh so my training load for today is
28:57basically the 7-Day average if you will
28:59um that right now is sitting at 879
29:02versus if I did a workout now that would
29:04pump that higher and probably just be
29:06the upper edge of that green area there
29:09uh going on down further you've got the
29:11Sleep history uh stress history and then
29:14we're back to sleep for last night so
29:16the idea with trading Readiness is that
29:17should grow over the course of the day
29:18but then if I did a workout right now
29:20that training readiness value would drop
29:22probably to the low teens because I just
29:24did a hard workout thus my Readiness to
29:26train is much lower I find in general
29:29this is a pretty good indicator of how
29:30things are going for some people the the
29:33scales aren't quite always nailed for
29:34example my wife her training readiness
29:37is always really low even when she has
29:38amazing sleep and you know her training
29:40load's exactly where she wants it it
29:42doesn't quite seem to work out but I
29:43think for me and a lot of the people
29:45it's a really interesting way of kind of
29:46balancing things uh now going on back
29:49here into this we have training status
29:51uh now think about training readiness as
29:53a day-to-day thing on are you ready to
29:55train based on all of your life factors
29:57versus is trending status is really
29:59focused just on the sport side of things
30:02uh and so it really has three core
30:04things that it cares about one is your
30:06V2 max value two is your heart rate
30:08variability and three is your acute load
30:11and the reason it cares about those
30:12three things is they act as checks and
30:13balance for each other uh meaning that
30:15if your acute load is crazy high like
30:18you're doing a training camp or
30:19something like that uh but your HRV
30:21status is showing balance mean that
30:22you're doing a good job recovering each
30:24night uh and your V2 Max isn't showing
30:26as going down then it's going to say you
30:28know what you're probably still all
30:29right uh but if your trending load
30:31spikes up really high your HRV status
30:33starts to plummet and your V2 Max starts
30:35to Flat lineer go downhill that's a sign
30:37that you're just doing too much and
30:39that's where you can get the dreaded
30:40unproductive message uh that you know
30:42has been kind of popular with Garin
30:44watches over the last couple years but
30:46that message is much much more difficult
30:47to get in 2025 2024 even 2023 uh because
30:51of the changes garment made around
30:53trading status 2.0 which is what you see
30:55here so if I go down from here you'll
30:57see those factors again a cute load like
30:59we just looked at a second ago go on
31:01back uh we have load Focus so basically
31:04all these different Focus areas or types
31:06of trending uh balanced and you can see
31:08they're pretty much in the optimal
31:09ranges right there go on back again one
31:11more time we have my V2 Max right now
31:14and then go down here again and you can
31:15see HRV status if I look at my V2 Max
31:18you can see how it's shifting over time
31:20as I ramp back up into some of my harder
31:22workouts after the holidays uh and then
31:24because this shows last four weeks or so
31:26and the idea being that your V2 Max
31:27should be either steady or increasing
31:29obviously V2 Max is not going to
31:30increase forever eventually you'll
31:32Flatline based on your genetic profile
31:34or whatnot uh so the goal isn't to go
31:36forever upwards but to at least get to
31:37kind of your uh normal steady state if
31:40you will after being well trained for a
31:41while now going up to cute load you'll
31:43notice one more kind of new thing in the
31:44Instinct 3 Series go down here you've
31:47got this we just showed about the
31:48exercise load as it's categorized per
31:50day but also here load ratio load ratio
31:52is essentially looking at how your 7-Day
31:54load other words last week's worth of
31:55load compares to the last 30 days worth
31:57of load it's really as simple as that
31:59and essentially if they were exactly the
32:01same as an average then they'd be 1.0
32:03but of course you're allowed to go a
32:04little bit higher than that cuz that's
32:05how you get uh better trained more fit
32:08Etc so you want to have the speed dis a
32:09little bit higher here so you're getting
32:11more fit over time but if you did too
32:13much if you do way too much this we
32:15compared to your Norm that's where you
32:16run the risk of injury and the inverse
32:18side if you go down there and you're
32:20just doing a fraction what you normally
32:21do then you could either be recovering
32:23or tapering for something which is a
32:25recovery status or you get to a point
32:27where you're probably just going to go
32:28ahead and start losing some of your
32:29Fitness gains so this is new in the
32:31Instinct 3 but has been around garmin's
32:33other watches for a while okay so that
