Hi All,
First of all 2 caveats:
Caveat #1: I'm not a health or fitness expert. What I write below is based on my experience and on some reading, so it may be somewhat inaccurate. Still, I think it is at least worth discussing.
Caveat #2: I post this to the Vivosmart 4 forum because this is the device I have, but I guess the question is relevant to other Garmin devices too. Alos, part of it refers to the Garmin app.
Okay, and now to the issue itself.
Over the last year and a half or so, my gym trainings were designed to maximise the effect of post training recovery (a.k.a. "afterburn effect"). Physiologically, post training recovery is very similar to stress. HRV remains low, while pulse rate gets high with any additional muscle activity ( even as mild as just standing up) because the muscle energy stores are depleted. The thing is that neither my Garmin device, nor the Garmin app distinguish between PTR and Stress in any way. You can see what my body battery / stress display looks like after training, in the attached image, and also the device gives me a stress warning about an hour after the training.
I think that for the least, there is a missed opportunity here. The duration of PTR per the training's intensity can be a very good indicator of overall fitness. Also, the body burns a considerable amount of calories while in PTR, which are now not counted.
So I'd like to know what do you think? Should Garmin add a feature for separately measuring PTR effect?
Thanks,
Oren
