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April Intense Cardio badge

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14 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?

  • 0 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 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 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 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 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 6 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 6 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.