32:34kind of wraps up the trending Lo bits
32:36one more thing I want to mention very
32:37quickly though is the sensor
32:38connectivity so I'm going to go back to
32:40the watch face here middle button right
32:42there and we'll go down into sensors and
32:45accessories uh this is where I can pair
32:47new sensors or connect to any sort of
32:48amp Plus or bluetooth smart sensor so
32:50I've got my bike back there uh and you
32:52can see I've got different Power meters
32:54for Different Bikes floating around here
32:56I go down I can also turn turn on and
32:58off the wrist heart rate pulse Sox
33:00Compass altimeter and so on but if I go
33:02back up here to the top I click add new
33:04and this is where I can search for
33:05sensors I can search for all sensors
33:06nearby or I can search for a certain
33:08sensor type and then pair that one
33:10sensor type so I'm just going to go back
33:12to the top here search all sensors and
33:15now it's going to look across both amp
33:16Plus and Bluetooth smart here are the
33:18sensor types it connects to uh listed at
33:20the bottom of the screen right now I'll
33:21just simply turn this on real quick wake
33:24up these two trainers and we'll get some
33:26sensors here it's bound find something
33:28back there there's there's like three
33:29power meters in each of those bikes and
33:31something's bound to show up in fact I
33:33can even turn on the radar right here
33:34that'll do the trick too okay there we
33:36go now we got some things showing up so
33:38we got a power meter we got a Speed and
33:39Cadence Sensor we got a trainer I can
33:41show Bluetooth sensors as well so you
33:43can see the drad trainer over there I've
33:45got my Quirk power meter and so on from
33:47here I can just simply save one of these
33:49just like that and now it's saved and I
33:51go back and I can see the sensor details
33:53if I go down here at the bottom back one
33:55more time down here at the bottom and
33:57it'll reconnect to this in just a second
33:59usually after it pairs it takes a couple
34:01seconds to go ahead and reconnect to it
34:03and it's as simple as that you can name
34:04sensors if you like to uh you can go
34:06ahead and disable them enable them you
34:08go configure things like the calibration
34:09if you want to or crank length for some
34:11power meters and so on and you can save
34:13multiple sensors of the same type in
34:14case you have multiple bikes like this
34:16here okay so at this point we're done
34:18from a sport standpoint but I want to
34:20talk about navigation uh and routing and
34:22then we'll get into some of the solar
34:24features garment pay and wrap things up
34:27so let's let's talk about navigation now
34:30the bad news on this watch is there's no
34:32maps and I've gone down that entire rant
34:34on my review but the fact that there's
34:35no maps on this watch so we're going to
34:37talk about what it does have which is
34:39breadcrumb style navigation that means
34:41it's going to go ahead and allow you to
34:42navigate a route it's going to give you
34:43turn by turn steps but you won't see a
34:45map behind it like you would see on a
34:47Garmin Phoenix series still it works
34:49that's what you know many watches have
34:51had for like a decade now but at this
34:53point in 2025 a lot of watches tend to
34:55have maps at this price point so it is
34:57pretty big gap in any case the way this
34:59works here I'll open up both these just
35:01for fun so I'm going to go there I'm
35:03going to open up a hike there we go
35:05choose both yep no problem and then on
35:07the hike I'm going to hold the left hand
35:08button here to find the navigation so we
35:11go down navigation we're going to open
35:13that up I'm going to go to courses there
35:16we go courses and I'm going to find my
35:18hike from the other day I think I still
35:19got it in here Chile Island does this on
35:22this one here there we go Chile Island
35:25this is about a 55k route that I did end
35:28up being 60k once I finish things up uh
35:31and I can then choose to look at the map
35:33on this and you're going to see this
35:34breadcrumb style map you'll notice in
35:36general uh the solar is a little bit
35:38slower than the AMOLED there are some
35:40cases where it's a lot slower like
35:41saving a long workout anything over an
35:44hour actually it's a lot slower to save
35:45than the AMOLED is instant the solar
35:47just takes forever there's simply
35:49different processing uh in that behind
35:51the scenes to get the battery if they
35:52need in this case I can zoom out like
35:54this I can zoom in you'll notice I zoom
35:56out here you start to see the cities
35:59there uh so this is something that is
36:00new on the Instinct 3 Series which is
36:02the addition of cities so they put City
36:05dots on here just a DOT representing the
36:07city uh in this case that city is like
36:0920 km away from me roughly it's not
36:12super useful it's not really useful at
36:14all actually uh because around where I
