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Vigorous minutes.

1252753
over 1 year ago

Why doesn't it count time on my trainer as vigorous. I'm frequently in HR zones 4-5 for >15min. Also just finished a ride, half hour ride home from work; again good heart rate, and it was also captured through my Edge 530, yet Connect says my bike ride this morning was intense, but nothing for the ride home. My watch is some Venue 3 or something like that. It looks like the venue flatlined for my entire ride home. Why?

  • 0 over 1 year ago
    1252753 said:
    Why doesn't it count time on my trainer as vigorous. I'm frequently in HR zones 4-5 for >15min.

    In the default configuration, the HR Zone is unimportant. What counts as the basis, is the Resting HR. If the Resting HR is high, you will not get much Vigorous Minutes, since the HR must be around the double of the Resting HR to count as vigorous. 

    1252753 said:
    captured through my Edge 530

    Edge 530 does not support the feature of Intensity Minutes

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to trux

    Yeah this is not at all helpful. Why didn't my watch pick it up? My RHR ~55, HR on ride was as high as 165. Tracked elsewhere because the venue seems to be absolute garbage. Also I'm aware the edge does not support intensity minutes because intensity minutes are on connect. Connect is the hub for Garmin so it should be connected, or call it something like kind of connect, but only kind of. And seriously in this day and age how many lines of code would actually be required to connect stats from a 530 to the connect app and the intensity minutes portion. It also fails to explain why my morning ride counted and my afternoon ride didn't.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to 1252753
    1252753 said:
    Also I'm aware the edge does not support intensity minutes because intensity minutes are on connect.

    Garmin Connect does not calculate any Intensity Minutes. It is the device that does it. So if you have Edge 530 and Venu 3, only Venu 3 delivers Intensity Minutes to Garmin Connect (if you have worn in in that time).

    If you want to know why you did not have any IM for a certain day, please post screenshots of the HR all-day data, including the 7 days avg. Resting HR value for given day, the graph of Intensity Minutes of the same day, and the settings for Intensity Minutes.

  • +1 over 1 year ago in reply to 1252753

    The first graph is not from Garmin Connect, as far as I can see, so it is irrelevant. You won't get any IM for HR data not recorded with a device compatible with the feature of Intensity Minutes. So if you recorded the activities with some 3rd party HRM, then you won't get any IM's for it.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to trux

    I think what your missing in your defense of Garmin, is the venue is falling to accurately track heart rate. That is the core problem, I'll move on to a place with no trolls 

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to 1252753

    There is no defense of Garmin. I am trying to help you understand how it works, and why. Optical wrist HRM has its limitations. Since you use probably a 3rd party HRM, I recommend connecting it to your watch. When you then start an activity on it, it will use the external HRM even for Intensity Minutes (even if you discard the activity at the end, on the watch).

  • +1 over 1 year ago in reply to trux

    I was under the impression that is what physio true up was supposed to accomplish. I also switched from smart to 1 second, to see if that changes. Last night for instance I broadcast HR from the Venue (smart setting) to see if I would get better accuracy from my venue. I rode over a mile before I smacked the watch a couple of times and then it started registering... just frustrating.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to 1252753

    Physio TrueUp (Unified Training Status at recent models) can only sync data that both devices support, and since Edge 530 does not calculate any Intensity Minutes, it cannot be sent to your Venu. Besides that Physio TrueUp does not sync IMs anyway (see the list of features being synced by Physio TrueUp at What is Physio TrueUp? | Garmin Customer Support) 

    As I wrote, simply link the external HRM to your Venu, and start an activity on it too (HRM can be connected to several devices simultaneously). Venu will then get the same HR as your Edge does.