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How do I correct an erroneous "Resting Heart Rate"

I cycle with HR strap and power meter pedals.
My fitness age used to be 32 (Edge 1030) with a resting HR of 47 (which is correct). With the Edge 1040 Solar it incorrectly thinks my resting HR is 90, which results in a fitness age of 64? It seems to be using the minimum HR during activities logged with the Edge 1040, which is not "resting" HR. How can I correct the resting HR, thus correcting the fitness age?

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0 cheracogoff over 1 year ago

If connected to your phone, in Garmin mobile go to user settings and resting heart rate can be changed if you have it based on % of heart rate reserve. Be sure to sync after.

0 cycleanalyze over 1 year ago in reply to cheracogoff

can you detail the exact steps you took to get here because I looked at user settings and did not see anything close to heart rate info

0 cheracogoff over 1 year ago in reply to cycleanalyze

I’m on a iPhone but Android should be similar.
on Garmin mobile press the More icon. Select Garmin devices and then select your device. Then select user settings and heart rate and power zones can be set there

0 Peterbk41 over 1 year ago

I have the same issue, and my resting heart rate is set under Heart Rate Zones but it does not help. It still uses a resting heart rate calculated from my activity data which turns fitness age into something not very use full.

I have reported this in the 1040 beta program

0 tgreenlv over 1 year ago in reply to Peterbk41

I've verified in GC (running on Android) that the Device->My Stats->Heart Rate Zones values are showing the correct Resting HR and HR Zones (based on % Max). The Resting HR value in GC matches that on the Edge 1040 (47 in my case). Yet the Fitness Age is based on an incorrect Resting HR of 90.

0 cheracogoff over 1 year ago in reply to Peterbk41

Is your resting heart rate the same on Garmin mobile and on the Edge? One may take precedence over the other.

0 volklg40 over 1 year ago in reply to cheracogoff

Same problem here. 57 year old cyclist with resting heart rate in the 56-58 range. My 1040 shows a fitness age of 61 with a resting heart rate of 126. HR zones on my 1040 are set with a resting heart rate of 58.

0 stencilnyc over 1 year ago

LOL same. Mine thinks my resting heart rate is 153, so my "fitness age" is 57!

0 Alexander108 over 1 year ago

Same here since I updated from 12.16 to 14.20. I should stick a white beard to my face so my reflection in the mirror reflects my fitness age of 65.

My Resting Heart Rate in GC is pretty much the average of my last roadbike activities avg heart rate (144).

Looking very much forward to a bug fix here. It seems 14.20 was prematurely rolled out,

0 Peterbk41 over 1 year ago

Garmin-Blake Do you know if Garmin is looking into this?