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Training readiness, morning report, health snapshot - your experience

dizpark
over 2 years ago

How useful do you find the 'new' (as compared to 945) training/health metrics on 955 (or any other garmin watch that supports these). A bit of background , I am a satisfied owner of Garmin 945 (but the screen has started delaminating, will contact Garmin about this).  The 945 does all that I need. When purchasing it I was excited about all the training/ health metrics that the watch offered back then. But over time, I have realized that I have not much use for Training status and other metrics that 945 offers. With 955 Garmin developed these further - an on paper at least, these new consolidated metrics look more useful and actionable. But what has been your experience with these?  Are they an improvement over 945 or just ... meh...not essential at all.  

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    This past week, I learned something new about training load - if you do a lot of cross-training, you need sport-specific zones, otherwise you'll likely see training load numbers that seem "off". And that can affect recovery time which impacts training readiness.

    Up until last week, I've been using my 955 primarily for running (well over 90% of my total aerobic training). Training load measurements in general seemed pretty reasonable, whether running outdoors or on a treadmill. I don't have a footpod so on treadmill all the watch has is my heart rate and an estimate of pace which can be quite far off. But even then, I would have large differences between recovery run training loads and long run/tempo/threshold/vo2max efforts (typically a factor of 2 to 3 difference).

    But since mid last week, I've been cross-training due to a foot injury. Mostly bike (indoor machine, and I don't have a power meter so my bike workouts are going purely off heart rate). I've found that on bike, my heart rate in general is a lot lower than when I run at the same effort (like 10-15 bpm lower). It's probably due at least partially to the fact that my legs aren't conditioned for cycling (since I haven't been doing much of it before). But because of the lowered heart rate, my training loads end up being basically half of what I'd expect them to be, and that turns all of my bike sessions into base workouts with 1 day recovery.