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Recovery time going up while sleeping

Hi,

Sometimes the recovery time does strange things. For instance, yesterday morning I went for a light run, recovery time was 26h. Fine. 14h later, at night, recovery time was 12h.. fine.

This morning, after a proper sleep (sleep score 78), min HR of 52 (good), an HRV within limits, good body battery... but on my daily report my recovery time was 20h, and "recovering as expected". Why it went up instead of down? I expected a recovery time of 5h or so at that time.

Any explanation? Am I missing something?

Best,
Kurt.-

0 global_local over 1 year ago

"The primary basis for recovery time recommendations involves analyzing and interpreting performance data from your recorded activities. The amount of strain resulting from your workouts is interpreted based on a combination of your current fitness level and recent training history. It is measured in terms of excess post-exercise oxygen consumption (EPOC) based training load. Behind-the-scenes adjustments are made to these recommendations based on the amount of time remaining on your recovery timer at the start of your workout, trends in your VO2 max fitness level and your acute (7-day) to chronic (28-day) training load ratio."

0 kurtie_bcn over 1 year ago in reply to global_local

Thanks for the answer, but I don't see any explanation there to recovery time going up during sleep... EPOC always go down when not exercising AFAIK, specially if you are sleeping. I think it is a bug, never saw that in my previous 745 or 645. If it is not a bug, it is difficult to grasp why recovery is going up when it shoud go down (sleeping!).

0 global_local over 1 year ago in reply to kurtie_bcn

Recovery time is expected one. If your sleep/rest behavior not meets Garmins expectation, you get something like this. And not a last single day, but a whole last week.

0 MEH_ER404 over 1 year ago

It's happening often when I have a rough training, before going to sleep I have 21 hours of recovery for instance, after waking up it's 36 hours, I suggest to check your overnight HRV, if there a fluctuation and drastic ups and downs, means your body has not rested as it's expected and you need longer time to recover but I never stop my next training if my watch suggests longer recovery time. ;)