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Ability to exclude a night of sleep, or a day of HR data from averages

renschler
(1) If I don't wear my garmin watch to sleep, the full sleeping period gets recorded as "Deep Sleep". This messes up my average sleep profile. I should be able to skip a night or exclude it from analysis... Seems like a no brainer if you are actually using this product to monitor your sleeping behavior over time. Extreme values can throw off averages.

(2) Similar to (1), I should be able to exclude a day of heart rate recordings. I have several days where my HRM was yielding very abnormal readings (above 250 BPM) and it completely throws off all the 'average HR' and 'max HR' profiles. Extreme values can throw off averages. I should be able to discard a day or exclude it from analysis. Again this seems like a no brainer if you are actually trying to use this product to monitor your HR trends over time.


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    You can edit sleep start and sleep end to be the same (0 hours of sleep) or set them such that an average amount of deep sleep results.
    HR and step data cannot be altered in any way. A possible option to have a freely maintainable long-term solution is the lowly spreadsheet.
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    Thanks Twinaxx for the suggestions, I'm responding to them here in case a garmin employee reads this thread. I'd like them to know I am not satisfied with the current options.

    >> You can edit sleep start and sleep end to be the same (0 hours of sleep) or set them such that an average amount of deep sleep results.
    This won't satisfy my requirement bc then I lose the ability to accurately track total sleep (deep + light). Also the tweaking each night of sleep so that it maintains the average is pretty tedious.

    >>HR and step data cannot be altered in any way.
    Yes this is an issue. Garmin please change this!

    >> A possible option to have a freely maintainable long-term solution is the lowly spreadsheet.
    Agree, I can always track things myself, but that's not why I bought a garmin product.
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    Sleeping doesnt count toward RHR since RHR is by definition a waking measurement.

    If it is including a reading while asleep, its a bug
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    I'm responding to them here in case a garmin employee reads this thread.
    This is not the place to request or obtain service as a Garmin customer from the company, but yes, you could get lucky if you wanted to leave it all to chance.

    I'd like them to know I am not satisfied with the current options.
    Then you ought to be engaging Garmin at http://www8.garmin.com/contactUs/ideas/
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    >> A possible option to have a freely maintainable long-term solution is the lowly spreadsheet.
    Agree, I can always track things myself, but that's not why I bought a garmin product.


    There is an option "export original" on the Daily Summary page in Connect. If you click that, it downloads a bunch of FIT files with activity tracking data. At the moment there is no software available yet for easily processing this data yourself, but that may change. If you start now by downloading these files every day, you won't have to do that many, many times later to retrieve historical data.