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Lots of new badges on the way - Dance Fitness, new Tacx challenge and more from the Challenge Badge Badge Challenge

Update 2023-09-27 Garmin has pulled back all the dance fitness badges from the descriptions file that I use as my source. My guess is that they were published accidently and shouldn't be known just yet. Dance Fitness - New type! This must be a new activity type coming. There are no dance types in Garmin Connect now. The new type should be available latest April 29 next year since there is a badge for the International Day of Dance 2024. That is pretty far into the future. Hopefully we can start to use it earlier. I wonder how the function with songs will work: "Record a dance fitness activity with 8 songs ". Maybe just press lap... A song is the same as a lap, round or pose for other types. Here are all known coming badges for dance fitness: Jazz Hands Record your first dance fitness activity. Shake It Record 10 dance fitness activities. In the Groove Record 25 dance fitness activities. Dance Diva Record 100 dance fitness activities. Dancing Queen Record 200 dance fitness

October 2023 - More time based challenges and lots of race badges

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Join the October challenges now in Garmin Connect. New this month: More challenges that use time as requirement. Now we got swim just as last month, but also walk, ride and run. A total of 49 hours if you want to do all 4 challenges. There are lots of overlap between the challenges and badges, so it will be easier than it looks. Three month challenges - Stage 4 Last stage for 2023 starts October 1. 2023 Running - Stage 4 Join this challenge and record 300 kilometers (186.5 miles) of running activities from October 1 to December 31 2023 Walking - Stage 4 Join this challenge and record 92 miles (148 km) of walking activities from October 1 to December 31. 2023 Cycling - Stage 4 Join this challenge and record 675 kilometers (419.5 miles) of cycling activities from October 1 to December 31. Full month challenges October Tour Join this challenge and record 400 kilometers of cycling activities in October. October Warrior Join this challenge and record a total of 4 hours of yoga activities i

September 2023 - Four (actually six) badges from the Challenge Badge Badge Challenge

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Join the September challenges very soon in Garmin Connect. New this month: The first badges from the Challenge Badge Badge Challenge and since one of them was the Ultimate badge we got an extra two. A total of six new badges. Two new challenges: 4 hours of swimming and 15 hours of walking. Three month challenges - Stage 3 Last month in stage 3 Full month challenges Marvel Avengers, Assemble! Join this Disney 100 Years of Wonder challenge and record 100 minutes of walking activities in September. Country: Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, United Kingdom, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Poland, Sweden, Slovenia, Thailand, United States September Time to Swim Join this challenge and record 4 hours of swimming activities in September. September Time to Walk Join this challenge and record 15 hours of walking activities in September. September 15K Join this challenge and record a 15-kilometer running activity in September.

The Tournament of badges - New badges will come soon!

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Update 2023-08-10 The winner is "30 for 30" and it will go live September 1. Description "Record an activity of at least 30 minutes every day for 30 consecutive days." ---- Update 2023-08-02 There has come some more info now. Check out Garmin's Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/garmin/ There is a story where you cast your vote for which badge that will win.. Link to the Story Exactly what that means is a bit unclear. Will only one of the listed badges go live? Maybe some of the other badges will come later on... Only time will tell. ---- We will very soon see a bunch of new badges that I just found out about. No idea when they will go public. Note that these badges got no time limit. Some of them will be really really hard. Swim streak will probably be the toughest for me. In general I think that the streak badges are the hardest since you can't miss a single day and life often makes you do that. Sleep Savant Receive sleep data for 30 consecutive days. S

August 2023 - GoPro Fitness HERO

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Join the August challenges now in Garmin Connect! New this month: GoPro Fitness HERO. Log 11 activities of at least one hour each. The challenge is active from August 1 to August 31. Three month challenges - Stage 3 Second month in stage 3.  Full month challenges August Walking Join this challenge and record 30 miles of walking activities in August. August Tour Join this challenge and record 400 kilometers of cycling activities in August. August Warrior Join this challenge and record a total of four hours of yoga activities in August. Active August Join this challenge and record 20 activities of at least 20 minutes each in August. August Swim Join this challenge and record 4,000 meters of swimming activities in August. August Rundown Join this challenge and record 50 miles of running activities in August. August Step Month Join this challenge and record 300,000 steps in August. August Gains Join this challenge and record a total of four hours of strength activities in August. GoPro Fit

