- A Garmin Epix user has revealed how a setting completely broken months of their training
- The spent months of “feeling like a failure” and not making any progress or improvements
- It turns out their maximum heartbeat was wrong all the time
The best Garmins on the market are all formidable training tools for running and fitness, but if you got your maximum heart rate setting wrong, you might waste your time, as a very unlucky Redditor recently found out.
U/LURER_GEEEK trained to R/Garmin Sureddit with a public service message, after finding out a critical framework for their Garmin Epix had been wrong for nine months.
52-åringen beskrev, hvordan de havde brugt måneder på at “føle sig som en fiasko, en taber, der ikke skubbede hårdt nok, fortalte altid, at jeg var ‘vedligeholdt’, aldrig forbedret, aldrig produktiv, ingen bevægelse på min VO2max, ikke i stand til at løbe hurtigt nok til det daglige foreslåede træning,” og endda at skulle skifte til tempo-træning fra hjerterytmen, på trods af at jeg følte “som jeg løb hurtigere og længere end jeg havde i years. “
Obviously, something was wrong after months when they made no progress, they turned to their Garmin’s surroundings and found a terrible mistake.
“I found that the maximum heartbeat of my clock was set to 221. I got a new epix last summer, but never realized it. FacePalm.”
After switching it to 168BPM to reflect their age, they now report that “V02max is up, driving is productive, endurance score is up … everything goes well again.”
Fix your Garmin’s maximum heartbeat
Your maximum heartbeat is generally considered the highest number your heart can hit safely during exercise, and is usually defined as a value of 220 minus your age.
As such, it falls annually to reflect your age, a decisive factor in determining the effectiveness of your training. Understanding your heartbeat, BPM and training zones is essential to exercise effectively and hit your goal goals. The change with age is the reason why heart rate zones are always expressed as a percentage rather than a particular BPM.
Generally, zone is a 50-60% of your maximum heartbeat and that is where you would find your heartbeat during a warm-up or a quick walk. Zone two is 60-70%, a popular training zone for the construction of endurance, zone three (70-80%) is for aerobic fitness and endurance, while zones four and five are for much more intense training that cannot be maintained for almost as long.
Therefore, it may be the key to locking the true value of your workout. This unfortunate user only needed to open 101-118 BPM to enter the zone two and start making progress towards endurance gains, but their Garmin would hardly have registered this as Zone One.
So if you have purchased a new Garmin recently or you have never double checked your Max HR, go to the Garmin Connect app, enter user settings and select the heartbeat. You can also do this on your Garmin -ur by choosing youSerProfil> heart rate and power zones> max heart rhythm.
While Garmin recommends the average measurement – the aforementioned 220 minus your age formula – you can also put yourself through a very high intensity interval training to find out your true Max HR, which may be a little different.
