GARMIN unveils the newest health wristband “vivosmart 3”, an ultimate health gadget that signals users to stay active and away from Office Syndrome.
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GIS Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of CDG Group and the authorized distributor of Garmin brand products in Thailand, announces the launch of vivosmart 3, the newest model of waterproof health wristband that adds more functions for health and lifestyle. The product aims to response particularly to those who have active lifestyle but spend most of the time sitting in the office by giving them a signal to watch over any health hazards, especially Office Syndrome that gradually occur at this time. “vivosmart 3”, healthcare personal assistant will make the exercise easy to track and provide an effective result with full-fledged functions. It also encourages users to fall into exercise even more with its brand new features that assess the physical fitness through 24-hrs heart rate tracking program, measure the stress level and evaluate the exercise effectiveness with VO2 Max, Fitness Age and Strength Training modes to make every moment of life more valuable and fitter than ever.
Krairop Luanguthai, General Manager, GIS Co., Ltd. stated that with the current situation where global customers consume more gadgets in lifestyle, fitness and outdoor segments to help improve potential and health care, this trend is likely to grow further. Thailand has no exceptions, as the trend of health and sport gadget such as smart wristband continues to gain more popularity. The design is created based on new generation’s particular preference and lifestyle, and meet a specific need of consumer in different groups, which makes it more interesting. This type of smart wristband offers full-fledged functions beyond expectations that give an accurate update, including the calculation of the activities and the evaluation of exercise result. It can be foreseen that a tendency for those who are interested in sports and are aware of the importance of health care will be more in numbers. However, there are also other people who may not like to exercise or rarely move their body, probably because of these factors such as work type that require sitting for a long time, limited time to exercise and other possible reasons, resulting in an experience of new disease called Office Syndrome.
Phattarapon Atimetin, M.D. Specialty: Rehabilitation Medicine, Samitivej Sukhumvit Hospital explains that expected numbers of patients having office syndrome continues to rise. In Thailand, about 4-5 million people are struggling with muscle, bone and neuron pain. These symptoms relate to Office Syndrome and over 60% of them have been suffering for long time. Mostly, this chronicle symptoms occur because the same body parts has been used for the same activity but with the wrong postures for a long time. Most importantly, they don’t have enough exercise thus the entire muscles are not strong enough to continue working in the long run.
“What should be done most? The symptoms can be prevented by exercising regularly. For beginners, they should start with a light exercise and gradually add proportion into it. For those who already have office syndrome, they should focus more on developing the muscles that have been used regularly on daily activity to make them stronger. This includes various type of aerobic exercises such as jogging, riding a bicycle or swimming. These activities help increasing the whole body’s fitness. It is important to exercise at least 150 minutes per week, and of course, having a strong inspiration to encourage yourself or setting a concrete goal to achieve can help to continue exercise and avoid further damage from Office Syndrome”.
vivosmart 3 is Garmin’s newest model in health wristband categories. Key functions of this model includes the notification that alerts user to stay active during the day and 24-hrs fitness monitoring tools that encourage them to maintain daily exercise, giving a great result in preventing all related Office Syndrome symptoms. This product is well designed and is compatible to everyone’s lifestyle with modern design, lightweight and comfortable to wear all day. It weighs only 20.4-21.5 grams, with two sizes — S / M, 122-189 millimeters. The product comes in three classic style colors — Black (rose gold lock), purple (rose gold lock) and blue (silver lock). Size L, 148-215 millimeters comes in black (silver lock), with battery life up to five days and five ATM waterproof or equivalent to a depth of 50 meters.
vivosmart 3 features a hidden display that allows user to choose when the screen should be appeared. When it is connected to a smartphone, notification can be displayed in Thai. The features contains all basic functions which includes a movement tracker such as number of steps, amount of energy consumed, number of consecutive exercising hours of and sleep efficiency measurement throughout the night, This includes a 24-hour direct wrist-rate sensor where you can also send heart rate data to other Garmin devices such as the EDGE Series. Record and share online with Garmin Connect. New features help users to monitor, measure and evaluate their fitness with the Fitness monitoring function. It also has the ability to measure VO2 Max, which displays the fitness ratio of the user measured by oxygen levels during exercise. There are the Fitness Age measurement that monitor the fitness of the users in comparison with their actual age and the Strength Training mode that accurately counts the numbers of exercise, the set and the rest times of the wearer.
Moreover, vivosmart 3 can also monitor stress level with the All-day stress level monitoring function, including breath training function. Additionally, it includes a Move IQ feature that automatically records activity based on each type of sport such as walking, jogging, riding a bicycle or swimming and display result in Garmin Connect™.
The basic features and exclusive new functions packed in vivosmart 3 make it like a personal assistant that helps enhancing the users’ fitness. It also stimulates and creates exercise habits for all ages and let them enjoy exercise, especially for those who want to change their lifestyle to be more active. Price at 5,990 baht. vivosmart 3 will be available for sale nationwide on June 13th at Garmin dealers. For more information, please contact 02 266 9944 or see the details via www.alive.store.
