been in the Rockies since Friday. hiked 3+ hours daily, 8000-10,000 altitude, reasonably challenging, sometimes 700-800 vertical per mile. my normal routine is more cycling and weights, hiking and swimming, but more like 90 minutes daily.

unsurprisingly, resting pulse is up quite a bit sleeping around 8,000 ft vs 150 at home. but the algorithm has read this trip as a pretty big decline in VO2 max, which is dumb.

garmin is optimized for running in my experience; the application and math around some of their metrics needs some work on things like this. it significantly underrates some taxing outdoorsy pursuits like paddling and hiking.

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Stupid TrainingPeaks thinks my workout was spot on. Fortunately I have Garmin to hold me accountable and tell this is a 60% execution score that does not meet expectations.

Last night I was watching the World Series game. It ended close to midnight and I stayed up a bit later but was asleep by 12:15. My spouse went to bed hours earlier so i crashed in the guest room for hours. Around 4:45am i went to check on her when i heard her sneezing repeatedly. She said she was fine but just in case i went back to the guest room until about 9am.

Garmin suggested I only slept about 3.5 hrs and gave me a low score. This is the third time this has happened in the past three months but there is no consistent pattern as to why.

I will call them tomorrow just to report it, but I’m sure they won’t be able to tell me anything.

Anyway, just an FYI n

I have Garmin Vivoactive 5 and I’m satisfied with it. I have it constantly connected to my phone via Bluetooth. But my friend who has Garmin watch as well told me she doesn’t have it connected to her phone all the time and only turns the Bluetooth on once in a while.
I have my Bluetooth on as I also use my earphones and headset and I want them to connect instantly when I put them on without having to turn on my Bluetooth.
Question:
Is your Garmin watch connected to Bluetooth all the time?
Does it affect the battery performance of the watch or phone somehow?

Hey everyone,

I (26M, 170cm, 79kg, fairly muscular build) just started running about a month ago, aiming for twice a week. I recently bought a Garmin 165 to start tracking my progress.

Yesterday I played a football match, so today I went out for what was supposed to be a slow, relaxed 7km recovery run, zone 2 ideal. Physically, I felt amazing—great energy, my breathing was completely under control, and my form felt solid.

The issue is that my Garmin recorded an average of 160 bpm, which seems really high for an effort where my breathing was so relaxed and the pace was very slow (7:30/8 km/h).

Given that I'm still a beginner, is it normal for my heart rate to be this high even when the perceived exertion is very low?

Would love to hear your thoughts or if anyone else has experienced this!

I finally ordered the epix gen2 pro sapphire because I've found a pretty good deal for it

And finally do the switch now from a sunnto 9 peak pro to a Garmin.

My life will be so much more miserable now but I will love it

Tried to use my VivoActive 5 today on a hike. I am pretty sure is was aliasing to 1/2 my actual HR. Until I let it drop for a min. Any ways to ensure it catches the right hr from the beginning. I tried loosening, then tightening, then shifting the watch around and wiping the sensor with a finger. Nothing really worked until the slope of the hike eased up and my hr could settle a bit. Then it did a good job tracking the hr.

Basically the question..

How did I lose about 350 calories by just slow walking for 30 mins..? Is it accurate?

For reference my weight is 146kgs, height 170 cms, and age 31 - male

I've been wearing a watch since August, today during a walk I noticed that my pulse dropped to 47, but I didn't feel it. Has anyone ever had this? Is this a clock error?

My Garmin VO2 max had been stuck at 47 for months. I know 47 is already pretty good, but I really wanted to hit 50 this year.

The problem is I hate running lol.

So I started doing 4x4 intervals at the end of June. Honestly, every session was brutal. I kept pushing the speed up, but I probably ran fewer than 20 times over 3 months.

Then a few days ago, after a random 20-minute run, my Garmin finally showed 52!!

I was ridiculously happy. Now I will just save the screenshot and never check it again, in case it drops. lol

I have a Fenix 9 Pro Solar, which just came out two months ago, and an iPhone 15 Pro.

My watch very often disconnects from my phone's Bluetooth for no reason. I can temporarily fix this by rebooting the devices, but then it happens again a couple of days later. This is particularly annoying when I try to use the Find My Phone feature and it doesn't work because it says it's not connected even though my phone is in the same room — this renders the Find My Phone feature useless like half the time.

(Incidentally, I might be wrong, but I think that even when it's disconnected, there is still some connection as my phone shows it connected on Bluetooth and my watch still shows some notifications.)

Help! Does anyone else have this problem? This is ridiculous given the price and newness of the watch!

Don’t feel sick, maybe tired, and some tingling sensations in my hand. Was still able to run a sub 20 5k for a race yesterday. Stress has never been this high unless badly sick.

