For Zwifters who use Garmin, there’s a recent update that calculates Training Effect directly from Zwift. Long overdue in my humble opinion. Although, from my brief testing it doesn’t seem to be updated back to the device itself yet, although maybe my device needs an update to support that.
Well darn it! I've lost/mislaid my charging cable. I had just enough charge to get round parkrun yesterday as long as I didn't log my warm up and now it's on a window ledge attempting to charge from the message from an overcast day.
Luckily they have compatible cables on Amazon on next day delivery.
That means I just have this morning's efforts to log on strava and faff about to get it in to Fetch.
Practical question Fetchies..... I have skinny wrists and struggle to get a good fit for HR readings. Not that I pay a huge amount of attention, but I do use it. I feel like I am between holes on the standard strap. I give things a bit of a lick to get started but today, I turned into the wind and the HR reading goes through the roof again
Has anyone had any success with other straps or solutions?
For sports, it’s best to use a hr strap, or optical arm strap. It’s hard to get it to work properly from the watch’s optical sensor in the long run, no pun intended.
Slide it up your arm a bit? Tighten it another notch? There's so many holes in a Garmin strap I can't quite get being between two - that's a micro-adjustment.
My reading are nearly always consistent and afaik accurate from the wrist sensor. I do have the watch 'dents in the arm" tight.
Wrist bone is too far down. I typically have mine (checks dents, as it's charging) a finger width up from the bone. When the skin underneath starts flaking off* I'll move it up a strap width for a bit.
*I know, that's not ideal. When I remember, I'll loosen it a notch or two when not in active use..
I got a strap to get better reading for intervals and similar. Also, I need it for when the watch is over a jacket in the winter. Since I now have it, I use it most of the time anyway. That's not to say the watch won't mostly do the job without help. I prefer to regard the sensor on the watch as a lifestyle-type addition, and use a strap for anything that I want to record seriously.
I have those forearms that narrow from lots of rock climbing so sometimes when I've put it further up, it drifts down during a run. I'll try again. Not tempted with the chest strap, not worried about massive accuracy, just avoiding the big mis-reads.
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Garmin 735xt problem
Jan 2021