Fenix 5X Plus doesn't show recovery time

Since 11/1 weks I have my brandnew Fenix 5X Plus.
I activated in "Physiological Values" the showing of the recovery time and all the other stuff.
Now i was several times swimming and biking but the Widget doesn't show any fitness state and no VO2max and - thats the important thing - no recovery time. it only shows the training state as "optimal" and the lactate threshold I gave manually (after a test). With the values of that test I configured also the user-stuff as HFmax and all the other stuff.
Does anybody know why that could happen?

Thank you - hampisport

0 ars.fabula over 6 years ago

Do you get a training effect value when biking ? I'm assuming it's normal you don't get recovery info when swimming because there is no cardio info.

0 Former Member over 6 years ago

hi,

https://www8.garmin.com/manuals/webhelp/fenix5/EN-US/GUID-3E971364-A756-4057-B22D-C41250B2A82B.html

my experience:
VO2max needs always HRM (optical or electrical)

- VO2max is calculated from running directly
- VO2max is calculated from cycling only if you have power meter

in both cases you have to make hard efforts to get an estimate VO2max.

I bike also a lot. Because of the Varia Radar, I put my fenix on the handlebar, and I use a HRM tri-sport (also Garmin).
I do see the training effect after each ride, after save, I go up/down.
when I finished the ride yesterday at 19:00 I saw something like 21h recovery - this appears short time (if I remember correctly, but triggers the countdown in Recovery Time screen inperformance widget, see below)

now.
- enter the historical activities...and check if you see the TE training effects:

- enter Performance widget:

- if you push start button you will have more infos
- scroll up/down - VO2max (mine was never calculated as I do not run) , Training load, and Recovery Time ...

...Recovery Time- that counts down the recovery, now after 16hours shows 5h - make sense (21h initially)

do you see these?

hope this helps,
robert

0 Former Member over 6 years ago

hi,

after today ride :

after I save the activity, briefly the Recovery Time and Training Effect appear.
sometimes I miss these.

but from the screen you are now::

scroll down to achievments:

enter an you will see Training Effect and Recovery time:

hope this helps,
robert

0 hampisport over 6 years ago

Hi Robert

I see all the infos except the recovery page.

I called the support and they told me, that it is absolutely necessary to do two runs with HF (each 10 Min.) or a bike activity (with a powermeter) that the recovery time will be activated.
I saw this in the settings-manual but they wrote it in German as a recomendation and not as a must...
So I will do this as soon as it stops raining and storming in Switzerland.

Thank you for helping me.

Best Hanspeter