The watch is just telling you what you already know.
Take the day off (eat some BBQ, watch fireworks), otherwise you just get into the downward cycle of doing low quality workouts because you aren’t recovered enough to do quality.
My watch (945) beeps at the start of most runs, and some rides, telling my training status, sleep the night before, and the what first couple of minutes of the workout are like. I think its on a scale from -10 to +10, although maybe narrower. I think the worst i’ve gotten is a minus 6 and I definitely dialled it back for that run.
Edit to add:
I just scrolled the Garmin App on my phone and looked at some of the other metrics which rarely look at, and it says my body battery is at 5 out of 100. Do you think if i show my wife that i will get out of helping her in the garden?
Since I had gotten my 945(s) I have strived to get the sleep score higher. I didn’t realize that I was getting little and poor sleep. I have been doing better since I started tracking it.
It’s rare that I get my body battery that low, normally I’ll get down into the teens and up to 75+ most nights. Exceptions to that are when I got covid, I got up to the 60’s and low into the low teens, and when I’ve gone to Colorado for snowboarding, I stayed below 40 all of the time. I think making a case for not working in the garden is to show how recovery is needed to do better work in the garden when recovered.
The 955 is giving me a status of strained, which I understand since I had a 45 mile mountain bike ride on Saturday followed by a 50 mile spirited road ride yesterday. That one is new to me. I’ve not used HRV before, this watch does it and is giving me some data that I can see how it relates to me.
Yes, and yes. My 955 is addictive. I cannot take it off. When it is telling me to back off, it has been giving me good advice. I have never slept with a watch before, but I get anxious when I wake up and realize I forgot to wear it to bed.
I had an old Garmin 925 (I think 8 years old) anyway upgraded to the 955 only about 3 weeks ago so it is still “learning†my training history but yesterday I had a training readiness of a 1 out of 100. It was a rest day for me and I had been ramping up my training for the last two weeks and am now tapering for Salem, Oregon this weekend. My sleep is rated poor most nights. Not long enough and little REM, or deep sleep. Hopefully it will get better. So many more metrics than my old watch.
Most of the time my sleep is rated as good but only because of the lack of deep sleep. I know that I sleep light but it could be the algorithm as well.
My sleep duration is much better than it used to be, the fireworks from the guy behind me didn’t help last night.
Not much has changed from yesterday but the training readiness came up to 41. Looks like it’s held down by HRV status.
Most of the time my sleep is rated as good but only because of the lack of deep sleep. I know that I sleep light but it could be the algorithm as well.Sleep tracking is my one knock of the 955. I wear a Fitbit Inspire 2 along with my Garmin, and the Fitbit seems to be the best all-around at sleep detection. I know all the stages are mostly guesses, but the nut is that the sleep score on Garmin is consistently lower than FB. The way that I feel the next day highly correlates to my FB sleep score, but not so much the Garmin score.
The Garmin does not pick up my awake time almost at all. And it also seems to massively understate my REM sleep. Garmin assigns most of my sleep time to “Light.”
My watch (945) beeps … what first couple of minutes of the workout are like. I think its on a scale from -10 to +10,
I’ve never found this to be overly useful. It’s clearly focused on pace or power relative to HR. But if I’m trending towards overtraining then my HR is suppressed and these metrics look better. Conversely if I’m unusually well rested the HR goes up easier and they look worse. Also, for running in particular, it doesn’t seem to normalize for hills, so if you are going up to start (common for me), it doesn’t recognize that you climbed 300ft the first mile, just that the pace was nearly 10min and your HR was way too high for that . . . RED ALERT.
The mornings I remember the most dreams seems to correlate with high REM sleep readings.
I wear my watch on my left wrist and I can only sleep on my right side so the watch may think I’m more active than I really am and therefore give me lower deep sleep scores. I’ve tried wearing it on my right but it bothers me and then I can’t sleep at all.
My watch (945) beeps … what first couple of minutes of the workout are like. I think its on a scale from -10 to +10,
I’ve never found this to be overly useful. It’s clearly focused on pace or power relative to HR. But if I’m trending towards overtraining then my HR is suppressed and these metrics look better. Conversely if I’m unusually well rested the HR goes up easier and they look worse. Also, for running in particular, it doesn’t seem to normalize for hills, so if you are going up to start (common for me), it doesn’t recognize that you climbed 300ft the first mile, just that the pace was nearly 10min and your HR was way too high for that . . . RED ALERT.
Yeah the Garmin performance condition is something you should turn off. It is simply heart rate vs pace within the first few mins of your run. It can give you a false sense of direction. If you start your run down a hill it will say you are in the best condition of your life. If you do a thorough dynamic warm up which causes your heart rate to rise up faster than no warm up then your watch will say you are in poor condition even though you are actually more ready to performn than no warm up.
What is the Performance Condition Feature on My Garmin Fitness Device? | Garmin Customer Support
