Instinct 3
- Fear nothing metal-reinforced bezel
- Take charge - unlimited battery life with solar charging
- Be you. Know you - 24/7 health and wellness monitoring
- Light it up - built-in flashlight
- Boldly go - multi-band GPS with SatIQ technology
Follow Yours
Instinct 3 is the rugged GPS smartwatch that's designed to be worn through anything. Follow yours, wherever the adventure leads.
- Unlimited battery in smartwatch mode with solar charging
- Detailed health and wellness features
- Smart notifications
- Built-in flashlight
- Rugged design
- Multi-band GPS with SatIQ technology
What You'll Love
Solar charging
Get unlimited battery life in smartwatch mode with solar charging.
Rugged Design
Explore confidently with a rugged design, including a 0.9-inch display, 45 mm metal-reinforced bezel and scratch-resistant display.
Built-in Flashlight
See and be seen with a built-in flashlight, featuring variable intensities and an alternate red light.
24/7 health and wellness monitoring
Make bold moves with health monitoring features, including heart rate, advanced sleep monitoring, Pulse Ox3 and more.
Smart Notifications
Receive emails, texts and alerts on your watch when paired with your compatible Apple or Android smartphone.
Multi-band GPS with SatiQ
Navigate confidently with multi-band GPS, featuring SatIQ technology, which delivers superior positioning while optimising battery life.
Go Boldly
Health and Wellness
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Daily movements - Keep tabs on your daily steps, calories burned, floors climbed and more from your wrist
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Hrv status - Gain a deeper understanding of your overall health through heart rate variability while you sleep
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Wrist-based heart rate - Instinct 3 tracks your heart rate, so you can stay in the know all day and night
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Stress tracking - Find out if you’re having a calm, balanced or stressful day
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Morning report - Receive an overview of your sleep, recovery, daily calendar, HRV status and more as soon as you wake up. You can even customise your report to show what you want to see on this fitness smartwatch
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Health snapshot - Log a 2-minute session to record key health stats, then generate a report to share with your healthcare provider
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Pulse Ox sensor - Track your blood oxygen saturation while you’re awake or asleep
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Mindful breathing - Start a breathwork activity to track your stress and respiration
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Respiration - See how you’re breathing throughout the day and night
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Hydration - Log your daily fluid intake as a reminder to stay hydrated
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Fitness age - Estimate how fit you are compared to your actual age
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Nap detection - Automatically track or log your naps to see how they benefit your body and the ideal time and duration they should be
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Women’s health tracking - Track your menstrual cycle or pregnancy to get exercise and nutrition education
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Breathing variations - For a closer glimpse of your health, the breathing variations feature helps you understand shifts in your breathing patterns as you sleep These shifts could be related to environment, alcohol, or potential sleep disorders such as sleep apnea
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Lifestyle logging - Log behaviours such as caffeine and alcohol intake and view reports on how they impact your health in the Garmin Connect app
Activity Tracking
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Built-in sports apps - Track activities, including cycling, open-water swimming, strength training and more
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Garmin coach - Train for an event, achieve a milestone, or improve your fitness with Garmin Coach training plans for runners and cyclists
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Workout creation - Create step-by-step workouts from more than 1,600 exercises in the Garmin Connect app, and send them directly to your watch
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Intensity minutes - Track your moderate and vigorous activity minutes
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Vo2 max - See your current fitness level, and track changes over time to set goals, evaluate progress and more
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Altitude and heat acclimation - See how you’re holding up to the current elevation or heat based on your health metrics
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Hiit workouts - Track your HIIT workouts, including AMRAP, EMOM, Tabata or custom workouts
