Beginner strength exercises in Garmin

Depends on what you want it to do. You won't get any progress evaluation from the Garmin system anyway. All the right exercise type does is showing the correct muscle group in the summary graphic and act as a training log (you can add a comment that it was a therapeutic training and not a full one).

You could just use the normal exercise or a variation. For example there are pushups on knees (which is an easier variation). It wont change the recorded data.

Yes, I just want to record it, really. For stupid badges and just general motivation as tracking for some reason motivates me in doing these boring, yet super necessary exercises and for the Training Status. At the same time it annoys me that I can't track the exact exercises, and hence I get a graphic display for muscles I didn't train and possibly a too big boost for Training Status. I guess we all get motivated by other things, right?

Exercice type does not matter for badges or training status, they are just for the graphic and maybe future evaluation features if Garmin decides to add them (there is some basic exercises based summary data but it's not really that useful), you could record just an empty strength session for that without set tracking.

If you want the muscle graphics look for the easier variations like the knee pushups so you don't confuse it with real pushups later (or if Garmin some day adds some decent summary based on the exercises).

Thanks a lot. I thought that easier exercises might have a lesser effect on training status. If not then there's not really much to worry. And maybe, in a few weeks I might be allowed to do proper exercises again. So lets see :)

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effect on training status

That's just time and heartrate.

Seriously? I often get more training effect from walking compared to running for the same duration. And for walking my HR certainly is lower. I think my watch had too much booze.

That's different sports profiles, excercises in the strength profile don't have any effect. You could record it as one continues set. 

They certainly give a training load (but obviously not anything for VO2max). My previous strength training gave me a load of 99 and counted towards anerobic while the one today gave me a training load of 50ish and counted as base and added towards Low Aerobic.

As I said, all basesd on your heart rate and not the excercises or weight you log. 

I really need to look into this more as it looks buggy af. It just doesn't make sense that a walk with a lower HR gives a higher training load than a run with higher HR over the same period of time.