ENTER RESTING HEART RATE

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I only wear my Garmin watch when I am doing actual activities so the only time it registers a resting heart rate is when I am active of have just finished. So it is saying my resting heart rate is ridiculously high - 132 bpm. I have gotten in pretty good shape this year and want to track my fitness age. But Garmin thinks my resting heart rate is 32 bpm so it throws my fitness age way off. I just want to manually enter my known resting heart rate of 75 bpm to be used in the fitness age calculation but I can find no where to do this. 
 Surely there must be a way to just type it in. If anybody knows how please chime in here.

flowstate · Accepted Answer

toddsdn said: Going to try to monitor again tonight but this time with my chest strap. 
 That won't work as the watch doesn't maintain a constant connection to the HR strap. It only connects: 
 - during a timed activity 
 - while you're in some app that's HR-focused (like Health Snapshot or the Heart Rate glance) 
 toddsdn said: Actually, now kind of wondering if "resisting" and "sleeping" heart rate are the same thing. 
 I am not a health professional, but I've seen sources that say your HR can def go below "resting" while you sleep. Most sources I've seen say that you should measure it first thing in the morning when you wake up. 
 So I'm not sure whether Garmin is necessarily doing the right thing by taking the lowest 30-minute average for resting HR, regardless of whether you're asleep or not. 
 However, I will say that like most Garmin metrics, I think resting HR still has value if you only look at the trends rather than focusing on the absolute numbers.

toddsdn · Answer

I found the heart rate zone settings, which I had already previously set up. My resting heart rate there is 75 bpm. But Garmin is not using this number for fitness age. Also, I do not see anywhere - use average / set custom. Don't see how to post a picture here. But only thing I see is where you setup you 5 heart rate zones.

ENTER RESTING HEART RATE

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