Getting Your Ftp Estimate; Superior; Excellent; Good - Garmin FORERUNNER 255 Series Owner's Manual

Viewing Your Performance Condition
This feature requires wrist-based heart rate or a compatible chest heart rate monitor.
1 Add Performance Condition to a data screen
2 Go for a run or ride.
After 6 to 20 minutes, your performance condition appears.
3 Scroll to the data screen to view your performance condition throughout the run or ride.

Getting Your FTP Estimate

Before you can get your functional threshold power (FTP) estimate, you must pair a chest heart rate monitor
and power meter with your watch
estimate (Getting Your VO2 Max. Estimate for Cycling, page
The watch uses your user profile information from the initial setup and your VO2 max. estimate to estimate your
FTP. The watch will automatically detect your FTP during rides at a steady, high intensity with heart rate and
power.
1 Press UP or DOWN to view the performance glance.
2 Press START to view glance details.
3 Press UP or DOWN to view your FTP estimate.
Your FTP estimate appears as a value measured in watts per kilogram, your power output in watts, and a
position on the color gauge.
Purple
Blue
Green
Orange
Red
For more information, see the appendix
NOTE: When a performance notification alerts you to a new FTP, you can select Accept to save the new FTP,
or Decline to keep your current FTP.
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(Customizing the Data Screens, page
(Pairing Your Wireless Sensors, page
(FTP Ratings, page
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