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Fitness Age not counting vigorous days

mhgrove
9 months ago

Hello all,

When looking at my fitness age, I noticed it's recommending more vigorous days and tells me my 4 week average is only 1.6. I understand a "vigorous day" means I must have 5 minutes of vigorous intensity.

I went back and looked at each day individually, and for the last 4 weeks I have 3, 4, 3, and 3. So my 4 week average should be 3.25.

Anyone have this happen and successfully fix it?

  • 0 22 days ago in reply to trux

    I know that for the Vigorous days, it will not count as such if you have not done  5 continuous minutes, but it does not say that at all for the counting of vigororus minutes.  Are you sure this is the case or are you making an assumption? It would be most stupid of Garmin not to mention this if this is the case.

    I am clearly looking at all vigourous minutes as document by my garmin as the average of vigorous minutes should be that. 

  • 0 22 days ago in reply to 4263458
    4263458 said:
    Are you sure this is the case or are you making an assumption?

    As I wrote, Garmin mentions this condition in relation to Vigorous Days, so it would not be surprising if it were used for the weekly averages too, although not explicitly written. Whatever the conditions are, reaching the limit is rather easy, as long as you do some sport a few days a week. So if it pushes you to do a bit more effort, it is only good for you, and for your fitness, regardless of what the true conditions are.

  • 0 22 days ago in reply to trux

    Would not make sense to me. I understand it does that for vigorous days as you don't want one minute vigorous to count as vigorous days. But for average of vigorous mins it should count each one otherwise you would wipe out a whole bunch of strenuous strength training sessions.

    Think Garmin just needs to do a lot better with this feature!

  • 0 22 days ago in reply to 4263458

    I find it the same in both cases - in a day you can have 50 vigorous minutes, and as long as there is no continuous period 5 minutes or more, it won't count, so I see no reason why it could not work in the same way for the weekly averages. Just increase a bit the intensity and/or frequency of your activities, and you'll be fine, too. No big deal.

  • 0 22 days ago in reply to trux

    How much I train or not is not the point here. The point is that Garmin is not transpare t/able to explain the claims which it's own app makes. I want to be able to use the data provided but needs to be accurate.

    That's why clarity of 

    1) what is a vigorous minute

    2) Which days have been considered vigogours

    3) how average of vigorous minutes is calculated

    Would be really great (and frankly pretty basic....)

  • 0 21 days ago in reply to trux

    No, it had not been older.

    And you must have missed my last sentence in that post: “I could replicate this nonsense of how to calculate vigorous minutes of 4 week, just playing with my body composition.”

    So uploading different body fats on and for the same day modified not just the fitness age (which can be logical if body fat overrules all the 4 factors behind FA), BUT ALSO the amount of vigorous days and vigorous minutes. LOL.

  • 0 21 days ago in reply to 4263458

    Totally agreed. And as I wrote 2 months ago  I made  deeper analysis and filtered my activities applying the 5 cont. minutes rule and also with this restriction the real number should have been enough for the 3/7 days rule and the 75 minutes / week threshold. 

    When body fat was low these calculations seemed to be OK again. When I increased it above 20% the calculations were off.