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Max heart rate, zones.
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I just got a FR70 and am using GarminConnect for the first time. I entered my age (69) into my watch and synced after a first easy workout. It acts as if my max heart rate is 184 when it should be about 150. Is 184 max just the default and is there some place for me to enter my max or my zones? Or does it try to get these form my age, but that's not working?
I'm not sure how it computed the zones, but if you think your mhr should be around 150 based on the formula 220- age, you should be awasre that the formula has no reliability. It is wildly wrong for many people. There have been numerous threads on this if you do some searching.
I know from previous experience, 150 for max heart rate is very close. Even if it were not right, I would still be wondering how it came up with 184.
Again, not sure where the 184 came from. But if you have confidence in the 150 MHR you can go to user settings in Garmin Connect and set the zones however you want.
Again, not sure where the 184 came from. But if you have confidence in the 150 MHR you can go to user settings in Garmin Connect and set the zones however you want.
I wish I could. From Connect, I go to Settings, Training Zones, and it says
"Heart rate and power training zones can be managed within device settings." I click on 'device settings' and all that says is FR70 "Software is up to date." All I can guess is that since it is an older device, Garmin doesn't want to let me do any heart rate calculations.
I wish I could. From Connect, I go to Settings, Training Zones, and it says "Heart rate and power training zones can be managed within device settings." I click on 'device settings' and all that says is FR70 "Software is up to date." All I can guess is that since it is an older device, Garmin doesn't want to let me do any heart rate calculations.
It's user settings, not device settings. In connect, open the device widget to full page (by clicking on the wheel in the upper right corner; if that widget is not part of your dashboard, add it by clicking on the 3 lines in the upper left of the dashboard and choosing that widget and adding it to dashboard). Under the settings tab, there should be 2 choices: device settings and user settings. Choose user settings. You should be able to enter your MHR and your zones there.
In connect, open the device widget to full page (by clicking on the wheel in the upper right corner; if that widget is not part of your dashboard, add it by clicking on the 3 lines in the upper left of the dashboard and choosing that widget and adding it to dashboard). Under the settings tab, there should be 2 choices: device settings and user settings. Choose user settings. You should be able to enter your MHR and your zones there.
Thanks for trying to help, but:
I have the FR70 widget full page. There is only one tab and it is labeled 'Software'. Under that tab it says "Software is up to date'".
Thanks for trying to help, but:
I have the FR70 widget full page. There is only one tab and it is labeled 'Software'. Under that tab it says "Software is up to date'".
After I sync a workout and look at the activity, under Zones, it says Avg heart rate is 1.4z, max HR is 2.1z.
I have no idea what they mean.
Strange. Do you use GC mobile? You can try going to user settings there and there is a choice to configure HR zones (at least on ios there is; I assume with droid also). By default there are 5 zones. 1.4 is simply almost halfway between the upper & lower levels for zone 1, but there is no way of knowing how your zones are defined without finding the setting.
When you look at the activity can you change from zones to bpm or % mhr? That will at least tell you what you're actually getting for hr.
Strange. Do you use GC mobile? You can try going to user settings there and there is a choice to configure HR zones (at least on ios there is; I assume with droid also). By default there are 5 zones. 1.4 is simply almost halfway between the upper & lower levels for zone 1, but there is no way of knowing how your zones are defined without finding the setting.
When you look at the activity can you change from zones to bpm or % mhr? That will at least tell you what you're actually getting for hr.
I did change to % mhr and that is how I calculated it figured my MHR was 184.
I've been using GC on Windows PC. I have an old iPad and looked there and did not see GC in the app store. Then I tried an Android phone that I usually don't use but got just to fool around with Android. I got GC on there and, unlike on PC, I could set MHR and zones, which I did. When I synced today's workout, it did use the newly set MHR for avg and max %MHR. But it does not tell time in zones so that's pretty useless - I know my zones well enough to know where a particular rate (max or avg) fits. I guess that since the FR70 does not give time in zones, neither will GC, though I would think they could do that. Perhaps I will try exporting my data to another app to see if it can give time in zones, though I feel I have been wasting way too much time on this, trying to make sense of the Garmin environment. I guess I got here at a bad time with Garmin making big changes that don't all work yet.
