What specifically do you mean? The FR235 will neither prevent nor warn you if you want to start another tracked activity before the recovery advisor has counted down to zero hours, if that's the gist of your question.
On this page https://www.firstbeat.com/en/consumer-products/garmin/ it lists what im talking about under the forerunner 235 -Recovery advisor: Recovery time recommendation after workout & recovery check during the first minutes of the exercise.
I'm afraid Firstbeat's statement cannot be taken to be authoritative
… & recovery check during the first minutes of the exercise.
I've never seen my FR235 give me any notification/alert/warning/advice with regard to recovery in the first so many minutes into my run. The Owner's Manual doesn't say anything about it, either. Given it's a statement that apparently applies to the FR230 as well, it's not something tied to the built-in optical heart rate sensor. I don't know, maybe it's something that only happens if I'm wearing a chest strap HR monitor that transmits HRV data and I start an exercise before the Recovery Advisor has counted down to zero?
Actually, I think Firstbeat – which is the party making that statement about the FR230 and FR235 having a recovery check feature – is mistaken. The marketing collateral on Garmin's web site mentions Recovery Check for the Fenix 3, but the product comparison table for the Forerunner range makes no mention of Recovery Check for any of the models.
Does the forerunner 235 have recovery check? I am getting my recovery time at end of a run but nothing at start of run. Thanks
It does not have it.
I had it on my 920xt and my Fenix3 (before I returned it) and never found it useful. It always said "Good". Always. Unactionable data is useless, so I've not missed that feature. (I think some of the others posting here didn't understand you were asking about Recovery Check not Recovery Advisor)
But surely if you take notice of the recovery advisor you would want to know what it said before your run? Otherwise you would have prepared for your run, gone outside, started to get some pace up and suddenly Recovery Advisor says "No!" Take another 5 hours rest or whatever.
there is an enhanced version of it on the 630 called performance condition (http://static.garmin.com/pumac/Forerunner_630_OM_EN.pdf P.10). It gives you a scale from something like +10 to -10 on how well you are recovered. Kind of interesting but just another metric really.
But surely if you take notice of the recovery advisor you would want to know what it said before your run?
Not really. Recovery Advisor calculates and suggests a recovery time with no (advance) knowledge of what the user will do and/or experience in the next so many hours, but the body's readiness to handle intense training is affected by almost countless variables – the amount and quality of sleep, mood, general wellness or illness, food and fluid intake, consumption of alcohol or other stimulants, etc. within the period between exercise sessions. If anything, the user would want to know how fit and ready he/she is before (or at the start of) a training session, not how fit and ready some entity ‘thought’ he/she would be some 24-48 hours (or longer) in advance. Firstbeat's recovery checking uses HRV readings taken at the time the user's physiological readiness is assessed, most likely with no regard for what Recovery Advisor reports.
Otherwise you would have prepared for your run, gone outside, started to get some pace up and suddenly Recovery Advisor says "No!" Take another 5 hours rest or whatever.
You can always simply decide not to train/exercise as intensely if your body is having a bad/off day.
Hmmm although the Recovery Advisor/Check is kinda 'neat', I've never adhered to it. I run every 24 hours, regardless of the Recovery Advice unless my body tells me otherwise. When I first got my watch, it gave me some crazy number like 36 hours recovery after a good 5K! Yeah whatever ... I listen to my body first ... how can my watch accurately tell me this ... too many other factors involved as has already been mentioned above (sleep, other non-tracked activities, etc ...). I've run long enough to know if I should rest longer or get out there and give 'er. That being said, these days (3 months after I got the watch) it does give me a recovery time well under 24 hours ... I think yesterday was 16 hours, so perhaps it is/has learned ME.
Not really. Recovery Advisor calculates and suggests a recovery time with no (advance) knowledge of what the user will do and/or experience in the next so many hours, but the body's readiness to handle intense training is affected by almost countless variables – the amount and quality of sleep, mood, general wellness or illness, food and fluid intake, consumption of alcohol or other stimulants, etc. within the period between exercise sessions. If anything, the user would want to know how fit and ready he/she is before (or at the start of) a training session, not how fit and ready some entity ‘thought’ he/she would be some 24-48 hours (or longer) in advance. Firstbeat's recovery checking uses HRV readings taken at the time the user's physiological readiness is assessed, most likely with no regard for what Recovery Advisor reports.
You can always simply decide not to train/exercise as intensely if your body is having a bad/off day.
I wasn't suggesting 24-48 hours in advance, more like 1-2 hours.
