I would expect recovery heart rate to be calculated during a "Cool down" step of a custom workout but instead the 2 minutes starts after the workout has ended and thus after I've already had a cooldown period. Is there a way to add a step to a workout where recovery heart rate will be calculated?
No. You can manually press the button to stop the timer immediately (or some time) after you reach the start of the Cool Down phase of a custom workout, and wait two minutes if you want to see the recovery heart rate displayed on the watch.
If you want to use heart rate as an indicator of when you ought to stop your workout, and rely on the watch to advise you of that, then reading the real-time Heart Rate metric off a data field on a data screen, without stopping the timer and without regard to what your HR was at time t[SUB]0[/SUB], is the way to go.
If you're merely interested in what the recovery heart rate was, you should be able to determine it from the HR chart and split stats when you review the tracked activity (which used a custom workout as the template) in Garmin Connect afterwards.
Presume if you are doing a custom workout that you are running for a bit then resting for a bit. So if you set your recovery intervals for the period you are interested in (2 mins or whatever) then the watch will record your HR and so you could always just read off the difference between HR at the start and end of the recovery interval.
How do I get a Recovery Heart rate? I always get a Recovery Time (eg. 20 hours) after a Run, but never a Recovery Heart rate. Am I missing something. I've been through the settings and can't find where to turn it on.
Do a run, press Stop but don't Save/Discard. Wait 2 minutes then the recovery HR comes up. Then you can press Save as normal.
It's quite simple - the value is the difference in HR between the end of the run (when you press Stop) and 2 mins later.
You need to wait to Save as the recovery value gets written to the activity FIT file so if you have something that can read it then you later inspect the values. Unfortunately you can't do so on GC.
A buddy has a 225 and was asking me what my Recovery HR was. I told him that the 235 doesn't give one ... it gives a recovery time instead ... however, I've looked hard for it in the menu's/manual. I (almost) got it right the way you describe ... except I saved it and then waited for 2 minutes. Thanks! That's been a number I was curious about.
In order to get the most accurate resting heart rate, should I be at total rest (standing still or sitting) or keep walking during the 2 minutes after my run?
In order to get the most accurate resting heart rate, should I be at total rest (standing still or sitting) or keep walking during the 2 minutes after my run?
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Well you are likely to get a higher value being at total rest.
"Accuracy" is only a factor if you do the same thing for 2 mins after every activity. If that is walking or being stationary does not really matter.
Just stand up still for two minutes to keep the heart rate accurately going down as much as it can without having to cater for extra body motion. The more it comes down from the max HR when you stopped the timer the fitter you are. If you do a warm down during a workout your max heart rate recovery will not be accurate compared to stopping the clock dead on the end of an activity.
I would stop the timer to get the heart rate recovery value then simply add a separate session for a warm down. Some watches do not record RHR. You can see the values after saving a workout on GARMIN on the RUNALYSE platform: www.runalyse.com probably the most comprehensive sport application, takes a while to get used to, but far more data than others.
See your RHR values at the bottom of a full analysis page by clicking on the title of an uploaded workout, you’ll also see your ‘heart rate variability’ broken down if your heart strap supports it. GARMIN ‘running’ & ‘pro’ heart straps do from my experience. Good luck..
