Absurd recovery time

You cannot alter the recovery time even if you delete the activity. It is hard to do forensics on Garmin metrics. A high recovery time can come from a combination of the following:

- low activity level (acute load) followed by a sudden change of activity level,

- one or 2 activities with high intensity and or long duration

- errors in the heart rate data or pace/power data (for running or cycling) that create a fake high intensity period

- errors with hidden fake naps detected by the watch. The watch would penalize you for "bad" sleep and worsen your existing recovery needs. In one case it added 40h to mine.

- etc.

This has nothing to do with activity level… I have never trained this hard in my life and never has my fitness been this high. This is a major f*ck up for my training plan because it will probably will give me recovery trainings while I should be doing intervals

KevDeGroof said:

This has nothing to do with activity level

As I said, this has everything to do with activity level, whether actual or fake activity level recorded by the watch.

There is nothing you can do to rectify the recovery time. You will have to wait it out and sleep on it. If you feel aggravated by the situation, you could train without the watch for a day and pick up the training plan then. 

Training without the watch to make up for software problems is absurd. Not what  we paid $600 for. 

I agree.

BTW, there are situations like this that are absurd with these watches.

I avoid wearing the watch completely in the evening so that it doesn't detect fake sleep while I watch TV, which will be so bad a sleep period that it will disrupt my recovery time and training readiness. That is absurd, right?

A few days ago, I was gaming on the console when the watch suddenly told me that it bumped by recovery time to 60h because of poor sleep.

In other areas, I completely ignore the respiration rate in any activity and it can be absurdly wrong.

The watch can give me an absurd HR Max if I leave the auto-detection on.

etc. etc.

The best thing to do is to report these issues to Garmin Support.

If enough customers complain, maybe the issue will be investigated. And if it is, maybe it will be determined there is a bug in the software. And if it is, maybe it will be fixed. Or maybe nothing will happen.

From  my experience, nothing will happen. I use Whoop for sleep and recovery, which is way more inline with reality, and my 965 for my workouts. Whoop is really good with correct sleep and is more in line with how I feel for recovery.