- Garmin Connect Rundown is the wearable company’s own attempt at a Spotify Wrapped-style year in review
- It contains all your health and fitness stats and trends for the year.
- The Rundown is also behind a Connect+ paywall
It’s the time of year when all internet services publish summaries of your activities on the platform over the past year. The most famous, of course, is Spotify Wrapped, which (at the time of writing) we plan to remove very soon. You can check out our Spotify Wrapped live coverage on it, but it’s not the only game in town.
Apple has discontinued its Apple Music Replay, Strava’s Year of Sports is set to arrive next week and Garmin is the latest service to jump on the bandwagon – but there’s a catch.
Users of the best Garmin watches, whether you’re using a thin Garmin Vivoactive 6 or a monstrous 51mm Garmin Fenix 8, accumulate a huge amount of data about their sleep, recovery, and training habits, from heart rate to their fitness age (the age at which Garmin thinks your cardiovascular system is functioning, relative to your actual biological age).
It knows the routes you’ve traveled, the total distance you’ve walked, swum or cycled, the number of waves you’ve surfed and the weight you’ve lifted. All of this makes for a great element of Wrapped-style functionality.
Unfortunately, the Garmin Connect Rundown, a “personalized annual report including health, performance and activity statistics, including total steps, average sleep score, totals for each activity type and more”, is only available to Garmin users who have signed up for Garmin’s premium Connect+ subscription service – although other services like Strava and Spotify also make theirs available to free users.
The disastrous first year of Connect+
Regular readers and Garmin users may remember Connect+ and its disastrous launch in March, during which Garmin users raised their hands and complained on Reddit, TikTok,
While a Wrapped-style year in review isn’t an essential feature, but rather a benefit, it is an example of this incremental change underway and Garmin’s attempt to incentivize existing users to Connect+.
(If you’re signed up for Connect+ and get your Garmin Connect Rundown information, please let me know in the comments below and tell us how you did!)
Garmin also gave us some general stats on its 2025 user base, which are pretty interesting. I have shared some of the highlights below:
- Garmin saw a 29% increase in strength training, a 45% increase in HIIT, and a 67% increase in racquet sports (I think it’s the meteoric rise of pickleball and padel)
- Women recorded lower average stress scores than men
- Garmin users slept 1% better on average this year
- Garmin users in Hong Kong average the most steps per day, with over 10,000
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