My heart rate variability peaked on September 25 and has trended down steadily since. I'm trying to understand why.

Timeline:
- Late Sept: taper for a half marathon (green)
- Oct 3: race day (in the red the week leading up)
- A few days after: heart rate variability returned to my usual range, then started trending down
- Oct 8–12: weekend trip with a couple days of heavy drinking for a wedding. The downward trend started before the trip.
- Since then: overnight heart rate variability keeps dropping, with a consistent bedtime

Has anyone seen a delayed downward trend like this in their own data after a race? Any theories as to what is going on here?

So I’ve read the reviews but there’s not a lot of information on the diet tracking. If you’ve used the connect plus can you explain to me if you think the diet tracking is as good as other diet apps?

The diet tracking & macronutrients tracking would be one of the main components I’m interested in.

I was trying to do a pace pro strategy badge today with my 16k run and I put my pace pro for the first 10k.

My target as you all can see from the picture is 5:30 /km and the splits that I did were well within the +/- 0:15 pace range.

Did I do something wrong? I have already tried doing a pacepro 5k with a 7k run... so I don't think it's because I did a longer run that f it up.

Can someone please explain this to me??

Fell from my nightstand and scattered. Everything still seems to work fine but no longer waterproof right?

Any way to fix this or will a repair be just as expensive as getting a new one?

I work for a major health insurance carrier and a few times a year we get a significant budget to buy devices for health fairs. I have several leftover units I'm willing to let go for a very fair price if anyone's interested. They've never been opened at all. Unfortunately I don't have multiple colors and sizes. The Venu 4 units are the larger 45mm one with the back band, and the Vivoactive 6 units are 42mm I believe, also slate gray. I can accept $100 under retail ($450) on the Venu 4 and $80 under (so $220) on Vivoactive 6. I'll be listing them on eBay as well but eBay takes a pretty significant cut if I remember correctly. Anyone who's interested send me a DM .I can take a live video if you want showing all the units.

Mods: if this isn't allowed I apologize. Hey I'll give one of you a Vivoactive 6 if you let my post stay up! Ha. I'd really rather get rid of them all on a different platform than eBay if I can.

I follow a strict 1900-calorie diet since 6 months. Yesterday was the biggest cheat day since last month. My body didn’t know what to do with all that sushi. Sleep score in the gutter 🤣

I do play golf occasionally but never really considered buying a dedicated golf watch... until now.

If your criteria is 43mm, light, multiband GPS, LED flashlight, sapphire glass... the new Approach S72 43mm probably should be on your shortlist, right? It's significantly cheaper than the 43mm Fenix 9.

Fenix 7S Pro is old, as is Epix Pro G2 42mm (sadly).

What does that leave? Fenix 8 43mm? S72 is still a little cheaper. What does the Fenix 8 do that the S72 doesn't?

Thoughts?

EDIT: did some more research, it seems the differences are mainly around diving, rowing and the leak proof inductive buttons in the Fenix.

New features of the nutrition app are pretty good. You can log using voice now and it'll custom create the food for you or find out based on keyword, amount, brand. The voice feature works well. There are other customization features that are welcome as opposed to before where it was difficult to navigate. You can now do it without a scheduled time but simply by meals which is much easier for me. I'm going to keep using it now with the new features. The only thing I'm still confused about is the recommendation of my macronutrients for daily life... Like where are these numbers coming from? And where can I research more about this. It seems like I'm getting 50% of my daily recommended by garmin macro nutrients but not loosing weight and.

So I started running probably 5 weeks ago 5-6 times per week. Once I hit my first 5k I just made that my mandatory minimum. About 2 weeks ago I did my first 10k. My legs felt like jello during all these weeks and I worried about falling even if I took 2 days off. But today my legs were finally 100%. Usually I am on a track but this was a treadmill which made it easy to slow my pace. Zone 2 the entire 10 miles. I never imagined I would accomplish this milestone. Never saw a treadmill with puddles of sweat before. I could have easily kept going but I was kinda embarrassed that even my shirt was dripping all over the place 😂

VO2 Max 46

-Fenix 8 AMOLED 47mm-

I have an Echomap UHd 73Vs screen and just bought a LVs 34 live scope. I want to be able to HDMI to a TV. My screen doesn’t have a way to do that. Is there an adapter for this? Don’t want to have to get the bigger screen. TIA

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Bought a vívoactive 5 during Amazon India's Great Indian Festival, but was disappointed with its heart-rate monitoring.

- Showed around 72 bpm when placed against a pillow, off my wrist.

- Consistently showed only 80–90 bpm during treadmill exercise at 15 incline and 6 km/h.

- Sleep tracking also seemed inaccurate compared with my much cheaper Samsung Galaxy Fit3.

I recorded video evidence and contacted Amazon. Initially, they directed me to Garmin for service-centre assessment, but Amazon has now accepted my return and refund.

For a premium smartwatch, this was a disappointing experience.

Has anyone else experienced similar sensor issues with the vívoactive 5?

Hi everyone!

I have a Garmin Forerunner 165 paired with a Redmi Note 12 running Android.

When I receive WhatsApp messages from contacts whose names contain emojis, the option to reply doesn't appear on my watch.

