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Which health features do Garmin smartwatches have?

Roel25 JANUARY 2026
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A Garmin smartwatch tracks your health. These smart watches help you keep track of important health aspects, such as your energy level, stress level and sleep. The data you collect provides insights into how you can improve your health. In addition, the smartwatch helps you with tips to live more healthily. Discover all the health features on a Garmin smartwatch.

Body Battery: track your energy level

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Your energy level is important for your health. If you have little energy, you feel tired, listless and irritable. A Garmin smartwatch has a Body Battery function. This shows you how much energy you have left and when it’s time to take things a bit easier. The Body Battery measures your heart rate, stress, sleep and activity and gives you a score between 0 and 100. The higher your score, the more energy you have. You can check your Body Battery at any time of the day on your watch or in the Garmin Connect app.

How does a smartwatch actually work?

Heart rhythm and stress level

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A Garmin smartwatch measures your heart rate via your wrist. The smart watch uses these heart rate measurements to determine your stress level. The watch does this with a score between 1 (very low stress level) and 100 (very high stress level). On a Garmin smartwatch this function is called stress meter, but they might have been better off calling it an ‘arousal meter’. That’s because the watch also gives a high stress score if you’re excited about something or if you’ve been exercising hard. A high stress level according to a Garmin smartwatch is therefore not necessarily a bad thing. In the Garmin app you’ll find tips that help to lower your stress level.

Heart rate monitor on your wrist and chest

Sleep insight

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A good night’s sleep is perhaps the most important thing for your health. If you sleep well, you feel rested, fit and cheerful. If you sleep badly, you’re more likely to suffer from fatigue, concentration problems and mood swings. Wear your Garmin smartwatch at night and it will map out your sleeping behaviour. The watches measure your sleep duration, sleep phases and sleep quality and assign a sleep score. With these sleep insights you can adjust your sleeping habits and optimise them for better health. In the apps you’ll also find tips to sleep better and start your day feeling more rested.

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Period and pregnancy

With a Garmin smartwatch it’s also possible to track your menstruation or pregnancy. The smart wearable learns to recognise your menstrual cycle and predicts when you will menstruate or when you are most fertile that month. A Garmin smartwatch also comes in very handy during pregnancy. In the app you’ll find useful tips on, for example, how best to deal with certain pregnancy symptoms or which foods you should and shouldn’t eat.

Health Snapshot: measure your overall health

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Do you have a Garmin Venu 2 (Plus)? Then your smartwatch features Health Snapshot. This is a handy function that measures your overall health. In 2 minutes, your watch records, among other things, your breathing, stress level, heart rate rhythm and oxygen level. Based on this data, the watch knows exactly what you can do to improve your health. You’ll find these tips and recommendations in the Garmin Connect app.

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