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Load significantly less for similar effort activities since 19.10 update

LouW0312
over 3 years ago

Since updating to the 19.10 update two days ago the load after activities is recording significantly lower when compared to other similar activities. 

For example, I ran 12km today & it calculated 51 load, vs a 7.7km run on Wednesday (pre-software update), which recorded 240 load. I actually ran slower of the Wednesday run & the zones captured off my HR monitor match this. I always exercise with my HR monitor (including today), so I know my readings are as accurate as they can be.

What’s the go here? How can this be rectified? It’s messing with my training stats & its pissing me off. 

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to LouW0312

    ANT+ is another connection technology - it's older than BT, and with ANT+ IIRC it's a one way communication - the belt sends, the watch doesn't talk back as such.....

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    I was never on 19.10 but I went from 18.71b to 19.20 and I'm not seeing this.

    On the previous beta I did see an activity report 0 and 0 for TE and aTE with a Training Load of 0. After update to 19.20 I spotted the maxHR on the watch was too low (it was correct in Garmin Connect) but after manually setting this on the watch all has been fine.

    I do not use the internal HR, always external belts via ANT+

    This is my 4 week load so about 50% of this is on 19.20, and I can't spot any drop off.

  • +1 over 3 years ago in reply to 5135968

    Updated 1/24/2022:

    If you have continue to have any issues with Vo2, Training Effect, or Exercise Load, please update your watch software. The issue was resolved with software version 20.30.

    Original Message:

    Our engineers are working on resolving the issues as quickly as possible. If you would like to be added to the tracking case, I will be happy to add you.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Garmin - Chris

    I am using Polar OH1 with bluetooth. I have chagrd that now to ANT+. Will train tomorrow. Had short ride today with fenix eatch on the wrist and normal readings on training load (aerobic, anaerobic, calories and intensity minutes). 

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Richard K.

    Trained with Polar OH1 connected with ANT+ and the result are the same as with Bluetooth. I cycle for 76 minutes with 16 min zone 5, 52 min zone 4, 8 minutes zone 3. Aerobic effect 0.7 and anaerobic 0.0. training load 7. 

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Richard K.

    61 minutes indoor ride today, Polar H10, ANT+ 

    aTE 0.2 TE 3.0 Load 91

    no zone 5, zone 4 16%, zone 3 37%, zone 2 23%, zone 1 6%

    I tend to do this most Tuesdays and that looks pretty typical historically for me.

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    Hey all,

    Just wanted to post an update here that I finally got it working correctly again after installing the 19.74 beta firmware that I received from Garmin via email.

    It took 1.5 months to fix it. It could have been worse. But I certainly was hoping for a quicker fix, at least at the beginning. Now it will take another 4 weeks before my performance stats are reasonable again.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to ANYBERRY

    Thanks for the update! I wonder why I haven’t received an email from them yet, that’s disappointing since I reported this issue around the 24 August. Good to hear they got it sorted though. 

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to LouW0312

    No email for me either. I had a few days a month or so ago where it seemed to get better but then it dripped again and although i’m not training much this month, i did a hard 1hr  bike interval session last week and the training load came out at 22! Hope Garmin will send me the update soon!

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to LouW0312

    That's weird. But it turns out the beta release is also available in a new thread here in the forum, so you can get it from there: forums.garmin.com/.../fenix-6-series---19-74-public-beta