36:16was there there are tons of little towns
36:18there and that would have been super
36:19useful like if if I needed an emergency
36:21to get to a town and my phone was dead
36:23or whatever the case is if I could see
36:25those towns nearby that'd be great but
36:26this is like legit big cities and
36:28there's gazillion towns that are much
36:30much closer that'll been much more
36:31useful now I can zoom in and out but I
36:34can also tap this upper right hand
36:35button here and you see the little dots
36:37this allows me to then change if I want
36:38to go up or down I can tap again to go
36:42right or left this is where touchcreen
36:44would have been helpful especially on
36:46the AMOLED side I don't I don't really
36:47understand that Garmin has touch screens
36:49for both MIP and AMOLED uh it just seems
36:51like a bit of a weird Gap there any case
36:54tapping back once real quick there we go
36:57if I to doe course sorry go down to uh
36:59elevation plot here you can see the
37:01elevation plot of this particular route
37:03this is in meters this time but uh
37:05you'll see basically the duration of
37:07this the elevation plot uh and the total
37:09Ascent that I had so 1884 m in Ascent
37:12about 6,000 ft or so um and it basically
37:14started from the ocean and ended uh
37:16pretty much at the ocean I can go ahead
37:18and go back here there we go back once I
37:21can do this course right away I can also
37:23do the course in Reverse which is Handy
37:25uh in cases you just want to go
37:27backwards on something so that's an
37:29option there once I'm ready to go though
37:31I just simply choose do course just like
37:33that uh and I'll go ahead and get that
37:34course loaded up again you might see
37:36kind of the loading time side by side on
37:38this course also there's no limits
37:40anymore on course durations from a
37:42course Point standpoint used to be a
37:44very legit problem in the older Instinct
37:46series and even older Garr watches to
37:48have very short course durations Garin
37:50got rid of those limits in the instin
37:51series about 15 months or so now ago uh
37:54the key thing to do though is to get a
37:55route into Garmin Connect the plat form
37:58uh so whether that's coming from Strava
38:00kud a GPX file anything don't try to put
38:02the GPX file directly on the watch just
38:04simply import it into garma connect
38:06that's beneficial for two reasons one
38:08it'll correct any elevation uh problems
38:10with that and a lot of platforms send
38:12bad elevation even Kut I find will often
38:14send bad elevation to mountainous areas
38:16that's just not super accurate G's
38:18elevation data tends to be much much
38:20more accurate uh than Kut or even straa
38:22so it'll automatically correct that the
38:24other thing allows you to do is to add
38:25way points which I love adding way
38:26points into so waypoints I can add on
38:29garment connect I choose a point on the
38:30map I give it a a Kon I give it a name
38:34and then while I'm out they hiking it'll
38:36show in the up ahead list which
38:37basically means it tell me how far until
38:40that next Waypoint it list all my way
38:41points sequentially and how far along
38:44the trail so not as the bird flies but
38:46as the trail goes until that Waypoint
38:48when it comes to turn notifications uh
38:50the watch will automatically give you
38:51turn notification as you reach those
38:53turns pretty straightforward will
38:54basically about 50 m out while you're
38:56hiking say hey turn come coming up turn
38:57left or turn right you get a little
38:59chirp uh and you know to turn if you go
39:01off course you get an off course
39:02notification off course has roughly 50 m
39:05off course it'll give you notification
39:07but because there's no maps on this it
39:09won't route you back to the course it
39:10just simply says yo your course is over
39:12there go figure it out it's really as
39:14simple as that you also see where you
39:16are on that elevation profile over the
39:18course of the entire hike or Journey
39:20whatever it may be uh but you're not
39:21going to see per climb elevation details
39:23like you would in a phoenix series or
39:254955 or 4965 with garmin's clim Pro this
39:29is what clim Pro looks like right there
39:30it automatically subdivides every single
39:32climb and descent up and tells you how
39:34far to the top both in height as well as
39:37distance uh as well as your average
39:39gradient remaining and you know your
39:40time and all that kind of fun stuff it's
39:42like an awesome awesome software feature
39:44if you spend a lot of time in the
39:45mountains but unfortunately it is not on
39:46this watch because this watch doesn't
39:48have Maps so a bit of a bummer there
39:50otherwise from a navigation standpoint
39:52it works just fine note that the routes
39:54as you can see on this map right here if
39:56I do side by side between a Phenix and
39:57Instinct series The Instinct series will
39:59kind of truncate some of the different
