Do manual edits affect Training Status and Recovery Advisor?

I use the Indoor Ride activity for my Peloton rides and then after I’m done I manually enter distance, speed, output, and cadence avg/max values. Do those manual inputs affect Training Status and Recovery Advisor? It doesn’t seem to affect Recovery Advisor because the number of recovery hours didn’t change after I entered the values but I though I’d check.

A while back, there was mention of Virtual Bike in the works - would that theoretically make any difference (maybe based on any folks’ experience with Virtual Run)?

0 PaulDN81 over 4 years ago

No, it does not make a difference. Training status and recovery advisor are based mostly on HRV data, workout time, and other data the watch already has using algorithms from Firstbeat and as far as I know distance, speed, etc are not factored into the calcualtions. As long as you are recording good heart rate data it should be reasonably accurate.

Here is Garmin's explanation of all those metrics and how they work: discover.garmin.com/.../