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Vo2Max and Sport Activities

Former Member over 5 years ago

Hello Everyone.

I've been owning garmin watches for years now and I've always been more than happy with every device.

Recently, I've started to dig into sport science and since then I've been asking myself a lot of questions about health / stats / data.

Most of the time I can answer them with logic or with my great friend google.

But this time I cannot.

1 - Is there a difference with vo2max estimation between different sport ?

And by that, i mean sport from the same categories : Run, Trail, Treadmill, ... etc

With run, it seems that vo2max estimation is taking into account the correlation between HR and speed. Am I correct ?

If so, when you use "Trail", most of the time you're climbing ( or descending ). Does the watch take it into account ?

2 - Does wearing your watch 24/7 affects Vo2Max estimation, Recovery Estimation ... etc ? Or does it takes into account only the workout you do ?

Ps : sorry for my level of english ( i'm french )

0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to SAHO

I've done a test few days ago and ... there is an non zero performance condition value in the fit file but there is no performance condition graph showing in garmin connect :)

0 Dr Phil over 5 years ago

There’s no need to dig into sport science to better understand Garmin and VO2. The answers to your questions have been addressed many times over many devices over many threads. Do a search for VO2, and/or Firstbeat. That way you’ll get the answers you need that are specifically releasing to now GARMIN estimate VO2max