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Daily suggested workouts - View your entire week of daily suggested workouts, which adapt after every run or ride
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Recovery time - Know how long you should recover before your next high-effort workout based on your latest training
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Rucking activity - A dedicated rucking activity profile allows you to enter pack weight
Stay Connected
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Garmin Connect - See your health and fitness information, connect with friends and more in this free, zero-subscription app
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Garmin Messenger app - Communicate via two-way text messaging on your wrist
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Smart notifications - Receive emails, texts and alerts on your watch when paired with your compatible Apple or Android smartphone
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Garmin Pay contactless payments - Breeze through checkout lines or transit systems with participating providers
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Safety and tracking features - If you feel unsafe or if your watch senses that an incident occurred, your watch will send a message with your live location
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Connect IQ store - Add watch faces, data fields and apps to your paired watch
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Livetrack feature - Friends and family can follow your real-time location and view preplanned courses
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Abc sensors - Navigate your next trail with an altimeter, barometer and 3-axis electronic compass
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Garmin Share - Use this feature to easily share saved locations, courses and workouts with friends’ compatible Garmin devices
Key Features:
- Sleep Score and Insights
- Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation
- LED flashlight
- Garmin Pay
- Multi-band GPS
- Training Readiness
- Training Status
- Dual grid coordinates
- XERO Locations
- Gaming activity
- GameOn app compatible
- EU Data Act Information - Wearable and Heart Rate Monitoring (HRM) Devices
Battery life
- Smartwatch: Up to 28 days/Unlimited with solar
- Battery Saver Watch Mode: Up to 65 days/Unlimited with solar
- GPS Only: Up to 40 hours/130 hours with solar
- All Satellite Systems: Up to 28 hours/50 hours with solar
- All Satellite Systems + Multi-band: Up to 24 hours/40 hours with solar
- Max Battery GPS: Up to 100 hours/Unlimited with solar
- Expedition GPS: Up to 36 days/Unlimited with solar
Clock features
- Time/date
- GPS time sync
- Automatic daylight saving time
- Alarm clock
- Timer
- Stopwatch
- Sunrise/sunset times
Health & Wellness Monitoring
- Wrist-based heart rate (constant, every second)
- Resting heart rate
- Abnormal Heart Rate Alerts (high and low)
- Respiration Rate
- Fitness Age
- Body Battery Energy Monitor
- All-day Stress
- Relaxation reminders
- Relaxation Breathing Timer
- Breathwork
- Sleep (Advanced)
- Sleep coach
- Breathing variations
- Nap detection
- Hydration (in Garmin Connect and optional Connect IQ widget)
- Women's Health (in Garmin Connect and optional Connect IQ widget)
- Health Snapshot
Daily smart features
- Connect IQ (downloadable watch faces, data fields and apps)
- On-device Connect IQ Store
- Smart Notifications
- Text response/reject phone call with text (Android only)
- Morning report
- Calendar
- Weather forecasts
- Realtime settings sync with Garmin Connect mobile
- Battery Saver - customisable low power watch
- Controls smartphone music
- Find my phone
- Find my watch
- Compatible with Garmin Messenger app
- VIRB camera remote
- Smart trainer control
- Compatible with Garmin Connect Mobile
- Garmin Share
- Passcode
Workout and Training Plans
- Daily Suggested Workout - Running
- Daily Suggested Workout - Cycling
- Garmin Running Coach Experts
- Garmin Coach - Prebuilt Cycling Plans
- Cardio workouts
- Strength workouts
- HIIT workouts
- Yoga workouts
- Pilates workouts
Activity profiles
- Gym - Strength, HIIT, Cardio, Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor rowing, Jump Rope
- Multisport - Triathlon
- Wellness - Walking, Indoor Walking, Pilates, Yoga
- Indoor Running - Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running, Virtual running
- Outdoor running - Running, Outdoor Track Running, Trail Running, Obstacle Racing
- Outdoor recreation - Hiking, Indoor Climbing, Bouldering, Climbing, Hunting, Horseback Riding, Golfing, Disc Golf, Archery
- Cycling - Biking, Road biking, Mountain Biking, Gravel biking, Bike commuting, Bike touring, eBiking, eMountain Biking, Indoor Biking, Cyclocross, BMX
- Swim - Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming
- On the water - Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing, Kayaking, Surfing, Kiteboarding, Windsurfing, Fishing, Boating, Water Skiing, Snorkeling, Wakeboarding, Wakesurfing, Tubing, Whitewater
