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My High Aerobic effort always zero

First, I am not any shade of athlete, I'm just here as the 945 turned out to be a nice present for myself and a replacement for aging Edge 520 and Vivoactive HR ...

That said, I do cycle commute about 6 hours a week and I do make an effort to get slowly fitter. I have lots of Low Aerobic and some Anerobic effort but for the life of me I can not get any High Aerobic training effort to show up. I was reading that this should kick in if you do over 75% maxHR for reasonable perionds, but even yesterday on my way home pushing up a gradual incline and sitting aroun 80% maxHR for 10+ minutes I still only saw Low Aerobic + Anerobic effort.

e.g. https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/4016834090

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+1 MDPennock over 5 years ago

Correct your FTP. You have it set as 334W.

If you look under "time in zones" 97% of the time in this activity is zone 1. You need to be in zone 3+ (251W+ With this FTP) for high aerobic.

0 f|33tStA over 5 years ago in reply to MDPennock

think so too, the FTP is a little bit to high!

0 pgalbavy over 5 years ago

I just accept the automatic one when prompted. It was down at about 220W a while back and then I did some urban hills at it prompted me to update. But even back then it was low. I have no real idea what I should move it to (assuming I can). Ideas?

0 pgalbavy over 5 years ago

I've looked at the last few rides and manually updated to 210W and we'll see. Thanks for the help.

Can I assume that the prompted FTP updates should be either ignored or taken as advice rather than any reliable value?

0 f|33tStA over 5 years ago in reply to pgalbavy

i do all 8 weeks FTP Test, all other FTP changes i ignore, anyway, the Garmin FTP Test isn't good for me, bcause for my point of view the Test Protocol is wrong.

you can join the discussion here, if you want:

https://forums.garmin.com/sports-fitness/cycling/f/edge-830/171421/ftp-test-by-garmin-is-totally-wrong-and-not-the-standard-protocol/927962#927962

0 pgalbavy over 5 years ago in reply to f|33tStA

Interesting. If nothing else, I've learnt about and installed the Xert FTP data field to see what it thinks during my typical rides.