Fix or disable Resting Heartrate

3574040 3 days ago

I don't wear a Garmin watch, only use the Edge 1050 as my cycling computer. Because of this, Garmin wildly overestimates my RHR. Some days it says it's over 100BPM. My true RHR is around 40BPM per my Apple Watch. But because Garmin only gets HR data during my bike rides (when I'm actively exercising), it calculates my RHR to be way too high. Any ideas on how to fix this?

0 e7andy 2 days ago

Since you don't wear a Garmin device all the time then most values will be incorrect so does it really matter what the RHR is? What are you using it for?
For the HR zones you can set a custom resting HR.

0 3574040 1 day ago in reply to e7andy

My coach uses RHR pretty frequently. Good metric to follow fatigue levels, monitor recovery, or coming back from injury or illness. It gets sent to TrainingPeaks so he’ll jokingly message me that my RHR is 100bpm I must be sick.

0 trux 1 day ago in reply to 3574040

As e7andy wrote, change the Resting HR in the HR Zones settings. I am not familiar with Edge 1050, but on other devices it is typically in Device Settings » User Profile » Heart Rate & Power Zones » Heart Rate » Resting HR » Use Average » OFF and then Set Custom. The value is then used instead of the automatically detected one.