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Garmin Foot Pod [Retail Packaging]

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Brand	Garmin
Color	Black
Are Batteries Included	Yes
Item Dimensions LxWxH	1 x 1 x 1 inches
Map Type	Africa
Vehicle Service Type	Forerunner 910, Forerunner 405

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Attaches to shoe
Transmits distance and pace data to Garmin Forerunner 305

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Headphone for Men

Product Description

This tiny foot pod is small enough to attach to your shoelaces or fit in the mid-sole pocket of compatible shoes. It's always ready to use, and a small, replaceable watch battery powers the foot pod for a year of training. Unlike simple pedometers, this foot pod uses advanced MEMS inertial-sensor technology to analyze your movements and is responsive to stride-length changes to achieve 98 percent accuracy for speed and distance. Additionally, this sensor measures running cadence to help you optimize your training.

Compatible products for this item are:
Forerunner 210
Forerunner 305
Forerunner 310XT
Forerunner 405
Forerunner 405CX
Forerunner 410
Forerunner 50
Forerunner 610
Forerunner 910XT
FR60
FR70
Garmin ANT+ Adapter for iPhone

Product information

Product Dimensions

1 x 1 x 1 inches

Item Weight

1.6 ounces

ASIN

B00264GKVQ

Item model number

010-11092-00

Batteries

1 Lithium Metal batteries required. (included)

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1,761 ratings

4.4 out of 5 stars

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#80,919 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
#489 in Running GPS Units

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer

Other display features

Speakers

Colour

Black

Included Components

Headphone for Men

Department

Unisex-adult

Manufacturer

Garmin

Date First Available

March 12, 2003

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rocketnerd

Garmin Foot Pod works well with the Garmin Vivoactive watch

Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2016

Verified Purchase

I bought a Garmin Vivoactive watch and it works as advertised. However, it uses arm motion to count steps. I drove 300 miles over the holidays and was please to see that while sitting in my car I was credited with 11,000 steps. I purchased the Garmin Foot Pod to fix the false recording issue. My watch easily recognized the sensor. My first use was walking a measured lap in front of my house, the step count was accurate. I used it indoors on a treadmill and I was able to get accurate step counts for the session. Without the foot pod my watch would not count steps if my hands were on the hand rails or holding the heart rate sensor handles. If I am not wearing my shoes the motion sensor takes over. When I am wearing shoes the watch recognizes when the sensor wakes up and uses that step count.

I am pleased with the Garmin Foot Pod and I recommend it for the Garmin Vivoactive watch.

58 people found this helpful

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USERBOSCO

Garmin lied, this is useless for elliptical

Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2019

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I spend a LOT of time on my Precor because I need less impact on my poor tired ankles (I have broken both). My Precor (also old), doesn't have the arm extensions, which is good, because I also have torn both my shoulders multiple times. All that said, my Garmin wearable doesn't track mileage or steps on the elliptical. So, I call Garmin, talk to a support dude, and he says "Foot Pod is the answer" syncs your foot steps with the watch for accurate pedometer readings. So I shelled out another $60, sync'd it to the watch, attached to my shoe, made sure it was connected, and started a 50 minute session on the Precor. End of workout, no miles and no steps recorded..... Tried it two more times, same results. This really stinks, because now I have to manually enter it into my app, which completely defeats the purpose.

10 people found this helpful

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Miguel

Calibrate for best results

Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2015

Verified Purchase

Love my foot pod! It's so small and lightweight that you'll forget it's there. I would advise to unclip the pod if you're wearing your running shoes but not running because it turns "on" by detecting movement.

One word of advice: calibrate! The absolute best way to calibrate is to run a known distance (like a standard 400 meter track at a high school). GPS is ok too but it doesn't track well at times. Take a look at one of your past runs and you'll see some deviation in your run plot.

Here's how I got a good calibration factor:

1. I set my calibration to 800 meters (twice around track)
2. After my calibration, I re-set my GPS watch and did 3 more calibration runs (800 meters each)
3. I took mental note of each calibration factor, added them together and divided by 4.
4. I entered my "average" into my calibration setting and I'm all set!

