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General question - what's the difference between hiking, walking and mounteneering?

KrzysiekJar over 5 years ago

Hi,

Is there any meaningful differences for those activities on the watch?

Or it is just different screens?

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Otto-Destruct over 5 years ago +1

Walking impacts VO2max. You can read about that in FirstBeat's VO2max description: https://www.firstbeat.com/en/consumer-feature/vo2max-fitness-level/

Firstbeat can automatically detect your VO2max…

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0 5334765 over 5 years ago

As the end user primarily that.

I'm not fully educated on if walking impacts VO2max numbers. Somebody claimed it does to me, but my HR is so low for that I can't really tell, or maybe it is only if you don't run. Different activities can change how Garmin uses the data toward training metrics. For example running will be used toward VO2max wheras trail running is not.

0 Otto-Destruct over 5 years ago

Walking impacts VO2max. You can read about that in FirstBeat's VO2max description: https://www.firstbeat.com/en/consumer-feature/vo2max-fitness-level/

Firstbeat can automatically detect your VO2max fitness level during walking and running activities, using a proprietary method shown to be 95% accurate compared to laboratory measurements.

Hiking doesn't, as the variability of rough terrain can't be included in the VO2max tracking model. I don't know what "Mountaineering" is. Does this refer to the "Climb" activity, which has a pictogram of a hiker on an incline? I'd imagine it would have a similar model to "Hike."

0 KrzysiekJar over 5 years ago in reply to Otto-Destruct

Thanks! That explans a lot!

Yes, I thought about climbing ️

0 Volker over 5 years ago

There are also used different default settings (routing/avoidances) for the apps.