Obeying HRV status for training

I would not trust this watch on whether to workout or not. I had no saved activities and this watch has been pushing me to workout every day with no testin days. And workouts are long, its expecting me to run 1h30 min with no running experience. Also hrv status always balanced. 

I agree! The Daily Suggested Workouts doesnt seem to look at training experience. But that is on the advised workout part. On the recovery part, especially HRV, we are talking about measured values. So I am tending to look a little different to that.   

Interesting. Thanks for Sharing! What are your exact criteria weather or not to train? Are you looking at the HRV Status only? Or also to Training Readiness? And what for example if Training Readiness is in the green and HRV unbalanced? Would you still go out training? In other words, where exactly do you draw the line?

Thanks again! 

i use the training readiness, i train when it is in the blue or purple zone. i try to train just hard enough to have max 24 hours recovery time(training 6 days a week running /cycling). training before the resting day is a longer training where i aim for 30-48 hour recovery time. 

if HRV is unbalanced i do not train this means something is wrong, getting sick, trained to much or to hard, not recovered yet, etc. so my body needs to recover first to be able to train productively.

Clear, thanks! 

We are more or less in the same situation. I also cycle and run and workout 6 days a week. And trying to keep the recovery time within 24 hours was also something I already applied. And in case I am not fully recovered I only do a low aerobic workout.

I will give your TR and HRV criteria a go and see how it works out for me. Upcoming October I do have and multi-day cycling ultra and I am curious how this will work out. 

Thanks again for your replies! 

HRV Status is all based on how your heart rate varied during your sleep. If for some reason it can't record for a few days, the number drops.

The number dropping into "unbalanced" and then "low" can be caused by many factors unrelated to workout load. For me, eating a large meal too late in the day is one.

True. A single HRV value is a very volatile parameter.  That's why the "HRV Status"  is watching the trend instead of each absolute value.  To my knowledge the status is based on the 7-day average where the value of each of these seven days is the average of the nightly recorded HRV values for that day. So a lot of noise and spikes are already filtered out.

And like most parameters it is only telling a (small) part of the story. You always have to look at the bigger picture.
That being said. Until now my HRV values and trend seem to be pretty much in line with my trainingload and fatique.
That makes it a valuable parameter for me.

I love HRV status, but I do not use it to guide my training. I primarily use it to make tweaks to my routine/diet/etc. and know if I have been doing a good job getting good rest at night. I have yet to run a race, or have a training that gave me 48+ hrs of recovery while having the status. As a daily runner how hard I train is usually based on how my legs are feeling and Garmin can't predict that. I feel it in the first few strides.

I always wonder how it gets to such numbers. After heavy practice session (basketball) I get 5 days recovery notice. Two days later my recovery time is at 0 even if I ride bike in the meantime. 
j don’t use the numbers to tell me when to train I just don’t why I am lazy or tired during rides or runs and when I don’t feel great I look at the watches to find out there is reason I don’t feel that but most of the time I just go for go for a run/ride and try as hard as I can at the state I am at.