Happy running!

33 people found this helpful

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JAT

This item does not count steps.

Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2019

Verified Purchase

I talked with Garmin several times over the last 30 days and all I talked with said this device would be perfect for me. I walk with sticks and miss several step counts due to inability to swing arms. Today I was told by an employee at Garmin this device will not count steps and only works with GPS outdoors. He said he only knew this because he used the device to run distance. When this was determined the return date was 1 date over the return date for Amazon. Garmin even sent me a new Foot Pod because the first one would not sync. All this effort for a piece of equipment that would not meet my needs. Unhappy

6 people found this helpful

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ejw2010

Cadence, indoor distance

Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2014

Verified Purchase

Typical quality product by garmin, it is exactly what it purports to be. The fifth star is missing because they claim in the packaging materials and manuals that calibration is not necessary. I found mine to be off by at best 20% before I calibrated, sometimes as much as 30%, which is a significant amount. I'd say anything less than 5% is maybe "not necessary". Perhaps if your stride/strike is no more than 5% off what they have decided the average is, it won't be necessary for you either, but there's no mention of this in the manuals. If they put out a quality product, which they do, I'd expect quality documentation and directions to go with, which for this particular device means they should indicate the parameters that it is predefined with, so that the user can determine if calibration is truly "not necessary".

Once it thawed enough to calibrate it on clear enough surfaces outside (via GPS), it irritated me that my 310xt didn't tell me how long I had to run to calibrate it - it just said "calibrating". I chose to calibrate it on a warmup run before a race, since other people I know said it took about a half a mile to calibrate, mine took one and a half miles - much longer than I'd planned. I am not sure if that's a feature of my watch or the pod, but it would have been nice to know that it would take so long/far.

As others have said, you want to calibrate it somewhere close to the pace you'll be running at. I mostly run street and rails-to-trails, calibrated it on a street, and promptly ran what turned out to be an indoor trail race (wasn't expecting that), which was a 5k but the change in my stride on the different surface ended up making it 10% off, which was more than I'd hoped. So if you run on different surfaces, be prepared to keep a list of different calibration constants (it's an option on your watch) for each surface unless you're only using it for the cadence.

I do wear it on different shoes, but I mostly use it for cadence on all but the one pair of shoes I calibrated it on, so I can't speak to that much. I can't imagine the different shoes could affect it as significantly as the things I list above, so I'm not overly concerned. Same with placement on the shoe, I just try to be consistent relative to my foot for different shoes, and return it to the same lace location when I move it from shoe to shoe.

In short - calibration IS required if you want precision AND accuracy. Don't believe otherwise unless you train for time instead of distance.

21 people found this helpful

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Garrison

Nice Addition For My Garmin Watch

Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2018

Verified Purchase

If you are looking for an accessory to track your steps in greater detail then this is the perfect accessory for you! This device pairs flawlessly with you main Garmin device thus allowing you to get a more accurate step count when walking or running. It is pretty durable and seems to be water resistant. I have ran with this a couple of time and it is still working. The battery life is also pretty good and seems to last at least 6 months, depending on your activity level. The reason I gave this 4 stars is because, and this might be a personal mishap, when I try to secure this through 2 shoestring layers the device will sometimes pop off if I make a quick turn or stop. When the device is strapped to one layer I don't have any problems. (Check my images to see what I mean)

