April Intense Cardio badge

4329278 15 days ago

I'm not making any progress towards the April Intense Cardio challenge, which requires you to record 3 hours of cardio in zone 3. I've recorded two runs, one of which was almost entirely in zone 3, but the status bar is still showing 0 minutes completed. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here?

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e7andy 12 days ago in reply to 8181148 +3

It isn't a bug or error. Just log it as Cardio. Garmin will not change it.
e7andy 14 days ago +2

You must log it with the Cardio profile. Running or any other activity type will not work. You can change the type of the run to cardio, but then the run will not count for running challenges.
e7andy 13 days ago in reply to 6969852 +2

There is a profile called "Cardio". Just like HIIT, Running, Cycling, Strength and so on.

For the cardio challenge you must log it as "Cardio".

For the gains challenge you must log…

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0 e7andy 10 days ago in reply to 6969852

6969852 said:
Sorry, but that's dumb and cheating....

You are only cheating yourself. It doesn't matter to anyone else or do you think it is a competition to get points?

0 4423135 9 days ago in reply to e7andy

As in the past I figured the Type could only be exactly as described "Cardio", but I was hoping it could also be other Gym activities like HIIT, Rowing, Elliptical that are obviously for cardio.

Andy thanks for the tips on change and change back.

What looks difficult is it says "Zone 3" which means Zone 4 and 5 don't count?

My Z3 is a range of just10 beats. It will be hard to moderate my effort to stay in 3 on the Garmin Cardio workouts given the variety of exercise.

With Rowing I can maintain a steady effort and HR.

0 e7andy 9 days ago in reply to 4423135

4423135 said:
What looks difficult is it says "Zone 3" which means Zone 4 and 5 don't count?

Exactly. Only Z3 counts. It can be very hard depending on how wide the zones are.

0 4423135 8 days ago in reply to e7andy

I just finished the April Power Cycling badge. I was surprised I was the second one to get it on your Badges site, after you.

That badge requires 4 hours in Power Zone 3. I did it as 4 x 60 minutes at power 3.3 average. The activities showed I had 50+ minutes in HR Zone 3. That makes me think Garmin set my Z3 Tempo power right.

I liked that enough to want to try for this Cardio Zone 3 badge. I'll probably do most of it Rowing since I can maintain steady Power/Pace and HR

What kind of cardio workouts did you do Andy?

To help I'll setup a Data Page:

*** HR Gauge ***

* HR Zone #.# * --- * Time in Z3 "

*** Training Effect *** ( not sure )

0 e7andy 8 days ago in reply to 4423135

4423135 said:
What kind of cardio workouts did you do Andy?

I did cycling there too, but on an exercise bike instead of my regular road bike on a turbo trainer with the Tacx app.

0 9746714 7 days ago

I ran into this too. HIIT doesn't count, running doesn't count. You have to choose cardio as your activity to earn any time towards the 3-hours. I also noticed that any activity above heart rate level 3 doesn't count either. It must be exactly level 3, which for me is a very narrow heart rate range. This will be a hard one to earn given how restrictive it is.

0 4762143 7 days ago

It makes no sense that it has to be exactly Zone 3… I did cardio activities that, as intended, got me above Zone 3 and it seems absurd to me that that doesn’t count towards a cardio challenge.