Garmin Status - what does Garmin say about you today?!

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Ness
Ness
Jan 2023
6:15pm, 28 Jan 2023
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Ness
Fitness age 46 44.5 achievable Actually almost 50 so that's ok


Sounds good, EvilPixie

For me Garmin Connect says I have a fitness age of 48.5 and, I have "reached my achievable fitness age". Happy with that. :)
SPR
SPR
Jan 2023
6:30pm, 28 Jan 2023
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SPR
Funnily my BMI is around the highest it's ever been but still below the 22.5. Definitely could be fitter but i guess that doesn't necessarily mean healthier which is what I expect fitness age is trying to get at.
Bowman 🇸🇪
Bowman 🇸🇪
Jan 2023
6:32pm, 28 Jan 2023
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Bowman 🇸🇪
I liked the old way Garmin used to say that,

“you are fit like a 21 year old” Or something like that.
Now it’s just “you reached your achievable fitness age” :)
Rosehip
Rosehip
Jan 2023
6:54pm, 28 Jan 2023
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Rosehip there's somewhere where it tells you requirements for the best score, one was BMI at or below 22.5 so mine doesn't change past that. Surprised yours does if on new standard.


My bmi is a lot higher than 22.5!

Apparently I have to maintain what I’m doing. Unlike the NHS, Garmin don’t appear to say ‘lose weight’ as default answer to everything
SPR
SPR
Jan 2023
7:24pm, 28 Jan 2023
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SPR
Rosehip interesting.

I've just found the screen and played around a bit. I must have misremembered 22.5 (or possibly it's changed), but it said maintain 22.0. What's interesting is I plugged in a lower weight and it then said maintain 20.4 even though that didn't change the score at all. I feel like I did this experiment at the time I got the 22.5 but either I didn't or things have changed.

Additional experiment triggered by the above was plugging in a weight that gave me a BMI of 29.3. My achievable age changed to 33.5, fitness age to 35 and there was a recommendation to reduce BMI.

Further experimentation shows that if I hit 33.5 fitness age (I can with a BMI of 27.2 but not 27.5) it will recommend maintaining even though I could get to 31 with a lower BMI.
Rosehip
Rosehip
Jan 2023
7:31pm, 28 Jan 2023
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Rosehip
I haven’t played with it, just seen a lower fitness age relative to age when I was about 1 bmi point lower

Need to get scones out the oven (what did I say about losing weight? :) ) - then I’ll fake a weight entry or three
Gobi
Gobi
Jan 2023
9:50pm, 28 Jan 2023
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Gobi
Seems - 9years is the max I get as fitness age v real age
Night-owl
Night-owl
Jan 2023
10:06pm, 28 Jan 2023
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Night-owl
Move at 9:30pm after doing more than 17,000 steps .

Did the same yesterday
EvilPixie
EvilPixie
Jan 2023
3:35pm, 29 Jan 2023
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I didn't wear my watch last night and when I put it on my BB was 73! An hour later and it was going up
So how does it work it out if it didn't have sleep or hrv info which is what I assumed it needed
Ness
Ness
Jan 2023
3:45pm, 29 Jan 2023
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Ness
I don't know, Pix. I've been wearing my 745 at night recently to see if it said anything different about my 'body battery' this just now ...


So it thinks I should last the day. 😂

About This Thread

Maintained by EvilPixie
According to my Garmin this morning my body battery was at just 41 and I was "strained"
I have been strained for most days in the last 2 weeks
My body battery has also been low

So today it suggested a threshold run of up to an hour!

What's your Garmin say?

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