My Garmin watch imports my walks (not particularly strenuous, certainly not hiking!) to Garmin Connect, which then exports them to Athletica - today’s was 1h36m of very easy walking within a 2h24m activity. Athletica has given this a load of 130, which seems more than a little excessive! Does Athletica use a different scale for walking, separate from my main activity, which is cycling? Should I just delete these walking activities?
Hi @Robert ,
Please check your ‘default’ HR zones. When I compare how you’ve set your default zone relative to your cycling zones this looks way off. So as an example I see a walk you did for 2 hours but based on your zone setting Athletica has you doing 2 hours of zone 2 work. That was more likely low zone 1. If you shift your HR threshold appropriately the walking loads should fall into place. You can adjust zones from Plan Overview (bottom of page).
Best,
Paul
Thanks for the quick reply. What’s the definition of Critical HR in this context?
I adjusted Critical HR in the default profile to 160 but there was no change in the walk’s load (maybe I didn’t give it long enough?).
Robert
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