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Treadmill walking vs jogging

210927c61cf84094be3a1009315ac434 over 2 years ago

I am getting back in shape doing mainly walking before building up to jogging. Using the treadmill run activity my walks track almost perfectly, but if I jog it wildly overestimates how fast I am running. I would like to have two activities a treadmill walk that I calibrate and a treadmill run for when I jog that I can calibrate. Is that possible? Is there a way to have the treadmill walk show up under walking instead of running without having to manually doing it in garmin connect.

0 trux over 2 years ago

You do not necessarily need to use the Treadmill activity for recording your treadmill walks. You can as well use a copy of the plain Walk activity, where you turn off the GPS. Or Indoor Walk, if that is available on your watch. The Walk distance and pace estimation calibrates itself outdoors, when you walk with GPS, so be sure to make some outdoor walks longer than 2km, first. And if you can spend some money, purchase the HRM-Pro chest strap - besides others, it provides a better pace and distance estimates than the watch self.

0 210927c61cf84094be3a1009315ac434 over 2 years ago in reply to trux

I have walk setup with no gps when I am walking on the treadmill and I just purchased the hrm pro plus strap. I did a 4 mile walk about 50 mins and it never gave me the option to calibrate, I have it set for manual calibration. I tried resetting calibration and did a 1.5 mile walk but again it never offered calibration again after my walk. Do I have to wear it for so many workouts before I can manually calibrate it. I am using an enduro 2.

0 trux over 2 years ago in reply to 210927c61cf84094be3a1009315ac434

If you use a HRM-Pro, it calibrates during logged outdoor walks with GPS, there is no necessity to calibrate the Treadmill Activity. Read the details at: Calibrating the Pace and Distance Feature on a HRM-Pro or HRM-Pro Plus | Garmin Customer Support

0 210927c61cf84094be3a1009315ac434 over 2 years ago in reply to trux

The weather is still really cold here so my workouts are just on the treadmill. Does the manual calibration only work on treadmill activity or can it be calibrated manually for walk without gps.

0 trux over 2 years ago in reply to 210927c61cf84094be3a1009315ac434

Treadmill calibration can be done only with the Treadmill activity.