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Intensity minutes for an activity are very wrong

Is there some way to manual edit them, or get them recalculated? I took a short run today, it recorded an average HR of 160, max 175. 3.1 Aerobic score, 2.1 Anaerobic score, exercise load of 147, and lasting 18:46. But I only get 1 minute of vigorous exercise credit and 0 minutes of moderate... That seems pretty far off compared to my last similar run.

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+1 Garmin - Chris over 2 years ago

If you continue to have a concern about your totals, please review this Support Center article:

- How Are Intensity Minutes Earned?

If your issue continues after reviewing the article, please reach out to Outdoor Product Support in your region.

0 bluefish over 2 years ago in reply to Garmin - Chris

Garmin - Chris said:
If you continue to have a concern about your totals, please review this Support Center article

The calculation of the intensity minutes of the Instinct and instinct 2 is absolutely wrong. Even if I set the setting in Connect to Zone 4 for Moderate and Zone 5 for High, I get intensity minutes even though I don't even reach Zone 4. Both instinct 1 and instinct 2 give completely wrong values. Also compared to tactix delta and tactix 7 pro.

I can reproducibly prove that the instinct 2 captures even high intensities, although not even zone 4 for Moderate (from 157bpm) is reached.

I have in the linked thread Garmin Chris already give this issue to the developers to escalate, since this is a case that is not limited to a particular FW version. The algorithm is completely wrong or the settings in Connect are completely ignored.

https://forums.garmin.com/outdoor-recreation/outdoor-recreation/f/instinct-2-series/323542/why-does-the-instinct-2-record-intensity-minutes-when-none-have-been-done