- A Garmin Epix user has revealed how a completely ruined configuration months of his training
- Months spent “feeling like a failure” and not making any progress or improvements
- It turns out that its maximum heart rate configuration was wrong all the time
The best Garmins in the market are formidable training tools for execution and physical condition, but it has an incorrect maximum heart rate configuration, it is possible that it is wasting time, as a very unfortunate redditor discovered it recently.
U/Lurking_geek took the sub -edit R/Garmin with a public service announcement, after discovering that a critical environment in its Garmin Epix had been wrong for nine months.
The 52 -year -old described how months had spent “feeling like a failure, a loser, who did not press enough, always told him that he was” maintaining “, never improving, never productive, without movement in my vo2max, I could not run quick enough for the suggested training daily”, and I even had to change the practice of the heart rate rhythm, despite feeling me “as I was running faster and beyond what I had faster and beyond what I had faster and beyond what I had faster and beyond what I was running faster. dwarves”.
Clearly aware that something was wrong after months of not progressing, they turned to the configuration of his Garmin and found a horrible mistake.
“I found that the maximum heart rate of my watch was established in 221. I obtained a new epix last summer, but I never realized. Facepalm.”
After changing it to 168 ppm to reflect its age, they now report that “V02Max is up, running is productive, the resistance score is up … everything is fine again.”
Fix the maximum heart rate of your Garmin
Its maximum heart rate is generally considered the highest number that your heart can be beat safely during exercise, and is generally defined as a value of 220 except your age.
As such, it decreases annually to reflect your age, a crucial factor to determine the effectiveness of your training. Understanding its heart rate, BPM and training areas is vital to exercise effectively and achieve its objective objectives. Change with age is the reason why heart rate are always expressed as a percentage instead of a specific BPM.
In general, zone one is 50-60% of its maximum heart rate, and that is where it would find its heart rate during a heating or a quick walk. Zone two is 60-70%, a popular training zone for building resistance, zone three (70-80%) is for aerobic aptitude and resistance, while areas four and five are for a much more intense training that cannot be sustained for almost so long.
That is why fixing the maximum heart rate configuration of its Garmin could be the key to unlocking the true value of your training. This unfortunate user only needed to register 101-118 BPM to enter zone two and start progressing towards resistance gains, but its garmin would hardly have registered this as zone one.
So, if you have bought a new Garmin recently or has never reviewed its Max HR twice, go to the Garmin Connect application, enter the user configuration and select heart rate areas. You can also do this at your Garmin watch by selectingBe profile> cardiac zones and energy areas> maximum heart rate.
Although Garmin recommends the average measurement, the 220 mentioned less than its age formula, it could also pass through a very high intensity intervals training to discover its true maximum HR, which could be slightly different.
