Training Status - low aerobic shortage

I have my zones setup with heart rate reserve. My max heart rate is based on what I have measured in hard runs or races (like 10K) at the end. (with another watch)

I've seen this adressed in the forums more, but the only way I seem to slightly increase low aerobic is to run or cycle very low in zone 1, while to me, all activity in Zone 1 and Zone 2 should count towards low aerobic.

Does it just need to settle and measure most of it on its own (I just recently got the watch).

Gerard

0 SUPRNOVA over 1 year ago

I can get Base time while doing Z2 SUP however it needs to be (for me) 2.0 to 2.8 to be sure. Pop over 3.0 for a min and Base is moved up to Aerobic. One thing that I always get steady Base load is from Strength training.

0 Greg over 1 year ago

For me it was the same, I'd have to be basically walking to stay in what Garmin considered low aerobic or base. Zone 2 should be where you can easily carry on a conversation, find out what that means for you and tweak the zones to match. All I had to do was give it a higher number for resting heart rate in the HRR calculation.

0 GerardW. over 1 year ago

Reply to my own question. It looks like it just needed to settle and get a full months worth of data.