Like every three months, Garmin will update its connected watches next month. Enough to benefit from new features such as muscle strengthening plans, lactate threshold detection or meditation monitoring.
It is at a regular pace that Garmin offers new features on its sports watches. The manufacturer puts a document online every three months allowing you to discover the upcoming functions on its different models.
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For the December 2024 update, the firm started a little early. At the end of November, it published a PDF file with the various new products to come for its entire range.
Concretely, there are five new features planned for the month of December on the American manufacturer's watches and GPS meters:
- Garmin Coach workout plans for strength training;
- improvements in training execution score;
- automatic detection of the lactate threshold;
- automatic detection of power at functional threshold (FTP);
- meditation activity.
Some of these new features had already been the subject of dedicated announcements or beta tests. This is particularly the case for training plans for bodybuilding or detecting the lactate threshold without a cardio belt. The same goes for meditation exercises which are now expanding to more Garmin watches.
However, this time it is not a beta version and the announcement of these new features for the December update means that all users will be able to benefit from them.
New features for all models
In detail, Garmin also indicates which watches will benefit from this or that new feature. In the table shared by the manufacturer, blue dots mean that the functionality will be deployed, while a black dot indicates that it is already offered.
These new features concern all Garmin watches and GPS meters, from the Vivoactive 5 to the Fenix 8, including the Forerunner 255, the Forerunner 965, the Edge 1050 or Edge Explore 2 meters.
