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Recovery Time

kitedavo
over 5 years ago

I've noticed my 5+ doesn't accumulate the recovery times. I've done a few days with 2 activies and it shows the last activity's recovery time not the combined recovery times like the Suunto's.

Is this how they work?

regards Dave

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    Yes. In Garmin devices recovery time does not accumulate, but rather takes the longest recovery time from all activities.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to tmk2

    Thank you. I wonder if Garmin would consider changing this to accumulation to say 120 hrs. At the end of the day you train again before the rest period has expired many times and imo it would be beneficial to know a total.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to kitedavo

    Physiologically it does not work like that. Recovery time is not a simple matter of adding together the total hours per individual activity. A previous session will affect the recovery time of a subsequent session but not necessarily easy to evaluate. It will depend on the nature of the activity, the muscle groups used as well as the intensity. Remember, these times are for guidance not for prescription.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Stig E. I.

    Am I right to say they can be combined so long as all aspects of the activity are taken into account? Not just a straight addition?

    If that's correct then Garmin could add multiply activities within the a 24 hour period.

    You could do a half marathon then a short 1hr stationary rowing activity and show a 1hr recovery. Doesn't make sense to me.

  • +1 over 5 years ago in reply to kitedavo
    kitedavo said:
    You could do a half marathon then a short 1hr stationary rowing activity and show a 1hr recovery.

    But that's not how it works. If you do a half-marathon and it produces a recovery time of 48 hours, and then on the same (or next) day you do a light rowing activity that on itself would produce 1 hour recovery time, then the recovery time indicated by your garmin device will be the longer one, i.e. 48 hours minus time elapsed since the half-marathon.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to kitedavo

    According to First Beat, they are combined rather than a straight addition (or, more specifically, the time remaining on the counter is taken into account when displaying the recovery counter after subsequent activities):

    "How does it work? When you complete and save your session, the amount of time your body needs to complete the work of restoration and adaptation is displayed on a countdown timer. Countdowns range from 0 hours to 4 days. Key elements of the calculation include the Training Effect of your completed session and the amount of time remaining on your Recovery Time countdown at the start of your session. Recovery times are not simply added together, but are instead re-evaluated by the Firstbeat analytics engine using performance data collected from your session."

    To be honest, I haven't paid much attention to how the recovery times display after doing multiple activities. Maybe I'll test out some back-to-back activities soon and see how the recovery time reacts.