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Including manually added activities into statistics

6215292
over 4 years ago

Hi,

I was searching the forum back and forward, but nowhere I've found the answer. I'm using a Garmin device to track hikes, bike rides, and my overall health and sleep.

However, I'm also doing Brazilian jujitsu and, as wearing a watch or HRM strap is not possible/safe - I'm adding this activity manually. I've even tried to do a training waring my watch on, just to have a rough estimation of my HR, calories, etc.

My problem is, that this manually added activity (even if I put calories, avg and max HR, etc.) is not included in my stats, like body battery, intensity minutes, or even calories burned.

Have anyone of you solve this mystery, have simple explanations, or, most appreciated, any workaround on that?

I even tried to copy my activity to tcx file, change the date with notepad and upload it to Garmin - no luck.

Regards

Tom

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    Do not add the activity manually. Record it on the watch instead, even if you do not wear it - start the activity, let the watch in you bag, and then stop the activity when you finish the training. Although the activity won't include the HR and other data (unless you wear a HRM chest band with a sufficient range), it will at least record the right time, and will be included in the stats. 

  • 0 over 4 years ago
    6215292 said:
    body battery, intensity minutes, or even calories burned

    These values are calculated by the watch so you must wear a watch to get updates of them.

    Why it doesn't work with imported activities is just because of the reason above. The watch do all the calculations.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to e7andy

    I did not read far enough in the OP :)  Yes, it is right that Body Battery denitely needs the HR; Calories, and Intensity Minutes are caluclated with the help of steps, when you disable the HRM, but that will not work for the manual activites either. And the hack I recommended, would help only if you wear the HRM chest band, and have the watch close enough that it can capture the signal (or use a HRM that can store and forward the data at the end of the session - but that has a limiting effect on the caluclation of some data).

    Another possibility, at least at some sports, is wearing the watch attached to the ankle, where it can measure the HR. However, I am afraid that at Brazilian jiujitsu it is not an option either. Well, perhaps you can try other body parts Smiley

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to trux

    Yea, but still in this case - watch will recognize “no effort” on my side, hence even the calories won’t count properly, not mentioning even estimated effort made to include in stats

    not much more “attachable” body parts left tho :D especially not worth risking! As I mentioned - for me any strap with solid parts is not an option :( 

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to 6215292
    6215292 said:
    Yea, but still in this case - watch will recognize “no effort” on my side, hence even the calories won’t count properly, not mentioning even estimated effort made to include in stats

    Yes, as e7andy wrote, for this you need a HRM. Either an external one (chest band, arm or calf band), or having the watch attached to the body somewhere, so that it can detect the HR optically.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to trux

    Got it, just hoped for a workaround for that. As I mentioned, I tried few tricks, but none of them is working. Kinda mess up the whole point of using that watch, even for pure health-related monitoring. Might be useful to add this kind of feature

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to 6215292
    6215292 said:
    Got it, just hoped for a workaround for that.

    But the workaround was proposed - use an external HRM, and keep the watch near. There is no way you can calculate Intensity Minutes, Body Battery (or even the Calories reliably) without the HR (and the HR Variability).

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to trux

    Having a piece of plastic on you is not the best idea for a sport, that assumes having a 260-pound guy pinning you to the ground with a knee on your chest :)

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to 6215292

    There are different types of external HRMs, not only chest bands. Make a research and find what is being used in martial art sports