Explained Garmin’s Top Training

Well, you have great new Garmin SAT. Maybe it’s an elegant Vivoactive 6focused on guiding Forerunner 970Or (my favorite) Final Final Feelout 8. Following steps, sleep, climb the floors, burned calories – all standard, self-events. But then you dig a little deeper in the menus and hit you: tidal data wave. Training status? Acute load? Body battery? What the hell do they know that?

Don’t let the heart rate that (which clock also follows). As someone who spent an unreasonable amount of time pouring out because of these very data, I am here to help you stay all that. It’s really not as chaotic as it seems. Once you learn to interpret what Garmin Watch says, unlocks a lot of knowledge about what happens to your body.

Large picture: Training status

The training status is what you could think as a central command. This is your view of 30,000 feet in what way the training coaches. It synthesizes your history of trends with your fitness trends to deliver a judgment for one word about your progress. If you are working on the target, that’s the first thing you should check. Here’s a translation key:

• Peaks: Translation: You are in an ideal state of the race. This means that you smartly reduced the workload, allowing your body to fully recover and absorb all your hard work. It is a naughty state, so make the most of it.
• Productive: This is the phase of the constructioner. Your training burden effectively also causes your fitness (measured VO2 Max and other data, see below) is on the rise. Make gains.
• Maintenance: Hold the line. Your current exercise mode is enough to keep your fitness level, but insufficient to press it. This is perfect for out of season or deliberate week of recovery.
• Recovery: A sign of smart training. You took off your foot with the gas, and your easier load allows your body to bounce back. This is crucial for avoiding combustion and for the construction of long-term strength and endurance.
• Unproductive: This is a heavy swallowing pill, but it is an essential warning. You put to work but your fitness is actually decline. The usual guilty guests are inadequate recovery, great life stress, poor nutrition or economic disease. Your watch tells you to come back.
• Determination: Expected outcome of the break. You have dressed significantly less in a week or more, and your fitness naturally decreases. There are no surprises here if you are sick, injured or on vacation.
• Nottled: Your body waves the red flag. Your fitness suffers because you do not recover properly, often indicated by poor HRV status. It’s time to take priority to rest, ask questions.
• Overdraft: You push the envelope with a very high workload. This can be a strategic move that your system shocks before the recovery period, potentially leading to great gains or you may be on the edge of overheading it. It’s something I saw it appears on surfing or snowboarding ways when I’m there every day, but I just know that without adequate rest, it’s a fast track to become tight or unproductive.

Consider training status as your brutally honest coach. Don’t care how you feel about your workout; It takes care of how your body actually adapts, at least according to your countless sensors and algorithms (which is always good to busy with a grain of salt or at least electrolyte powder).

Motor room: VO2 Max and acute load

OK, so how does your Garmin clock achieve your conclusions about your training status? It is a dynamic dance between other, granular metrics, but two cores are VO2 max and acute load.

VO2 Max is a fairly standard measure of your aerobic horsepower (ie that is not an expression of Garmin). It is an estimate of the maximum volume of oxygen that your body can consume during the almighty exercise. The higher number indicates a stronger or better custom cardiovascular engine. Garmin calculates this using your tempira and heart rate from attacking GPS or some other activities (such as cycling with power meter). The absolute number is interesting, but the trend is what matters.

Acute load (which is Garmin-term) is the sum of your stress caused by exercise over the past week. Any activity you are performed is a result based on EPOC (excess oxygen consumption after exercise), which measures the toll that it took on your body. Your watch follows this rolling of a total of seven-day and displays it against the optimal range – “Green Zone” -Shasted for you. This shows whether you work too little, too, or just the right quantities to encourage fitness.