- Motor sports - Motorcycling, Overlanding, Motorcrossing, ATVing, Snowmobiling
- Racket sports - Tennis, Pickleball, Badminton, Squash, Table Tennis, Padel, Platform Tennis, Racquetball
- Snow & Winter - Skiing, Snowboarding, Backcountry Snowboarding, XC Classic Skiing, XC Skate Skiing, Backcountry Skiing, Ice Skating, Snowshoeing
- Sport profiles - Basketball, Volleyball, Field Hockey, Ice Hockey, Football, American Football, Lacrosse, Rugby, Ultimate Disc, Cricket, Softball, Baseball
- In the ring - Boxing, Mixed martial arts
- Other activity profiles - Tactical, Inline Skating
Safety and tracking features
- Incident Detection during select activities
- Incident detection alert on phone for wearables
- Assistance
- Live Event Sharing
Activity tracking features
- Step counter
- Move alerts (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it)
- Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal)
- Calories Burned
- Floors climbed
- Distance travelled
- Intensity minutes
- TrueUp
- Move IQ
- Garmin Connect Challenges app (optional Connect IQ app)
- Automatic rep counting
Training, planning and analysis features
- Customisable screen(s)
- Downloadable training plans
- Course guidance
- HR Zones
- HR Alerts
- HR Calories
- % HR Max
- % HRR
- Recovery Time
- Auto Max HR
- Race glance/widget
- HRV Status
- HR Broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+ to paired devices)
- Respiration Rate During Exercise (with compatible accessory)
- GPS speed and distance
- Customisable activity profiles
- Auto Pause automatic timer halt
- Interval training
- Improved interval (includes open repeats, intervals data page, rest screen and auto detection)
- Advanced workouts
- Power Modes - customisable in-activity battery settings
- HRM running pace and distance
- Auto Lap interval tracking feature
- Manual lap
- Rest timer
- Configurable lap alerts
- Heat and Altitude Acclimation
- VO2 Max (Run)
- VO2 Max (Trail Run)
- Load ratio
- Training Load
- Training load focus
- Training Effect
- Training Effect (Anaerobic)
- Primary benefit (Training Effect labels)
- Workout benefit
- Customisable alerts
- Voice alerts
- Multisport auto transition
- Finish time
- Virtual partner
- Race an activity
- Multi-sport
- Touch and/or button lock
- Shortcuts
- Auto scroll
- Activity history on watch
- Physio TrueUp
- Unified Training Status
Running features
- GPS-based distance, time and pace
- Running dynamics
- Vertical oscillation and ratio
- Ground contact time and balance (GCT balance with accessory)
- Stride length (real time)
- Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute)
- Running power
- Grade-adjusted pace
- Performance condition
- Lactate threshold (with compatible accessory)
- PacePro Pacing Strategies
- Run workouts
- Trail run auto climb
- Race predictor
- Foot pod capable
- Run/Walk/Stand detection
Golfing features
- Yardage to F/M/B (distance to front, middle and back of green)
- Yardage to layups/doglegs
- Measures shot distance (calculates exact yardage for shots from anywhere on course) Manual
- Digital scorecard
- Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit)
- Garmin AutoShot
- Auto CourseView updates
- Green View with manual pin position
- Hazards and course targets
- Round timer/odometer
- Automatic club tracking compatible (requires accessory)
- Pairs with Garmin Golf app
- Tournament legal
Outdoor recreation
- Point-to-point navigation
- Bread crumbtrail in real time
- Back to start
- TracBack
- UltraTrac mode
- Reference Point
- Elevation profile
- Distance to destination
- Barometric trend indicator with storm alert
- Vertical speed
- Total ascent/descent
- Future elevation plot
- GPS coordinates
- Sight 'N Go
- Area calculation
- Projected waypoint
- Sun and moon information
- Expedition GPS Activity
- Tides
- Tides Glance
Cycling features
- Courses
- Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor)
- Race an activity
- Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories)
- FTP (Functional Threshold Power)
- MTB Grit & Flow
- Advanced cycling dynamics
- Compatible with Vector and Rally (power meters)
- Compatible with Varia Vision (head-mounted display)
- Compatible with Varia radar (rear-facing radar)
- Compatible with Varia lights
- Speed and cadence sensor support (w/sensor)
- Power meter compatible
Swimming features
- Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories)
- Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories)
- Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only)
- Drill logging (pool swim only)
- Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only)
- "Repeat on" rest timer (pool swim only)
- Auto rest (pool swim only)
- Time and distance alerts
- Countdown start
- Pool swim workouts
- Underwater wrist-based heart rate
- Heart rate from external HRM (real-time during rests, interval and session stats during rests, and automatic heart rate download post-swim)
Box Contains:
- Instinct 3 – 45 mm, Solar smartwatch with silicone band
- Charging/data cable
- Documentation
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