I want to keep the emojis in my contacts' names.

Has anyone found a workaround that allows me to reply to these messages without removing the emojis?

Thanks!

Will Garmin eventually recalibrate its baselines as a result of changes in, say, my cardiac activity due to changes in meds following an ablation? Thanks. I would post more details but the automod wouldn’t let me.

Hey, I want to get my First Garmin for my Birthday. Im a 2-3 times per week runner and want to spend 300-400€. For the moment im mostly into the 265 the watch would be more than enough probably too much my only concern about it is the missing Future Upgrades. Is it big difference and it’s better to get a 170/570 or another Watch or is it more like fomo and it wont be a big difference? Would appreciate ur help very much as I’m overwhelmed.
Greetings

Hi everyone,

I would like to get suggestions on what i should buy as my first garmin watch. A little bit about me, i train 5-6 days a week with indoor cardio one a week. Lots of walks during the day, and cycling once a month.
I come from apple watches and now whoop (still have 3 months of subscription).
Which watch would you recommend? Do you suggest i also buy HRM 200 or 600? If so, which one?

Thanks and apologies if i missed out any info.

For certain activities, such as carrying a sandbag against the chest or martial arts or fencing, it is not ideal to have the module on the front of the chest.

I realize that some of the running dynamics count on front placement, but they are not relevant for these applications. Only the heart rate matters.

Does anyone have experience using the HRMs with the module not in the front?

Hey Garmin fam, I know there are some baddies on here wearing cotton activewear. I would love some recommendations if anyone has any!

What have you tried? What did you love? What did you hate? Is it affordable? How did it perform?

I wear a lot of activewear and would prefer to get away from plastics and PFAS. I know it’s almost impossible, but it would be great to try.

THANKS!!!

Hi, i am using my awesome feñix 9 pro to consume the data from my pm5 monitor (broadcast via ant protocol) which is the device that processes and is able to transmit the data from my concept2 ergometer.

I can use the pm5 with and without the concept2 phone app "ergdata", but with the app (coupled via bluetooth) I have 2 features I like:

- upload the data to the concept2 mothership platform, where all rowing stats for that platform can be compared

- it is easy to program workouts, especially intervals like 8x500, pyramids, different work and rest times etc.

I now program an intercal training via the connected phone app, that program is sent to the pm5 and i can then start the workout. On my fenix i also start the workout to record it on the garmin platform, let it count down (new feature!) from 5 and i goooooo!!!!!

I can integrate with the garmin platform from concept2, but for me it is about thehypothetical situation where i would only record to the garmin platform with my watch, and the lack if support for thise intervals.

The session is recorded as 1 continuous session and not as an interval with seperate 'sets' with a rest period in between.

There also seems to be a bug where, when the interval stops and the rest begins, garmin thinks the same force/power is applied as was measured in the last steoke of the interval.

This garbles the data, since i now only have 1 average split time, an average heartrate, 1 max heartrate, etc instead of heartrate and max HR, and seperate split time for set 1, 2 and 3 etc and no meters rowed and no HR stats in the rest between intervals. It would also be great if this is reflected not only in the post workout stats, but could actually be used on the watch, which would also benefit water rowing as the can pogram the watch for interval training.

I would really like garmin to support this, so i get accurate stats per interval/set, supporting graphs etc.

Questions:

- What are your thoughts about this?

- how can i ask garmin for this? because it would benefit rowers and would be good for the rowing system within garmin

- does the concept2 ant broadcast support this? If this is not sent via the ant protocol, the watch cannot use it, but might be able to postprocess it.

I am interested in hearing from you and if Garmin can adopt this somehow.

I recently found out that I could connect garmin workout data with some type of AI connector to up load my data to claude and claude can look into data and give me coaching like ai coaching apps. Which connector should i use? I am new to this so please teach me as if i was 19years old kid

I've been following the dismay many have with new Fenix models, and especially their prices. I have opportunity on flash sale to get and Enduro 3 GPS for ~$400 ($789 at Best Buy). Chat GPT says go for it, my only concern is the 51mm vs my current ~47mm. The features look compatible really. I mostly hike/bike/kayak/xc and downhill ski and use the maps, but also other workouts like indoor cycling in the winter to track my HR and calories. Pulse and pulse ox are important, and I understand I can get ECG add on. The long battery life is key. Any one else have Enduro to help me decide?

I have an instinct 2x solar and it used to record my sleep accurately. But now it seems to not register any data for a good chunk of each night. Examples in the picture below. Any thoughts on why it's not registering?? I've had the watch for over a year now

Hi, recently lost my Garmin Forerunner 265 in a field when out at work and have accepted it’s gone lol. Looking to get another Garmin as I’m really missing it. Quite fancy getting an upgrade so I feel as if I’m not taking a step backwards. Only really use the sleep score, training readiness, steps and calorie features and use it for running, weights, rugby and the odd hike Budget of around £400 tops for one but don’t mind getting a decent second hand one on eBay. Just wondering what yous would all recommend because there’s so many options. Also thought I’d note that I have a fairly physical job so needs to be somewhat rugged. Cheers