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Why does swimming give so few training load points?

3478351 over 3 years ago

1 hour and 20 minutes swimming give me the same number of points as 20 minutes easy running.

That can’t be right, can it?

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3478351 over 3 years ago in reply to FabioSaitta +1

I'm not the fastest swimmer but this only gave 33 load points

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0 PaulEllliot over 3 years ago

Last week I swam a mile, doing 100 yrd intervals, and had an exercise load of 130,aerobic score of 3.2 (impacting tempo), and anaerobic score of 1.6.

I can only assume (1) watch defective, (2) your settings for your profile (age, weight, max and min heart rate, etc) is incorrect, or (3) you swam very very easy--which after 1 hr 20 min, I doubt.

0 FabioSaitta over 3 years ago

https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/9799543891?share_unique_id=102

https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/9800053078?share_unique_id=105

56 minutes swimming 65 load

30 minutes running 50 load

0 3478351 over 3 years ago in reply to FabioSaitta

I'm not the fastest swimmer but this only gave 33 load points

0 FabioSaitta over 3 years ago in reply to 3478351

you have to check second label (for the load) and the last label with heart beat

0 FabioSaitta over 3 years ago in reply to 3478351

may you share you workout link like this ? https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/9799543891?share_unique_id=102 is better to understand

0 3478351 over 3 years ago in reply to FabioSaitta

connect.garmin.com/.../9757741386

0 FabioSaitta over 3 years ago in reply to 3478351

I suppose you are young so the heart beat was very low .... my max heart beat is 160 so I was in the Zone 3 while you were in the Zone 2

here is the different scoring for a similar workout