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Recovery Heart Rate and Doing a Cool Down

For my training, I run for a specific amount of time. Recently, I have been creating workouts on Garmin that are just 1-step workouts (ex. run 60 minutes), which allows me to look ahead at what my workouts are. However, I would like to add cool downs to some of these runs as seperate steps (ex. after a tempo run). How does adding a cool down built into my workout affect my recovery heart rate, and ultimately my recovery advisor? Should I not add my cool down to my workout on my watch, wait 2 minutes after my workout, and then run a cool down?

Also, if you have any suggestions for how I am training, please let me know.

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tmk2 over 2 years ago in reply to CharlieNotCharles +1

CharlieNotCharles said:
If you do a vigorous workout and your heart rate recovery is only like 10 bpm than you should go to ER immediately.

Even if that were true (and it isn't), this is not what we were…

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0 tmk2 over 4 years ago

Recovery heart rate has nothing to do with recovery advisor. Adding cool down to your workout can affect recovery heart rate (as your heart rate will drop during the cool down), but should have no significant impact on recovery advisor.

0 IsaacMoats over 4 years ago in reply to tmk2

What does the recovery heart rate affect then? I always thought that the recovery heart rate was used to calculate the recovery advisor. I must have been wrong in this though process then.

0 tmk2 over 4 years ago in reply to IsaacMoats

IsaacMoats said:
What does the recovery heart rate affect then?

It affects absolutely nothing. It's just a number that pops up 2 minutes after workout, just for your information. It's up to you if you do anything with that information or not.

IsaacMoats said:
I always thought that the recovery heart rate was used to calculate the recovery advisor.

Please note that recovery advisor pops up immediately after workout, while recovery heart rate takes about 2 minutes. Therefore recovery advisor cannot be influenced by recovery heart rate in any way.

0 CharlieNotCharles over 2 years ago in reply to tmk2

This is not true. Heart rate recovery is extremely important to heart heath. If you do a vigorous workout and your heart rate recovery is only like 10 bpm than you should go to ER immediately. This number is very important for cardio health

0 tmk2 over 2 years ago in reply to CharlieNotCharles

CharlieNotCharles said:
If you do a vigorous workout and your heart rate recovery is only like 10 bpm than you should go to ER immediately.

Even if that were true (and it isn't), this is not what we were discussing. I was not disputing the importance of recovery HR. I merely pointed out that this measurement taken by a garmin watch does not affect any other metric provided by the watch.

0 CharlieNotCharles over 2 years ago in reply to tmk2

It is. Quick google search will reveal how important HR recovery is. I do believe Firstbeat Analytics used the data. Looks like since garmin purchased Firstbeat they no longer include that data

www.webmd.com/.../researchers-find-heart-rate-worth-thousand-words

0 tmk2 over 2 years ago in reply to CharlieNotCharles

CharlieNotCharles said:
Quick google search will reveal how important HR recovery is.

Yes, but we were not discussing the importance of recovery hr.

CharlieNotCharles said:
I do believe Firstbeat Analytics used the data.

For what?

CharlieNotCharles said:
Looks like since garmin purchased Firstbeat they no longer include that data

They do not include it where?