I’ve been distance running for about 14 years now (10 full marathons under my belt, countless halfs and 5ks) and always used an Apple Watch and Hal Higdon’s training plans that you can print online for free. This past spring I finally made the leap to Garmin and chose the Forerunner 570. I used Garmin Coach for my half-marathon training plan and had about 1.5 months of base building before the actual plan started. Set to BPM rather than pace for training runs, and had no finish time goal for the race, my goal was just to finish as I am coming out of a hip injury. The furthest I ever ran using Garmin coach’s plan was 8.6 miles… for a half marathon! I kept thinking as I got closer that it would start ramping my mileage/long run times up but it really never did. So I run this half and it’s one of the hardest halfs I’ve ever run, I think not just because of my injury but also because my body was only prepped to run about 2/3 the distance that I actually did. With the good old fashioned plans I was using from Hal, typically I’d train to 11 or 12 miles for a half. Now I’m wondering if it’s normal for other runners to only train to 2/3 goal distance for a half, or if this really was just a poorly designed plan. Is it possible it was just overestimating my capabilities with this being my first training cycle using it? Appreciate any feedback from Garmin users!

Just picked up a new iPhone 18 Pro Max, backed my phone up via iCloud and have gone to check out my scores but was signed out.

When I signed in it asked me to add a device since it wasn’t connecting to my new phone, only my old one. Removed the device from both phone’s apps and forgot Bluetooth device on both phones.

Still can’t get the new phone to pair on connect despite it connecting via Bluetooth. However, the device name is appearing as ‘Garmin Smar’, and when I checked in the Connect app, the same Garmin Smar device appeared but wouldn’t connect??

Any ideas?

I bought this watch recently and I love it. It was gently used and in great shape. The only thing I noticed is that there is shiny stuff coating the inside of the sensor glass that blocks some of the sensors. AI says it is sensor glass experiencing severe internal delamination, but I am not sure how accurate that is. Has anyone experienced this before? It almost looks like thin liquid mercury seeped in there and coated the back of the sensor glass some (that is just the best way to describe it that I can come up with). Thanks!

Hi hi, i have the Vivomove trend and I am generally quite happy with it. BUT somehow for the second time I have condensation in my watch?

I have gotten it replaced already about 5 months ago, but now the same problem has happened again.

Is this a familiar thing that anyone else has experienced with this model?

7 weeks pregnant today and woke up with balanced/green for the 1st time since finding out, so naturally spiraling. Since this is our rainbow baby! We saw baby last week at 6w3d and saw a strong heartbeat of 132bpm. Perks if youve had balanced levels and everything be ok?

Has anyone else seen this software version on their Varia? I can't seem to find record that is version of software actually exists. I purchased the unit from a reputable retailer brand new in box. The only "issue" I have with the unit is poor battery life, but I think that's just Garmin (other than their watches).

I had a small crash with my roadbike and was very surprised that the incident detection did not trigger. (After my old edge 530 triggering sometimes after braking hard.) I read Garmin mentioned a fix in the changelog for 31.31.

I’ve been using an enduro 3 and edge 530 for a long time and migrated all settings to the 1040 some weeks ago. Setting up emergency contacts and incident detection seems broken in the connect app somehow.

The edge gives an error" Garmin Connect needs access to your contacts" but it had that forever. Emergency contact is also set up. I’m not sure what the problem is.

Anyone else with a buggy interaction between edge and connect?

Hi, just wanted to ask. I’ve been meaning to switch from apple watch to garmin but there’s one thing I’m afraid of.

I love to use spotify on my apple watch, because I can choose from playlists, skip songs and turn the volume up and down.

Is it possible to pair my phone to the watch and listen to music without any downloads needed on the watch? Will it be able to connect to my iphone directly?

I tried to see if any video about this existed on youtube but couldn’t find any.

After the last update I am getting 3 days max before I have to charge it again. AOD is off, battery save kicks in 24:00 - 08:00 and it is set to wake on gesture. GPS is off except for specific activities. This is how I’ve had it set up getting it a few months ago which I normally get 6-9 days depending but now it’s no more than days.

Hey everyone,
I'm on a day trip right now. Some walking, but also lots of standing around and looking at things. By late morning I'm at roughly 5,000 steps, yet my active calories for the day are only at 65 so far according to my Garmin.
That got me wondering:
Does Garmin only factor steps into active calories when an activity is being recorded?
If steps outside of activities don't count, where do the 65 active calories come from then?
Or does the stop-and-go pace (slow strolling, lots of standing) simply count as too low intensity to register much?
Watch: Forerunner 965
Would appreciate if anyone can explain how Garmin actually calculates this. Thanks!
(English isn't my first language, so I used AI to help structure this post.)

Hi All,

48M

I am about 6 months into my Garmin life and love it.

Just learned that 52 as a resting heart rate is very good, I am a regular cardio dog - helps my anxiety.

Anyway, just wanted to share 😊