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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Hey,
the default HR is calculated from your “other” activities other than cycle, running, swimming or rowing from your historical data. I also walk a lot and the automatic CP detection then down-regulates my HR based on “other activities” which are mostly easy flat walking my dog. You can choose " Ask me before changing" from your profile settings so your CP HR don’t get too low - and skew the load.
When you get notification about suggested Default change, reflect on it - does it make sense? dismiss if it doesn’t make sense, accept if it does.
Hope this helps
MJ
As someone who does a fair amount of unplanned walking (often quite slowly) I’m curious about this as well. I’ve updated my default threshold to a fairly high number but my walk loads are still 2-3x what I get from Garmin or intervals.icu (HR based).
I saw this post recently where Andrea mentions walking does not use the default threshold… Incorrect threshold heart rate notification - #3 by Andrea if this is true can the walking threshold be exposed so athletes can modify it, or something like that? Just worried that this could be overestimating my fitness/fatigue
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