Indoor sports - basketball, etc

5391980 over 2 years ago

Hello All,

I wore my HRM-Pro Plus chest device today while playing about 2.5 hours of indoor basketball. It recorded the heart rates perfectly but only showed .11 miles, which is obviously incorrect. I think it tracked steps but I'm not sure where to find that. I'm assuming the .11 miles was because I still had the GPS on? I selected "Run" before I went out to play.

What is the best way to set this up so I get accurate distances, steps, etc.?

Thank you!

0 AgentMax over 2 years ago

There is no way to get accurate distance with the high variation of speed, cadence during basketball and other sports like that.

Even a Stryd will struggle in that case.

Use cardio or something similar to get HR and load.

0 5391980 over 2 years ago in reply to AgentMax

Thank you....I set up a cardio "workout." How do I turn off GPS? Let's say I was doing indoor running on a track and want to get the distance based on steps and not GPS.

0 [Redacted] over 2 years ago

Definitely not run lol. There are always third party ball sports apps that you could try.

As for GPS: Check the respective Activities and App Settings.

0 spatty999 over 2 years ago

I've tracked basketball with the watch in a gym bag, hrm tri and stryd and it works very well. Would show something like 3 miles for a 40 minute game, which seems about right.

0 5391980 over 2 years ago in reply to spatty999

How did you set up the settings?

0 spatty999 over 2 years ago in reply to 5391980

Don't recall anything special, started a cardio session with everything connected then played ball.

0 Buzzsaw50 over 2 years ago

You can add the activity "Pickleball" to your Epix Gen 2 and use that. It is very similar to other court sports and can be used with GPS turned on or off (indoor or outdoor). Before Garmin added the pickleball activity, I created a custom cardio app and used that.