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HRV, low state for a long time

Thom@s

My HRV has been too low for 4 weeks. I think the watch is measuring wrong. I'm healthy and everything is as it was. No change in lifestyle, sleep, stress, everything ok. My Training Intensity is rather less now.

Does anyone have the same experience?

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  • 0 in reply to burns3

    Set as %LTHR by Garmin

  • 0 in reply to DaKo

    For marathon training  for 3.40 no way 5.00 is an easy pace. Hey, Kipchoge's recovery pace is 6.20-6.30 (things might've changed, that is dated 2018-2019 (he had wr in 2018). Do you really think he is too slow? 

    While max HR looks really high (i'd double check that) I have a friend of mine who has similarly high, so at least reasonable. LTHR hr and tempo also sort of match.

    But hr zones are no way even close to correct, as you mentioned your easy is close to your LT, that is but easy. Where did you get those numbers?

    Your easy is up to 140-145, 155 is max and I'd not treat 155 as easy. And yes, you can run at 7/km and 8/km. Many new runners believe they are different (including myself), but they are not. Definitely. You'll get much better training and results if you slow down. Does take time. 

    Id question all these zones including LT and max HR and control those manually. 

  • 0

    I've been struggling with this as well for the past month or two and decided to do a reset to default settings last weekend.
    Since then everything is back to normal for me. (FR955 Solar, software 17.26)

  • 0 in reply to DaKo

    I think your zone percentages are high. Your LTHR(177) should be the high end of Z4, not Z3  

    Try these

    Z5  >100%

    Z4  95-100%

    Z3  90-95%

    Z2  85-90%

    Z1  60-85%

  • 0 in reply to burns3

    found out that if i change setting of zones to %maxHR instead of %LTHR, the zones drop an entire level. So according to %maxHR my Z2 Easy run is between 136 and 154, and based on %LTHR Z2 is between 154-168. That big diffenrence is not OK. In general LTHR will be approximately 90% of maxHR, and that is correct in my case. Something is off track here.

  • 0 in reply to DaKo

    That sounds like it shall be. As for lthr, just typed your lthr (178 you mentioned?) To the first link I googled. Close

    https://www.8020endurance.com/80-20-zone-calculator/

    Ps, as your tempo run - good you felt good. Bad you developed wrong things in your body. :-)

  • 0 in reply to DaKo

    Switching from %LTHR to %maxHR and back seem to reset the levels! Now the zones are like the above, with Z2 between 80 and 89% Zo between 136 and 154 bpm. Beats me.

  • 0 in reply to Sergey_Kessel

    well I needed the runs to feel good again. I am really disappointed the marathon training did not work out. Spoiled energy the past months.

    So good feeling about being able to run 4:30/km for 40 minutes. It is not all gone :-)

  • 0 in reply to StijnV

    What kind of reset did you do, and how about the settings you loose by resetting. I feel some hesitation doing this.

  • 0 in reply to DaKo

    Make a backup of the device drive on your computer before doing a complete reset.

    If you copy the "Sports" back you can get your data screen setup back. See this post:

    forums.garmin.com/.../some-advice-before-upgrading-replacing-a-watch-or-a-hard-reset

    I assume you did a soft reset before deciding to do a full reset which as you say is frustrating to redo many settings (even given the above suggestion which does at least help a bit)

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