- Garmin Connect Rundown is the wearable company’s attempt to review the year Spotify Wrapped style
- It has all your health and fitness statistics and trends for the year.
- The Rundown is also behind a Connect+ paywall
This is the time of year when all internet services publish summaries of their activities on the platform over the past year. The most famous, of course, is Spotify Wrapped, which (at the time of writing) we hope to launch very soon. You can check out our live Spotify Wrapped coverage about it, but it’s not the only game in town.
Apple abandoned its Apple Music Replay, Strava’s sports year is coming next week, and Garmin is the latest service to jump on the bandwagon, but there’s a problem.
Users of the best Garmin watches, regardless of whether they wear a slim Garmin Vivoactive 6 or a monstrous 51mm Garmin Fenix 8, accumulate a huge amount of data about their sleep, recovery and training habits, from their heart rate to their Fitness Age (the age at which Garmin believes your cardiovascular system is functioning, compared to your actual biological age).
Know the routes you’ve ridden, the total distance you’ve run, swam or biked, how many waves you’ve surfed and how much weight you’ve lifted. All of that is raw material for a Wrapped-style feature.
Unfortunately, Garmin Connect Rundown, a “personalized annual report that includes 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-tier users.
The disastrous first year of Connect+
Regular readers and Garmin users may remember Connect+ and its disastrous launch in March, in which Garmin users threw up their hands and complained on Reddit, TikTok,
While a Wrapped-style year in review isn’t an essential feature, but rather a nice-to-have, it’s an example of this gradual shift happening and how Garmin is trying to bring existing users to Connect+.
(If you’re signed up for Connect+ and getting the Garmin Connect Rundown information, let me know in the comments below and let us know how it went!)
However, Garmin has also provided us with some general statistics about its 2025 user base, which are quite 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 that’s the meteoric rise of pickleball and paddle tennis).
- Women had lower average stress scores than men
- Garmin users slept 1% better this year on average
- Garmin users in Hong Kong took the most average steps per day, with more than 10,000
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