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Stress measured during cycling activity (Edge)

jome90
over 5 years ago

When wearing the watch during a cycling activity that is recorded with an Edge, stress is still tracked tracked by the watch. This leads to very high values during this activity.

The all day stress score would give better results if these high stress values are removed after syncing the activity to Garmin connect. In addition, it would be nice if the all day heart rate values tracked by the watch could be replaced by the more accurate heart rate values obtained from a chest strap connected to the Edge during the cycling activity.

Move IQ is enabled and usually casual bike rides are recognised but not workouts I track on the edge.

Of course an easy work around would be to stop wearing the watch during the activity but I would prefer to wear it.

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    Why not record the activity on the 945 if you are already wearing it? I have an older edge 810 which doesn't support many of the training metrics of the 945 so i have little choice.

    What i do is record on both, but have the edge set to not auto sync (otherwise you get duplicate activities).

    If you have a more modern edge that supports extended display maybe have a look at that. Then you record on the 945 and the edge just shows data from the 945. The big downside here is if you ride with power you can't use the lap button on the edge to mark intervals. If they make the lap button work in extended display I'd be updating my 810!

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    This seems like common sense. I wonder why they still dont enact it? such an oversight.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    I find that once Move IQ detects the activity, stress is no longer recorded. So really only the opening few minutes.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to mcalista

    Walking: you're right.

    Cycling: activity is detected, but still records it as stress..

    Cycling just to go from A to B, not for sports, shouldn't be recorded as stress at the cost of the body battery.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Haas

    After getting my second covid shot, I now realize what "stress" is on garmin. It was amazing to see how accurate it was!