Garmin Connect is continuously updated with bug fixes, improvements and new features.
May 2013
Training Plans
We've added new flexibility to Garmin Connect training plans, so you can adjust them to fit your busy lifestyle. You can now add, delete and edit workouts within a training plan, and you can drag and drop a workout onto a different day. For example, if you're sick on Tuesday, it's easy to delete or move the workout. Or, you can adjust a 5-mile run into a 4-miler, so you can run with a friend.
Whether it's time to prepare for your next race or improve your general fitness, our full selection of training plans will help get you ready.
April 2013
Calendar
If you haven't used your Garmin Connect calendar for a while, it's time to take a second look. We've completely revamped it and added a ton of features. The calendar is a great place to plan your workouts. You can now drag and drop; see your weekly, monthly or yearly totals by activity type; color code your activities, training plans, goals and events; and so much more. If you're a member of a group with a group calendar, you can show or hide that on your own calendar, too.
Groups
While groups have existed for several weeks now, we've got some neat improvements. There's now a calendar at the top of your group's page, so you can see what's coming up. Group administrators can schedule activities that will show up on member calendars. Plus, admins can add courses for the whole group to schedule, save and send to their devices.
We have a few group tips, too.
When you join a group or start making connections, be sure to adjust your activity and profile privacy settings. If all your activities are set to Private, they won't show up anywhere.
Comments you make in a group, stay in a group. This means if a fellow group member uses the group page to tease you about bonking on yesterday's long ride, your connections who aren't in the group can't see it.
Group admins can choose which type of activities to display on the group page. For example, a running group might choose to show only running activities. So, your cycling and swimming activities would not display on that group page.
March 2013
OpenStreetMap
Garmin Connect users have different mapping preferences, so we like to give you choices. Now, in addition to Google and Bing, you can choose OpenStreetMap to view an activity or create a course. OpenStreetMap is an open source map where the public provides all the data. When you create new courses using OpenStreetMap the data will be anonymously available to the public. Your personal information is not shared.
Heat Maps
Runners and cyclists frequently ask us where they can find the most popular places for their workouts. Our new heat map feature is a color-coded map overlay created from Garmin Connect activity. It shows you the most popular workout hot spots in a city. Besides being cool to look at, heat maps can help you find a new spot to work out, create a new course, or suggest a good place to meet up with friends.
The heat map feature is available by selecting the layers icon in the top left corner of a map when you're exploring courses and activities or creating a new course. Heat maps are currently available for the most-active U.S. cities, but we will be rolling out new cities throughout the year.
February 2013
Groups
For many of us, the best way to make the miles go faster is to train with friends. Now you and your training partners can create your very own space to post announcements, see each other's activities and view courses. If you choose to make the group public, other Garmin Connect users can see it and join in the fun, too.
January 2013
Training Plans
Success begins with a plan. And, when you use Garmin Connect training plans online, you'll be able to track your progress and celebrate your milestones like never before.
Look through the available plans in the Explore tab, then choose the one that fits best. Your training plan workouts will be added to your calendar with easy-to-follow steps that get you ready for race day. You can even send the workouts directly to your device for real-time coaching as you run.
Sign in to your free Garmin Connect account to view the available plans for 5Ks, half marathons and marathons. We're partnering with professional coaches and adding more plans all the time.
December 2012
Have Your Say
Whether you offer words of encouragement or talk a little smack, you can now post comments on your friends' activities. Just make a Connection with the person, and then have your say.
September 2012
Making Connections
Your personal training log is getting a little more social! Now you can connect with friends, so they can easily see a feed of your activities and you can see theirs. As always, you control which activities show and who can see them.
July 2012
Profile Pages
Now it's easier than ever to share your stats and find what your friends are doing on Garmin Connect. Our new profile pages allow you to showcase your activities, your picture and a host of personal information like goals, location and age group. You always have control over what appears on your profile page and who sees it. Email your profile to friends and family or share it on social sites, too.
Calendar Events
Have an upcoming target race? Mark it on your calendar and display it on your profile.
