Garmin Challenges and Badges

Here we are on the last day of August. This is a great time to look at what September challenges you want to tackle. But while you're at it, remember that there are other "challenges" that you don't have to join and which are not time-constrained (i.e. tied to a specific time frame). Here are a few you might want to consider:

• Rise and Grind • Record activity between 4 & 7am for 7 consecutive days
• Sleep Streak • Get a Sleep Score of 75+ for 7 consecutive days (this is not easy for me)
• Sleep Savant • Receive sleep data for 30 consecutive days
  (this is easier than Sleep Streak, because the score doesn't matter)
• Hydration Streak • Track 64 oz. of water daily for 30 consecutive days
• 30 for 30 • Record a 30-minute activity for 30 consecutive days
• Walk Streak • Walk 1 mile or more in a single activity for 30 consecutive days
• Run Streak • Run 1 mile or more in a single activity for 30 consecutive days
• Swim Streak • Swim every day for 30 consecutive days
• 10K a Day Challenge • Get 10,000 steps/day for 30 consecutive days
• 60-Day Goal Getter • Hit your daily steps goal for 60 consecutive days
  (note: this is the step goal you've set for yourself)

I try to do them all, except Run Streak and Swim Streak; most of them are pretty easy, although Sleep Streak can be a tough one.

Then there's this one:

• Challenge Champ • Win a challenge against your connections — this pertains to personal challenges you create and your connections join, or that your connections create and you join.
  • Steps — The most steps wins.
  • Running — The farthest running distance wins.
  • Cycling — The farthest cycling distance wins.
  • Swimming — The farthest swimming distance wins.

The duration of a personal challenge can be for one day, one weekend, one week, one calendar month, or a custom period defined by the challenge creator.

(All of the above "repeatable" challenges can be earned up to 250 times!)

@yirara (sorry I only today saw your post)

Not all watches support the diving activities. I have a Fenix 8 and it has a number of diving options. I'd never paid them much mind as I'm not a scuba diver. I swim a lot, and I've snorkeled on a few vacations, but that's about it. But I came across the Take a Deep Breath badge while perusing the available badges and was intrigued. I'm fairly ignorant of the many options of diving activities. Here's what I've learned so far:

• I've used apnea mode only a couple times and was mystified by how it was acting. I've learned a bit now about how it records dive time, automatically ends the dive when you surface, when you need to press start repeatedly when doing multiple dives, etc. It's a learning process.
• There are numerous options for scuba divers relating to single-gas, multi-gas, and other types of diving. None of that is of interest to me. But there are also apnea mode, apnea hunt mode, and pool apnea mode. The last one is the one I'll be focusing on for now, as I'm only doing this in my gym's pool which is about 9 feet at the deep end.
• In the Pool Apnea activity settings, I selected the "static apnea discipline". This seems the most appropriate for what I'm doing, which is simply to submerge to the bottom of the pool, hold my breath for as long as I can, then resurface, breath and rest, then repeat.

Here's a couple YouTube videos that might help: