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Anaerobic effect is a joke

Former Member
Former Member over 5 years ago

This was my 1 hour, 10 minutes weightlifting excercise with Anaerobic effect 0.

Yes, it was not the most intense workout in the human history, but I'm pretty sure half of my body will hurt the next day, yet my Garmin thinks that if I watched some TV, it would be the same (exaggerating).

Hit 4 on aerobic is queite easy, has anyone ever accomplished 4 on Anaerobic? My top 10 anaerobic effect are all from running (not high - low intensity running, just 30 minutes constant runs, with all time high 2,8.

Providing useless and not working feature, yet using it in marketing, many would call it a scam.

Another reason might be i'm running on software 2,20. Why you ask? Well, with software 3.00 and higher, the bluetooth connectivity barely works and after every activity I had to completely forgot the watches from BT a install it again.

Great hardware, software is a bad joke.

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to Ryu

    Nope, I picked weight lifting as you did.

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    The term "anaerobic effect" is a bit confusing. It is used in this context to refer to high intensity exercise beyond lactate threshold.  While it's true that weightlifting is "anaerobic," it will not get you over your lactate threshold. If your heart rate does get that high, it will be only for a few seconds. 

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to JRMiler

    I tend to agree that this can all be a bit confusing, and honestly, I'm not sure exactly how to make it less confusing. Maybe it helps to think about it from the perspective of aerobic activity. Going for a long walk at a moderate, steady pace is absolutely aerobic activity. The vast, vast majority of the ATP your body uses is produced aerobically. And yet, a long walk at a moderate, steady pace, wouldn't be expected to produce a substantial Aerobic Training Effect score. The reason is because despite producing a good deal of energy aerobically, you aren't performing in such a way that is likely to significantly stimulate the development of increased maximum capacity.

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    0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to HermanB

    So you are telling us we are doing anaerobic excercise, but not that much, that it would give any effect? My muscle gain begs to differ.

    Anaerobic effect is not confusing at all. It has very precise definition. Firstbeat alghoritm bends that definition to favor running activity.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

    I have very little doubt that your strength training is improving your strength or showing up in the form of muscle gains. What I was saying (trying to say) is that measurement of anaerobic performance and anaerobic performance capacity doesn't look much like strength tests or muscle measurements. They are different things. Unlike VO2max which is essentially a definition metric for aerobic performance capacity, there isn't an agreed upon metric for measuring anaerobic performance capacity. To the extent that such a test does exist, you will find something that looks a lot like a Wingate test.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os_mGlY5eVA <--- I just skimmed this, but it looks like a pretty normal Wingate test with some background information.