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Strength app - First use with body weight execersizes

This was something I was wondering about and since I saw some others asking I thought I'd throw some initial results out there.

Push-ups: It did really well on these. Only had to adjust the reps on the first, of three, sets.
Sit-ups: Over-counted these by 5-8 on 20 rep sets.
Squats: Counted these as well as the push-ups.
Pullups: Really strange here as all three sets were over-counted by as much as double. All were dead-hang, no kipping. So somewhat disappointing.
Calf Raise: These were hit or miss. All sets needed to be adjusted, some upward some down.

Although this was just a short session overall it worked okay. What I wasn't expecting is that it does something similar to stroke recognition and the only execersizes it didn't do well with were the leg based ones. It picked up on the push-ups, sit-ups, and pull-ups perfectly. It saw one of the squat sets as sit-ups, one as squats, and didn't bother to guess on the other. The calf raises it had no idea.

Like with swimming you don't see the recognition until after you save the activity and you can go back in and adjust/correct each set.

The biggest glitch I had was when editing the reps of one set I accidentally hit the side swipe area when it was on the screen where you enter the weight and it jumped to 995lbs and I couldn't get it back to 0. It was either 999 or 1.

Heres as link to the activity on GC. https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/1985373116 (I hope the forum software doesn't butcher the link)

Looking forward to trying out the Yoga app after my run.
  • Thank you so much for the feedback, it's really impressive. The current state of things is good enough for me, I expect the algorithms to be improved with time and new SW updates as well.
    I'm wondering how it manages the push-ups and pull-ups - the arm wrist is not moving during these.

    Did you use the on-watch HRM? Your heart rate is quite low. I see mine jumping significantly for pull-ups, not so much for the push-ups and other stuff. Use my chest strap, the optical monitor on my VAHR is all over the place usually during the strength workouts, biking and rowing.
  • I was using the optical HRM for this session so the HR is really only accurate during the rests. I've always recorded this type of workout more for the duration and just making sure I log that I did something so what my HR was wasn't important to me. Now that it's easier to capture the reps, excersize, and weight I might be more inclined to use a chest strap though to get a full picture.

    I've never had a problem with oHRM while cycling with my FR235 or FR735 so I'll be interested to see how it works with the VA3. I'm in a cutback week currently so my only time on a bike will be indoor and short so I won't be able to judge that aspect until this weekend.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 7 years ago
    I used the strength app for the first time today. I did weight training with dumbbells. Presses, fly's, tri extensions, rows, bicep curls, hammer curls and squats. The app recognized my dumbbell presses as plain bench presses and the hammer curls as just curls. No biggie as I was able to edit them in my mobile app. Reps counted nearly spot on. Only a couple of sets off by 1 rep. Again, easily edited. I used my chest strap for my heartrate. I figured using the oHRM and the readings would be off from the wrist movement. I'm really impressed with this app.
  • Can anyone comment on which weight should I put in GC if I do pull ups (literally body weight)? Fenix 5x recognises the exercise and I need to add weight afterwards
  • Can anyone comment on which weight should I put in GC if I do pull ups (literally body weight)? Fenix 5x recognises the exercise and I need to add weight afterwards


    If you don't input any weight in the watch, it will be shown as "Bodyweight" in Garmin Connect afterwards. So in my interpretation, the weight input is for additional weight on top of your body weight.