Our Ambassadors
All events to be recorded on Garmin connect, if they do not have garmin devices, they can download Strava and screenshot the activity, load to their stories and tag garmin.ae
Toby Richards
The Challenge
Rowing Follow Toby as he rows(Swims) his way around Dubai, follow him for tips and motivation that will help you to be able to complete the equivalent of rowing(swimming) from Abu Dhabi to Dubai by the time you reach the festival date. Watch his stories for motivation on training and achieving your goals
What can you expect to see?
- Incorporates full body like swimming
- Increases cardio strength
- Leg strength
- Arm and shoulders
- Core
- Same as swimming
- Start easy and do 300m for the 1 st 3 days. Working on 1 minute per 100m
- 4 th to 6 th day increase to 500m
- Maintain time per 100m at 50 seconds per 100m
- 7 th to 10th day increase to 45 seconds per 100m
- 11 th to 13 th day increase to 40 seconds per 100m
- 14 th to 16 th day maintenance of time over 500m
- 17 th to 19 th day, 500m at 40 seconds per 100m, 1 minute rest, 300m at 45 seconds per 100m – 800m total
- The participant will now focus on increasing these times, then they will increase to 1000m and ultimately 1500m
- Every week, top 5 will go into a draw to win a Garmin voucher, tag Garmin.ae in your stories showing your Garmin connect and win prizes on the 30 th November.
Sammara Taimish
The Challenge
Steps: Get your steps in. Make those steps count, walk your way to a marathon distance of 42.2km. Walk and burn calories at the same time, up your game and increase the step count each day and work your way up to completing 42.2kms by the time of the Garmin Fitness Festival, follow Sammara for motivation and tips, and see how she gets her steps in daily. Come meet Sammara and friends on the day and challenge her to a 5km run.
What can you expect to see?
- 5000 steps per day for 1 st week
- 7000 steps per day for 2 nd week
- 8000 steps per day for 3 rd week
- 10000 steps per day for 4 th week
- 10000 steps per day for 5 th week
- Most accumulative steps by 30 th November wins a Garmin prize
- Weekly accumulative steps wins a voucher
- Benefits of walking and moving daily
- Physical, mental and physiological benefits
Sophia Delavari
The Challenge
Running: Join Sophia for a run every day, leading up to the Garmin Fitness Festival on the 30 th November. Watch Sophia’s posts to keep you updated on her journey of 5km every day till 30 November. She will help motivate you to join her daily and keep pushing through to achieve your goals and objective of joining Sophia on the day and run 5km.
What can you expect to see?
- 5km daily leading up to the event
- Join Sophia as she runs 5km every day, leading up to the event on 30 th November
- Hear her experiences on the run
- The benefits of using a Garmin device when running, the data thereafter
- How the run makes her feel?
- Running in the morning vs running in the afternoon.
- How the exercise affects her day?
- How she increases her speed per KM, is it gradual, is it goal orientated, and her watch is set for this?
- Physical benefits of running every day?
- Mental and physiological benefits of running every day?
- Garmin connect results shared on participants stories daily and garmin.ae tagged.
- See if you can beat Sophia on that day, stand inline for a Garmin voucher.
- Challenge Sophia to beat her time on the 30 th November to win a Garmin prize.