Request: Always Save Recovery Heart Rate in Garmin Connect

The recovery heart rate is saved and visible in Garmin Connect if you keep the watch on the resume/save/etc. menu for two minutes after pausing the activity with start/stop button, regardless of whether you choose Recovery heart rate. Choosing Recovery heart rate from the menu just gives you a timer to see when two minutes has passed (and shows the hr on the watch). So the only change from older watches (if I remember correctly) is that current watches don't show the recovery hr on the watch automatically. 

Thanks so much for sharing that detail—really appreciate it! I wasn’t aware of the 2-minute condition after pausing. I’ll try it out in my next session and report back once I’ve confirmed how it behaves on my Forerunner 955.

詳細な情報を共有していただき、ありがとうございます！アクティビティを一時停止した後に2分間待つことで保存されるという仕様は知りませんでした。次回のセッションで試してみて、Forerunner 955での挙動を確認したら改めて報告させていただきます。

Now that I understand the recovery HR *is* saved if I keep the watch on the pause screen for two minutes, I’d like to refine my request:
Would it be possible for Garmin to bring back the **automatic on-watch display** of Recovery Heart Rate, like older models did (e.g. Forerunner 910XT / ForAthlete 910XTJ in Japan)?

The data is clearly useful and already being recorded in Connect—it would just be great to have the number shown on the watch right after each activity without needing to select the menu option.

This would make training analysis and day-to-day use much smoother.

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リカバリー心拍数が「一時停止画面で2分間待てばGarmin Connectに記録される」ことは理解できました。
そこで要望を改めます：
旧モデル（例：Forerunner 910XT／日本版 ForAthlete 910XTJ）のように、**アクティビティ終了後にリカバリー心拍数を自動的に時計画面に表示**していただけないでしょうか？

データ自体は既にConnectに保存されていますので、メニュー操作をしなくても数値がその場で表示されれば、さらに便利になります。

トレーニング分析や日常の使い勝手が一層向上すると思います。

I'm pretty sure removing automatic recovery hr display was an intentional decision from Garmin. Remember, when you press start/stop, you are just pausing the activity, not ending it. So if you just want to pause and continue soon, you don't want the risk of having the recovery hr display pop up just when you have to continue the activity.

(Another reason might be that Garmin has noticed that most people don't use recovery hr any more now that there are many other metrics available from the watch.)

Thank you for your reply. It’s very interesting to hear that Garmin watches now offer more metrics. However, I’m not yet familiar with what other metrics are available besides Recovery Heart Rate. If you don’t mind, could you please share which other metrics are useful for training and health management? I’d love to learn more and make better use of them going forward.

ご返信ありがとうございます。 Garminウォッチで得られる指標が増えているとのこと、とても興味深いです。 ただ、私はリカバリー心拍数以外にどんな指標があるのか、まだよく分かっていません。 もしよろしければ、トレーニングや健康管理に役立つ他の指標にはどんなものがあるのか、教えていただけませんか？ 今後の活用の参考にさせていただきたいと思っています。

What I simply meant is that since VO2max, training load, recovery time, etc. have been added to sports watches, probably not that many people follow their recovery heart rate, especially since it can vary depending on the exercise you have done. Those other metrics are not a direct replacement of recovery heart rate, but maybe (maybe, how should I know?) Garmin no longer considers recovery heart rate popular enough so that everyone should automatically see it after an activity...

Just to follow up, I actually received an official reply from Garmin Japan Support regarding the Recovery Heart Rate.
They confirmed that if you stop the activity timer and wait two minutes before saving, the recovery HR is automatically measured and saved to Garmin Connect—without any extra steps.

They also pointed me to the official Forerunner 955 manual where this behavior is explained.

I honestly hadn’t realized it was already documented, so I felt a bit embarrassed at first —but at the same time, I was impressed by how sincerely Garmin Support responded.
It makes me appreciate the brand even more.

補足です。リカバリー心拍について、Garmin Japanサポートから公式に回答をいただきました。
アクティビティのタイマーを停止してから2分待って保存すると、追加操作なしで自動的にリカバリー心拍が計測・保存され、Garmin Connectに表示されるとのことです。

Forerunner 955の操作マニュアルにも記載があるそうです。

正直、マニュアルに既に説明があったことを知らず、ちょっと恥ずかしかったのですが 、Garminサポートがとても誠実に対応してくれたので感心しました。
こういう対応をしてくれるのは本当にありがたいですし、Garminというブランドにますます信頼を持てました。

You shouldn't be embarrassed.

It's perfectly natural to assume that recovery hr is not being automatically measured since Garmin removed the previously prominent indication of that from the user interface.

It's understandable that they wanted to remove the full-screen recovery HR UI, as it's intrusive, especially in the case that a user pauses their watch without the intention of ending the activity.

But they could've made a compromise - maybe display a small indicator or notification which tells the user that recovery HR is being measured. I doubt they would do this in any case, as it seems they want to minimize the future altogether (like Bitti said) and/or there's probably no notification/indicator they could display which wouldn't be somewhat annoying when you don't want to see it.

What I would probably do, if I worked at Garmin:

- since the pause menu *still* contains the Recovery HR item, use that item to *also* indicate whether it's currently being measured

Today the menu item just says: "Recovery Heart Rate"

Tomorrow it could say: "Recovery Heart Rate: Measuring [2:00]", where "2:00" is a live countdown. And once the countdown is finished, it could show you your recovery hr. e.g. "Recovery Heart Rate: 55 bpm"

Thank you, flowstate.
As you said, since the recovery HR no longer appears automatically on the watch screen, I just assumed it wasn’t being measured anymore.
Your idea of using the existing “Recovery Heart Rate” item in the pause menu to also indicate when it’s being measured is a very reasonable compromise.
I would really appreciate such a design, and I hope Garmin will consider it as well.

Flowstate さん、ありがとうございます。
仰る通り、時計画面で自動的に表示されなくなったので、自動計測もされなくなったと思い込んでいました。
一時停止メニューにある「Recovery Heart Rate」の項目を、計測中であることの表示にも使うという提案は、とても合理的な妥協案だと思います。わたしもそのような仕様の方がありがたいです。Garminにもぜひ検討してもらいたいですね。