Vo2 max not updated for months

Former Member over 6 years ago

hello I have the Fenix 5 x 8 months . I do intense cycling 5 times a week 300 km and on 8 months the VO2 max is in the same has not changed.Is normal ?

0 Former Member over 6 years ago

If you have; speed, cadence and power meter in use; no.

If you are missing a power meter or speed (not 100% sure if cadence is needed, but I think it is); yes.

Then only way to get vo2 is to use "Run" -workout (treadmill/trailrun are no good), outside, with hr on and do at least 2 separate 20min long runs.

0 Former Member over 6 years ago

If you have; speed, cadence and power meter in use; no.

If you are missing a power meter or speed (not 100% sure if cadence is needed, but I think it is); yes.

Then only way to get vo2 is to use "Run" -workout (treadmill5/trailrun are no good), outside, with hr on and do at least 2 separate 20min long runs.
Power meter not have.On cycling ride have on all Fenix 5x sensors :speed ,HR,Distance height etc etc

0 DFXDFX over 6 years ago

If you do not have a power meter you will not get VO2 cycling.

0 mcalista over 6 years ago

You need both a power meter and heart rate to get VO2Max from cycling. As it sounds like you don't have a power meter, you won't get VO2Max updates.

For running VO2Max, you need heart rate and GPS (and log it as "Running" rather than a "Trail Run".)

0 Former Member over 6 years ago

Thank you all

0 Kees over 6 years ago

For a vew days problems with VO2Max i get the message running training not productive
Fenix 5x firmware 11.0

0 rickj2903 over 6 years ago

You need both a power meter and heart rate to get VO2Max from cycling. As it sounds like you don't have a power meter, you won't get VO2Max updates.

Interestingly I cycled to Parkrun yesterday morning and had my Stryd footpad on my shoe and when I checked Garmin Connect last night, for the first time ever, I have a Vo2 max reading for cycling. I don't know if Garmin have changed something or whether the Stryd can be used for cycling but something has given me a Vo2 that I didn't have before. I did have my HRM-Tri chest strap on but I have done that before when cycling.

0 mcalista over 6 years ago

Presumably it picked up the Stryd transmitting as a "Power Meter". I doubt there is anything in the ANT+ signal that says "I am cycling power meter" versus "I am a running power meter".

0 Doktorko over 6 years ago

it happened to me too, mcalista is right - powermeter is powermeter, no matter if cycling or running. Not sure if the VO2max for cycling calculated this way is good, because stryd claims their fp is not suitable for cycling.
Would be interesting to compare stryd results with normal cycling powermeter. BTW stryd should be paired as FP rather than PW, am I right? In that case this would probably not happen.

0 mcalista over 6 years ago

DOKTORKO,

Almost certainly the data would not be relevant for cycling. It takes 18-24 months of development for even dedicated cycling PM's to produce reliable power data in a range of use cases, and it has defeated a number of startup PM manufacturers. I very much doubt as to whether Stryd has put this development effort into cycling.