Gender Settings; Training Settings; Updating Your Activity Profile - Garmin EDGE 540 Owner's Manual

Gender Settings

When you first set up the device, you must choose a sex. Most fitness and training algorithms are binary. For
the most accurate results, Garmin recommends selecting your sex assigned at birth. After the initial setup, you
can customize the profile settings in your Garmin Connect account.
Profile & Privacy: Enables you to customize the data on your public profile.
User Settings: Sets your sex. If you select Not Specified, the algorithms that require a binary input will use the
sex you specified when you first set up the device.

Training Settings

The following options and settings allow you to customize your device based on your training needs. These
settings are saved to an activity profile. For example, you can set time alerts for your road profile and you can
set an Auto Lap position trigger for your mountain biking profile.
TIP: You can also customize the activity profiles from the device settings in the Garmin Connect app.
Select > Activity Profiles, and select a profile.
Alerts and Prompts: Sets how laps are triggered, and customizes the training or navigation alerts for the activity
(Alerts and Prompts Settings,
Auto Sleep: Enables the device to automatically enter sleep mode after five minutes of inactivity
Sleep, page 55).
Climbs: Enables the ClimbPro feature and sets which types of climbs the device detects
page 29).
Data Screens: Enables you to customize data screens and add new data screens for the activity
Screen, page 52).
MTB/CX: Enables grit, flow, and jump recording.
Navigation: Sets navigation messages, and customizes the map and routing settings
(Route Settings, page 31).
Nutrition/Hydration: Enables food and drink consumption tracking.
Satellite Systems: Allows you to turn off GPS
activity (Changing the Satellite Setting,
Segments: Turns on your enabled segments
Self Evaluation: Sets how often you evaluate your perceived effort for the activity
page 3).
Timer: Sets timer preferences. The Auto Pause option allows you to set when the activity timer automatically
pauses (Using Auto Pause,
detects the start of a ride and automatically starts the activity timer
page 56).

Updating Your Activity Profile

You can customize your activity profiles. You can customize your settings and data fields for a particular
activity or trip (Training Settings,
TIP: You can also customize the activity profiles from the device settings in the Garmin Connect app.
1 Select > Activity Profiles.
2 Select an option:
• Select a profile.
• Select Create New to add or copy a profile.
3 If necessary, select
TIP: After a ride that is not typical, you can manually update the ride type. Accurate ride type data is
important for creating bike friendly courses.
Customizing Your Device
page 53).
(Training Indoors,
page 56).
(Enabling Segments,
page 55). The Timer Start Mode option enables you to set how the device
page 51).
to edit the name, color, and default ride type for the profile.
(Map Settings,
page 9), or set the satellite system to use for the
page 8).
(Evaluating an Activity,
(Starting the Timer Automatically,
(Using Auto
(Using ClimbPro,
(Adding a Data
page 30)
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