40:01curves and whatnot it wasn't really an
40:02issue out in the real world in terms of
40:05having some of that data being uh
40:06reduced if you will in terms of
40:08granularity uh but just note that that
40:09is the case now one thing that's cool on
40:11the Instinct 3 is the addition of
40:13garment share so I'm going to back up a
40:14bunch of here I'm just going to go back
40:15to back to the base of the beginning
40:17here right there we go and then I'm
40:18going to open up go down into the apps
40:21list or the sports list they're kind of
40:22one and the same in the new Garmin World
40:23here and I'm going to go down into
40:25Garmin share there we go right there
40:27what garment shair allows you to do is
40:28just send routes and things like uh
40:30waypoints and workouts and courses back
40:32and forth between watches without any
40:34phone nearby that's useful because the
40:36Garmin Connect app on your phone
40:37requires internet now Garmin has another
40:39app called Garmin explore which allows
40:41you to get uh routes and whatnot from
40:44your phone into the watch without
40:46internet so that's what I basically
40:48download those Maps ahead of time into
40:50Garmin explore so I'm out hiking
40:52something comes up I need to change my
40:53mind or whatever the case is I can do
40:55that from the Garmin Explorer app but
40:56that still requires your phone but this
40:58here let's say you get to a trail head
40:59your buddies got a watch they've got a
41:01compatible garment watch so anything
41:02made in the last 2 or 3 years roughly
41:04Garin share allows you to send things
41:06back and forth so in this case this
41:08one's already set up the amlet already
41:09set up for Garin share on this right
41:11hand side I'm going to go ahead and
41:12confirm this is like a brand new watch
41:14if you will there we
41:15go okay oky does perfect now this one's
41:19ready to sa and this one's also ready to
41:21go I'm going to go down and press to
41:22share something right there I'm going to
41:24share one of my courses I'm just going
41:25to choose a course let's see what's
41:27something uh airport run home there we
41:29go and I have to share yep and now over
41:32here this one's ready to Reeve you can
41:33see select a device you're going to send
41:35it to Instinct 3 50 mm that's what this
41:37one is right there on this side here I'm
41:39going to get it in a second I'll
41:40basically say hey are you sure this is
41:42what you want to receive it's going to
41:43confirm this there we go Instinct 3 50
41:45mm they're both Instinct 3 50 mm but
41:48solar you get the point right um over
41:50there I choose to confirm this uh it'll
41:52usually confirm a key code back and
41:53forth or a pin code if you will there we
41:55go yep those two are confirmed no
41:57problem and then it'll send that over uh
42:00it doesn't take too long but of course
42:01does depend on the duration uh the file
42:04size effectively between these two
42:06things uh it is setting this via
42:07Bluetooth in the past garm had this
42:09feature on watches many many years ago
42:11and they took it away in the past it was
42:12via ant but now it's uh via Bluetooth
42:15and there we go sharing is complete uh
42:17at this point I could load this up in
42:19there I could also use father briefly it
42:21said share again if I have multiple
42:22people in the group I can share again I
42:24just wanted to kind of mention that it's
42:25a cool little feature that something
42:26that's new on the Instinct 3 okay so at
42:28this point let's talk about Garmin pay
42:30and then we'll talk about solar and wrap
42:31things up so Garmin pay is something
42:33they've added to the Instinct 3 Series
42:35is standard across the board pay
42:36essentially just NFC payments you can go
42:38ahead and load your credit card onto the
42:40watch uh and then you're good to go as I
42:42mentioned it's now standard on all
42:43Instinct three watches versus in the
42:45past it was only certain addition the
42:46way you load your card is you first
42:47double check if your bank is supportive
42:49there's roughly 1,600 Banks globally
42:51that are supported it is not just all
42:53Visa cards or all AMX cards Etc it's on
42:55a per Bank stand point so it's it's
42:58quite the lift to deal with globally but
43:00uh you know if you're in the US all the
43:02major credit card issuers are on there
43:04and if you're in other countries it's
43:05kind of hit or miss some countries is
43:06like boom we got everything some
43:07countries it's just simply nothing uh
43:09Garmin has a list on the website with
43:11every single Bank organized by country
43:13once that's done you go into the Garmin
43:15conect mobile app and you choose to add
43:17a credit card uh to Garmin pay you'll
43:20run through this it takes like 60
43:21seconds and you're done it's it's on
43:23your watch uh now to use it you will
43:25hold the upper left hand button right
43:26there for a second and you go and choose
43:28wallet right there and you're going to