Cycling Personal Records
We've expanded our Personal Records feature to cycling. Now you can easily track and display your personal best efforts for most elevation gained, your farthest ride and your fastest 40 km.
June 2012
Personal Records
Let Connect keep track of your personal best races. When you run one of the predetermined personal record distances, and it's the fastest time you've uploaded for that distance, it's a PR! Connect will automatically identify and store your fastest running times for these distances: 5 km, 10 km, Half Marathon and Marathon.
February 2012
Power
Connect is loading up on new features to support the upcoming Vector pedal-based power meter. The new Maximum Average Power feature allows you to toggle between different time segments to find your most powerful push. Additional power metrics help you understand the dynamics of your ride like never before.
Expandable Graphs
Now you can enlarge every graph in Connect, zooming in to study your workout data in more detail. It's great for long workouts or complicated graphs.
November 2011
Lap Swimming
With Garmin's new Forerunner 910XT multisport training product you can now automatically capture data about your pool swimming workouts and visualize that information in Connect. With these new tools you will be able to easily view your swim lengths, stroke types, length and interval times, and SWOLF and efficiency metrics.
Favorites
Now mark your favorite Activities, perhaps your personal records, your gutsiest races or just your key workouts, so you can more easily retrieve them to relive or share them whenever you want to.
August 2011
Workout Creation
Design your interval workouts easily and quickly exactly the way you want them. Define warmups and cooldowns, intervals and recovery periods. Save workouts and add them to your Connect calendar or send them to your workout-supporting Garmin device.
Course Creation
Plan a course from scratch or build a course using the map data from your past activities. Courses let you group activities for easier comparison. You can modify the path of a course and set a pace or speed target. If your device supports Virtual Partner, you can send the course to your device.
Goals Improvements
You can now create annual goals to track your longer term progress. Also, for any goal, you can specify any start date you want as long as the end date is in the future.
December 2010
Add notes to the Calendar
Now you will be able to add notes to your calendar to record your thoughts about a particular day. Perhaps you missed your ride because there was bad weather or your run because you were sick. Use these notes as your own fitness journal or just to record how you felt that day. It's up to you.
Compare Activities side by side
Select two to four activities and get a closer look at all their stats side by side. Compare this year's big race to the one from last year and the year before!
November 2010
Bing Maps.
We have integrated Bing maps with Garmin Connect.
Health Page Improvements
We are continuing to make improvements to the health page. With this release you can delete a previous weight entry and we have fixed some bugs with creating manual weight inputs from the Calendar page. Also this release allows users with compatible Tanita wireless devices the ability to upload just weight data.
October 2010
We made some major improvements to our storage and retrieval of activities you've uploaded. Based on these improvements, some users may see changes to old data. Some examples of changes you may see include:
Addition of moving time for old activities.
Average pace/speed corrections.
Elevation corrections.
New Fitness Devices
Edge 800
Forerunner 210
Forerunner 410
March 2010
New Details Page
Revamped Details page to show more data, charts and new features.
Edit Summary Data
Edit summary data provided by devices or manual entries.
Elevation Corrections
Improved elevation corrections for devices without a barometric altimeter with the option to toggle between elevation reported by device and corrected elevation.
Time/Moving Time/Elapsed Time
Breaking down Time and Speed/Pace based on recorded time, moving time and elapsed time on the Details page.
Speed Metrics Toggle
Easily switch between Speed and Pace metrics on the Details page.
Heart Rate and Power Metrics Toggle
Easily switch between BPM - % Max - Zones for Heart Rate metrics and Watts - Zones for Power metrics on the Details page.
Embedded Details Widget
Get widget code for a specific activity to add to a blog or website.
Explore Improvements
Improved the User Interface of the Explore page. Added RSS feeds based on search results.
December 2009
Edge 500 Support
Support for the Edge 500, including Temperature data and charts recorded by the device.
GPX Support
Upload data from Garmin outdoor handhelds and other manufacturers that support the .gpx file format.
Google Earth View
View activity in 3-D directly from the Details page using Google Earth Plugin.
Calendar Improvements
View Goals and Weight on Calendar page.
Multisport Improvements
Support for transitions.
