Found the stingy dude who lives in my Garmin…
Looks exactly like Burgess Meredith from Rocky…
This is him telling me about my sleep… and how I’m being all low aerobic again… gets really going when we get to body battery recharges and took points away… because.
Who lives in yours?
Hoping Garmin devs lurk here…
It would really be nice if we could flag whether or not we’re are cardiac patients or on beta blockers.
I love the advice and I find it supportive even though granddad seems to be a a mildly irritated coach. But I really wish it would stop implying I need to do anaerobic work to be a full human being. Like . Nope. Rather not.
I love the watch, the metrics, I find them honest. I’m just talking about the gentle nags.
VO2 max seems on track… stuff like that.
beta blockers slow your heart rate, kind of cap it (I know I can “break” my beta blocker ;) but not on purpose usually ) and they slow down HRR a little bit.
stop telling me to go anaerobic. This is bad. I treat my real HR Max as about 85% of my max. I don’t mind going into zone 4 a little bit, but I stay in the bottom half and then think that maybe I should be in zone three (don’t wanna fake my Max HR because there are benefits that are biological associated with each zone in reality)
ideally people like us need to stay aerobic.
maybe all the checkbox does is take away the anaerobic part of the assessment.
zone 4.5 alerts? lol. That would actually be Goldilocks.
Let me be clear I am not complaining AT ALL about the metrics or the algorithms. Just the fact that it’s complaining that my aerobic exercise is too low and anaerobic nonexistent.
VO2 is math. I need to process that oxygen, move the c02, to move my body at X speed and not feel like I’m suffocating (not clearing c02 fast enough and not willing to stroke out to do it…)
my stroke volume has to be a bit on the high side to make up the difference because of the beta blockers, and the fact that my heart rate is governed.
I don’t generally run, but I’m at a baseline fitness where I’m willing to start pushing it and do a very gentle C25K program as long as my aerobic base supports it… I will follow it more than it following me and pushing it. maybe it works out maybe it doesn’t.
Garmin V02: 38 (walking/GPS/medicated)
Polar Fitness/OwnIndex: 43 (H10)
85% Submaximal Unmedicated Clinical Stress Test: 36 (they don’t max cardiac patients)
So the numbers feel ballpark right…
My clinical 36 is 85% of 42. And that’s a couple of months old.
Garmin have a lot of data from a lot of people and a “beta training the beta-blocker” checkbox would let them start processing people on beta blockers or who had had heart attacks and maybe surface new insights.
Me? 59. Widowmaker (May 31st is my 1st “second birthday”), 3 stents. Beta blocker, BP meds. Of course ;)