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Weight: select lbs or kgs

Great to see the new features and have the site back on line, but I just have two requests for the health section.

1. Please make it possible to select the weight measurement, i.e lbs or kg.

Keep up the good work..

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BLACHANC over 15 years ago +3 suggested

hey madzng,
you can currently change your weight unit of measurement at connect.garmin.com/settings

Hi Devonbl,

Thank you for taking the time to give your feedback.

the problem with you suggestion it…
seilogramp over 4 years ago in reply to anjp +1

Suggest submitting your request to Garmin via the Share Ideas | Garmin form. However, if this is deemed a broken feature (rather than a request), then submit a case using the Garmin Support site. Or just…

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0 MikeG17 over 7 years ago in reply to Former Member

Bump!

It's nice that when you're editing the run length (treadmill run) you can use a unit picker and select between miles and km as most treadmills are in miles, but when running everything else it's km, so similarly it would be very helpful when entering the daily weight, you'd get a choice of units via drop down (kg or lbs). Or be able to customize units as ticker18 mentioned...

0 Martinr2 over 7 years ago in reply to Former Member

Would actually be nice to have the option to have weight in Stones

0 9927232 over 5 years ago

How can I set lbs for weight and meters (kilometres) for distance within the app? I can do this on my Fenix 5 but not in connect. Annoying

0 renschler over 5 years ago in reply to 9927232

I want to do the opposite, miles for distance and KG for weight. Really wish I could do this in the app.

0 anjp over 4 years ago

Still need this feature (this request is "over 12 years ago")....:

Select certain units of measurement for "default" activities (i.e. Metric or Statute, would apply to all activities), via https://connect.garmin.com/modern/settings
Provide Strength Workouts its own measurement unit that overrides default
Why? Many users run / bike / swim in metric and lift weights in lbs.

From a product dev perspective this this shouldn't be that hard. Functionality for this sort of inheritance already exists in "Golf Distance Units" (Yards vs Meters). Is this anywhere on the roadmap?

0 anjp over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

Bump +1

Still need this feature (this request is "over 7 years ago")....:

Select certain units of measurement for "default" activities (i.e. Metric or Statute, would apply to all activities), via https://connect.garmin.com/modern/settings
Provide Strength Workouts its own measurement unit that overrides default
Why? Many users run / bike / swim in metric and lift weights in lbs.

From a product dev perspective this this shouldn't be that hard. Functionality for this sort of inheritance already exists in "Golf Distance Units" (Yards vs Meters). Is this anywhere on the roadmap?

0 anjp over 4 years ago in reply to 9927232

I'm trying to do the same thing. Did you find a solution?

Seems there are a number of threads requesting this same feature (mods, could you consolidate for tracking purposes?), some as old as 12 years ago. A quick search:

This shouldn't be hard to do. The "Golf Distance Units' overrides the default measurement units. A similar option should be developed for Strength Workout Units.

0 seilogramp over 4 years ago in reply to anjp

Suggest submitting your request to Garmin via the Share Ideas | Garmin form. However, if this is deemed a broken feature (rather than a request), then submit a case using the Garmin Support site. Or just do both.

anjp said:
mods, could you consolidate for tracking purposes?

I already did.

0 csow123 over 3 years ago

How has Garmin not addressed this issue yet? I don't understand how they can let you do the opposite in Statute UK but not let you select weight units under Metric setting. The functionality is already there they just need to port it over to the metric side as well. It's so frustrating

0 Ivan over 2 years ago

Would like to see weight in lbs and distance in metric.