These days, we have enough things to charge, so how about having one less? Outfitted with the same solar panel as the top-tier Fenix 8 Solar, the Instinct 3 Solar has the potential to run forever. No more charging means you have more time to get out and make the most of the watch’s 100+ sport modes. Cover more ground while the powerful multi-GNSS GPS provides information about your speed, distance, and location. Internal accelerometers and the barometric altimeter track your movements and elevation changes, recording metrics such as reps lifted and floors climbed. The onboard optical heart rate monitor shows how your body is responding to your current activity and recovering from your previous one. On days when you want to train but don’t have a workout in mind, the Morning Report is there to help. Each morning, you receive a summary of your sleep quality, recovery level, training readiness, and a personalized daily workout. When you need extra information or motivation, the free Garmin Connect app lets you download training plans, review activities, track real-time weather, receive notifications, and much more. There’s even a white and red flashlight, making dropped keys and late-night bathroom breaks easier to navigate.

Power Glass™ solar panel lets you go longer between charges, from 16 hours longer, to potentially never needing to charge your watch again – runtime is feature dependent
Sun gauge displays solar charge, solar lux hours, and daily sun exposure
Multi-band signal reception and expanded GNSS support (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS and IRNSS) provide faster and more accurate positioning and elevation data
SatIQ™ matches your environment with the right GPS mode; flat land gets a low power signal, head into the mountains and your signal is boosted
Garmin Share sends routes to other Garmin users.
Tilt compensated 3-axis electronic compass shows your heading even when you are stationary
Barometric altimeter tracks ascents, descents and total elevation changes
Multisport mode lets you transition between different activities within a single workout
Morning report summarizes sleep quality, recovery level, training effects, and provides a personalized daily workout
Training readiness, training status, and training load modes use your training history to let you know how ready your body is to train, and if you are overtraining, under-training, or on the right path
Elevate™ 4.0 optical heart rate monitor has more sensors for precise Pulse Ox data, and even works while swimming
Heart rate variability (HRV) monitoring helps predict recovery
Physiological data: VO2 max, performance indicator and recovery advisor that takes altitude and temperature into consideration
Body Battery™ tracks daily energy levels, monitoring what drains your energy (exercise) and recharges your energy (rest, food)
Fitness age takes your activity level, heart rate and BMI into account to let you know if you are performance matches your age.
Running dynamics info right off your wrist, providing running power, cadence, stride length, vertical oscillation, and vertical ratio
100+ built-in activity modes for multisport, hiking, biking, running, strength training (with rep counter), HIIT workouts, walking, swimming, triathlon, golf, yoga, climbing and more
Pre-loaded and customizable workouts, you can even race past activities
TracBack® mode navigates you safely back to where you started
Course navigation, via created or downloaded courses
Breadcrumb trails track your trek, navigate you to a saved location or entered coordinate (there are no maps for routing)
LiveTrack™, share your location and fitness data during activities (through paired phone)
Broadcast of your HR over ANT+
Garmin Pay™, make payments with your watch (if supported by your bank)
Sleep coach uses your sleep data to calculate how much sleep you need and offers tips on how to improve your sleep
Sleep tracking both at night and while napping, monitoring total sleep time, periods of movement, and restful sleep
Smart wake mode acts as a natural alarm clock, easing you out of sleep in between periods of deep sleep
24/7 activity tracking
Smart notifications (emails, texts, alerts and more) come in via Bluetooth connection to your phone
Counts flights of stairs with internal barometric altimeter data combined with step data
Incident detection uses sensors to detect accidents.
Automatically sync data to the free Connect™ app
Connects with ANT+ and Bluetooth Smart sensors, from power meters to speed and cadence pods
LED flashlight with red, white and flashing modes, you can even customize the flash to match your running cadence
In the box: Instinct 3 Solar, charging/data cable and documentation

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