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should be balanced with low aerobic activities.
Above targets: Your training load is higher than optimal,
and you should consider scaling back the duration and
frequency of your workouts.
Recovery Time
You can use your Garmin device with wrist-based heart
rate or a compatible chest heart rate monitor to display how
much time remains before you are fully recovered and
ready for the next hard workout.
NOTE: The recovery time recommendation uses your VO2
max. estimate and may seem inaccurate at first. The device
requires you to complete a few activities to learn about your
performance.
The recovery time appears immediately following an
activity. The time counts down until it is optimal for you
to attempt another hard workout.
Viewing Your Recovery Time
For the most accurate estimate, complete the user profile
setup
(Setting Up Your User Profile, page
maximum heart rate
(Setting Your Heart Rate Zones, page
27).
1 Go for a run.
2 After your run, select Save.
The recovery time appears. The maximum time is
4 days.
NOTE: From the watch face, you can select UP or
DOWN to view the training status widget, and
select
to scroll through the metrics to view your
recovery time.
Recovery Heart Rate
If you are training with wrist-based heart rate or a
compatible chest heart rate monitor, you can check your
recovery heart rate value after each activity.
Recovery heart rate is the difference between your
exercising heart rate and your heart rate two minutes after
the exercise has stopped. For example, after a typical
training run, you stop the timer. Your heart rate is 140 bpm.
After two minutes of no activity or cool down, your heart
rate is 90 bpm. Your recovery heart rate is 50 bpm (140
minus 90). Some studies have linked recovery heart rate to
cardiac health. Higher numbers generally indicate healthier
hearts.
TIP: For best results, you should stop moving for two
minutes while the device calculates your recovery heart
rate value. You can save or discard the activity after this
value appears.
Body Battery
Your device analyzes your heart rate variability, stress level,
sleep quality, and activity data to determine your overall
Body Battery level. Like a gas gauge on a car,
it indicates your amount of available reserve energy. The
Body Battery level range is from 0 to 100, where 0 to 25 is
low reserve energy, 26 to 50 is medium reserve energy, 51 to
75 is high reserve energy, and 76 to 100 is
Pulse Oximeter
26), and set your
very high reserve energy.
You can sync your device with your Garmin Connect
account to view your most up-to-date Body Battery level,
long-term trends, and additional details
Body Battery Data, page
Viewing the Body Battery Widget
The Body Battery widget displays your current Body
Battery level and a graph of your Body Battery level for the
last several hours.
1 Select UP or DOWN to view the Body Battery
widget.
NOTE: You may need to add the widget to your
widget loop
(Customizing the Widget Loop, page
2 Select
to view a combined graph of your Body
Battery and stress level.
Blue bars indicate periods of rest. Orange bars indicate
periods of stress. Gray bars indicate times that you were
too active to determine your stress level.
3 Select DOWN to see your Body Battery data since
midnight.
Tips for Improved Body Battery Data
Your Body Battery level updates when you sync
your device with your Garmin Connect account.
For more accurate results, wear the device while
sleeping.
Rest and good sleep charge your Body Battery.
Strenuous activity, high stress, and poor sleep can cause
your Body Battery to drain.
Food intake, as well as stimulants like caffeine, has no
impact on your Body Battery.
Pulse Oximeter
The fē nix device has a wrist-based pulse oximeter to gauge
the peripheral saturation of oxygen in your blood.
Knowing your oxygen saturation can help you determine
how your body is acclimating to high altitudes for alpine
sport and expedition.
You can manually begin a pulse oximeter reading by
viewing the pulse oximeter widget
Oximeter Readings, page
acclimation mode
(Turning On All-Day Acclimation Mode,
page
26). When you remain motionless, your device analyzes
your oxygen saturation and your elevation. The elevation
profile helps indicate how your pulse oximeter readings are
changing, relative to your to elevation.
On the device, your pulse oximeter reading appears as an
oxygen saturation percentage and color on the
graph. On your Garmin Connect account, you can view
additional details about your pulse oximeter readings,
including trends over multiple days.
(Tips for Improved
25).
(Getting Pulse
26). You can also turn on all- day
42).
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