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Nap feature is recording chilling on the couch as naps

Amund Andre Hole
over 1 year ago

When laying on the couch I get it recorded as naps, I think the nap feature should be non-automatic and required an enable/disable. At least a possibility for people to decide if they want it auto tracked or not, cause as it is now, it’s recording too many naps that are not naps.

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  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to _Mike
    _Mike said:
    I've been credited with a nap time which equates to the length of the timer

    This is always the case for me.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to _Mike

    The few times that i checked the naps i set an alarm only on my phone.

    Nap started recording(both with and without the sleep mode active) 5-10 minutes after i put away the phone and finished 1-2 minutes after the alarm, on the phone, started to ring.

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    Agreed. In fact both the Sleep and Nap detection features are very tardy. They are just not accurate. I find training readiness also very inaccurate. You havent worked out for 3days, you feel fit as a fiddle but since you had a poor HRV, it will show poor sleep and hence drag your training readiness towards very poor.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to 6205396

    Yeah, that's the thing at really bugs me. The training readiness is always poor because I go out and ride whatever the watch says and I feel good but my recovery time constantly increases and the watch says I'm not ready to train. They definitely need to change some options like a training readiness override or something to help it see that you feel better than it thinks or an option to say you want it to be really safe, less safe or you want to go all out for a week.  

    If I do a 5 day bikepacking trip, I'll have one day of riding before my watch says I need to rest for the next 48 even though I'm sweet to cycle for the next 4 straight daysnso the watch gives me no help other than analysing the data to see how I'm doing, which I do anyway but still.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to Raineyea

    Maybe you should not care what your watch is telling you because all the “scores” etc are proxies and not very accurate. I think quite many coaches give an advice to just turn off all the metrics in the watch that are not direct measurements.

    I find most metrics entertaining without any base for real value. What you should do is to learn the numbers that give you real insight and how your body feels then make decisions based on that.

    Good numbers are direct measurements like RHR, HRV, sleep length, training load etc and not the ones that are driven from real measurements. 

    I think the only exception are the the numbers which are averaged because you can look trends or compare your daily or last 4-5 days values to longer timeline averages.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to frnkr

    I do use analyze the metrics pretty much only look at the ones that are direct and real-time measurements such as Sleep, power meter readings, HR etc 

    Thing I don't get is why Garmin can't seem to give me good advice based on the reading other than constantly rest. I go out and ride my bike, climb etc anyway so it would be good if Garmin can fall in line how active someone is. Their algorithm seems to playing it very safe. 

  • +1 over 1 year ago in reply to Raineyea

    Update March 22, 2024: 

    Our engineers have indicated there have been improvements made to the nap detection included with the Q1 Public Update software version 16.22 now available. So if you have not already, I would recommend updating this using Garmin Express. 

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to Garmin-Laurie
    Garmin-Laurie said:
    have been improvements made to the map detection

    I guess you meant nap detection 

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to SETM
    SETM said:
    I guess you meant nap detection 

    Yes, thank you for pointing this out. It is now corrected. 

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to Garmin-Laurie

    False nap detected today on 16.22 an hour after I got up. Only 20 minutes, but I was sitting on the couch with tablet in hand browsing stuff on the internet.

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