Add Activity type: Squash

Thank you for the info, unfortunately my Vivomove Style does not have these options. Still, this is certainly not a deal breaker, just a nice to have, since the list is fairly long anyway and contains a lot of different sports.

Greetings Garmin,

It seems you have taken no notice of all the other requests to add squash as an activity to your large list of available activites so I thought I had better start a new thread once again asking if you would please consider adding it.  Prior to getting my very nive vivoactive I used the endomondo app, which has had squash available for at least 6 years.  On getting the vivoactive I searched for the best way to track my squash activity and found the squash lite app by NiallHurley and it still needs a little work, but it is the best thing available right now and it works pretty well.  Sadly the app has to model itself on tennis due to squash not being available.

Just put "world's healthiest sport" into a google search and the majority of the links are squash related.  So why does squash not appear in the activity options?  I understand that garmin has a global reputation on GPS systems, but when you have a lot of other indoor activites available that base distance on steps rather than GPS I think it would be excellent if you could include squash.

Cheers

Not sure what Vivoactive model you have, but on most of them you can add a custom activity and name it Squash. For Vivoactive 4, the prod=cedure is described here: https://www8.garmin.com/manuals/webhelp/vivoactive4_4S/EN-US/GUID-1E365EB2-6BC1-4E25-96D9-5D4742A56BF0.html

There are thousands of sports not listed directly on the watch, including many from the most popular ones. It is not because Garmin ignores their existence, but because the tracking of most of them is identical anyway, so one general profile for custom activities is usually sufficient for all of them. Or do you need some special tracking mode, different than the one already available in the custom profile?

G'day Trux,

Yeah - I played around with the idea of creating the activity, but then what do you copy?  I tried cardio, I tried treadmill, etc...  NiallHurley's squash works better than that, but sadly he has to base it on "tennis" as squash isn't available, and while this is fine for tracking the heart rate, and the time spent on the squash court it seems to under estmaite the calories and the distance is done by GPS rather than steps.  When things like "RC Device or Drone" and "Motocross" are in the available activites it is a suprise that squash can't be added.  I guess it is just a case of enough people asking and as I couldn't find a better way to do it - I thought I would use the forum.  I am not going to be holding my breath mind.....

oh, and mine is the vivoactive 3 - but pretty similar to the 4 as far as I am aware.

Cheers anyway,

mab494 said:

but then what do you copy?

I do not know how it is on Vivoactvie, but on my Instinct I do not need to copy anything at all (although I can do it too). I just create a custom activity from the scratch, call it Squash, and adjust the settings as I wish. But when you copy an existing activity, definitely choose an indoors sport. Cardio may be perhaps a good choice. It is not a good idea to use an outdoors type of activity (like tennis) for creating an indoors sport, because an outdoor activity is draining the battery much faster, by using the GPS.

mab494 said:

and the time spent on the squash court it seems to under estmaite the calories

The calories are calculated primarily on the basis of the heart rate, so the type of sport you select is unimportant. As long as the sport is hard enough to raise your HR sufficiently, the calories will burn faster. That is also the only way that makes sense. The fact that you are on a squash court does not mean yet, that you are burning more calories than someone playing ice-curling.

mab494 said:

When things like "RC Device or Drone" and "Motocross" are in the available activites it is a suprise that squash can't be added.

That is related to the product line of Garmin - they have some drone cameras and accessories in their offer, so they have to offer some support for them too, of course. They also sell watches for plane and car pilots, so the support of adequate sports is comprehensible. Oppositely, practically all indoor sports are from the point of view of the tracking more or less identical, so having just a handfull of them as an example is more than sufficient.

Worldwide there are ~8000 sports, and there are many of the most popular ones that are not listed at Garmin (like soccer, baseball, basketball, ice-hockey, handball, martial-arts,...), and there is also no reason for having the each on the watch - the tracking at most of them is identical to one of the already available activities (typically running at outdoor activities, and cardio for indoors activities)

I need squash for VENU. Please!

Why would I add aomething myself? Is it so hard for garmin to add squash to the list? For me it is a dealbraker. Squash is passion for many 

Why would I add aomething myself? Is it so hard for garmin to add squash to the list? For me it is a dealbraker. Squash is passion for many 

Apparently it is not your passion enough, if you are not even willing to add your favorite sport. It was the first thing that I did, when I got my Garmin watch, adding my favorite sports like underwater rugby, DNF apnea, and others. I see no reason why Garmin would have to add all the 8000 existing sport disciplines to their devices.

+1 for squash - using venu