Every Minute Seems to be an Intensity Minute

Former Member over 7 years ago

I am being credited with many many Intensity Minutes for no apparent reason. For example. so far this week I have been awarded over 2500 Intensity minutes but have taken only about 38000 steps, and recorded no activities. Also, my active calories being reported is also ridiculously high

Any tips on where to begin looking for a cause? Are there any settings that I should be examining?

My resting heart rate is typically around 100 and I am thinking that has something to do with it? Garmin must think that I am doing something if my heart rate is around 100 bpm ? But shouldn't it be taking the accelerator/movement data into account as well when awarding Intensity Minutes. Here's a graph of Tuesday's heart rate and movement data for the day as an example.

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0 Crispin_Ellisdon over 7 years ago

The obvious things are to ensure your resting HR and maximum HR are entered correctly on your Fenix 5 (Menu>Settings>User Profile>Heart Rate>Max. HR and Resting HR). Do a few forced syncs with Garmin Connect to ensure the values stick on the watch. I can’t remember what the default resting HR is on the watch when factory reset, but it’s certainly much lower than 100. Equally, the default Max HR is 185 and I assume you’re Max HR is higher than that if your resting is 100. It’s not unusual for some people’s hearts to not even vaguely come close to the stock “220 - age in whole years” for Max HR; I thought a 45 year old fried of mine was about to blow up when I followed a live track of his out cycling and he was hitting 210 bpm up hill, but it transpires that’s normal for him (his Max is around 215 and resting around 90). Also worth checking if you’ve got things set to use the wrist HR record to calculate your resting HR; if so you need to check the HR Widget and confirm it’s getting some sensible numbers for your average resting HR, otherwise just go back to manually entering a number that you know is correct.

0 IamTom over 7 years ago

Hi DwayneM,

I read your post, and as a doctor I am worried about your heart. If you have not had your heart rate medically investigated you MUST go to your doctor ASAP (e.g. today).
This is an abnormally high resting heart rate that needs to be investigated urgently. You need to have an ECG and perhaps other tests (depending on your medical history and examination findings).

It may be possible that your garmin is reading your heart rate incorrectly - you could try counting your own pulse to confirm this - and if this is the case there is no need to worry.

I wish you all the best,
ED Doctor

0 Former Member over 7 years ago

Hi IamTom,

No worries, lots of doctors know about my high resting heart rate. Thanks for your concern. :)

Dwayne

0 IamTom over 7 years ago

Phew!