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Kev

Highly recommended

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 30, 2018

Verified Purchase

Use this for Zwift works extremely well

10 people found this helpful

AZE

In Kombination mit Garmin Fenix 3 keine Verbesserung der Pace-Genauigkeit

Reviewed in Germany on August 30, 2017

Verified Purchase

Das die Garmin Fenix 3 in Bezug auf GPS Präzision leider dem Stand der Technik hinterher hinkt ist kein Geheimnis.
Da ich aber nun einmal die Uhr besitze und für meine Trainings, insbesondere was die aktuell gelaufene Pace angeht, diesen Umstand ausgleichen wollte, habe ich kurzerhand noch einmal 50,-- in die Hand genommen und den FootPod bestellt.
Ich hatte insbesondere auf die Auto-kalibrierung gesetzt.
Meine Hoffnung war, dass die Fenix 3 sich permanent bei gutem GPS Empfang mit dem Pod austauscht und die gelaufene Strecke über die Zeit mit der Anzahl der Schritte abgleicht.
Wenn dann ein Gebüsch den GPS Empfang einschränkt (ja, schon ein Gebüsch kann bei der Fenix 3 eine aktuelle 4:30 Pace direkt auf 5:40-Anzeige drücken), sollte der Pod einspringen und über die Anzahl der Schritte die Pace halbwegs akkurat halten.
Um es kurz zu machen; falsch gedacht; funktioniert so nicht. Die Uhr hat nach ein paar Läufen einen durchschnittlichen Korrekturfaktor ermittelt und verwendet diesen nun permanent.
Dieser Faktor funktioniert aber eher schlecht als recht, je nach Laufart (GA,Tempo, Sprint) verändert sich auch die Anzahl der Schritte und die Laufgeometrie.
Dadurch wird die ermittelte Pace über den Pod im Automatikmodus eher noch schlechter als über GPS.
Ich könnte jetzt beginnen, mir für sämtliche Laufstile den verwendeten Korrekturfaktor zu ermitteln und vor dem jeweiligen Training einzugeben; aber da wären wir ja fast wieder bei dem Komfort eines Schrittzählers.
Auch ist ein Wechsel der Tempi während eines Laufes dann eher schlecht für die Genauigkeit der Pace über den Footpod.
Daher geht dieser Pod wieder zurück; für den Preis liefert er (out of the box) nicht das was ich mir vorstellte.

25 people found this helpful

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Alan G

Great for improving your run dynamics

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 26, 2015

Verified Purchase

Being able monitor your cadence can be a useful tool in improving your running style and efficiency so with this in mind I got this to pair to my 310XT

The pairing process was extremely simple
Select Main Menu, Settings, Run Settings, Foot Pod, Turn Foot pod sensor present? to Yes, hit Enter to Restart Scan
You may have to shake or move the footpod for it to activate however I didn't and mine was detected instantly.

Seeing where your cadence peaks or troughs in your run can tell you a lot about where you're expending the most effort and how your style copes with hill ascents and descents enabling you to make changes to your running mechanics

Another benefit of the footpod is that it allows more accurate indoor, treadmill, running. However I haven't used it for that as treadmill running bores me rigid.

Attaching the footpod is straight forward. Unlike the Nike+ sensor the footpod comes with a plastic attachment that simply slots under your laces and then the footpod clips right in.
It is very sturdy and secure in fact so much so it is troublesome transferring the footpod between my trainers so I'm now on the verge of getting a pouch for both sets of shoes to allow me to change more easily.
On the subject of pouches the footpod is the same size as the nike+ pod making the choice of pouches wider.

4 people found this helpful

C. Briddon

Essential for recording treadmill runs.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 8, 2018

Verified Purchase

Makes treadmill running tracking far more accurate. Easy to set up and once it's on your shoe you won't notice it's there. For best results make sure you calibrate it with an outdoor run.

3 people found this helpful

T. Kerby

Perfect partner for the FR70 Watch

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 3, 2013

Verified Purchase

I bought this as an addition to the FR70 watch to give me distance and cadence information when running - both indoors and out. Whilst its expensive for what it is, it works flawlessly with the watch and is especially useful to gain accurate data on treadmill runs. Its quite incredible to see how different treadmill readouts compare to the footpod and justification in buying one for consistency alone.

When used with the FR70, it allows upload of the extra data to Garmin Connect that allows you to see how you performed and most importantly see your speed versus heart rate.

I've also got a Wahoo Ant+ adapter for my iPhone which can gather data from this footpod and allow it to be used with many running apps. This is an excellent combination to have.

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