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How to increase "low aerobic" load?

C.sco
over 5 years ago

My "load focus" is always horrendously low in the "low aerobic" category. But I don't understand how I can possibly increase it.

For example, my January load focus says:

Anaerobic: 149 (right in the middle of the optimal range)
High Aerobic: 692 (waaaay over the optimal range)
Low Aerobic: 15 (waaaaaaaaaaay below the optimal range)

This month, I have done everything from running several 5k's, to mountaineering, to casual hikes with my son.

This last weekend, I did an 11 mile hike, with an average HR of 100. How many Low Aerobic load points did I get for that? 3.

How the heck am I supposed to get my Low Aerobic points up to > 100 when it only gives me 3 points for a 10 mile hike? Am I supposed to do 270 more miles of hiking?

I did a 2 mile light jog yesterday, and got like 100 High Aerboic load points, and 0 Low Aerobic points. So if walking gets me almost no points, and jogging only gets my High Aerobic points, the result is I'm perpetually "severely" low on Low Aerobic points.

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    Or, if none of what was said here satisfies you, you may disregard (pause the training) this piece of software when it is complete BS, pardon my French! And get on with your life. Obviously you have an amazing lifestyle. I met someone who nearly had a heart attack because she was trying to get the group challenge or something... sigh.

    People, I know that none of these products encourage it, but you still have the right to be smart!

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    Or, if none of what was said here satisfies you, you may disregard (pause the training) this piece of software when it is complete BS, pardon my French! And get on with your life. Obviously you have an amazing lifestyle. I met someone who nearly had a heart attack because she was trying to get the group challenge or something... sigh.

    People, I know that none of these products encourage it, but you still have the right to be smart!

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    I actually don’t get why the app has to keep my exercise focus on low aerobic exercises. I’m a runner and that’s where my interest lies. The app should be adaptive to individual preferences of workout. 

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to tapuzzo

    Thanks.  I will try this. I’ve tried a lot of things. I had a 27 mile run that was mostly in zone 2 and still had a low aerobic shortage. I also hike a lot and I’m always chronically low. 

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to 8062993

    That would be weird. The app doesn’t encourage you to continue your old habits, rather it suggests you to mix your training and include low aerobic, high aerobic and anaerobic training sessions. Not doing so is fine, just don’t expect the best training results.

    Low aerobic training is meant for training type I muscle fibers. If you want to focus on only training type II muscle fibers, that’s fine. No one, not even Garmin, will stop you.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to TexasIndia

    Aerobic Training Effect will increase with either intensity or duration (or both). Low intensity, but long duration will still result in a high aerobic training effect. What was the aerobic TE for this particular training? If it’s above 3.5 that training will probably count as high aerobic, despite being running solely in zone 2.

    To increase low aerobic training load, keep it short *and* low intensity (zone 2 should be fine). Keep an eye on your aerobic TE, end the training before it reaches 3 (of the training is really low intensity you may be able to stretch it to 3.5). Repeat often to get a higher total low aerobic training load. A high low aerobic training load is almost impossible to attain in one training.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to 4730146

    I still think this is żonę 2 only. If I would dig more, I could find probably higher training effect with Base. 

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to 4730146

    That was cycling for 5 hours. 

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to 4730146

    that's not true

    just majority of your excercise should be in Zone2

    (as you can see maxHR was at 189bpm, whichi s ~97%HRMax for me, but it was only one ~10 mins climb which I did at threshold/vo2max effort)

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to razz

    Yes, I fully agree. I can also see low aerobic effort in trainings that exceeded zone 2 for short period of time. But you never know how much is that to qualify for High effort. Sometimes I train light to stick in Z2, but at the trening summary I receive tempo effect. Garmin will never tell us their know-how.