The last time I recorded an “activity” was one week ago. Yet, yesterday the recovery part of the “Training Status” widget had calculated some recovery time for me. Recently, I have been fighting a bad cold. Sleep has been difficult, stress measurements quite high throughout the day, and body battery low and not recovering much at night. Considering how I have been feeling, this is unsurprising. As a related aside, I have noticed (as have others on this forum) that in firmware version 19.20 the stress measurements are too high, sleep measurements out of whack, and body battery never properly recovers. Nonetheless, while I have been ill these parameters have been even worse than the “new normal” in 19.20.
So after seeing this unexpected recovery time yesterday, I rested and recovered a bit throughout the day. This morning when I woke up, I was fully recovered but this afternoon after some light work (and still feeling a bit ill) the watch had again calculated that I needed a couple hours of recovery. Clearly, the watch can tell my body is working hard to fight off the cold.
I guess I am surprised. I thought recovery was linked to and calculated only after an activity was recorded. One keeps hearing that Apple and other are using HRV data to predict/establish illness. The underlying principle must be the same, I just didn’t know Garmin had been monitoring recovery outside of exercise. Has anyone else noticed this? If so, since when?
