FR255/s Heat and Altitude Acclimination

Hi,

I have been using my FR255s for a year. The manual says that "Your watch displays heat and altitude corrected VO2 max. values when you are acclimating to high heat environments or high altitude."

I have heat and altitude acclimination pages on garmin connect however It never gets updated even if i have higher temperature and altitude workout periods.

The updates has not fixed it yet. Can you please help me to solve the issue.

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0 Ben 3 months ago

FR255 has no heat acclimation, unfortunately

0 tcosta465 3 months ago in reply to Ben

Yes, you're supposedly right. However... from time to time I get heat acclimation updated after some running or trail activities. And, if I rest for a few days afterwards, it also updates daily with decreasing values. From my experience, it actually looks like the watch supports heat acclimation but with an erratic behavior.

BTW, every time I go for a bike ride with my Edge 830, heat acclimation gets recorded on Connect.

0 Ben 3 months ago in reply to tcosta465

Do You keep the spo2 ON ? where do you see those values on the watch?

0 tcosta465 3 months ago in reply to Ben

What do you mean by spo2? And I see those values on Garmin Connect.

0 Ben 3 months ago in reply to tcosta465

is the pulsoximeter

0 tcosta465 3 months ago in reply to Ben

ah ok. Yes it is on, but taking readings only during sleep. Why do you ask?

0 Ben 3 months ago in reply to tcosta465

well, I bought my fr255 2y ago and never had readings about heat acclimation so that's weird , I keep the pulsoximeter off so maybe that's the reason

0 9558146 3 months ago in reply to Ben

That's strange, the manual says differently and there is no answer from garmin.

0 S.M.R. 3 months ago in reply to 9558146

When you say "there is no answer from garmin" , did you contact support. This is a user forum so most times you won't see an answer. I've found support quite helpful when contacted.

0 sgreenstonenj 3 months ago

If you are seeing it in Garmin Connect, do you have any other Garmin devices like a bike computer? Edge devices have heat acclimation.