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Heart rate recovery

Baralien
over 7 years ago
I have found other threads on this, but not in the feature requests, so thought I'd add it here as others seem to want this as much as I do!

The 2 min heart rate recovery test done after you stop your workout, gives, I think, a really useful data point to track fitness levels and heart health. This is recorded in the .fit file but not Garmin Connect. I have to manually add this as a note once the activity has synced (if I remember it!). I would really like this to be recorded with my activities and have it graphed over time. On a per activity basis would probably be most useful, but may overly complicate things.

Anyone else feel this would be useful? Or have any ideas how best to implement this?
  • 0 over 7 years ago
    Idea: Write some code that will extra those values from the FIT files, and execute that outside of Garmin Connect.
  • 0 over 7 years ago
    No coding experience whatsoever, so would have no idea where to even start with that!

    All my other data is collected in GC so would really like it there. Seeing as the watch already collects and stores the HR recovery it just makes sense (at least to me!) to have it transferred with the rest of the activity data to GC.
  • 0 over 7 years ago
    There's been an interesting discussion about recovery HR recently on this forum. The problem with storing and showing this value in Garmin Connect is that many people do not start resting immediately after pressing the stop button. They either make a cooldown before finishing the activity or continue - for example - walking or climbing stairs immediately after stopping the activity on the watch. In such cases the RHR value would be not representative of your real recovery capability. It would require either the user to confirm each RHR value manually or devising a clever algorithm on the watch that would recognize real RHR values from skewed ones.

    Either way - things are sometimes more complicated than they might appear.
  • 0 over 7 years ago
    Yeah, I've read through the discussion. They're all good points, it took me a while to realise why my hr recovery was so poor to start with. I was stopping the activity and then walking around a bit, getting a drink, etc. Figured out I just needed to stand still and breath!

    As with any data you're collecting you need to know how to collect it and interpret it correctly for it to be useful. Manual confirmation could work, another possibility could be having it as an option in the activity settings and if turned on, showing some form of dialog screen once activity has been stopped. Something as simple as 'stand still and take deep breaths', with a 2 min countdown displayed.

    I find it a useful and interesting metric and it would be nice to have it recorded automatically and not have to add a comment to each activity. Especially since it already gets recorded. I imagine if it was just saved with each activity rather than tracked over time this would be simpler and would be good enough for me. Although as you say, it's always more complicated than it seems!!
  • 0 over 7 years ago
    Please add. Seems crazy it's not already a feature online.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 5 years ago

    i was all set to post a new thread on this very topic, but it's better to resurrect this old one to shame garmin and show that this has been an issue for literally years. 

    i don't understand what the issue is here. there is sound science behind recovery heart rate. better science than some of the other metrics garmin happily tracks and charts. it's actually recorded and mentioned in many garmin devices, yet there is no way to see it after the fact. no way to chart your progress either from within the garmin ecosystem or from any of the 3p partners. this is absurd. you should be ashamed garmin. huge failure on your part and you are letting down the fitness community needlessly. if you have no interest in letting us track it, stop mentioning it 2 minutes after every exercise i perform

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

    I'd like this also. Please store somewhere please garmin... 

  • 0 over 4 years ago
    Baralien said:
    Or have any ideas how best to implement this?

    You can simply add a cool-down lap after your activty - instead of stopping the actvity, mark the lap either with the lap button (you may need to enable it in the activity settings), or through the menu of the activity (Stop, scroll down and select Mark as Lap). You will then see the HR during the cool down lap directly in the HR graph on the activity screen.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    Heart Rate recovery data is very useful information.  It is generally determined for shorter or different  intervals but nevertheless it is highly correlated with VO2 Max.  Therefore it would be great if would be displayed in the appropriate place on the Garmin Connect screens.   Its hard to understand why it isn't displayed if it specifically determined on the watch or device at the end of an exercise period .  Perhaps it will be added in next revision especially if people request it.  

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to tmk2

    On my watch, a fenix 6, the Heart Rate recovery period begins immediately and automatically at the end of the exercise session when I press stop.   When I scroll to HR recovery after say 12 seconds and activate HR recovery, the watch indicates 1 min, 48 seconds have elapse an it continues to count down for a full 2 minutes.  It calculates the decrease in my heart rate from the time I pressed stop to exactly 2 min after I ended the session and pressed stop.  Thus it had looked back at my HR at the end of the session and started calculating from that instant onward.  There has been considerable good research going back many years,  that HR Recovery is highly correlated with VO2Max.  Increases in HR Recovery after stopping vigorous aerobic exercise are good indicators of increases in VO2 Max.