July 2023 - Next Disney challenge and Tanabata Festival

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Join the July challenges now in Garmin Connect! New this month: The next Disney challenge is up. You need to do at least 10k steps every day for 10 consecutive days. We also got a new badge for the Tanabata festival in Japan. Three month challenges - Stage 3 2023 Running - Stage 3 Join this challenge and record 300 kilometers (186.5 miles) of running activities from July 1 to September 30. 2023 Walking - Stage 3 Join this challenge and record 91 miles (146.5 km) of walking activities from July 1 to September 30. 2023 Cycling - Stage 3 Join this challenge and record 675 kilometers (419.5 miles) of cycling activities from July 1 to September 30. Full month challenges Step into the Disney Magic Join this Disney 100 Years of Wonder challenge and record 10,000 steps a day in 10 consecutive days in July . Country: Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, United Kingdom, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Poland, Sweden, Slovenia, Th

June 2023 - Bicycle day, Environment day, Running day and Wellness day

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Join the June challenges now in Garmin Connect! There are several new badges in the beginning of June. See the list in the end the post. Three month challenges - Stage 2 Last month!  Now is the time i f you haven't completed them yet.  Full month challenges June Walking Join this challenge and record 30 miles of walking activities in June. June 15K Join this challenge and record a 15-kilometer running activity in June. June Tour Join this challenge and record 400 kilometers of cycling activities in June. June Warrior Join this challenge and record a total of four hours of yoga activities in June. Active June Join this challenge and record 20 activities of at least 20 minutes each in June. June Swim Join this challenge and record 4,000 meters of swimming activities in June. June Rundown Join this challenge and record 50 miles of running activities in June. June Step Month Join this challenge and record 300,000 steps in June. June Gains Join this challenge and record a total of four

How to see the current count of yoga, HIIT, strength and more

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There are several badges that require that you log a number of activities of a specified type (or a sub type of that type) Zen Master - Type: Yoga Super Strength - Type: Strength Walk the Walk - Type: Walking Pilates - Type: Pilates HIIT - Type: HIIT Deep Breathing - Type: Breathwork There are also several dive badges - Type: Diving Garmin do not show you how many of each you have logged so you can't follow your progress. You will just get the badges when you reach the required number of activites. There are ways to keep track. Progress Summary Report Use the Progress Summary report:  https://connect.garmin.com/modern/progress-summary   First you need to get the start date for the badge you want. Most of them started 2020-04-28 or 2021-06-01. Use https://garminbadges.com to find the start date. Click the badge you want and check the date. I will use HIIT 5 as the example since that is the badge I'm currently working on to get. It has been available since 2021-06-01. Go to the

May 2023 - Disney 100 Years of Wonder and cycling climb is back

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  Join the May challenges now in Garmin Connect. New in this month:  Disney 100 Years of Wonder , Complete all four Disney 100 Years of Wonder challenges.  There are four challenges. Each is a month long. Months with challenges: May, July, September and November. If you complete all four you will get a fifth Disney badge. These challenges are promotions for  Disney vívofit® jr. kids devices. If you complete one of those challenges you will get 25% off on select Disney vívofit® jr. kids devices  at Garmin.com. Three month challenges - Stage 2 Second month in Stage 2 Full month challenges Run the Star Wars Galaxy Join this Disney 100 Years of Wonder challenge and record 100 minutes of running activities in  May . Note that there are country restrictions on this badge. The list is not yet complete. Countries found so far: Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Poland, Sweden, Thailand

Garmin Badges Calendars

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This weekend I developed and launched the new Garmin Badges Calendars . Calendars are generated from the badge and challenge data in the database so you can add them to your calendar application and always stay updated with what badge or challenge to do next. There are two calendars. One for current time limited badges and one for the current challenges. Default all current challenges will be fetched, but there are options to filter the badges with two parameters. userId - Only show the challenges you have joined and still need to do. Note that you must add your data to the site for it to work.  maxduration - Only fetch challenges below or equal the max duration in days. For example if you don't want the stage 1-4 challenges to be fetched you set the limit to below 90 days, if you don't want the monthly challenges and the stage 1-4 challenges then set the limit to below 28 days. Get the URLs to the calendar files and see examples for how to use the parameters in the page Garmin