Language Support
Added 6 more languages:
- Croatian
- Finnish
- Greek
- Hungarian
- Japanese
- Slovak
August 2009
Calendar
View your activities in calendar format. View quick stats, maps and reports right from your calendar page.
Manual Entry of Activities
Enter activities that were not recorded by a Garmin device and get credit for all of your workouts.
Access a more powerful, customizable and sortable activities table with bulk editing capabilities.
Improved Reports
Access more powerful, customizable and sortable reports based on aggregate stats.
Heart Rate Zones by Sport
Customize Heart Rate zones by sport mode on Garmin Connect and update compatible devices.
Power Zones
Customize Power zones on Garmin Connect and update compatible devices.
Export to Google Earth
View activities in Google Earth.
RSS Feeds by Username
Subscribe to new public activities posted by Garmin Connect users via RSS.
Localization
Garmin Connect will be available in 14 languages:
- English
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- French
- German
- Italian
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Slovenian
- Spanish
- Swedish
March 4, 2009
Search Activities
Search for public activities posted by Garmin Connect customers.
Laps Splits
Display a more robust splits table from laps created by device.
Match Sport Mode on Device
Automatically categorize activity type based on the sport mode used on device.
Send Courses to Device
Send a course file from an activity at Garmin Connect to a compatible Garmin fitness device for navigation and Virtual Partner training.
Export .TCX Files
Export individual activities at Garmin Connect to third-party software and websites.
November 12, 2008
Player
Replay activity using media controls in association with corresponding maps, charts and data.
Photos and Wikipedia on Maps
Choose to view Panoramio photos and Wikipedia entries in relation to activities on the map of the Details page.
Quick Edit
Make easy edits on the Dashboard page.
October 23, 2008
Improved Charts
Cleaned up charts on Details page to be more accurate and readable.
Firmware Notifications
Introduced automatic notifications on the Dashboard if firmware on your Garmin device is out of date.
September 18, 2008
Dashboard
New design with improved performance and reliability.
Settings
Heart rate zones are calculated using heart rate reserve which incorporates your resting heart rate. Forerunner 405 users can personalize and send their heart rate zones to their device.
August 20, 2008
Power
View Power metrics collected by the Edge 705 and third-party ANT+Sport-enabled power meters.
Performance improvements
The site will be faster across the board.
May 21, 2008
Goals
Create and track fitness goals. Update goals on Forerunner 405.
Pace
View pace (min/mi or min/km) instead of speed (mph or kph) for running activities.
Automatic Sign In
Have the site remember your username and password and automatically log you in to Garmin Connect.
April 9, 2008
Support for Garmin Forerunner 405
Upload, view, and share activities tracked with the Garmin Forerunner 405.
February 19, 2008
Support for Garmin Edge 605/705
Upload, view, and share activities tracked with the Garmin Edge 605 and 705.
Maps
Garmin Connect will automatically provide a map of the activity tracked with your Garmin GPS device.
Public Activities
Share activities tracked with your Garmin fitness device.
November 28, 2007
Heart Rate Preferences
Choose to view heart rate data as beats per minute, % max or heart rate zones. Establish max. heart rate and heart zones on the Settings page.
Reports
Retrieve aggregate totals and averages of your workouts. The next set of reports will be: Progress, Grouped By Date, and Distribution.
Customized Activities table
Rearrange columns and choose the number of activities to display.
October 10, 2007
Site launch
Garmin Connect opens its doors to Forerunner 50 customers. Garmin Connect will expand to other Garmin fitness and recreation products in late 2007/early 2008.
Automatic uploads from Garmin ANT Agent™
Forerunner 50 users can passively upload to Garmin Connect by walking near their computer where the ANT Agent is installed. Upload takes less than one minute and workout data awaits customer on their next visit to the Garmin Connect website.
Customized Activities table
Rearrange columns and choose the number of activities to display.
Inline editing
Edit the name, activity/event type and comments for your activities by double-clicking on the field you wish to change. Inline editing is available on the Activities and Details page.
Interactive charts
Detailed data is displayed whenever the mouse is hovered over a specific location on a chart.