43:31enter your passcode in I'm going enter
43:33it in secret then once you got the last
43:35digit here you'll see says hold near
43:38reader and it shows my credit card there
43:39and you've got what is 20 or 30 seconds
43:41to do that tapy tap as you tapy tap it
43:44turns green and youve paid for something
43:46it's it's frankly as simple as that it
43:48is not complex it works great um it does
43:50not matter what the NFC Reader is uh I
43:53have had no problems with this globally
43:55it just works just fine okay so the last
43:58thing then to talk about is solar
43:59Edition bits uh so we're going to get
44:01rid of the out one and bring over my
44:03solar friends here this guy's been warm
44:05right now he's been sit in the sun over
44:06there the entire time uh now solar as I
44:09mentioned earlier on is only on the myip
44:10based display and the solar panels Chang
44:13quite a bit on the Instinct 3 compared
44:14to the Instinct 2 the very first thing
44:16you're going to notice right away is a
44:18lack of that reddish kind of hue around
44:19the outside edge might be hard to see
44:21right there I'll put some other footage
44:22in if it's better to see there uh it is
44:24now purely black around the outside edge
44:26and much much more powerful um and so
44:29just for for kind of like understanding
44:30that these two watches have been side by
44:32side the entire day here and let's look
44:34at the solar uh gains that you've had
44:37701 Lux hours versus 517 Lux hours so
44:42almost like 50% more powerful it's
44:44really really powerful in terms of what
44:45it's pulling in now we're getting ahead
44:47of ourselves just slightly here though
44:48so let's back up here and we'll just
44:51stick with uh we'll just stick with one
44:53watch let make our life a little easier
44:54right so on a solver watch a couple
44:56things one this is your sun icon in the
44:58upper right hand corner there it's
45:00divided up into I believe 10 chunks uh
45:02each chunk represents how much solar
45:03intensity you're getting at that point
45:05in time put it in the sun it's going to
45:07go ahead and show more solar intensity
45:09take it out of the sun it's not going to
45:10show anything like right now there's no
45:11chunks when it's in full brightness Sun
45:13it'll be completely illuminated and say
45:15hey it's it's now full brightness you
45:16can also see I've configured over there
45:18to show my solar gains low on the top
45:20right there now if I go down in this you
45:22can see that same little solar uh chart
45:24right there over the course of the day
45:25actually last 6 hours precise and here
45:27is the last 6 hours uh the clouds are
45:29starting to come in kind of behind me
45:31here and so the sun gains are going down
45:33slightly still 7001 hours slux hours is
45:36a lot of solar uh for this day I'm sure
45:39this has gone up probably 20 25% in
45:41battery capacity over the course of the
45:43day so it's just been just sitting there
45:45the entire day certainly if you're
45:46wearing though you're not going to quite
45:48get as much um but I go into all of
45:50those solar gains in my review in terms
45:52of what that looks like but in short in
45:54some scenarios I was burning less than
45:561% battery um over the course of 3 hours
45:59of riding outside in a sun where is only
46:01covered like 30% of the time so because
46:03I was do a triangle and whatnot wasn't
46:05getting a ton of solar uh but my battery
46:08was just really really good in that GPS
46:10only configuration you can go down from
46:11here and you can see uh my daily average
46:13you can see I just shy of 400 ,000 Lux
46:16hours per day which is pretty strong
46:18it's just been sitting out there every
46:19day for fun in the sun just see what it
46:20looks like in case of the Instinct 3
46:22it's got more categories now that have
46:24that unlimited power option uh based on
46:26how much Sun that you get and of course
46:28Garin sets a minimum there roughly 3
46:30hours per day of sun it doesn't take
46:32Like Crazy Summer Sun like putting it at
46:34the whole time just you'll get those Lux
46:36hours and just day-to-day uses without
46:37any problem if it's a sunny day of
46:39course where it becomes even more
46:40interesting is if you're not really
46:42using GPS but just want to use it as a
46:44smartwatch you can easily do that in a
46:46sunnier environment and have unlimited
46:48power no problems now in the past G
46:50would actually show you anlimited
46:51battery icon here's a picture of it
46:53right there on the 2x uh but that
46:54doesn't seem to be working as of this
46:56moment on the Instinct 3 I suspect I'll
46:58get that soon because I've had more than
47:00enough battery to be in limited power
47:02but hasn't quite happened yet but anyway
47:04it's kind of a cool little thing to see
47:05in watch when you've like unlocked that
47:07achievement speaking of unlocking
47:09achievements that is it you have got to
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