What counts as "training" for Activity Class?

Former Member over 7 years ago

Hi guys,

Does walking count as "training" for Activity Class setting?

I work in an office so I'm sedentary during the day. I lift weights 3-4 times a week (every other day) for 50 minutes each where I do 4 exercises x 3 sets. I also walk to work and back which is 2.1km each way.

This means if I don't count walking then I train 3.5x a week for about 3 hours total. Otherwise I train 8.5x a week for 7 hours total.

I guess it for now it doesn't make that much of a difference since my Activity Class is something like 7 either way, but I was curious about this in case I start biking in the summer (too cold in Montreal right now haha) or doing other activities.

In general I think I'm in OK fitness shape, 6'0.5" (184 cm) and 159 lb (72 kg) and my resting heart rate is around 38.

I'm not sure what my resting heart rate is exactly since I only figured out how to wear the watch properly yesterday, I had it for two weeks though. Prior it would slide over my wrist bone and I think it resulted in lower readings since Garmin Connect is reporting my 7-day average as 33 bpm but this can't be.

I'm mostly asking about this because I would really like my reported calories to be as accurate as possible to put my mind at ease :D

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TomasMelbourne over 7 years ago +1

I believe (but am not 100% certain, so feel free to ignore me if you know better) the Activity Class setting impacts the VO2max estimation and the LTHR estimation, both of which in turn influences the…

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0 HermanB over 7 years ago

Well, tankov, if you true HRmax is higher than 220-age, then, yes, the auto-update HRmax will work just fine. If your true HRmax is lower than 220-age, then it won't - since the auto-detect really only works in one direction. It's probably better described as a peak catcher.

0 wojtek_b over 7 years ago

Just a comment, that if you have Index Scale, if your activity class is 8 or higher, the scale uses "athlete mode" to calculate your body fat, etc, I would actually qualify to the class 8, but the "athlete mode" on the scale is somehow broken, thus I changed it to a lower class. Good to hear, it is not used for anything else :)