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Why aren't my workouts giving me vigorous intensity minutes

Garmin Edge 840

Polar HR Monitor

Wahoo Kickr Core

I've tweaked and changed as many settings as I can find and no matter what I do, I seem to really struggle to get connect to issue me vigorous intensity minutes. I have followed advise on garmin sites and other blogs in changing and adjusting settings and nothing seems to work. e.g. The workout on this link gave me none, and you can clearly see it was a vigorous workout.

https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/18692139490

Can someone assistor provide a pointer to get this working properly for me?

Thanks in advance

0 trux 7 months ago

Could you post a screenshot of your settings for Intensity Minutes (in Settings » Health & Wellness)?

0 flowstate 7 months ago

Edge 840 calculates intensity minutes based on average resting heart rate. [Afaik, only newer watches have the ability to calculate intensity minutes based on hr zones]

Is your resting HR set up correctly on your Edge?

https://www8.garmin.com/manuals/webhelp/GUID-16B12CFE-F96E-4DE9-9F5F-8C4A5936D3B9/EN-US/GUID-94A5A126-6BB2-47F6-8040-EAD29EC66C2B.html

If it's not set up or if it's set too high [*], that could explain why your intensity minutes aren't calculated properly.

[*] One way this could happen is if you don't have a Garmin watch. Others have found that in the absence of resting HR data from a Garmin watch, Edges will use the lowest HR during cycling activities for resting HR, which is clearly wrong (it would likely be far too high).